Now's the Time to Trade Lance Lynn: Analyzing Stats

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00:00There's never going to be a better time to try to get rid of Lance Lynn Joe

00:06Well, look Lance Lynn is still a veteran pitcher of name

00:10Lance Lynn is still a pitcher that I think that what he is

00:13I mean look last year was a terrible year for Lance Lynn

00:16But if you look at what he's done so far this year, you could say, okay

00:19Well, you know some some things are starting to go in the right direction for him strikeout rates been pretty good

00:23But I think the big thing you want to look at with Lance Lynn right now is in

00:262024 despite the fact that his ERA is at 218 and a lot of people will just see that 218 ERA

00:32The XERA is at 471

00:36FIP is at 492

00:39The X FIP right now is at 449. So these are staggeringly bad

00:46Difference this is Grand Canyon

00:48Difference when it comes to Lance Lynn's ERA and what the ERA should be right now

00:53so again, this is that moment where it's not even so much trying to spell high as

00:58Get out from under because if you don't

01:02Eventually that two ERA is going to continue to get closer and closer to the four range and the Cardinals are a team again

01:09They've kind of struggled this year a lot of strikeouts in that lineup, but Lance Lynn

01:14Certainly the numbers on the surface look good

01:17But when you start to dig a little deeper, they don't those are the kind of pitchers you want to unload sooner than later