Peavy states he's 100 percent: The Chicago Tribune reports White Sox SP Jake Peavy says that he is 100 percent heading into the 2012 season. "I'm as 100 percent as I can be. I don't know if I'm 100 percent as to what I was four years ago," said Peavy, who returned to the diamond in 2011 following shoulder surgery that ended his 2010 season early. "I know I'm as 100 percent as 100 percent is going to get after what I had done (surgically). I guess that's the best way to say it." Peavy is hoping to make 30-plus starts in 2012. "I would be terribly disappointed," Peavy said. "It's something I want to do and I've done before. I just haven't been healthy since I got traded over here. I know fans and everybody have been frustrated, but there's nobody more frustrated than me. When you play a certain caliber and level and you haven't been able to get back there, it's tough. This year, I have left no leaf unturned and I'm ready to see what I have." (Updated 02/06/2012)
Injury Report
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Fantasy Analysis
Peavy is 14-13 with a 4.77 ERA and 1.25 WHIP in 36 games (35 starts) in two seasons with the White Sox. It's very interesting to hear Peavy himself say that he probably isn't the Cy Young pitcher he was with San Diego, but you can still the see desire for him to bounce-back in 2012 and put together a solid campaign. But as we have seen before, shoulder surgeries usually take a toll on pitchers. You have to like his confidence, but Peavy remains a late-round Fantasy option on Draft Day. (Updated 02/06/2012).
Some Fantasy owners might dismiss Jake Peavy's 2011 season as a failure considering he produced a career-worst 4.92 ERA in only 19 appearances, but you have to put the performance in perspective. After the injury he suffered in 2010, he had no business pitching at all. Not only was he coming back from shoulder surgery -- a daunting task even in the most straightforward cases -- but his injury was a new one to the baseball world: His latissimus dorsi muscle had been completely detached from the bone. Peavy's return only 10 months after suffering the injury was borderline miraculous, as was his ability to get his fastball back to within a mile per hour of what it was. So yeah, all things considered, his 2011 wasn't half bad. What about his 2012? Pitching coach Don Cooper is convinced Peavy will be close to full strength, and the 30-year-old was certainly looking that way before the White Sox shut him down early last September, pitching at least six innings in eight of his last nine starts with a near 5-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio during that stretch. Considering he hasn't had a 30-start season since his Cy Young-winning 2007, Peavy will hardly be a hot commodity on Draft Day, but his upside justifies the risk in the late rounds. (Updated 1/11/12)
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