Giants @ Astros, August 11, 2020

[Snuffy]

Nice article!
I especially liked this part - it’s the starters, not the rookies in the pen that are under performing:

…You’d think that calling up nine different rookies would cause horrific problems in the bullpen. In the immortal words of Lee Corso – “Not so fast, my friend!” Astros relievers currently rank 11th in the majors with a 3.48 ERA – not too shabby, with nine rookies in the mix. No, the major problem lies with the starting pitchers, who currently sit at 17th in MLB with a 4.46 ERA…

[austro (Mark)]

I suspect that bullpen ERA would look a lot worse if, in at least half a dozen instances that I can recall, the end of the game hadn’t mercifully arrived after they coughed up a few runs.

[MarkR (Buford T. Justice)]

@austro

I suspect that bullpen ERA would look a lot worse if, in at least half a dozen instances that I can recall, the end of the game hadn’t mercifully arrived after they coughed up a few runs.

… Some say that Cy Sneed is somewhere out there STILL trying to get that elusive first out.