What's Wrong With Johan?

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In Newsday today, Ken Davidoff writes about Johan Santana's disappointing first three months as a Met: The boxscore line looks presentable. It usually does. Shoot, the way Johan Santana began Saturday's game, we thought we might get a run at Tom Seaver's and David Cone's team record of 19 strikeouts in a game. Yet once again, if you stood on the Mets' side of the aisle Saturday, ... [link]

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Has Johan Santana Gotten Worse?
Published 7/7/2008 by Peter Bendix at Beyond the Box Score
... wondered if anything is wrong with Johan. His "problems" have been attributed to some combination of poor run support/overrating win-loss record, and the fact that Johan has always been an excellent second-half pitcher (except for last September). If we examine Johan’s statistics more closely, we see there is indeed cause for concern, despite his pristine 2.96 ERA. ...

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