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Phil Coke: This Year’s Version Of C.J. Wilson

as often as I admit I was right about a prediction or something I wrote about, I admit when I was wrong about something. And I have to admit, I was dead wrong about C.J. Wilson last season.

I didn’t see Wilson making a successful transition from reliever to starter, but man, was he good in 2010. Wilson had a 3.35 ERA, 1.25 WHIP and averaged 7.5 Ks/nine in 204 IP. Until Cliff Lee arrived, you can say Wilson was the ace of the Texas Rangers’ staff.

What was perhaps most impressive about Wilson’s transition from reliever to starter in 2010 was his consistency. Despite throwing 130 more innings than he had ever done before, his second half ERA was almost identical to his first half ERA—3.36 to 3.35.

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