.500 at the deadline is normally good enough to still go on a big playoff push
Several teams have done that and gone on to the world series, 2022 Phillies and 2021 Braves off the top of my head. Not really uncommon.
Yeah he was terrible. Walked the bases loaded twice in 2 innings. Really only looked good in the first.
I think Max needs to be in a bullpen role where he can air it out for 1 inning
I think you’re good, this just looks like early season struggles with some bad luck and MAJOR injury bug hitting them all at once.
I suspect they will hang around .500 til the reinforcements arrive and go on a big run during the summer
Something tells me Max won’t be hitting any of those incentives in his contract.
Give him another start or two, but the rotation might look like Gausman/Cease/Trey/Corbin/Berrios by mid-May