Giants Roster Question: Dan Runzler vs. Jeremy Affeldt

I was reading PaapFly this morning and something caught my eye that I wanted to dig deeper into. The question that is brought up is which pitcher makes more sense as the Giants left handed non-loogy guy, Dan Runzler or Jeremy Affeldt? The Giants have been said to be trying to convert Runzler into a starting pitcher. Why? I’m not exactly sure. I read Sabean said that Runzler’s best shot at making the bullpen is to stretch out and become a long reliever. Let’s ignore the fact that he’s younger, cheaper and has better peripherals than Jeremy Affeldt – thus may be a more serviceable non-LOOGY lefty out of the ‘pen than Jeremy, whom I still adore for his Game Six emergency innings against Philly, by the way. But anyway, that’s perhaps a discussion for another time.Well I have sometime so I want to have this discussion now. Here are the numbers for 2009 and 2010: Runzler: Year W L W-L% ERA G IP H ER HR BB SO ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB...