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[YASNY]

Understood, but saying "I told you so" to people who bashed Garland in the past doesn't really make much sense.  Garland would crap the bed and always give up the big inning in the past.  As a fan, that is really frustrating.  Many people blame Jerry Manuel for Garland's lack of confidence which could very well be true.  Manuel would pull Garland as soon as he gave up a run or two.  Anyways, I'd like to see some posts where Garland supporters predicted he would win 18 to 20+ games THIS season which it looks like he may very well do.  Even Garland supporters didn't know or probably even think that he would break out the way he has this season.

 

Actually ... I predicted that for him LAST season. I was wrong, but whatever.

[Jabroni]

Actually ... I predicted that for him LAST season.  I was wrong, but whatever.

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And so was Hawk. The point is that no one knew he would break out like this, and that includes Garland fans. How normal is it for a guy to only win 12 games a season with a ~4.60 ERA to all of a sudden winning 7 games early with a 2.39 ERA? Afterall, last season Garland actually regressed from his 2002 and 2003 numbers.

Edited May 14, 2005 by Jabroni

[YASNY]

And so was Hawk.  The point is that no one knew he would break out like this, and that includes Garland fans.  How normal is it for a guy to only win 12 games a season with a ~4.60 ERA to all of a sudden winning 7 games early with a 2.39 ERA?  Afterall, last season Garland actually regressed from his 2002 and 2003 numbers.

 

No one knew ... but some of do believe in some of these guys. You believe they can. You don't want trade them for a bag of balls. I've always felt Garland had the talent, and it was just a matter of when.