Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about how we finally have a fun team to watch after 3 seasons of a lot of losing. They then proceeded to lose 5 in a row - 7 in all if you count the two previous to that post - and had some pretty atrocious numbers put up by their starting pitching (more on that later.) The issue isn’t really the fact that the team went through a stretch like that, as good teams will even struggle at times, but it’s how they’ve done it.
While this team has been great on offense and has put up league-best numbers on defense, the starting pitching has been the biggest issue in 2017.