yaaayyyy

I found some intelligent Twitter person basically smacking down that one super condescending guy that went on about how Andy is teh suck now. Seriously, dude, I can look on Fangraphs too. His FIP went up, but he went from terribly underperforming his FIP in 2008 to pretty much hitting it in 2009 (as opposed to AJ Burnett, who very much overperformed his FIP in 2009). His BABIP... Andy tends to have a really high BABIP (it was .339 in 2008, .315 for his career), but it was actually pretty low last year, though not unsustainably so (.302). People swung at his pitches slightly less and made slightly better contact, but again: slightly. It's not OMG PANIC!!!!, really. The HRs were a little eeeek for a while there, but maybe he just learned how to pitch in YS better. And I wouldn't say it's a clear pattern, seeing how ridiculously good he was in the second half of the season.