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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
There's one thing you're missing here: he brought Holland in to a one-run game and left him in for multiple batters despite him going full Holland.
Holland needs to be summarily executed at the team hotel tonight. It's been 100 games at this point. His K/9 is 7.92, which incidentally is also his BB/9. There are 428 pitchers that have thrown more than 20 innings. His xFIP is 422/428. One of the six that is worse is Brett Cecil. The Cardinals are literally paying two pitchers who are in the first percentile of performance over 20 million dollars. How in the **** is that even possible?
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You both are right. I stepped away for a minute and come back to find Holland in a jam and I was like WTFffffffffff! The days of hoping he gets his act together enough to be serviceable either here or as a chip for another team are over. Cut his ass right now! This bullpen can’t afford anymore “kerosene on a fire” arms.
That said I was thinking why isn’t Hicks in and then he brought him in, it was just two batters too late. I will cut Shildt a little slack since it was the 4th game of a 5 game series and he can’t run everyone in the ground. He doesn’t pick who Mo stocks the pen with, but hopefully from now on he keeps Holland on a short lease in meaningless innings as long as we are burdened with his stench on our roster.