This wasn’t the Mike Hampton that the Braves hope emerges. There’s really no way to argue definitively one way or the other. History suggests that players who leave Coors rebound in the ways you’d expect. Battered pitchers get more effective. Muscled up hitters take a hit (though not as big as their Coors-Road splits suggest).
But the numbers argue that Hampton was not as good a pitcher as his results the two years before he headed for the Rockies. Too many walks, not enough strikeouts, is the rap.
It looks to me like he’ll be a good pitcher again, in time. Maybe not as effective as he was in Houston and NY, but good enough to help any team. But it wouldn’t be shocking if I turned out to be wrong. And no matter which way it goes, a judgment won’t be rendered for a while.