No more Elevator Shaft for punishment

Yeah, I have a better suggestion. Employ a little patience. You keep throwing out ridiculous names of vet pitchers who are washed up. Have you even looked at Tillman’s numbers over the last 3-4 years? If we’re going to have pitchers struggling we’re better off with it being the young guys so they can learn and progress.

Well, this might be breaking news to you, but one in 1,000 starting pitchers manifest as one of the best in the game in their first 100 to 200 innings in the big leagues. That's what people are trying to say to you, over and over for years now. Arrieta's early struggles for several years are well documented. Arrieta had an ERA of 5.50 after he had pitched his first 400 innings in the big leagues, so how can you dare to put down our prospects and then mention Arrieta like he was something speical early on? Did you know Nola pitched 111 innings in his second year in the big leagues and had an ERA of 4.78? No, of course you didn't. You would have had him down the elevator shaft by the end of that year, but now you bring him as a superstar from day one. And you're blowing off guys who have less than 100 innings in the big leagues, less than 50, and some who don't even have any yet. Good lord man, can you please get a grip? If these guys are ever going to develop, they're going to need time and innings at the big league level If they struggle, that's normal. We only need them to be good or really good, we don't have to expect them all to be among the bet pitchers in the game. We already have one of those, Folty was 9th in ERA in all of baseball last year. 

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