Well said.
Only thing I’m not so sure is the pitching too hard. Porcello doesn’t look like he is doing that to me. He is still the same Rick in my opinion from his CY YOUNG season but as I mentioned before. He just seems to get into his own head. He has a lot of great work. His slider, breaking, etc are all pretty when he is on. Go back to the Minnesota game for proof of that. But for some reason when he is off on one pitch like last night his breaking ball just didn’t seem to be working for him. All his pitches goes to hell. For some reason Rick is a 0 to 100 type pitcher. If it’s working he can give you 7 strong scoreless innings. If it’s not working he will blow up a game fast for you like he did against the Yankees and if the offense wasn’t so good last night he would have done it against Detroit as well.
I’m still chalking this up to inconsistent on Ricks part. I don’t think these last two games indicate the way he will play for the rest of his career. And I will be the first to say. If it does. Then he needs to move on because we can find much better. But at the end of the day it’s inconsistent and Rick needs to work on the mental side of things. Don’t let a bad inning kill your entire game. He used to rebound it seemed after a bad inning last year. Give up an early Porcello but then would have 5 shut down innings. This year for whatever reason is just different. One bad inning turns into a complete s*** show.
He was fantastic against Houston and the Jays then sucked for 3 straight games. Then was very good again against Texas and Minnesota and now back to suck. You just don’t know what Rick you’re going to get this year. It’s frustrating. When Rick is on he could cut it as an Ace for most teams like the way he played against Houston, Texas and Minnesota. But when he’s off like this last stretch I don’t even want him on the team.