The transaction was not only surprising, but raised more questions than answers. The first of which being: What the hell?
Fitts has a 3.31 career ERA in 12 major league starts, and if you remove that one dreadful outing against the Angels in which he allowed five earned runs in just one inning of work, the ERA becomes 2.53 in the other 11 starts. The only reason there’s not more fanfare around his production is because the club (almost unbelievably) managed to lose each of his first ten career starts. But carve out his individual work, and he’s been a fine and useful bottom piece in the rotation when given the ball, and as our own Jacob Roy pointed out on Tuesday, he’s also getting better.