Porcello in Red Sox uniform is mediocre at very best thus far. His Cy Young season was a fluke year. You don’t need WAR to figure it out. The contract was a mistake since day one. Thus far in his career, he has FiVE seasons posting 4.5+ ERA (four of them around 5), one around 4.3, and only TWO under 4—one of them a fluke one. Porcello sucks, plain and simple. I said this since day one.
Said that, if he posts something around 4.0 ERA and improves his horrible 14.7 HR/FB, he’ll be a decent No. 4 for us. In my book Pom and Rodriguez should be ahead in the rotation.