Framber has been absolute garbage since his no hitter. France is up and down. Brown has been a huge disappointment. Javier was shit through the middle of the season, and again in the most important game of the season. Hard to win.
There’s a tendency to regard a young player’s best performance as his established ability. It may just be that Framber, Javier, etc., aren’t as good as they’ve shown at their best. Not that they aren’t or can’t be valuable members of the staff, but maybe they aren’t the front of the rotation like we thought they were.
For now, yes. But, if this persists into 2024, their seats will get warm. Javier and Framber should not have regressed aa badly as they did in the second half of the season.
2022 was truly extraordinary. It would be hard to replicate that performance if you were given the opportunity to draft a staff from among every pitcher in baseball.