End The Casey Janssen Experiment

Sorry Casey.  I know you are a nice guy but you’ve got to go.  You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. You see, Janssen is having a very, very, very bad season.  After Saturday evening’s game vs. the White Sox, Casey lowered his dreadful ERA from 6.55 to to 5.84 after pitching 1.1 innings.  But if you saw the game you would immediately ask yourself “How is that possible?!?! He walked 2 guys with the bases loaded!!!”  That’s the thing about relievers – their numbers can be deceiving and ERA is not a reliable metric when evaluating a relief pitcher’s performance. What is the mark of an effective relief pitcher?  One who gets his team out of jams.  Not just holding a team’s lead, but making sure that the runners that he has inherited don’t reach home plate. Casey’s career started off promising enough.  As a rookie in 2006 he made 17 starts and didn’t get blown out of the water.  In this case, as a...