There's a lot of discussion about what we should do about Danny Salazar, who had the most Salazar night with a 5.0 IP, 5 ER, 6 Hits, 2 BBs, 9 Ks line against the Rays Tuesday evening. I actually see most people loving to chase him and I'm not so confident about that. On one hand, his 13.50 K/9 is the highest in the majors with a 3.18 xFIP as his HR/FB rate has soared to 23.5% and BABIP sits at .383. Clearly, those will come down and voila! We're in business. Well...not really. His walk rate is as bad as it's ever been at 4.35 BB/9, groundballs have dipped ten points to 37.6% due to a huge increase of Changeups (his best pitch) that he either leaves up in the zone at hit hard or gets whiffs down in the zone. He's inducing only 13.6% soft contact meaning that the BABIP should come down, but still stay over .300, and I'm concerned that we're going to see a 3.80 ERA or so with an IPS still under 6.0 and a WHIP above 1.25. Yeah, the 7+ Ks per start are great and all, but are 2 strikeouts a start worth the big hit in ERA/WHIP on a given night? I legit don't have the answer here and I think it depends on the structure of your team.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
