4274 Newey Guest36253 (IP: 69.141.76.197)^2483 Re: Most Critical Stats for Building a Winning Team [Reply to #4284] 2/23/07, 3:07am Newey, here is a list of the free agents that were available this year with career ERA's below the League average: Zito Pettittie Schmidt Mulder Maddux http://www.helium.com/tm/151895 Wolf Ohka Padilla Woody Williams John Thompson Trachsel Suppan Sele M. Batista http://www.helium.com/tm/167328 (Appropriate article discusses issue of Meche, Eaton and Marquis signings) In addition, here's a list of Pitchers traded this off-season with career ERA's below the League average (and appropriate article links): D. Davis B. Bannister http://www.helium.com/tm/153425 F. Garcia http://www.helium.com/tm/153417 Horacio Ramirez J. Jenings R. Johnson http://www.helium.com/tm/153459 B. McCarthy http://www.helium.com/tm/153464 Not sure what your definition of readily available is. These three articles discuss the free agent signings: http://www.helium.com/tm/142580 http://www.helium.com/tm/142563 http://www.helium.com/tm/142577 Sorry you did not understand my article, the point of it being how teams could Simply improve their performance by following two Simple stats in regards to players. KISS. [Guest36253 (IP: 69.141.76.197) from Unknown/??] Replies: 4290