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Hey Jonzie,
I totally "get" Gallardo, from the innings-eating perspective, and am not beefing about that at all. Said so the day we got him. Generally he's been a 180-200 inning, league average type of starter. From '07-'15, the highest FIP he ran was 4.09! As a #5, he's pretty dang ducky. True, last year he was terrible, and the year before he ran his highest WHIP (up to that point), but he's a durable MLB starter with some past success. He probably won't get us $11M of WAR, but it was the innings we were buying, not brilliance.
My "Gallardo whom?" comment was intended to be smart-alecky in pointing out that if he doesn't find his old form relatively early, we will likely look at younger options.
I said it badly, didn't I?
Moe