It's difficult to grasp the nature of Sonny Gray's struggles this season. He certainly isn't the only previously-elite pitcher putting up a bad year; last year's AL Cy Young winner Dallas Keuchel seems to have lost his stuff, as well as Chris Archer, despite maintaining his elite K rate. Pitchers have long been known to be the most volatile element on a baseball team, but it's saddening and confusing and just nauseous to watch your staff's ace pitch like Eric Surkamp game after game after game. It's depressing to think that if Sonny pitched at a similar level to last year, the Athletics would probably be sitting on a .
Game #105: Gray Terrible, Kluber Great, A's Lose 8-0
