He’s the ace — three haunting words. Throughout Spring training in 2015, pitchers wore shirts with these three words across the chest to voice their disagreement with the sentiment that the rotation needed an ace. Of the high pitchers that entered camp as projected starters, only Clay Buchholz finished the season with an ERA below four (3.26 ERA in 113.1 IP). In this case, the media was right, there wasn’t enough pitching, and the team finished four games under .500.
Here is Wade Miley modeling new t-shirts pic.twitter.com/ikcfE25fqK
— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) March 5, 2015
Fast forward to today when the prevailing thought is that there once again isn’t enough pitching.