Jerad Eickhoff was not much of a backup plan

Oct 17 2019 by The Good Phight

 
Plenty of home runs given up by Jerad Eickhoff in 2019 | Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images

Somehow Eickhoff was even worse than Pivetta and Velasquez

The numbers:

58.1 IP, 3-4 W-L, 5.71 ERA, 20.8 K%, 7.4 BB%, 2.78 HR/9, -0.4 fWAR

The good:

His first four starts after being moved into the rotation were excellent. His eight-inning shutout performance against the Cardinals gave us hope that Eickhoff had finally put his years-long injury problems behind him.

The bad:

Everything that...

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