There were a great number of players who were on your waiver wire and exploded for studly outings last night. The first one people are going to jump all over is Jason Vargas who put up a line of 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 4 Hits, 0 BBs, 9 Ks against the Giants. Nine Ks! That's 17 in his two starts! His Changeup is getting a 31.0% whiff rate through his 84 thrown and that's all kinds of silly, especially when his heater comes in at...under 87mph. Is this the second coming of Jered Weaver? Oh lord, yeah I can't buy this. Baseball is weird and we saw Miguel Gonzalez almost throw a CGSHO in under 90 pitches on Tuesday night. I totally get running with Vargas in the short term- he gets the White Sox and Twins next! - but don't act like this is your magic #4/5 guy for the year. This is is a career 6.00 K/9 pitcher who was super good in April so we put more weight on it than normal. Sure, pick him up now for those two starts just be quick to let him be free.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
