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Originally Posted by Scav
The year before he was decent, he just 'lost it' and his coach couldn't get him out of it. Rothchild is a above average pitching coach, especially with starters. I was completely against this whole Ted Lilly experiment, but ever since he has signed he has been solid.
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Silva only pitched 30 mostly awful innings in 09
The year before that? He was disgraceful in 2008.
4-15 6.38 ERA 153 IP 213 hits
opposing batters hit .328 against him
He was merely a tick below league average in 07 but was awful in 06
From baseball prospectus on his 08 season
"Silva did nothing to dispel the perception that former general manager Bill Bavasi overpaid for Silva on the free agent market. At his best, Silva is a fourth/fifth starter who doesn't walk or strike out anyone and lives by getting batters to hit the ball on the ground, or would if his ground ball rate wasn't unexceptional. Bavasi is gone, but this gift will keep on taking from the Mariners through 2011, after which they can pay him another $2 million to buy him out of his 2012 option. A signing like this one had so little chance of succeeding that if the Mariners franchise were a brand new car, Bavasi's signing of Silva was tantamount to the GM taking that car up to top speed and driving it into a wall. The real question isn't why he did it, but who was the bright guy that gave him the keys? "