Biggest one year wonder of the 21st century?

navamind said:
Roberto "Fausto Carmona" Hernandez: 19-8, 3.06 ERA, 148 ERA+, 1.21 WHIP, 6.2 WAR in 2007
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That's what I was thinking. He was ridiculous in '07.

His start in the ALDS vs NYY (the bug game) was, in my opinion, the best single-game pitching performance of the 2007.

Yes, I know Beckett had a complete game shutout, but that was against a light-hitting Angels team. Plus, he's a gaping vagina.
 
Kburjr said:
Keaton Hiura. Pretty good rookie season. Can't seem to stay with the big club now.
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Thanks for mentioning him last week. The baseball gods heard you & turned Huira into Hero this week. :thumb:
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RP-29 said:
No mention of Matt Harvey?

2013 all-star, finished 4th in Cy Young voting. Been average-to-mostly-utter-garbage every other year. And he's currently on the hook for drug distribution charges relating to the Tyler Skaggs death.
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Harvey has the "problem" that I mentioned earlier in the thread, he had a second good year. In 2015 he had more starts and innings than 2013 and finished 6th in the NL in ERA. Looking at bbref's WAR he has 5.3 in 2013 and 4.9 in 2015, leaving -0.1 for the rest of his career. So he's another guy that is really a two (and change) year wonder rather than a true one year wonder.
 
Freddy Sanchez winning the 2006 batting title was wild as well as making it as an All-Star write-in. He did make the All-Star team again (probably by default) and did have an important catch in the 2010 WS but nowhere near that level he was in 2006 again.
 
Pedro Alvarez in 2013 :facepalm:

What makes it even worse was he was their best player in the NLCS and finally looked like a legit superstar.
 
-Rick Porcello winning the Cy Young
-Nate McLouth parlaying one good month into two future All-Stars in a trade
-Dontrelle Willis
-Kinda struggle to call Oliver Perez one since he's still playing 18 years after his one-year wonder season.
-Mark Prior (remember him when the national media has its weekly jerkoff to Dusty Baker)
-Dice-K
-Eric Thames
 
steelerssb said:
-Rick Porcello winning the Cy Young
-Nate McLouth parlaying one good month into two future All-Stars in a trade
-Dontrelle Willis
-Kinda struggle to call Oliver Perez one since he's still playing 18 years after his one-year wonder season.
-Mark Prior (remember him when the national media has its weekly jerkoff to Dusty Baker)
-Dice-K
-Eric Thames
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only thing i remember about Porcello winning the Cy Young is Kate Upton going APESHIT over it. That chick made a twitter thread, lmao. tbh, she was right. Verlander was across the board better than Porcello. #Bostonprivilege

Willis and Prior's seasons both took place in 2003. I was a kid and I remember the hype very well. Prior was out of baseball by 2006 and Willis' only other good year was 2005.

I just looked up Dice K's numbers. I remember the hype before he even pitched a game, but I never realized he was that bad.
 
Hitman Hart said:
only thing i remember about Porcello winning the Cy Young is Kate Upton going APESHIT over it. That chick made a twitter thread, lmao. tbh, she was right. Verlander was across the board better than Porcello. #Bostonprivilege

Willis and Prior's seasons both took place in 2003. I was a kid and I remember the hype very well. Prior was out of baseball by 2006 and Willis' only other good year was 2005.

I just looked up Dice K's numbers. I remember the hype before he even pitched a game, but I never realized he was that bad.
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Neither Prior nor Marcus Giles were ever the same after this:

 
Hitman Hart said:
mid-2000s Braves had some pretty shitty luck, tbh.

no wonder 2006-2009 was a rebuilding period
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Probably should have been a rebuilding period, but they weren't selling. 2009-2013 could have had different endings if the Teixeira trade was never made.
 
Hitman Hart said:
only thing i remember about Porcello winning the Cy Young is Kate Upton going APESHIT over it. That chick made a twitter thread, lmao. tbh, she was right. Verlander was across the board better than Porcello. #Bostonprivilege

Willis and Prior's seasons both took place in 2003. I was a kid and I remember the hype very well. Prior was out of baseball by 2006 and Willis' only other good year was 2005.

I just looked up Dice K's numbers. I remember the hype before he even pitched a game, but I never realized he was that bad.
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Porcello and RA Dickey are probably the two weirdest Cy Young winners I can remember. Dickey you could at least say had a unique knuckleball but Porcello was at best an above average pitcher beforehand and if I remember correctly he wasn't even markedly better the Cy Young year he just got a lot luckier with wins.

Dice-K was legit good until he wasn't all of a sudden, I forgot it was just so sudden. He's probably the most hyped international player I can remember this side of Ohtani.
 
steelerssb said:
-Rick Porcello winning the Cy Young
-Nate McLouth parlaying one good month into two future All-Stars in a trade
-Dontrelle Willis
-Kinda struggle to call Oliver Perez one since he's still playing 18 years after his one-year wonder season.
-Mark Prior (remember him when the national media has its weekly jerkoff to Dusty Baker)
-Dice-K
-Eric Thames
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More like Dice-BB

Fantastic 2008 at the surface, but my butthole was clenched every time I watched him. Just felt like every start was an adventure. His 2.90 ERA came with a 1.32 WHIP (which is rather high for a sub-3 ERA) and 5.0 BB/9, resulting in a rather high strand rate (80.6%). He averaged around 5.7 IP/S which would be a workhorse by today's standards, but was a pretty mediocre figure in 2008.

I think this start pretty much sums up his season:

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Hell, he had eight games where he walked 5+ batters. And yet, he only gave up 13 runs in those eight starts combined and went 5+ in all of them. It was a very weird season.
 
steelerssb said:
Porcello and RA Dickey are probably the two weirdest Cy Young winners I can remember. Dickey you could at least say had a unique knuckleball but Porcello was at best an above average pitcher beforehand and if I remember correctly he wasn't even markedly better the Cy Young year he just got a lot luckier with wins.

Dice-K was legit good until he wasn't all of a sudden, I forgot it was just so sudden. He's probably the most hyped international player I can remember this side of Ohtani.
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He did get some really good run support but Porcello was also remarkably consistent. Went 5+ in every start, never gave up more than 5 runs in a start, gave up 3 or less in 25 of those starts. He did have career bests in ERA, ERA+, WHIP, K/BB, WAR, FIP.

Do I think he should have won the AL Cy Young? No. I would have gone with Verlander followed by Kulbot, though I'd have him third.
 
steelerssb said:
Pedro Alvarez in 2013 :facepalm:

What makes it even worse was he was their best player in the NLCS and finally looked like a legit superstar.
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Pedro's 2012 was almost as good as his 2013 though.
 
Richard Hidalgo is my Two Year Wonder.
 
navamind said:
Richard Hidalgo is my Two Year Wonder.
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He's a good one. Jody Gerut is one that I mentioned previously. Not huge huge years but there's nothing else at all on his resume other than those two.

Ryan Vogelsong had a wild career.
 
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