Bro your just making disingenuous statements. The guy had alot of blow up games, his whip and opp avg isn't good. Hes like a 4th or 5th starter whose forced in starting the second game. Your so obsessed with his K rate. Which is feeding into other adv stats. Ideally this guy isn't pitching a playoff game for you

obv he is starting game 2 cuz he is a better pitcher at home than on the road, which im sure he is well aware of. gives them a way better chance to get to game 5 doing it this way

That shit doesn't matter in the playoffs but yes which is why I said he hes forced to start game 2.

luzardo looks like a different pitcher at home vs on the road. if this was in LA suarez is pitching game 2

183.2 IP
216 SO (4th most in MLB)
57 BB
2.90 FIP (6th best in MLB)
28.5 K%
5.3 fWAR (6th best in MLB)

Enough said.

He's a 4th or 5th guy in the Phillies great rotation when healthy, sure. He's a #2 or #3 at worst on a lot of teams though lol.

He had a very good season. Streaky, yes. When hes on, he has ace level stuff. Of course hes not an ace because of that up and down blowup risk, but in terms of his stuff he is outstanding. Just needs to not tip pitches and stay in check mentally. He doesn't lack the talent that's for sure.

This post was edited by Sixers on Oct 5 2025 10:36am

Largely agree with this. He's a solid #3 or #4 pitcher. The Phillies know that, but with wheeler gone and nola sucking, he's up

He does have a sub 3 era if you take off the 20 ER over 5.2 innings, but I don't agree with dm there. You can't just pick and choose which games to count lol.

Nobody disagrees with him being a mid rotation guy, he's their #3 right now which is fine. This rotation is deep, so they can handle the Wheeler loss better than most could. He has great stuff, but he's very inconsistent. But this start makes all the sense. Start him at home, give Ranger the road start.


Look at Luzardo's home numbers this year as well. He had the one start where he had 12 ER's over 3.1 innings. Tipping his pitches, he got absolutely shelled. But over the other starts he posted very good numbers which is the norm. Not to mention Luzardo had a 2.14 ERA and a strikeout to walk ratio of 36:1 over his last five outings at home.

Offense still has to show up. Luzardo may keep the Dodgers at bay, hopefully, but offense needs to fucking shown up consistently otherwise it doesn't matter. We can't expect him to shut them out lol. A quality start would be nice but scoring on Snell isn't exactly an easy task.

This post was edited by Sixers on Oct 5 2025 12:44pm

This offense isn't good enough for the playoffs. It just isn't.

If they dont show up on Monday there may be riots

after that opi that just got called im going to need to see the eagles lose