It comes down to this: When your team does best when the likes of Oliver Perez and Jorge Sosa are pitching, you're in deep trouble. Come on...let's get out of this and get a comeback going. We're definitely due for one.
That's exactly my point. Oliver Perez is our best starter. Oliver Perez. If I had told you in March that Oliver Perez was going to be our best starter, how hopeful would you be about our success?
I'd have been pretty happy since it meant that he was finally back on track. We all knew Perez had the talent to be an excellent pitcher it was just a matter of putting it all together which he has done a great job of this season.
Fair enough. But the pitching is in shambles. That was my main point; the people who were originally above him on the depth chart have underperformed.
I don't agree with that either. Maine, Sosa and El Duque have been good. Glavine has underperformed and of course Pelfrey was horrible when he was up. Aside from the fact that we appear to be headed into another "Glavine sucks and is going to continue to run out there every 5th day" stretch I'd be more worried about the bullpen then I would be the starting pitching.
Other than Glavine, all of our starters have ERA's under 3.50. The problem isnt the pitching, its not getting the timely hits with RISP and when we do score runs, our starters dont do shit. Its like the two havent been going together, which is when your team loses ball games. It will click soon enough, the team is going through a rough patch.
I love that you write this as Gotay strikes out with the bases loaded. I agree that it seems when one thing goes well, the other thing doesn't. I hope you're right in saying it will click soon.
wow, fuck you carlos beltran. theres that unbelievably shitty patience the mets have shown during this streak. wow.
They're just taunting us, I know it. I'll I'm going to say if that a ball gets hit into the gap, Jose could beat the throw. But it's not going to happen. This is just cruel.
