Starting pitching - 5/12

The Red Sox have now played 34 games, the Yankees 35. This is more than 20% of the season, and seems like a reasonable time to touch base on the starting pitching again. Of course, the 2005 Red Sox have had some injury problems, with Wells and Schilling on the DL, and Schilling pitching badly before that. So how do they compare to last year's team at the same point? How do they compare to the Yankees?

Starting pitching - 5/12/05

	IP/G	WHIP	ERA	Avg GSc
2005 Red Sox	6.16	1.285	3.74	52.03
2004 Red Sox	6.19	1.307	3.937	51.68
2005 Yankees	6.13	1.481	5.031	45.2
2004 Yankees	5.9	1.374	5.313	46.34

Much to the shock of the baseball media, but very much as I'd predicted, the 2005 Red Sox starting pitching has been a) better than the 2004 Red Sox starting pitching and b) better than the 2005 Yankees starting pitching.

The Yankees paid far, far more for Randy Johnson, Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright than the Red Sox did for David Wells, Matt Clement, Wade Miller and Jeremi Gonzalez. Who's worked out better?

Additions

	GS	ERA	QS	IP/G
Boston	16	3.79	8	5.94
NY	19	5.04	8	6.11

Again, no contest.

It's still early, but as I said before the season started, I'll repeat now - there's no reason to expect New York to have better starting pitching than the Red Sox. None.