Every Wine has it's Time

Here are the stats for some of the young Braves starting pitchers. Call them pitchers A, B, C, D, and E.  All have losing records and high ERA’s. WHIP (walks & hits per inning) is also sky high. Good pitchers have a WHIP near 1.000 and great pitchers have a WHIP under 1.000. 

 

Question: should the Braves keep these guys, or give up on them?

 

W-L..ERA..IP…HITS.ER.HR.BB..K..WHIP

2-07 5.48 064 074 039 10 33 37 1.672…A

2-04 5.54 050 055 031 05 33 20 1.748…B

7-17 4.56 195 201 111 12 63 84 1.352…B  

2-04 5.52 031 044 019 03 11 20 1.774…C

6-14 5.62 155 181 111 17 74 99 1.638…C

4-09 4.32 100 051 048 10 57 99 1.570…D

4-06 5.71 086 112 063 17 29 77 1.627…E

 

Look again at those stats above. Here’s what pitcher put up such poor numbers in their first major league season…

 

A = John Smoltz

B = Tom Glavine (first 2 years)

C = Greg Maddux (first 2 years)

D = Sean Newcomb.

E = Mike Foltynewicz – now he’s an all-star

 

Newcomb is like 9-1 this season when he pitches the day after a Braves loss. He received all-star consideration as well. Teheran is too inconsistent. Once someone is ready to take his place he is a goner. When Julio becomes a free agent the Braves will not re-sign him. McCarthy won’t be back this year. He’s hurt right now. Sanchez won’t be around long term either.  

 

Tuesday: showing the new employee things slowed down my work, so I stayed till seven to get things done. Got a lot to do and I can’t work late on Thursday, and Friday we have a long lunch meeting.

 

Left work and stopped by Taco Bell. Long wait at the barber shop, but I passed the time deleting emails. Didn’t get home until nine. Had to pick up M at work at ten, so I took Barney with me. I went to bed when I got home. Barney wouldn’t get in bed again last night. He slept on the wood floor in the foyer at the bottom of the steps, but by morning he had come upstairs under the ceiling fan. After I dressed for work he hopped up under the bed, but didn’t burrow his head on my pillow. Instead he just took his usual spot at the foot of the bed, under the ceiling fan.