From the second that I saw we brought in Suarez, I felt like we had a strong chance of losing the game. It was the exact feeling I had in that Giants game earlier this season when we brought in Luis Garcia, who had just come back from the IL and clearly wasn't pitching up to the level they'd been expecting from him (and, to this point, still hasn't).
Suarez hadn't given up much in terms of runs to that point, or even hits; but, more telling to me is that he also hasn't gotten a lot of strikeouts. I know I don't need to tell this to you, but Robert Suarez isn't a pitch-to-contact guy, and his SO/9 before last night was at 3.0. Small sample size, sure, but I felt like, every time I've seen him, it feels like he hasn't been quite "right" yet, or hasn't made it back to himself (compare 3.0 SO/9 to his 11.5 last season).
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about - I'm not a manager, after all - but bringing in a power pitcher who isn't doing the thing he's there to do yet against an elite offense like the Dodgers seems like an obviously bad call. Feels like more of the same thing we've been seeing.
From the second that I saw we brought in Suarez, I felt like we had a strong chance of losing the game. It was the exact feeling I had in that Giants game earlier this season when we brought in Luis Garcia, who had just come back from the IL and clearly wasn't pitching up to the level they'd been expecting from him (and, to this point, still hasn't).
Suarez hadn't given up much in terms of runs to that point, or even hits; but, more telling to me is that he also hasn't gotten a lot of strikeouts. I know I don't need to tell this to you, but Robert Suarez isn't a pitch-to-contact guy, and his SO/9 before last night was at 3.0. Small sample size, sure, but I felt like, every time I've seen him, it feels like he hasn't been quite "right" yet, or hasn't made it back to himself (compare 3.0 SO/9 to his 11.5 last season).
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about - I'm not a manager, after all - but bringing in a power pitcher who isn't doing the thing he's there to do yet against an elite offense like the Dodgers seems like an obviously bad call. Feels like more of the same thing we've been seeing.