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					Originally Posted by Snowman  Laugh all you want, but the numbers that actually matter, the ones that aren't subject to luck were nearly identical to his prior years (12.0 K/9 vs 12.3, 3.4 BB/9 vs 3.3, 3.35 FIP vs 2.82 and 3.42). If that's not "ever so slightly elevated", then I don't know what is. 
 But you can keep looking at ERA if you want to. The imbeciles always do.
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 Those are the product of the same set of games you dismissed as being too small a sample size to be meaningful, so why are they now meaningful when they favor your argument?