June's Good Month And Bad Month Pitchers
By Marc Lawrence
In keeping with our game plan of acknowledging good pitchers and avoiding bad pitchers during their GOOD and BAD months of the season, below is the list of arms to watch throughout the month of June. Note that the W-L records are those of the team in which the listed pitcher started over the previous three seasons.
Thanks to my good friend Tom Freese, handicapper par excellence, I present a list of the BEST and WORST pitcher performance records during the month of June over the past three years. And oh yeah, hey peanut man, toss over a bag my way. Enjoy...
JUNE GOOD MONTH PITCHERS:
Brian Bannister 9-3 White Sox, Jeremy Bonderman 8-3 Detroit, Mark Buerhle 11-5 White Sox, Dan Haren 13-4 Arizona, Felix Hernandez 12-2 Seattle, John Lackey 11-4 Ahaheim, Cliff Lee 11-4 Cleveland, Rick Nolasco 7-3 Florida, Kevin Slowey 9-3 Minnesota, Justin Verlander 12-4 Detroit, Chien-Ming Wang 12-3 NY Yankees, Chris Young 8-2 San Diego.
JUNE BAD MONTH PITCHERS:
Daniel Cabrera 5-12 Baltimore, Shawn Hill 2-8 Washington, Tim Hudson 5-12 Atlanta, Brett Myers Philadelphia, Oliver Perez 4-12 NY Mets.