July'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 July. Note that the W-L records are those of the team in which the listed pitcher started over the previous three seasons.
Herein, I present a list of the BEST and WORST pitcher performance records during the month of July over the past three years. And, hey nacho man, extra cheese if you please. Enjoy...
JULY GOOD MONTH PITCHERS:
Eric Bedard 11-1 Seattle, John Danks 7-3 White Sox, Jon Garland 11-4 Arizona, Tim Hudson 12-3 Atlanta, John Lackey 14-3 Anaheim, Jon Lester 9-3 Boston, Gil Meche 13-5 Kansas City ,Johan Santana 11-5 NY Mets, Chien-Ming Wang 9-2 NY Yankees, Carlos Zambrano 15-2 Cubs.
JULY BAD MONTH PITCHERS:
Mark Buehrle 5-11 White Sox, Mark Hendrickson 3-9 Baltimore, Tim Redding 3-7 NY Mets, Andy Sonnanstine 2-8 Tampa Bay.
Note: Marc Lawrence is a 30-year veteran handicapper. He finished No.1 in the nation (88-63 +25.7 Net Units) in MLB during the 2007 season as documented by Sports Watch in Las Vegas.
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