2022 report card: Bailey Falter

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty ImagesI’ll admit it.

I don’t think Bailey Falter is a major league starter.

I think he has good qualities about him. He generally is around the strike zone. The extension he gets on his pitches has probably helped him last in the big leagues so far as his actual stuff isn’t all that great. Were he to be given a regular chance as the team’s fifth starter, he’d probably be good for four or five innings each start, keeping the team in the game most of the time, something that can be very valuable to a team with World Series aspirations.

Maybe it’s my natural skepticism about pitchers without a plus pitch. Maybe it’s me just being a grumpy old pessimist (I haven’t…