This pitching staff is laughably bad at holding runners on.

[jshep]

Losing track of the number of humongous jumps other teams get on just about every guy on this staff.

[Angel Oracle]

Do we only scout pitchers to sign who suck at holding runners on?

[EDinTUSTIN]

They don't only suck at holding runners on, either! :angry:

[Hoops McCann]

you should have just stopped after laughably bad.

 

at what is irrelevent since the answer is most everything.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Its the same old story year after year, even when there's a lot of new pitchers.  

[dimitrig]

They are really good at putting runners on, though!

[AZMike]

Its the same old story year after year, even when there's a lot of new pitchers.  

That suggests the catchers are contributing to the problem.

[Angel Oracle]

Good ol scouting

[Jay]

need to start using the word 'laughably'

[The God of Runs]

Its the same old story year after year, even when there's a lot of new pitchers.  

 

This has to be Butcher problem.  Don't remember having this problem when Black was the pitching coach

[Vegas Halo Fan]

This has to be Butcher problem.  Don't remember having this problem when Black was the pitching coach

 

Yet there are people on here who defend Butcher to the end and say that we're expecting him to make filet mignon from table scraps.

 

Our catchers have taken a lot of heat in recent years for their CS stats, but honestly they have little shot at throwing runners out. I have seen Chris Iannetta make throws right on the bag with a quick release and they're still too late. Iannetta has thrown out two of 33 attempted base stealers, an .067 percentage. If he had that bad of an arm, he wouldn't have been in the majors for as long as he has been.