yeah that's a strawman, his problem is whenever guys get on base they steal easily on him because he has no awareness at all, and then his command goes to shit because he freaks out and then boom, big inning
look at his stats vs good teams, the only good team he's had success against is Toronto. he also straight up sucks on the road (ERA over 5)
BOS: 11.05 ERA
NYY: 7.71
HOU: 9.00
asking him to dominate is unrealistic, but he isn't even good vs the top teams. if we have to rely on Cease in the playoffs he will get clobbered, and that critique is based on facts and data, not your feelings