I did a quick comparison this week of Silva to Shawn Hill, as a benchmark of just how good Silva is. I have a pretty good feel for how Shawn pitches and was just trying to gather some information on Silva. I found that last season, he was not quite as effective as Shawn (based on VORP comparison), though of course he pitched circa 202 innings vs. < 100 for Hill. And Shawn's effectiveness was dampened by the injuries. So I would say that Silva is a good pitcher, nice middle of the rotation guy, but 4 x $12m?
Some of our young pitchers have to licking their chops!
I would hope to see similar results from Clippard - with less than 1% the price tag.
