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Originally Posted by bosoxnation07
If he could eat innings and give a 4 ERA, I'd take it.
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Arbitrarily defining "eat innings" as pitching 162 or more innings over a complete season, only 21 AL pitchers did that and posted an ERA of 4.00 or less in 2007. Only 13 did it in 2006; only 21 did it in 2005; only 10 did it in 2004.
Setting a 25 IP qualifying limit and VORP as the metric, Oswalt is currently the 52nd-best pitcher in the NL. Last season he was much better, of course, but last season the Astros didn't want to trade him, either.
I'm not certain that Oswalt could post an ERA of 4.00 or better in the AL East.