September 5, 201412 yr Bases empty: OPS .574 Anybody on: OPS 1.387 Small sample size, but come on. Ricky Nolasco by contrast is putrid either way, .915/.892 respectively. If it's a problem with how he pitches with men on base, then the high BABIP might be not (quite) so much of a fluke as with most pitchers in small samples. I don't think these are flukes. May will need to make some sort of adjustment which will cause these numbers to normalize. If he cannot, he gets sent down and will be called back up when they think he can. I think that is a more normal scenario than we realize and we tend to simply call that luck. Bottom line is that May is bad with runners on. That could be a mechanical issue with pitching out of the stretch or a mental issue where he tries to do too much... I don't know... bottom line though is that it will have to change.
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