
High ERAs from the Starting Pitchers
Aaron Nola, Jeremy Hellickson, Jerad Eickhoff, Nick Pivetta, Vince Velasquez, Zach Eflin and Clay Buchholz have all started at least a game this season. None of them have an ERA this season below four and in fact, Hellickson’s 4.45 ERA is the lowest of all starters.
All told, the starters have a combined 4.79 ERA, allowing 130 runs on 277 hits and a whopping 50 home runs, in 244 1/3 innings.
Perhaps the most disturbing part is the lack or progression and even a decline in the production of Vince Velasquez. He’s run high pitch totals in most games and has surpassed six innings in a start only three times this season.
Velasquez has victimized by the long ball 11 times this season and has seen his ERA skyrocket to 5.58, nearly a run and a half higher than last season. Now Velasquez is likely to miss time due to an injury sustained in Tuesday’s start.