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"The 32-year-old Lapa & Leventhal client spent last season with the Pirates where he pitched to a 4.21 ERA in 171 innings with a 4.7 K/9, 2.4 BB/9 and strong 51.2 percent ground-ball rate. He'll join Vance Worley and Scott Diamond in a Twins rotation that will also likely include 2009 first-rounder and eventual Tommy John victim Kyle Gibson."
Read more at http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#BIFbz0xKrmOtJkmV.99
Correa has never pitched for an AL team, and his ERA+ has been worse than average with the Padres and then the Pirates, both for a couple of seasons His career WHIP average in the NL is 1.411...this although he somehow was selected by the SF Giants manager Bruce Bochy for the '11 All-Star team, (but did not pitch) when with the Pirates. Maybe Kevin was chosen by Bochy b/c he was a Giant when he began his MLB career, and remained in SF for 6 seasons.
"Over the last two seasons, Correia has simply forgotten how to strike anyone out at all, putting up K/9 rates of 4.50 and 4.68 in 2011 and 2012. He has also lowered his walk rate, but the truth remains that he?s a pretty good candidate to get hit hard early and often."
http://stangraphs.com/2012/12/11/fr...-correia-are-cool-with-being-bad-at-baseball/
Unfortunately we Tigers fans know all too well how the teams hitters have fared vs mediocre or just plain shitty SPs that they should be lighting up. Maybe with the addition of Hunter and the return of VMart, the team might actually knock some of these scrubs out of games "early and often"
Read more at http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#BIFbz0xKrmOtJkmV.99
Correa has never pitched for an AL team, and his ERA+ has been worse than average with the Padres and then the Pirates, both for a couple of seasons His career WHIP average in the NL is 1.411...this although he somehow was selected by the SF Giants manager Bruce Bochy for the '11 All-Star team, (but did not pitch) when with the Pirates. Maybe Kevin was chosen by Bochy b/c he was a Giant when he began his MLB career, and remained in SF for 6 seasons.
"Over the last two seasons, Correia has simply forgotten how to strike anyone out at all, putting up K/9 rates of 4.50 and 4.68 in 2011 and 2012. He has also lowered his walk rate, but the truth remains that he?s a pretty good candidate to get hit hard early and often."
http://stangraphs.com/2012/12/11/fr...-correia-are-cool-with-being-bad-at-baseball/
Unfortunately we Tigers fans know all too well how the teams hitters have fared vs mediocre or just plain shitty SPs that they should be lighting up. Maybe with the addition of Hunter and the return of VMart, the team might actually knock some of these scrubs out of games "early and often"
