Do We Miss Them? Santana and Silva

As the Twins rotation continues to raise question marks (aside from Livan, Blackburn, and Bonser) it got me a thinkin' about how The $48 Million Man and The $137.5 Million Man are doing so far this season.

Carlos Silva 2008
Games Started - 7
Record - 3 and 1
ERA - 4.20
WHIP - 1.33
Innings - 45
5 HRs, 9BB, 19SOs

Those numbers just smell like Carlos. During his 4 years with the Twins Carlos' ERA was an average 4.445 so he is off to a better start with the M's but I bet that number edges more towards his average as the year goes on. Honestly the only thing I think we'll miss, aside from having someone nicknamed 'Chief', is that he averaged 193 innnigs pitched over those 4 years in Minnesota, something we could use but something we got in Livan (more on that later.) What we won't miss is paying $12M a year for a .500 pitcher (avg of 11.75 wins and 11.25 losses in a Twins uni) who was never particularly overpowering (avg of 76.5 K's) even though he didn't walk a lot of guys either (avg 28/year.) With signing Livan we basically have Silva for 40% of the price. Livan's career averages (throwing out 1996, wow is he old) before coming to the Twins: 4.31 ERA, 121 SO, 65BB, 10.3 wins and 10.2 losses, with an average of 185 innings.

Mr. Met 2008
Games Started - 7
Record - 3 and 2
ERA - 2.91
WHIP - 1.01
Innings - 46
7 HRs, 12BB, 47 SOs

Wow, those numbers make me miss him and miss him terribly. There isn't anyone on the Twins with anything like those numbers. Just looking back at Santana's Twins career kind of makes me want to cry that he isn't still wearing that TC on his hat. I tossed out 2000 and 2001 stats (he played in 45 games but started only 9) and I know you've seen this before but from 2002 to 2007 he averaged 196 innings, 214 strikeouts, a 2.94 ERA, and a 15 - 7 record. Did you just poop your pants? Because I did. Not to mention the 2 (should have been 3 as we all know) Cy Young's. The fact that he was booed at Shea a couple weeks ago is insane - they have Cytana on their hands. Think he will at least wear a Twins uniform when he goes into the HOF? WHY! WHY! WHY!