Sean Henn’s ranking on this list could be seen as an affirmation of the old baseball saying that lefty pitchers get all the chances in the world. While Henn looked ready to set the baseball world on fire during the summer of ’01, he has not demonstrated the same level of dominance since. To be fair, he did have to make the recovery from Tommy John surgery, but I feel Henn has received sufficient leeway for this.

After blowing his elbow out in that summer of ’01, when he went 3-1 with 49 strikeouts, 15 walks, and just 26 hits in 42 innings, I thought Henn would be back by the end of ’02. I was wrong about this, as Henn did not return until early summer ’03. In addition to returning early, Henn went from a left-hander with excellent mid 90s velocity having touched as high as 99 to a left-hander with low 90s velocity, occasionally touching the mid 90s. The loss of stuff combined with a lack of development as far as his secondary offerings saw Henn deliver an under whelming FSL campaign; 72.1 innings, 69 hits, 37 walks, 52 strikeouts, and 3 home runs allowed. While some gave him a complete pass for that since it was his first season back from TJ, I was leery of doing so considering how long he took to come back.