Everyone struggled out of the gates though including Sale, E-Rod and Eovalid. It was a total mess at the beginning of the season. Porcello actually was one of our better pitchers to start the season next to Price. All I'm saying is his strong games came against very very good teams. Fine take the bad with the good..... His s*** games were against the Yankees, Guardians, and Orioles (maybe Mariners.... he went 6 innings and gave up 4 runs) His very solid games were against Tampa, Oakland and Houston. 2 extremely good teams and 1 pretty good team. Porcello as mentioned is a guy that can win you a game or lose you a game but he has way more solid games than bad games and he is a pitcher you can put against anyone which is not an easy task to do. Generally a pitcher has a team they struggle with. Sale against Houston, Price against Yankees etc.