Alford transferred last year so he didn't even get to play at all last season. So now this year he's a sophomore at Ole Miss, and he switched from QB to DB. I have no idea how good he is, but I don't think he's projected to be drafted at this point
Rasmus had two years with a 130 wRC+ and three years around 90.
Gose has been around the low to mid 80s. If its the first Rasmus, then we want him. If its the second, we want Gose.
Like if I'm looking at a single game the most important thing is if we win or not. I'm much more concerned with how well the pitcher actually did at preventing runs, than how many runs their flyballs, Ks and BBs should have resulted in.
Over a couple games its obviously a much better indicator of how the pitcher has been doing.
With just a single game sample luck can play much too large of a role to look at the stats like xFIP which don't really take into account what actually happened.
We saw this with those terrible Santos implosions.
When evaluating a single start I would rather look at the non-SABR stuff like the actual score, how the game is going, who they're playing, ect.
In this case both say it wasn't a great start, so we're all good.