(06-01-2018 09:46 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(06-01-2018 09:30 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(06-01-2018 09:06 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(06-01-2018 09:04 AM)stever20 Wrote:  yeah. did you see the Indians releif ERA in May was 8.01? Since 2002, it's the 6th worst bullpen ERA for a month.
only
Arizona May 2005 8.10
Arizona May 2010 8.56
Colorado Apr 2005 8.74
Baltimore Aug 2007 9.43
Tampa July 2007 9.50

were worse than them..

Their 5.97 FIP was #21 worst for a month in that same period.

Good god that is scary. Imagine watching them every night and just knowing that your relievers are nearly guaranteed to give up a run an inning? It must come with a strange sense of inevitability.

I was looking at their last week stats to see if it's gotten better with the winning streak. Um, no. last week, it's been a 8.88 ERA.

Talk about winning in spite of your pen

well, looking at it- a lot of it was last Friday- they gave up 11 er in 2.2 innings.... take that out and last week they give up 14 er in 22.2 innings- stilll a bad 5.56 ERA....