2023 stats: 0-5, 89 IP, 5.36 ERA/5.21 FIP, 1.35 WHIP, 70-16 K-BB, 20 HR (2.0 HR/9), -0.3 fWAR
I’m not sure how many of us were looking forward to reviewing this particular player’s season because it went one way unambiguously: wrong. At first I planned to get cute with it and come up with five positive things to say about Ross Stripling’s first season with the , but I couldn’t come up with anything, so here we are.
I liked the signing at the time, writing:
In last month’s writeup, I did note that — at a glance — there’s not a whole lot of separation between Stripling and Jakob Junis when it comes to Statcast.