Cliff Lee

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[quote=slotdirt;734290]Not that difficult. Take the par for ERA that year, account for park factors, and voila, you have a statistically relevant way to account for what league a particular pitcher was playing in for that season. Sabermetricians do it all the time.[/QUOT

That is flawed especially considering that it doesn't take into account the unbalanced schedules.

Beyond on that, how can any stat possibly measure what its like to be in the dog days with your team hopelessly out of contention and then having to pitch to the red sox, yankees and red sox again in the course of two weeks? Impossible.

The money situation in baseball only became this ridiculous during Halladay's career.