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Comments
Early takes:
I like that Tomlin throws strikes. Jackson has great stuff but is too wild.
Jackson is too much of a liability. He’d fit in great in the Mets bullpen
I'd say starting pitching after Fried is a much bigger problem than middle relief, besides an incident here and there. In fact...
Starting Pitching ERA: 5.09
Relief Pitching ERA: 3.52
And keep in mind the bottom includes some biggie incidents by Chacin (which got erased by us with offense) and Touki. The regular "ahead and close" relievers (at least by my classification) currently have ERAs of 0, 0, 3, 3.38, 2.45, and 1.93 (yes, Luke for now will be still considered one). If you want to include Tomlin, that'd be a 3rd 0, but I'd consider him a non-traditional reliever (he does a bit of everything).
Matzek has been very surprising. I wouldn't consider him as a starter, but you might want to consider starting to use him as a non-traditional, but valuable guy like Tomlin has been used.
Yeah our 3, 4, and 5 starters are by far my biggest concern. We can complain that our bullpen sucks but pretty much every mlb bullpen sucks too. There just aren’t enough good pitchers and too many good hitters.
Need Hamels to come back if they want to be serious about a potential playoff run. Best teams have a great 1 & 2 starter.
As far as Jackson, he’s just Jekyll and Hyde, one outing he’s great, the next outing he’s all over the place.
I am generally about as optimistic as a fan can be, but I'm afraid the Braves' season just went down the drain with that injury to Soroka.
Didn't look good. Looked like maybe Achilles the way he went down after planting and the excessive dorsiflexion on the right.
There goes the season.
As a Met fan I can tell you it sucks when you don’t have enough good pitching
I **** hate 2020
You should just throw degrom every game he is unhittable.
Crossing my fingers for the best on Mike. Didn't look good.
Not good at all
Sick to my stomach for him. Just awful
Yep, the year 2020 is like constantly getting kicked in the balls.