It’s not fair to Dean Kremer, but my current lasting memory of the starting pitcher is of him getting demolished by the Texas Rangers in ALDS, erasing his team’s slim hopes of bouncing back in an instant. I hope he’ll put up a performance in 2024 that will help wipe away that memory and replace it with something happier.
When it was all said and done at the end of the 2023 regular season, Dean Kremer was, by ERA+ anyway, exactly average. His 4.12 ERA doesn’t sound impressive, but it gave him an ERA+ of 100, which indicates the league average.