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His July was awful. Why are you taking out his last two starts that month? His last start with the Pirates was against the Brewers and they rocked him for his worst outing in the month of July. He started against the Brewers two previous starts.



Is that a sign of team figuring him out?



His July he had 30 innings pitched and gave up 20 earned runs with 15 walks. This actually raised his ERA from 5.34 to 5.46. To put that in perspective, Jeff Locke had a lower ERA when Liriano was dealt.

7A71797570716A2F295E677F767171307D711E0 wrote: His July was awful.  Why are you taking out his last two starts that month?  His last start with the Pirates was against the Brewers and they rocked him for his worst outing in the month of July.  He started against the Brewers two previous starts. 



Is that a sign of team figuring him out? 



His July he had 30 innings pitched and gave up 20 earned runs with 15 walks.  This actually raised his ERA from 5.34 to 5.46.  To put that in perspective, Jeff Locke had a lower ERA when Liriano was dealt.


I said in text he got crushed by Seattle and Brewers.  I'm just saying he showed some signs of life.



In his last 12 starts with Yankees Ivan Nova was crushed 8 times (gave up at least 4 runs)

I am just saying his last two starts were awful. That sign of life went away real quick. He only had "life" because his June was even worse. He was 0-4 in 23 innings pitched with 19 earned runs. The Pirates lost all of his starts in June too.



It was time to move on.



Nova actually lowered his ERA in the month of July before he was dealt. Not sure what Searage did, but the league switched probably helped Nova too. Nova showed more life and was pitching better than Liriano when he was traded.