Matt Welch recently tweeted something about the 2019 Angels that grabbed my attention in a sad and disturbing way:
The Angels today fired their pitching coach, a day after firing their manager. How bad was the team's pitching in 2019? This bad: By Wins Above Average, the Angels' rotation (at -6.5) and overall staff (-9.4) were the worst in all of baseball. Yet there's a much crazier stat.
The team leader in innings pitched in 2019 was Trevor Cahill, with 102.1. Respectfully, I don't think you fully realize how bonkers that number is. — Matt Welch (@MattWelch) October 2, 2019
Remember the strike-aborted season of 1994, when teams played around 114 games?