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still early no reason to be upset when you're 13-4 and in first place. its not really a far margin though only 3 games up on philly and atl and we have a series with atl starting tonight. again still way too early though.
as for the rotation i think matz is the weak link. i would like to have 2 starting lefties but i think he may be better off as a LRP lefty if necessary.
What? Really... Matz has actually been super dominant... Could you tell me why you think Matz is the weakest link? Harvey is my clear cut choice. This guy literally has nothing anymore... He throws like he's going through the motions... Uninspired pitching along with lackluster motivation... Guy sounds deflated
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Matz settled down and got through four with a manageable pitch count. He has had an interesting season. Last season, Matz just struck out 16.1% of the people faced whereas this year, it is 30.66%. His stuff is clearly much better than last year and his HR-to-fly ball rate is a rather crazy 35.7%. Last year, the highest HR/FB rate in baseball was 21.2%. Essentially, I am suggesting Matz will be better going forward and his HR/FB rate should normalize.
Also I think ATL/PHI are outperforming their expectations, but we'll see..
This post was edited by pAiLiXziX on Apr 19 2018 04:51pm