After all the discussion of Mark Mulder and Dan Haren having eerily similar seasons, I thought I'd throw together some stats to make it easy to comapre in one place. It also got me thinking about how well Tim Hudson was replaced in the rotation (this is not about the issue of whether the Hudson trade netted us good players, but simply about how well he was replaced in the rotation by whoever took his place), so I took the time to compare Hudson to Joe Blanton. Somehow, Billy Beane replaced Hudson and Mulder with two clones of Hudson and Mulder, statistically speaking. Click Read More to see all the stats. . .

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