Kevin Gausman 2017

[Moose Milligan]

Can't get out of the 5th.  Too many balls, not enough strikes.  3 walks, 4 strikeouts. 

[capyy]

So, was that a balk??

[Dark Helmet]

This is one reason Gausman can't get wins. Can't get deep enough into games to get a decision when the Orioles score later in the game.

Not that wins are a determining factor on how good a SP is, bit Gausman has to figure out how to keep his pitch counts down. You can't be a TOR starter going 5 innings.

[Moose Milligan]

4 minutes ago, Dark Helmet said:

This is one reason Gausman can't get wins. Can't get deep enough into games to get a decision when the Orioles score later in the game.

Not that wins are a determining factor on how good a SP is, bit Gausman has to figure out how to keep his pitch counts down. You can't be a TOR starter going 5 innings.

Exxxxxxxactly.  

[SteveA]

The pitches appear to be there.

The command and consistency doesn't.

That's preferable to the other way around, I suppose.

 

[Dark Helmet]

I'm not sure how in-game adjustments work. But, if a pitcher is missing off one side of the plate constantly, wouldn't moving over on the rubber some fix that? I've never seen a pitcher do that during a game however.

[Frobby]

Gausman really had trouble commanding the fastball today, especially to the arm side, where it seemed his pitches were tailing more than he wanted them to.   Not a good outing, but the bright side for me is that his slider is looking better and better.   Hopefully he gets his fastball back under control soon, and then we could have a dominant pitcher on our hands.   

[joeyc]

Typical 100 pitches in 5 innings. That is horrible, I don't care what anybody says, he can't be a consistent winning pitcher, pitching like that.

[backwardsk]

6 minutes ago, joeyc said:

Typical 100 pitches in 5 innings. That is horrible, I don't care what anybody says, he can't be a consistent winning pitcher, pitching like that.

If keeping your team in the game for 5 innings is horrible, what do you call Liriano and Guthrie's starts?

[CheeryO]

Consistency does seem to be something of an issue for Gausman, but I suspect he's mainly going through working out some early season kinks.  We saw last season how good he can be whether or not he ends up being a bonafide ace.

[Frobby]

45 minutes ago, joeyc said:

Typical 100 pitches in 5 innings. That is horrible, I don't care what anybody says, he can't be a consistent winning pitcher, pitching like that.

Correct.    Pitching like that, he can't.     But he won't always pitch like that.   In fact, he won't pitch like that most of the time.  Or half the time.  

[Es4M11]

Way too early to be in any kind of panic over Gausman's performance. It's been what, 10 innings, in April?

[OFFNY]

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14 out of the 18 outs that Gausman recorded came via the Groundout and the Strikeout.

 

18 OUTS: o 10 Groundouts (Including 1 Double Play), 3 Strikeouts, 2 Popouts, 1 Flyout, 1 Lineout

 

K.J. GAUSMANo))))o (vs. BLUE JAYS, 4/13) )) [ 

IP:;)lll) 6

H:)))).  5 ) ll(3 Doubles, 2 Singles)

R:l)oll) 1

BB:o..ll2 o 

SO:l).ll 3

Pitches: l) 97 0(63 Strikes, )34 Balls)

2017 ERA: l)  3.94 0

2017 WHIP: l)  1.687 0

2017 OPPONENTS BATTING AVG: l)  .281 )) (18 for 64)

 

PITCHES BY INNING

****************

11 l)l(81 lStrikes, lll 31 .Balls)

71 )ll(61 lStrikes, ll)11 )Balls)

13 ll.(91 lStrikes, ll) 41 )Balls)

21 l.l(12 lStrikes, ll)91 )Balls)

20 llll(15 lStrikes, )))51 llBalls)

25 )l.(13 lStrikes, .0l12 ))Balls)  ) 

 

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[Frobby]

He clearly tired in the 6th.    Very good outing overall, though I wish he could have gotten a little deeper in the game.   

[backwardsk]

Now, what's up.