There are times when I think I give too much of a leash for certain players and I need to recoil sharply in a hurry. One of those players is Jeff Hoffman who has just been dreadful lately and pitched to the tune of 3.0 IP, 7 ER, 9 Hits, 4 BBs, 2 Ks against Pittsburgh Friday night. Yes it was in Coors, but that's no excuse for this kind of outing. I have been putting the wirting on the wall lately if you have been listening to the podcast and reading his roundups, as Hoffman's whiff rates have been atrocious since his incredibly hot start. We're talking an overall whiff rate of just 5.6% over his last seven starts. Overall! That's over half off from his 13.0% mark through his first four outings. I wouldn't really call this the Coors effect - two of his seven were played out of Colorado and they hovered around 7% - and I'd simply let him go. It's safe to drop Hoffman and I'd aim to pick up other hot hands like Patrick Corbin instead of Hoffman. Maybe we'll come back to it later this season, but for now it's just not wise to hold on.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
