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Charlie Morton's 2009 ERA of 4.55 shouts "league average."  But that's exactly what he is not, because he got there in a funny way. My father (a retired civil engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University) used to say that there were two types of "B" students.  One type made "straight Bs." The other (rarer) kind made half As and half Cs. The latter were the ones to watch, because if they brought their Cs up to Bs, they'd have a 3.5 average.  And it might actually be easier for them to turn their Cs into As than for straight-B students to turn their grades into As. On this scale, Charlie Morton's "average" stats might consist of two "As" and one "D." Or even three "As" and one "F," if you count is one-inning, ten-run, 90.00 ERA in Wrigley Field as the latter.  This ...

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Article written by Tom Au