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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

The most valuable pitchers in baseball

By Tangotiger, 03:57 PM

Polling of readers of the InsideTheBook.com blog ranked these young pitchers as the most valuable assets in baseball:

1. Tim Lincecum
2. Zack Greinke
3. Felix Hernandez
4. Ubaldo Jimenez
5. Stephen Strasburg
6. Justin Verlander
7. Josh Johnson
8. Clayton Kershaw

Readers were asked which pitcher they would prefer to give a 4year, 100MM$ contract today.  Pitchers were voted off, Suvivor Island-style.  The implication here is that if you were to start a draft today, and you could keep the pitcher for 4 years, the order of preference is noted above. 

I have reopened all the ballots, for those who wish to make their voices heard.

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