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Their pitching is overachieving by quite a bit. Duffy has a ERA under 0.50, but his Baseball Savant page is half blue. His xERA is almost 4. He's throwing harder than before, but he always his issues staying healthy. I think at the end of the season Brady Singer is gonna be their best pitcher. Nothing about their roster quality jumps out at you. They may luck their way to above .500 record if everything goes their way, but I really doubt they can win 90+ games. Edit: after reading over what I wrote again, Danny Duffy reminds me a lot of Carlos Rodon. Oft-injured lefties who are throwing harder this year and aren't likely to sustain the massive success they've had early on.

The TV ones aren't the most accurate either. The most accurate one is actually on MLB Gameday according to Ump Scorecards.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/nick-madrigal-is-good-can-he-be-great/ TLDR: Nick is already a good hitter, but to be a great hitter, he's gotta sprinkle in like 5 homers a year.

If the bullpen was as good as it was last year, this team would probably be 16-5.

I think we need to be 5 games over by the end of the homestand. Anything less would be disappointing.

It's not a coincidence.

I'd rather see Foster than Ruiz, but ?

The bats definitely went to bed after the 4th inning.

lmao I guess he was playing around with his lips between innings.

Ump wants to go home. Unfortunately our pitchers aren't getting some those calls on the corners.

Need to get a run here to get it out of slam territory. That's where Ruiz shines.

They're going the Sale route. Unfortunately, Sale had 2 really good pitches besides his fastball. Crochet is only dominant if he throws 100+. His off-speed stuff isn't good enough if he only throws 96-97.

Crochet is lucky he didn't give up 3 runs that inning. Looks like he's got a cut on his hand.

TLR had nobody warming?

Yoan has saved the bullpen today.

Nice inning from Yoan.

Tony has brought Crochet into so many situations with guys on base that I forgot he pitches out of the windup.

Need Crochet to go at least one more inning before he hands it off to Foster and Ruiz.

Collins's first 3 hit game is one where he didn't even hit the ball out of the infield lol

Collins with 3 infield hits.

Len Kasper's got dad jokes.

Offense needs to go back to work. They've looked disinterested the past few innings.

Don't ever let Crochet field a baseball.

Stiever can't get the changeup over. The one time he threw it for a strike the ump called it a ball.