This one's for ^fgs the Nola hater 🙄
Aaron Nola was fantastic on Sunday night in a crucial series-clincher against Atltanta. Nola threw 100 pitches: 39 fastballs, 34 knuckle-curves, and the other 27% divided between the cutter, changeup, and sinker. He generated 21 swinging strikes. The offspeed stuff looked the best it’s looked all season, and he fanned nine batters across those six innings.
https://i.imgur.com/ev2AC4w.jpegI don’t know how many athletes I can name in the city of Philadelphia since 2010 that are more underappreciated than Aaron Nola.
These are his MLB ranks since 2018:
Innings Pitched: 1st (1,237)
K/9: 3rd (9.97)
ERA: 4th (3.60)
FIP: 4th (3.45)
fWAR: 3rd (28.4)
But speaking of Wheeler:
Since the start of the 2020 season, Zack Wheeler is 1st in Major League Baseball in fWAR (23.7), 1st in FIP (2.98), 1 of 2 pitchers with an ERA under 3.00 (Wheeler and Corbin Burnes), and is top five in HR/9, BB/9, and BABIP. There isn’t a pitcher in baseball that you should want to get the ball in a Game 7 right now over Zack Wheeler. He’s proven his playoff dominance. He’s shown that when the lights get brighter, his stuff gets nastier. He’s shown that he’s a workhorse year in and year out.
There’s been one pitcher in all of Major League Baseball who has thrown more innings since the start of the 2020 season. That pitcher is Aaron Nola, his teammate and fellow ace.
So he pitched well against the Braves JV team!? Fucking nice man. Stop with the quality starts shit. It's a bullshit stat. No one in the world considers a 4.50 a quality start.
Since 2018!? Why not include the year before? Or you know, his entire career lmao. Stop cherry picking shit.