Mehar wrote:Raps in 4 wrote:linery88 wrote:Even with the struggles of this staff,I think the starting pitching lately, has been good enough for us to win,if our inconsistent offence was up to it.
Vladdy is in a long slump of some kind.Maybe move Bo to the 3 slot,and Vladdy to 4 just to see what might happen.
Kiermaier has shown that he could easily leadoff,and Springer move to number 2 because he is not 100 percent healthy.But this would never happen.Sportsnet studios would crumble.
We rank 10th in ERA and 11th in wRC+ this season. Mediocrity across the board.
Do not focus only on this season. Take a look at the last ten years under Pete Walker, where this team's Starting Pitching and Bullpen has been mediocre to below average. Who forgets about our Clown Show of Bullpen from 2021, when this team had the best offense in all of MLB, only for our pathetic bullpen arms to cost us a post-season birth and potentially a long post-season run.
We had Shapiro telling the media in 2021 that Pete Walker would have a positive impact on guys like Brad Hand, Tyler Chatwood, Ryan Borucki, and Rafael Dolis out of the bullpen. The opposite was true, and all of these guys were eventaully sent packing after their dreadful pitching outings that year that cost this team plenty of wins in 2021. 10 years of Pete Walker is enough, and his track record as pitching coach has been mediocre to below average, just like his MLB pitching career.
I've been calling for Pete Walker to be fired for a while. He's been here since 2012. The Jays have not been a great pitching team once in that span. We haven't been particularly good at "reclaiming" pitchers either. For every Robbie Ray there is a Jose Berios and Yusei Kikuchi that regress when they join our team.
Part of the blame for the poor pitching obviously falls on Shatkins too. They've done a piss poor job of drafting pitching talent. They've managed to draft one major league-level starter in 8 years, lol.