A lot has to go wrong to reach 100 losses in a single season, even more so do it back-to-back, something the Pittsburgh Pirates now have done.
While looking at the entire picture of the 2022 season, there wasn’t much to like from the Pirates’ rotation. They finished with the seventh worst ERA, 19th in FIP and allowed the sixth highest opponent’s average.
Even though it wasn’t a great overall performance, if there is one thing you can take from 2022 — and something that is key with teams in the position the Pirates are in — is the progress they made towards the end of the year.