Curious how useful others are finding Pedro Martinez to be these days.

I've just about decided to abandon him. For every good season, I seem to get four mediocre ones. And when I've drafted his 2000 season, it's in higher-cap leagues, and he rarely measures up. His short innings and his HR vulnerability keep him from being a guaranteed winner, despite great differentials in OAV+ and WHIP+.

Here's what "97 and '02 Pedros have done for me lately:

'97 at Astrodome - 22-5  1.03  .199
'97 at Busch II     -   1-5   1.61  .247
'97 at Polo V       -  11-12  1.29 .240
'97 at Petco        -    2-2   1.58  .318
'02 at  Palace     -    11-11 1.22 .240

Too many Ks

2000 PJ still does about as well as anybody for me the only problem I have is his cost. other top pitchers costing less $/IP seem to do just as well or very close. 95 maddux is the one who has gone downhill for no apparent reason.

If an owner builds a team around two expensive pitchers, but they prove not to be super, then he's cooked because he didn't have enough salary left for a stronger offense. Are the once-dominant pitchers less so because of certain offensive strategies that have worked and become common?

2000 Pedro in a -HR park is still damn near automatic, in my experience.  Even at higher caps, he's still more automatic than anyone else.