And yet, he has a 3.20 fip / 3.56 xfip, supported by strong k/9 (11.37) and hr/9 (0.71), and a mediocre but not Newcomb-bad bb/9 (4.26); his babip is not particularly lucky either (.288). You keep saying but the glove-hits!, and yet even the stats on that, as Enscheff linked, show you're wrong.
I too would love to see progress with pitch count / ip/g, and for the bb/9 to drop about 1.0; but as Beanie said, "if he keeps some approximation of this up, he is going to be a great piece for us."
Folty luck ran out, bound to happen with all this wild pitching.
And that's precisely why the walks need to drop. Even with a solid hr/9, walks kill.
this ump sucks. no consistency
Human umps aren't going to call a strike when you miss the catchers spot by 5 feet
Walks don't even describe how wild folty is. If he faced a mediocre team tonight he would have given up 6 runs.
I agree with Snit here, Folty was over 100 pitches and two line drives after that two run homer.