Today's Joe Nathan Poll

I have a new poll question set up in the left-hand sidebar concerning popular opinion on the Joe Nathan signing.

Since everyone enjoys polls, though, here's a more performance-oriented poll:

Nathan's career statistics, for handy reference:

Year	Age	Tm	ERA	G	SV	IP	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1997	22	SFG-min	2.47	18	2	62.0		1.274	7.7	1.0	3.8	6.4	1.69	SKZ · NORW
1998	23	SFG-min	3.93	26	0	137.1		1.289	7.9	1.1	3.7	8.4	2.25	SJO,SHV · CALL,TL
1999	24	SFG-min	4.32	15	0	83.1		1.392	7.9	1.2	4.6	9.6	2.07	FRE,SHV · PCL,TL
1999	24	SFG	4.18	19	1	90.1	103	1.439	8.4	1.7	4.6	5.4	1.17
2000	25	SFG-min	4.38	5	0	24.2		1.459	7.7	1.8	5.5	6.2	1.13	FRE,BAK,SJO · PCL,CALL
2000	25	SFG	5.21	20	0	93.1	82	1.629	8.6	1.2	6.1	5.9	0.97
2002	27	SFG-min	5.60	31	0	146.1		1.647	10.3	1.2	4.6	7.2	1.58	FRE · PCL
2002	27	SFG	0.00	4	0	3.2		0.273	2.5	0.0	0.0	4.9
2003	28	SFG	2.96	78	0	79.0	142	1.063	5.8	0.8	3.8	9.5	2.52
2004	29	MIN	1.62	73	44	72.1	294	0.982	6.0	0.4	2.9	11.1	3.87
2005	30	MIN	2.70	69	43	70.0	166	0.971	5.9	0.6	2.8	12.1	4.27
2006	31	MIN	1.58	64	36	68.1	284	0.790	5.0	0.4	2.1	12.5	5.94
2007	32	MIN	1.88	68	37	71.2	229	1.019	6.8	0.5	2.4	9.7	4.05
2008	33	MIN	1.33	68	39	67.2	316	0.901	5.7	0.7	2.4	9.8	4.11
2009	34	MIN	2.10	70	47	68.2	210	0.932	5.5	0.9	2.9	11.7	4.05
2011	36	MIN-min	0.00	3	0	3.0		1.000	6.0	0.0	3.0	15.0	5.00	ROC · IL
2011	36	MIN	4.84	48	14	44.2	83	1.164	7.7	1.4	2.8	8.7	3.07
11 Seasons			2.87	581	261	729.2	152	1.110	6.6	0.9	3.4	9.4	2.76