MacKenzie Gore Vidal Sassoon

[Slateman]

Welp

[imref]

Zuck has a post up today noting gore was awful toward the end of ST last year as well

[nobleisthyname]

Does that mean he was good earlier last year in ST? It feels like he's struggled with every start so far, though I'm admittedly only following headlines so he maybe had a better start that I'm not remembering now.

Edit: Looking through past comments here I see he had a 3 inning outing where he gave up just 1 earned run, but also only 1 K.

Whatever, it's ST. You have varying levels of talent, tinkering, new rules to adjust to, and all wrapped in a small sample size. I'd prefer if he hadn't gotten rocked yesterday but let's see what happens once the games actually start mattering.

[imref]

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/gore-beats-himself-up-after-rough-spring-start

For what it’s worth, Gore struggled late last spring as well. After tossing five scoreless innings in his first two games, he allowed six runs over his final seven innings.

But when the red light turned on for real, Gore rose to the occasion. Over his first nine big league starts for San Diego, he went 4-1 with a 1.50 ERA. Things devolved after that as his elbow began to act up.