No 1s are excellent to elite
No 2s are very good
No 3s are good
No 4s are mediocre to average
No. 5s are below average to bums
In my book Porcello was a number 4th pitcher. Mediocre or average at best.
2 is mediocre and very close to bad. Porcello in his career drove in that highway most of the times.
Good to Very Good pitchers, drive in a very different highway. Porcello certainly isn’t in that list.
This is a clear example of clutch pitching.
Montgomery clearly is not a clutch pitcher and still, we couldn’t score in that 3rd inning. We should have destroyed him in that inning mostly because one of the best hitters in the game was at that AB.
A DP turned into a run due that pass ball.
Tanner didn’t do what he was doing well —throwing strikes.
The damage was minimal though. Bats need to wake the f*** up specially at clutch moments.
Well he has 8/11 seasons posting fWARs around 2 i.e most of them (the median) —kind of my point.
If you take away his best and worst year he is something around 2.
Thing is his 5+ fWAR year which was fluke IMO elevates way up his numbers.
Even at fWAR, Rick Porcello is not good. He has been something around 2.0 fWAR through his career. 2.0 fWAR pitchers are role players. Role players in my book are not good.
if the later is true, Bloom will have a very good idea of what to do in the next couple of weeks when he "finishes" his evaluations on Duran, Cordero, Gonzalez, Santana, Chavis, etc.