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14-2, 144.1/3 innings, 172 k, 25 bb, 66 hits, 1.39 era, 0.64 whip, .155 ba against, 10.88 k/9, 6.88 k/bb.

so everyone has been talking about johan santana's amazing second half - focusing on his last 10 starts. but he has been better than that for longer than that. the numbers above date back to june 9, spanning santana's last 18 starts. the guy has been untouchable. if he keeps this up for, oh, i don't know - say 5 more years, he could be the next Sandy Koufax

I haven't computed his ops against from his last 18 starts, and probably won't have time to. maybe i'll put that up, but if any of you have some free time and want to post it in the comments, it would be great to see those numbers. for now, i'll just post his season long ops numbers: .251/.328/.579. pretty darn good, and considering in his last 18 he has dropped his era from 5.51 to 2.85, those numbers are going to be considerably lower.

Edit, 9/14/04, 11:38pm: Santana tossed another gem tonight, beating the white sox on 7 innings of work, allowing just 2 hits, 1 walk, and no runs, while striking out 7, all on 88 pitches.