We’ve all had bad days. Jhony Brito had one on Thursday. His bad start was preceded by two good ones, and honestly, if I had one bad day for every two good ones, I’d take it.
Let’s remember how deep we are into the system’s pitching depth. Brito was starter number eight or nine in a preseason list. Getting two out of three solid performances out of your replacement fifth starter making his major league debut is a best-case scenario. Brito stepped up big time and silenced doubts about his viability in his first two turns. This third one, well, let’s chalk it up to growing pains and dive in to his 34-pitch clunker to extract the good and bad.