Michael Wacha is proving a lot of people wrong this season. I am definitely one of those people. In early May, I wrote about Wacha’s surprisingly strong first few starts with the Red Sox and how the underlying metrics pointed toward an eventual swift reversal of fortunes for the veteran right-hander. While my logic made sense at the time, it’s been more than a month since that piece published and Wacha has kept on dominating, proving me wrong right in my stupid face start in and start out.
He made me look especially foolish this past Monday when he tossed a complete game shutout against the Los Angeles Angels, silencing the bats of offensive superheroes Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout in the process.