He absolutely was but he was a huge regression candidate anyways. The odds that his performance from last year would carry over were slim to begin with.
No. I've come to my senses on that point. I don't even want Derozan back. I'm just saying that hypothetically I might not mind him as much in a different system.
Well I might agree with him that it was too high. It's just that it's hardly the point. The issue isn't just under-performance. It's the "why" of the under-performance.
By all rights, he should be optioned when Travis comes back but on a team where clubhouse seniority seems to drive decisions more than strategy, he probably stays.
Fan expectation is really an entirely different issue. Maybe it's too high and maybe it isn't but that has nothing to do with whether or not Stroman's current approach is the right one for his skill set. That's the real question.
Some pitchers hit the showers right away and prefer to not even watch their line. I don't think there's really an established etiquette there. The reaction was poor though and Zaun (correctly) called it out on air.
I'm not optimistic. Seems like he's very likely to do what a lot of fans are doing which is to blame the bullpen for not stranding his inherited runners as opposed to taking responsibility for conceding so many base runners in the first place.