S.I. Story on Humber...

[LoveYourSuit]

Originally Posted by doublem23

How many MLB games have been played now? And there's only 20 something perfect games in that time? Really, every perfect game is a fluke.

Well, I'm not the one puzzled on why this guy has sucked his entire career despite thorwing a perfect game.

It was a fluke, just like all the other 20+ PGs in MLB history. Althoug the other 20+ guys had a .001% chance of throwing one compared to Humber who was at .00000000000000000001%.

[DumpJerry]

Originally Posted by LoveYourSuit

Well, I'm not the one puzzled on why this guy has sucked his entire career despite thorwing a perfect game.

It was a fluke, just like all the other 20+ PGs in MLB history. Althoug the other 20+ guys had a .001% chance of throwing one compared to Humber who was at .00000000000000000001%.

As my math teacher would say "show your work."

What do you think of this guy's chances at tossing a perfect game? How about a perfect game against a lineup that included Ty Cobb? Better than .001%?

[LoveYourSuit]

Originally Posted by DumpJerry

As my math teacher would say "show your work."

What do you think of this guy's chances at tossing a perfect game? How about a perfect game against a lineup that included Ty Cobb? Better than .001%?

I stand corrected.

Humber would be second to last.

[CoopaLoop]

Humber has to have had the biggest free fall after a perfect game though right?

Loses his job as a starter two months later, gets put on waivers at season's end and gets picked up by the worst team in baseball.

I assume the guy I can't think of from Oakland who's grandmother fought his battles for him is pretty close.

[TDog]

Originally Posted by CoopaLoop

Humber has to have had the biggest free fall after a perfect game though right?

Loses his job as a starter two months later, gets put on waivers at season's end and gets picked up by the worst team in baseball.

I assume the guy I can't think of from Oakland who's grandmother fought his battles for him is pretty close.

Dallas Braden did have an injury, though, perhaps more than one at the same time. I think arm problems is something the A's teach their minor leaguers because they bring up so much pitching talent and almost all of it goes down to injury.

I don't think there has ever been a perfect game in the majors that could be called a fluke. You have to go out there for nine innings and not let a hitter reach base. You have to deal with the pressure. Over your career you might not appear to be good enough to have such a great game, but Humber was drafted so high and given so many opportunities because teams believed he could be good enough. And Humber had been a pretty good starter for much of the 2011 season. I think it's entirely possible that Humber would have been a better pitcher in 2012 if he hadn't pitched a perfect game.

But he pitched such a great game, that he shouldn't have needed to pitch as well to prove it wasn't a fluke. Sometimes players play way above their career norms. That is the nature of professional competition. In many, many games players play well above or below their career norms. One night last October, Barry Zito hit a solid RBI single against Justin Verlander. That's what competition is all about.

[RadioheadRocks]

Enough of this pissing contest. Let Humber have his moment in the sun. Sheesh!

[SI1020]

I still think he has a chance to be a decent back end of the rotation guy.