Mike Myers
Age: 37 Years Old (Turns 38 in June).

Three-Year History, three-year splits and last year's splits.

SEASON Team W L ERA GIP H R ER HR BB SO
2004 Seattle-Boston 5 1 4.64 75 42.2 45 22 22 5 23 32
2005 Red Sox 3 1 3.13 65 37.1 30 14 13 3 13 21
2006 Yankees 1 2 3.23 62 30.2 29 14 11 3 10 22
2007 Bill James 2 2 3.97 65 34.0 32     3 15 25
2007 CHONE     4.11   35.0 36 18 16 4 13 22
2007 Marcel 3 2 4.50   44.0 45 23 22 5 17 30
2007 ZiPS 2 2 4.25 67 36.0 36 18 17 4 15 23

SEASON Team K/9 BB/9 K/BB HR/9 AVG WHIP BABIP LOB% FIP
2004 Seattle-Boston 6.75 4.85 1.39 1.05 .272 1.59 .312 76.2 % 4.98
2005 Red Sox 5.06 3.13 1.62 0.72 .222 1.15 .243 76.0 % 4.33
2006 Yankees 6.46 2.93 2.20 0.88 .251 1.27 .287 74.1 % 4.31
2007 Bill James 6.62 3.97 1.67 0.79 .250 1.38 .290   4.46
2007 CHONE 5.66 3.34 1.69 1.03 .267 1.40 .294 72.7 % 4.71
2007 Marcel 6.14 3.48 1.76 1.02 .266 1.41 .298 71.9 % 4.61
2007 ZiPS 5.75 3.75 1.53 1.00 .262 1.42 .290 72.7 % 4.62

Outlook: It was an interesting year for Mike as for the first time in a long time, he put up a reverse split with left-handed and right-handed hitters. In 2005, Myers held lefties to .158/.196/.211, whereas righties hit .385/.510/.641 but in 2006, lefties hit .257/.297/.443 while righties hit .224/.345/.286. Maybe this was a result of the changes he had been making to his delivery in spring training of last year. At that time, he wanted to see if moving from the first base side of the rubber to the third base side when facing righties would make his stride shorter and provide more movement. Whether it was that or simply a matter of small sample size remains to be seen.

Still, Myers was brought on board for one reason; the guy is the one of the most hardcore LOOGYs out there. His sidearm motion is very effective on lefties and for his career, he's held lefties to a .210 AVG over 276 innings (righties have tattooed him to a tune of .307 in 211 innings). Basically, he's very good against lefties, doesn't give up many homeruns and if these adjustments that he's made for righties remain effective, he becomes a much more useful part of the bullpen. However, with the limited use that he gets, it will be a while before we see if he really has improved against righties.

Please post your predictions for the following stat line in the comments section:

G Innings W L BB KSVBlSv ERA