I keep expecting ERod to "get over" the whole COVID and side effect issues.
He starts to look good, then it gets messy, then he's back to looking like he's starting to turn it around, again.
I try to cut his some slack. I mean, the team just plain won a whole bunch of times, when he pitched for the 2 seasons before the mess that was 2020. The team went 19-4 and 26-8 in his starts, those two years. That's 45-12!
I know winning is a team stat, but he must have been doing something right, because he was not leading the team in run support, those 2 years.
As bad as he has looked, this year, we are 15-9in his starts, which included winning 5 of his first 6 starts. At the point, the team had gone 50-13 in his last 63 starts. They've gone 10-8 afterwards.
I'm not defending the guy. He's been a mess way too often, this year, but he did have some serious COVID-related health issues that nobody really knows the long term effects can be.