Seriously though, I'll give this FO some credit if they pull him from the rotation after beating Kluber. I suspect what will happen is that walking 7/9 will soon lead to a blowout loss, as it tends to do, and only after that happens will he lose is spot.
So I guess the net result of the last couple of moves is a bit of a re-tool:
Iwakuma and Braun out, Betances, Frazier, Meadows, and Matz in. I'm OK with it if I ignore what I gave up for Braun
That seems like kind of a silly argument, but I haven't read their defense of it. Why is the homerun the threshhold at which the metric is descriptive and not predictive? Why can't groundballs be that threshhold?
I think the rest of the forum would prefer that we ban the teenagers who haven't realized that pointing out harmless mistakes is gauche. Looking at you and north here.