ok yes everything but nothing has gone right for this squad since early June. At one point they were 30-33, then went on a 20-53 stretch. The last 5-1 brings it up to 25-54 which is just over a 50 win pace for a season. Yikes.
You can't blame the firings - Davey and Rizzo were gone in the middle of this. You can't blame the trade deadline. Yeah it made the team weaker but they aren't losing squeakers because of a weakened pen. Here are some 2nd half splits
Brady House .225 / .224 / .292 (1 walk!)
Jacob Young .223 / .284 / .287
Dylan Crews .206 / .299 / .294
James Wood .207 / .289 / .328
CJ Abrams .225 / .281 / .376
Jake Irvin 8.86 ERA 1.848 WHIP
Mitchell Parker 7.63 ERA 1.603 WHIP
MacKenzie Gore 7.54 ERA 1.757 WHIP
This is your goddamn core and it's a group looking like it would have trouble winning in AAA as opposed to be what you build around.
You can blame Gore's pitching on injury and Young / Parker / Irvin on never really being good (and thus not being an overly critical part of the future) but the rest is very worrisome.
James Wood is striking out at an alarming rate up from 28% to 40%.
Dylan Crews remains unable to lift anything hitting over 50% of his balls into the ground.
Brady House is not walking and not making enough contact in general.
I'm not sure what you do here but I think you have to clear out the remaining staff that Davey and Rizzo put here. It's not working. It's actively HURTING.
