I actually didn't think Stro and Shoemaker were that high. Thornton pitching like a ~2-win starter is a pretty good outcome though. I just see a bottom-half pitching staff that's also been riddled by injuries and pitching more or less as expected.
I dunno, our good pitchers have pitched well (Stroman, Giles, Thornton, Shoemaker before he died). I think the problem is that the pitching staff sucks.
I think so too. He has the fastball and the breaking ball. Let him go balls out an inning at a time and see what happens. Maybe eventually he becomes someone who can give you multiple good innings. It's not working as a starter.
And it's best we find out before deciding whether or not to tender him a contract.
I hate this deal for me, but I have 9 saves all season. Rolling the dice that Robles Fernando Rodneys his way to 1-2 saves a week before I cut him in the offseason.
I don’t think there’s any reason you’d expect that to beat DIPS in a way that doesn’t show up in the data via low ev on ground balls or something. The exit velo on the ground balls he gives up is actually above average IIRC. There’s really nothing to suggest we should expect Sanchez to keep beating his DIPS and 550 innings or whatever isn’t a huge sample. The best explanation at this point is that he got lucky.