These images speak for themselves. Enjoy.
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UPDATE: Found this on the interwebs. I thought it would be a good follow-up to this post.
An excerpt from a piece on MLB.com by Dave Feldman
I should have seen this coming. It was far too obvious. There’s been a steady mathematical equation used by the Cardinals the past decade or so that has pumped out the same results. It looks something like this:
Talented pitcher + previous injury and/or control problems + Dagoba sessions with pitching coach Dave Duncan = A guy you should always draft.
And while Brad Penny will undoubtedly get his just desserts here soon, for now, I’m talking about Jaime Garcia. Improving to 3-0 on Wednesday after spinning seven scoreless innings with five strikeouts in a 6-0 win over the Braves, Garcia, a 23-year-old rookie southpaw who entered the season with just 16 innings of Major League experience, sports a 1.04 ERA to go with a 0.96 WHIP. This all coming from a guy who lost most of last season to Tommy John surgery. While his 17-to-9 strikeout-to-walk ratio doesn’t stand out, it hardly is an ominous harbinger of things to come. This is because Garcia has done an incredible job pounding the strike zone with an improved cutter that has induced ground balls for an astounding 71.2 percent of his collected outs, alleviating any fear of his on-the-surface scary .221 batting average on balls in play (BABIP). Kudos to those who have learned from Duncan’s magic (Chris Carpenter, Kyle Lohse, Joel Pineiro, Matt Morris, etc.) and stole Garcia off the waiver wire early in the year.
