29th in ERA at 5.71, a number that will only lower even if they don't give up another run today. It also counts 10.2 innings of 1 run ball from Hunter Brown, so not counting him, it's at 6.27, by far the worst mark in the Majors. They're also 27th in FIP at 5.02, so even positive regression still has them as a bottom 5 pitching staff.
Is it time to have a discussion about Josh Miller? The trade off of him murdering arms was that they are effective when healthy, but if our pitchers are dropping like flies in addition to sucking?
Well, it appears they are who we thought they were. We got excited prematurely. It is a loooooong season, and the Astros, apparently, are not very good.
- 15 runs from dropped outs (not counted as errors) - Two starters being added in less than a week Astros are more likely to finish 5th-15th vs 20th-30th. Vegas prob agrees.
The pitching has been horrible, but scoring 2 runs in the final 19 innings at Coors field is abysmal.
Abreu needs to go back to extended spring training, just claim he has an injury. It's time to address that the Astros training staff is awful and this team wasn't prepared for the season coming out of ST.
He's made Chicken Salad out of Chicken **** before, but there's just no talent here. Joe Burrows should stick to football and everyone knew the bullpen was going to be awful before the season began. You can't blame him for Bryan Abreu becoming the worst reliever in baseball after being the best for the least 4 years, or for Christian Javier outright stealing money from the team. Imai looked good after a bad initial start, and Lance might be the best pitcher on the team right now, but everyone else has either no talent or gave up the moment they got the bag.
