{"id":798354,"date":"2018-03-05T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=797264"},"modified":"2018-03-05T00:06:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:06:13","slug":"so-when-do-we-start-worrying-about-steven-matz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/so-when-do-we-start-worrying-about-steven-matz\/","title":{"rendered":"So When Do We Start Worrying About Steven Matz?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don’t want to be the one to put stock in spring training outings. I mean, I could … just to be able to sound alarms for the sake of exercising my writing chops, which have been atrophied over this long winter. To say that this is an important spring training for Steven Matz is, well … duh. Of course it is. But … spring training for Matz just reached Defcon 3 after he got his mammaries lit up by the Nationals and couldn’t get out of the first inning. Getting out of the first inning in spring training is like beating Level 1-1 in Super Mario Bros. It just doesn’t happen all that often.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but I went back and watched every pitch that Matz threw and simply looked at location. It wasn’t there. I’ll even leave you my non-capitalized notes that I took on every pitch. Look how many times I type “miss” or “missed”:<\/p>\n
That’s when Matz was pulled. Travis d’Arnaud gives late targets, but as much as I’ve tried in my life, I can’t blame d’Arnaud for everything. (I tried to blame him for the garbage piling up but I haven’t found a fool proof way to do this yet.) This is on Matz, and he knew it. He even admitted post game that this start was more than just about “working on things”.<\/p>\n
\nSteven Matz said he feels healthy and strong, so his poor results are frustrating, even though it\u2019s just spring training. pic.twitter.com\/z4Mk0fVXLt<\/a><\/p>\n
— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) March 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n