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Well, don't feel bad on that account. He has an extra $6.25 M b/c the Astros didn't see it coming.
That's a pretty decent career.
BTW, he looks like the guy who washes windows on the corner of Cullen off 45.
Still a very solid career.
The justification for bringing him here was his history w/ the city- from here, pitched at the University of Houston, neither of which had anything to do w/ baseball.
And he really does look like the sqeegee guy, seriously.
40 starts, 264.1 ip, 190 k/59 bb, 2.28 era, 1.01 whip, and a 24-6 record.
For that brief stretch he was one of the best half-dozen pitchers in baseball.
During the 40 starts above, through June 5, 2003, Woody allowed 5 runs in a game three times; in his 21 remaining starts in 2003 he allowed at least 5 runs 10 times, and never again was he able to come close to matching that earlier stretch...
Maybe he lost something from the effects of his oblique injury, or it was just time taking its toll, or he was never that good to begin with and the pixie dust wore off...
I was at his first start after the 40-start run, in Boston in June of '03. He entered the game as the ace of the Cardinals staff, with a record of 8-1 and a 1.99 era, and I was bantering with some of the fans in the bleachers, whose only familiarity of Williams seemingly was that of the mediocre Blue Jay of yore. As the Red Sox quickly plated two runs in the 1st inning this one guy just kept yelling "Woody Williams!!!?" (with just a slight uplift at the end to signify a mocking incredulity) as if the name itself was enough to sum up the joke that this guy was supposedly the ace of some random NL team.
Woody ended up allowing 5 runs in 6.1 innings, (I can still hear that guy yelling "Woody Williams!!") and that was the beginning of the end...
Chuck Prince cleared a hell of a lot more than that, without a 40-start run of brilliance.
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