Small Sample Sizes, arbitrary endpoints, its only April, yeah yeah.
As of 4/24/22’s game, in reverse order, here’s our rotation’s last week:
- Adon on 4/24/22: 4ip, 6hits, 5 runs
- ASanchez on 4/23/22: 4 1/3ip, 6hits, 4 runs
- Corbin on 4/22/22: 1 1/3ip, 7hits, 3walks, 7runs.
- Rogers on 4/21/22: 4 1/3ip, 6hits, 4 runs.
- Fedde on 4/20/22: 3 1/3ip, 8hits, 7 runs.
Only Grey managed to have a decent week, throwing half the 4/19/22 DH in fine fashion (5 1/3ip, 3hits, 1 run). Still not a QS though; he got yanked after retiring the first guy in the 6th on just 87 pitches.
As for the rest of the rotation? Come on.
In our last 5 starts, our starters have given us a grand total of 17 1/3 innings and given up an astounding 27 runs along the way. That’s just 17 1/3 innings out of a required 45 to be pitched, meaning our bullpen is absolutely, completely shredded right now and its … April 25th. Every game for the last week looks like a spring training game, where every reliever in the pen gets an inning until the game is over.
We’re only 3 weeks into the season and the team has already called up SIX (6!) arms who weren’t on the opening day roster (Rogers, Sanchez, Clay, Perez, Ramirez, and Harvey).
And they’re going to have to scramble for coverage going forward; there are just TWO remaining arms on the 40-man who aren’t on the active roster or the MLB DL: Carrillo (who just went onto the AA D/L with a “sore shoulder,” uh oh), and Evan Lee, who’s made 3 starts but has only gone 9 1/3 total innings, giving up 8 walks along the way. Not exactly the bullpen innings eater we need. So get ready for any one of the slew of MLFA arms we have sitting in AAA to start getting called up to replace ineffective arms who suddenly have soft tissue injuries. I’m talking guys like Verrett, Edwards Jr., Clippard, Garret, Manoah, Weems, Baldonado, and Rodriguez.
After today’s debacle we’re 6-11, in last place in the NL, and have the 2nd worst record in the league. And we’re going to struggle to do better from here.
I feel like we’re in for a long season.