2k14: Hyun-Jin Ryu

[YourPalChrisMal]

I'd certainly take Ryu before Cueto, because of injuries and home parks. I'd rank him about even with Bailey.

As for this adjustment stuff, I think the media just keeps the clichés in their cliché pack (you thought that was a beer belly? wrong) and hauls out whichever one "explains" a pitcher's given outing or recent series of outings. They're always looking for explanations for random variance, trying to establish The Narrative when a given game may be just a case of "sh** happens" or "beats the f**k out of me why I was so effective".

^^^ This is too true. It's human nature to repel the idea of luck and random variance. Plus for sportwriters, that's just boring. Most people have a weird inner subconscious need for there to be an explanation for everything. I think it makes people feel more control over life, and less scared of the fact that many things in life just nothing more than happenstance, and totally out of their control.