Ted Lilly, Should He Stay Or Should He Go

There he is, Jered Weaver.  Showing up a third time as the number one comparable for a Dodger starting pitcher.  He was number one on the chart for both Josh Beckett and Chris Capuano.  I think with Lilly though this may be slightly misleading because the walk rates are quite a bit different, with Lilly walking 0.58 more batters per 9 innings than Weaver.  Where the difference is made up at is the heavy fly ball rates both pitchers have.

Top 50 Similar Starting Pitchers

Rank	Name	K/9	BB/9	GB/FB
NA	Ted Lilly	6.92	2.73	0.82
1	Jered Weaver	7.13	2.15	0.76
2	Ryan Vogelsong	7.33	3.02	1.21
3	Ian Kennedy	8.06	2.32	0.92
4	Matt Cain	7.68	2.27	0.96
5	Josh Beckett	7.46	2.62	1.08
6	Jeremy Hellickson	6.02	3.17	0.97
7	Ervin Santana	6.85	2.98	1.15
8	Daniel Hudson	6.99	2.12	1.06
9	Shaun Marcum	7.51	2.77	0.86
10	Alexi Ogando	6.66	2.25	0.95
11	Freddy Garcia	6.75	2.95	1.02
12	Randy Wolf	5.91	2.89	1.09
13	Philip Humber	6.85	3.02	1.07
14	Javier Vazquez	7.59	2.34	0.74
15	Bruce Chen	6.28	2.44	0.74
16	Derek Holland	7.52	2.80	1.18
17	Mike Minor	7.53	2.92	0.86
18	Jason Vargas	5.85	2.41	0.93
19	John Danks	6.43	2.93	1.17
20	Chris Capuano	7.65	2.48	1.04
21	Brett Cecil	6.84	3.21	0.85
22	Travis Wood	6.66	3.19	0.77
23	Carlos Villanueva	7.37	2.29	0.75
24	Phil Hughes	7.39	2.30	0.69
25	John Lackey	6.07	3.15	1.08
26	Wei-Yin Chen	7.21	2.67	0.88
27	Jarrod Parker	6.87	3.11	1.44
28	Josh Johnson	7.87	3.05	1.52
29	Clayton Kershaw	9.26	2.34	1.27
30	Justin Verlander	9.01	2.18	1.09
31	Cole Hamels	8.71	2.06	1.36
32	Jair Jurrjens	4.75	2.89	1.07
33	Vance Worley	7.51	3.10	1.35
34	Hiroki Kuroda	6.97	2.13	1.56
35	Nathan Eovaldi	5.97	3.72	1.40
36	Kyle Kendrick	6.17	2.27	1.32
37	Jordan Zimmermann	7.01	1.90	1.16
38	Dan Haren	7.25	1.63	1.05
39	Madison Bumgarner	8.32	2.09	1.41
40	Ross Detwiler	5.57	2.68	1.59
41	R.A. Dickey	7.82	2.18	1.43
42	Matt Garza	8.68	2.83	1.42
43	Brandon McCarthy	6.20	1.65	1.29
44	Kyle Lohse	5.82	1.76	1.13
45	Matt Harrison	5.81	2.60	1.54
46	Jeff Karstens	5.73	1.66	1.18
47	Chris Carpenter	7.15	2.03	1.49
48	Mat Latos	8.18	2.80	1.18
49	Jon Lester	7.74	3.18	1.63
50	Clay Buchholz	6.23	3.12	1.42

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