[Charles Henrickson]

It was said his two seasons pitching in the Colorado purgatorio compromised him as it does too many, but a close gaze upon his earned run averages suggests something slightly awry in the perception. Remove from his first eleven seasons his two in Colorado and his earned run average is .10 below his league - but include the Colorado seasons and it is .13 below league. And in the season now ended he was .04 below league.

However, in his nearly two-and-a-half seasons with St. Louis, Darryl Kile was very good, well above average: 41-24, a .631 winning percentage, with a 3.54 ERA. Contrast that with the two preceding years in Colorado: 21-30, .412 winning %, 5.84 ERA.

Kile had off-season shoulder surgery, so he got off to a slow start this year. His record this year was 5-4, 3.72, but he had really picked it up in the last month, was pitching great, and looked like he might end up with numbers like last year (16-11, 3.09; in 2000, he was 20-9, 3.91).

So I think those two "rockie" years ('98-'99) really skew his career statistics.