milton bad, but not the worst

[Wally Mo Pena]

From ESPN.com

National League Cy Yuk

Eric Milton, Reds: Nobody ever said the Great American Ballpark was an uplifting place to pitch. But remember, Milton volunteered for it. And in the first year of a three-year, $25.5-million deal, at least he's been a thrill a minute.

Heading into his final start of the season, he needed to add four points to his ERA (currently 6.62) to break Jose Lima's NL record for highest ERA by a pitcher who got 30 starts (6.65 in 2000). He also needed to serve up one extra-base hit to join Lima as the only NL pitchers in the last 25 years to give up 100 extra-base hits. And he needed to do nothing more than show up to become the first pitcher to lead his league in gopherballs in back-to-back years for two different teams since Red Powell in 1903-04. Now that's some big-time Cy Yukdom.
Cys of relief for: Jamey Wright, Kip Wells, Russ Ortiz, Kirk Rueter.

American League Cy Yuk

Jose Lima, Royals: Let's start with the good news: Even in the midst of The Worst Season In The History Of Pitching, Lima beat Curt Schilling, Mark Buehrle, C.C. Sabathia, Brad Penny and the Twins. OK, that'll do it for the good news. What Senor Lima Time 2005 will mostly be remembered for is rolling up the highest ERA in history by a man who got at least 30 starts in a season (6.99). And for becoming the first pitcher ever to have two seasons with an ERA over 6.50. (In fact, with a little cooperation from Milton, he could own the record for worst ERA in the history of each league.) And, finally, for allowing those lucky hitters who got to face him to compile a higher OPS (.931) than Andruw "51-Homer" Jones (.927). This man deserves to have his picture engraved on the Cy Yuk trophy.
Cys of relief for: Sidney Ponson, Hideo Nomo, Dewon Brazelton, Ryan Franklin, Keith Foulke.

[General]

Dan Kolb gets the Rolaids Constipated Stomach Award.

[griffeyfan3]

Danny graves gets my vote for that...lol

[Fishercat]

He got them both right. Lima and Milton have been the worst pitchers in their respective leagues with considering to innings pitched.

[redsrbetter]

I read this earlier today on ESPN as well. I think I can agree with this especially with how much money Milton made.

Should we even look forward to his presence nest season in hopes of a better year?

[Wally Mo Pena]

all we can do is hope that he rebounds in some way. it's not like he has to be dominant. If he can put up an ERA around 5 he'd keep us in games. Hopefully the reds offense will be even better next year with more consistancy, no jiminez, and full seasons from lopez and one of the young outfielders, and we can win a lot of games 6-4, 7-5.

[missionhockey21]

Milton has shown flashes (meaning one start in the midst of many many bad ones) of what we were HOPING for (not expecting.) If he can just pitch with an ERA that flirts with 5.00 like Wally mentioned, it will be good enough to keep us at least within striking distance most of the time.

It really is crazy to think about how different our record would look if we just had an ERA around 4.5 or 4.75 given our offense.