There Are Two Sides To Every Story...and Pitcher

It’s been all or nothing for Randy Johnson in his 10 starts this year. He has pitched fantastic in four of his starts and extremely poorly in the other six.

Good Randy has a 0.71 ERA in 25.1 innings allowing 14 hits, 5 BBs while striking out 28.

Bad Randy has a 9.51 ERA in 29.1 innings with 42 hits allowed, 14 BBs and 26 Ks.

Bad Randy’s best start was against Arizona on April 25, where he had a game ERA of 5.40 but didn’t make it out of the 4th inning.

I looked for patterns, but had a hard time discerning any. Good Randy obviously had better control, but Bad Randy was not nearly wild enough to explain how hard he got hit.

Good Randy pitched great games against the Rockies and D-Backs, but Bad Randy showed up for his next starts against these teams, each about a week after Good Randy’s appearances.

Good Randy has shown up for the last two starts, so Giants fans have to hope he sticks around for awhile.