Usually when I think about a ground-ball problem, it’s with a hitter that is hitting too many groundballs. Pitchers can have issues with groundballs too, but in a different way. A ground-ball problem for a pitcher is not inducing enough, not being very democratic as Crash Davis would say. This is a problem that Domingo German might be having in 2018.
Let’s start with the facts. Domingo German has a groundball rate of 38.2%, which is 91st of 115 pitchers who have at least 70 innings pitched. That puts him just outside the lowest 1/5 of the bunch.