{"id":787,"date":"2010-04-12T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2010-04-12T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:24:42","slug":"peavys-early-struggles-not-a-complete-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/04\/12\/peavys-early-struggles-not-a-complete-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Peavy’s early struggles not a complete panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Yikes. If Jake Peavy had of pitched this way in those three starts last September then maybe I’d be a little worried. Peavy was brought into Chicago bolstering their starting pitching depth and while it’s easy to say the real needed addition was a bat it’s the pitcher GM Kenny Williams really wanted.<\/p>\n

Peavy is as accomplished as any big name pitcher in baseball and yet after tonight’s 5.2 innings, 8 hits, 7 runs, and three walks you have to start to wonder what is going wrong. Peavy gave up two homers tonight and uncharacteristically recorded 6 ground-outs to 7 flouts. And it’s not that things were that much better in his first outing of the year against Cleveland where he allowed 7 hits, 3 runs and a pair of walks to what is a questionable lineup.<\/p>\n

Even with the two bad outings to start the season it’s probably too early to turn into a complete panic about the 28 year old right hander. After all he’s got a 95-68 career record and even if it was aided in part by Petco Park his 3.27 ERA and 1.18 WHIP show signs that this is a pretty good pitcher.<\/p>\n

Peavy made 16 starts last season while missing time following an ankle injury in May. On July 31 he accepted a trade to the White Sox after rejecting a trade earlier in the year. He made three starts for the White Sox at the end of the year pitching 20 innings and compiling a 3-0 record, a 1.35 ERA and a 0.85 WHIP.<\/p>\n

Obviously those numbers are impossible to keep up with even for a pitcher the caliber of Jake Peavy but they do suggest it’s not all a shift to the AL or away from Petco Park that has seen him struggle to start this season.<\/p>\n

His next start of the year comes in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yikes. If Jake Peavy had of pitched this way in those three starts last September then maybe I’d be a little worried. Peavy was brought into Chicago bolstering their starting pitching depth and while it’s easy to say the real needed addition was a bat it’s the pitcher GM Kenny Williams really wanted. Peavy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,280],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-jake-peavy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}