mvn.com - 2/7/2008
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Today, Carrie Muskat asks herself , “Can Dempster make a successful conversion from closer to starter?”
Her answer:
After three seasons as the closer, Dempster is switching back to the rotation for the first time, full-time, since 2002. The right-hander has trained hard this offseason, but it won’t be easy to go from one-inning outings to seven or eight. He’ll be ...
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Deconstructing Dempster And The Foul-Mouthed Billionaire, Part II
A Hundred Next Years —
--Inspired by a question Carrie Muskat of cubs.com posed to herself, I have a post up at The Cub Reporter addressing the question of Ryan Dempster's fitness to make the Cubs starting rotation. The bottom line on the Dempster-as-starter talk as I see it is that Ryan Dempster had one good season as a starting pitcher, back in 2000 for the Marlins, when he went 14-10 with a 120 ERA+ and made the NL All-Star team. As these numbers show, Dempster's career line as a starter looks a lot like Jason Marquis's...only not quite as good. In other words, if the ...
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