Honestly, if you look at all his starts, they've been pretty consistent... Except the two bad ones. His start today basically mirrors a start he made in April and mirrors starts he made in May. Your data range just happens to include his worst two starts as an Astro. This board is having s bad habit of looking simply at a fixed data range to make their point, and I guess I'm falling into it as well. Also, you basically claimed its "time to end the Mchugh experiment"... And to go ahead and start Fausto. Go ahead and look at each of his starts one after the other. He ranges from good to mediocre to bad to good again. No appreciable regression/pattern (but he does have to cut out the stinkers). I'd say his performance today, which everyone dreaded and couldn't have started out worse, says a lot for what he's capable of putting together. You need tough pitchers who have the ability to withstand adversity both within a game and over the course of a season.
McHugh has a 5.04 ERA... That's all that needs to be said. We need a upgrade. ASAP. This doesn't translate well if we are fortunate to make playoffs.
While we're on the subject of posting random stats without much context: Carter has a .210 batting average Valbuena has a .185 batting average Castro has a .298 OBP This team just struck out 17 times today, and leads the league in strikeouts. (whoops... I just said "more").
I know you're being sarcastic, but if we remove the worst 5 starts that McHugh has had this season, he'd have a sub 3 ERA....so he's actually having a pretty solid year.
Yep, I agree This team has been so much fun. Loving it Of course, there are some too worried about Altuve and Carter and McHugh and how awful everyone is But for me, i'm loving it
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Interesting stat from <a href="https://twitter.com/baseball_ref">@baseball_ref</a> is Power-Speed # which accounts for HR and stolen bases. George Springer is 1st in AL with 11.3 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Astros?src=hash">#Astros</a></p>— Astros Future (@AstrosFuture) <a href="https://twitter.com/AstrosFuture/status/611743042513432576">June 19, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Why would you ignore 33% of the season though? If you remove his 5 best starts, he has an ERA of something like 7. This is probably true of a ton of pitchers, but I'm not sure what it tells u.
It tells you that sometimes he's good, sometimes he's bad, and sometimes he's just mediocre. Useful information.
I was being sarcastic without trying to sound sarcastic, haha...when I posted numbers, I got responses like, "those are inflated because of his last start and because of the start against SF", as if all bad starts are disqualified.
