That's 3-4 balls that have gotten by Thole in Dickey's two starts (plus a throwing error by Thole). I remain unconvinced that someone like Phegley or Conger would be significantly worse at catching Dickey.
5 games? These 5 games have gone about as expected given the previous 250 games of data suggesting that Pillar is not good enough to lead the team in PA.
Some say that he runs his team from his institution when he's behaved well enough to earn wi-fi privileges. Others say that he can't handle any exposure to baseball or the internet and left his team with an anonymous owner. Nobody really knows for sure, I reckon.
I couldn't remember the third lemon that SG traded for deGrom. It turns out is was Josh Beckett. deGrom for Floyd, Sabathia, and Beckett has to be a top-5 DDL fleecing.