A.J. Burnett breakdown

Welcome A.J. Burnett. Daily News is reporting the Yankees signed him for 5 yrs, 82.5 million dollars.   Let me explain how frustrating this guy will be.   April ERA- 6.07 May ERA- 3.43 June ERA- 5.06 July ERA- 3.86 August ERA- 4.43 September ERA- 1.82   Now lets be fair here. He pitched the entire season with a missing finger nail, that nutrilized his curveball alot. Also, once he learned how to deal with it better he put up an 2.86 ERA in the second half of the year, compared to a 4.96 ERA in the first half.   Also, he is a better pitcher outdoors than indoors. 5.26-outdoors, 3.72 indoors.   Hes a much better pitcher at away games than home games. home-4.49,away 3.65.   Also, hes better off the turf than on it, 3.72 off than 4.37 on it.   The move to Ny would seem to help him, no turf,not indoors,and does that field have a dome? i think so.   Here was his stat line from last season, 18-10,4.07 ERA,231 ks, 86bb,1.34WHIP   ERA was possibly inflated due to poor 1st half due to finger, its gonna be all healed up by this yr.   Lead the AL in stirkeouts, but had lots of walks. Those walks lead to a 1.34 WHIP.( AVG# of batter on base per inning.) A guy like, oh i dont know, Ben Sheets had a 1.15.   He has always kicked A$$ agianst the Sox and Yankees,(2.88 ERA in Yankee Stadium)   while his second half was very incouraging,(8-2,105ks in 94in, only 29 walks and a ERA of 2.86) im not sold on his consistancy and his durability. His walk total is scarry, tho his second half # of bbs arnt bad,and his WHIP has to come down.   Dont forget, hes isnt our Ace, nor our 2ed pitcher, maybe not even our 3rd pitcher,(CC,Wang,Joba) he is our 4th starter. For being a 4th starter,hes pritty damn good.   If the Yankees also sign Andy, this could possibly allow Joba to stay in the pen,and then come back into the rotation in the second half of the year due to injuries.AJ provides the dominant righthander(compared to the dominant lefthander in CC) in replace/addition of Joba.   Finally, this move was  made so allow the Yankees to have dominant pitching in the post season. Wang is a good pitcher,but he can;t dominant batters without sticking them out. Aj will gets tons of ks, so will CC. A 1,2,3 punch of CC,AJ, and Joba in the playoffs can and will criple an offense. This move wasn;t totally made for the Ynakees to made the playoffs,it was made for them to win the playoffs.