Week 8 Pitchers Poll: The Peavy No Longer Stands Alone

Another week of Chris Sale closing the gap on Jake Peavy, as Jake had yet another below average start and Chris Sale had the first complete game of his career.

What really stands out about this, though, is that while Peavy is ahead of Sale by 8 points, Sale is actually beating Peavy if you measure this by points per inning.


Here's this week's poll.

RANK	PLAYER	POINTS	LW	+/-
1	Jake Peavy	122	1	7
2	Chris Sale	114	2	16
3	Gavin Floyd	79	3	4
4	Phil Humber	54	4	12
5	Nathan Jones	47	5	8
6	John Danks	34	6	0
7	Matt Thornton	33	9	7
8	Addison Reed	32	7	3
9	Hector Santiago	31	8	3
10	Jesse Crain	30	9	4
11	Jose Quintana	21	12	6
12	Zach Stewart	17	11	-1
13	Will Ohman	8	15	3
14	Eric Stults	7	13	0
15	Dylan Axelrod	6	14	0

Now, on a per inning basis, Chris Sale is averaging 1.73 points per inning and Jake Peavy is averaging 1.61. What does this mean for the White Sox? Well, it means that I wouldn't want to play them in a 5-game series, or a 1-game playoff.

Elsewhere there isn't much out of the ordinary. Gavin Floyd had another terrible week, though at least this time he earned some points.

Really the biggest shock is that Will Ohman finally climbed out of last place and passed Eric Stults and Dylan Axelrod. So congratulations to Will for passing a guy who is now pitching for the Padres, and another one who is pitching for the Charlotte Knights. You earned it, buddy.

Last week's poll can be found here.