Column: Padres starting pitching appears poised for rebound, should lead team to postseason
ran out of starting pitching when it mattered most.
Some favorable Padres precedent to consider: the starting pitching bounced way back in 1998, the last year the franchise won both a playoff berth and a postseason series after a 162-game season.The victory total soared 21 games. Bottom line: Melvin has the baseball chops to hold his own with Preller and any Padres player. He won’t be a yes man.Can Joe Musgrove, the unit’s top performer last year, do it again? One of his former Pirates coaches fretted two offseasons ago that Musgrove’s increased usage of cut fastballs could cause problems downstream.
Analytics site FanGraphs is cautiously impressed, rating the Padres’ pool of starting pitchers the best in the NL West and fifth in the majors, while projecting that Manaea — whom Melvin surely recommended — will match Musgrove for rotation honors in win shares, while logging 175 innings and a 3.76 ERA.
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