Pineda has tantalizing skills as a pitcher, but his numbers in 2016 didn't match up with his excellent peripherals. What should we expect this season?
Michael Pineda is the worst.
With apologies to Pineda in the unlikely event he's reading this, last year Pineda went 6-12 with a 4.82 ERA. Among qualified starters, that was the seventh-worst ERA in the league. I guess we can move on.
Except we can't.
As anyone who has followed Pineda knows, the reason he's the worst isn't because he's an unskilled pitcher, but because his peripherals show a pitcher who should be so much better than this.