Suero was great last night. We have repeated evidence he can’t pitch back to back. He’s not Barraclough.
did a little poking around on Suero's performances to see when he gets in trouble.
He's given up 19 earned runs in 27.2 IP. 10 of those runs are in 3 appearances - 4 on 4/27, 3 on 5/21, and 3 on 5/23. The only game of those 3 he pitched the day before was 4/27. He's pitched 3 days in a row on 4/6-8, and on back to back days 4/13-14, 4/22-23, 4/26-27, 4/29-30, 5/26-27, 6/4-5, and 6/7-8 (7 times). In the 9 outings when he's pitched the day before, he's given up no runs 5 times, one run 3 times, and 4 runs once. Focusing on the 4 times he's given up runs, on 4/14, he pitched 1 inning, 3 batters, the game before, then faced 6 batters giving up 1 run on on 2 out double on 4/14. 4/27 was the 4 run disaster, which was a 10th inning in which he started by only getting one out the 1st 5 hitters (to be followed by Miller and Grace who were lit up), after a short successful 2 batter appearance on 4/26. 6/5 he was ineffective after facing 6 batters and going 1.1 IP shutout the game before. 6/8, he got 2 outs after a leadoff walk, then gave up a single. The night before, he pitched a clean inning.
On 5/21, he pitched a 1-2-3 6th before blowing up in the 7th (JD Davis 3 run homer). On 5/23, he also gave up a 3 run homer in the 8th, to Carlos Gomez, after a double, 2 Ks, and an IBB.
Pulling this together, if 4/14 and 6/8 were the tolerable (single run, hit with 2 outs doesn't scream poor usage), then I think it comes down to being careful about pushing him an extra inning or using him after you have pushed him the day before (5/21, 6/5). The 10th inning blow up on 4/27 probably was not a day they wanted to use him but were forced to due to length of the game. quick hook when you push him may make sense.