Never Fear, Randy Wolf Is Here

by Eric Stephen on Sep 5, 2009 3:00 PM PDT in Game Previews Comment 9 comments

by Alan Diaz - AP

Jim Wolf's brother is having a fine season for the Dodgers.

Randy Wolf has been a pleasant surprise this season, a rock solid anchor of the rotation. He has pitched six innings or more in his last 13 starts, and in 25 of 29 starts this season. He is also having one of the best age 32 seasons in Dodger history. There have been 24 different Dodger pitchers to qualify for the ERA title in their age 32 season. Here are the 10 best, ranked by ERA+:

Pitcher	Year	IP	W-L	ERA+
Jerry Reuss	1981	152.2	10-4	146
Jesse Petty	1927	271.2	13-18	133
Randy Wolf	2009	183.0	9-6	129
Claude Osteen	1972	252.0	20-11	127
Don Sutton	1977	240.1	14-8	121
Whit Wyatt	1940	239.1	15-14	116
Derek Lowe	2005	222.0	12-15	114
Fred Frankhouse	1936	234.1	13-10	113
Luke Hamlin	1937	185.2	11-13	112
Dazzy Vance	1923	280.1	18-15	111

The 21-year old Mat Latos joined the Padres' rotation in mid-July, and has pitched well since. Out of nine big league starts, he has really only made three bad ones. Luckily for the Dodgers, those three have come in Latos' last four starts. Latos has an 8.00 ERA over his last four starts, which is amazing considering he had one great start in that bunch, allowing only two hits in seven scoreless innings in Atlanta. Splitting time between low Class A and Double A earlier this season, Latos was 8-1 with a 1.37 ERA in 72.1 minor league innings.

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Jamie Hoffmann released

Officially a free agent.

by silverwidow on Sep 5, 2009 3:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Matt Barkley

FIGHT ON

by silverwidow on Sep 5, 2009 3:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Furcal
Pierre
Ethier
Kemp
Loney
Belliard (3B)
Martin
Hudson
Wolf

by silverwidow on Sep 5, 2009 4:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Really disappointed to see Furcal up top again. Oh well, Joe knows more about the game and his players then I do but I just don’t get why he’s still leading off.

by KSeal on Sep 5, 2009 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nobody on this team has any history with Latos. Not sure if that is good or bad.

by delias man on Sep 5, 2009 4:53 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

This is probably just the obligatory NL West article

but the new Peter Gammons blog actually gives the NL West some credit. Unlike the last “there’s good baseball out west” article, this one talks about the Dodgers quite a bt. Not a bad read.

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4448570&name=gammons_peter

by yolos on Sep 5, 2009 5:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs