Worst Earned Run Averages (ERAs)

[utterchaos jr.]

Every year he's not horrible, he's a pretty good player.

But...he has to work on the W/L thing and ERA

[National Acrobat]

A more recent player to come to mind with a high ERA is Hideo Nomo. In 2004 his ERA was 8.24 in 84.0 innings. In 2005 he had a 7.24 ERA in 100.7 innings. Another player from Tampa Bay, Dewon Brazelton had a 7.61 ERA in 71.0 innings last year. Ouch, that hurts for the D-rays.

Casey Fossum for the Rays is working on that as well this year. Only Maddon putting him in the Bullpen may prevent him from pitching over 100 innings with an ERA over 7.00 for the season.

[Francoeurstein]

Randy Johnson managed to have a solid season despite an ERA of 5.00.
He was 17-11 with 172 strikeouts and 114 ER in 205 innings. I wonder how he managed to have half of that ERA 4 seasons previous to that.

[janduscframe]

I wonder if this is a record. Derrick Turnbow's 6.87 era in 56 innings a couple seasons ago... After all he was a member of the All Star team in 06 when he posted those numbers. (he collapsed big time after the break)

[buppers]

Using baseball-reference.com play index I found 13 pitchers with 20 or more starts with an ERA of 7.00+. Including 2 Phillies from 1930 who actually came in 1 and 2. Sweetland and Willoughby with 7.71 and 7.59 with 27 and 24 GS.

There were a total of 139 pitchers with 20 or more starts with an ERA of 6.00+. AMAZING!!!

eD

[Imgran]

I wonder if this is a record. Derrick Turnbow's 6.87 era in 56 innings a couple seasons ago... After all he was a member of the All Star team in 06 when he posted those numbers. (he collapsed big time after the break)

How does that compare in terms of pure suck over innings pitched with Jimmy Gobble's 8.81 ERA over 31 2/3 innings? A bit of a "quality over quantity" debate if you wilL!

[cbenson5]

Jose Lima earned a spot on this thread with a 5.26 era in over 1500 innings.

[JCincy]

Joe Nuxhall, 1944
ERA: 67.50
At the age of 15 he pitched 2/3rds of inning for the Cincinnati Reds in 1944. He allowed 5 earned runs, 2 hits and 5 walks.


He did return 8 years later... and finished his career with an average ERA of 3.9.