Nathan Eovaldi who makes three million less has a 2.82 ERA and 3.08 FIP while leading MLB in IP at 105.1. Now, there have been a few that have outperformed Morton. Andrew Heaney has a 4.38 ERA and 5.10 FIP in 78.0 IP. Ross Stripling has a 7.24 ERA and 6.70 FIP in 32.1 IP. Sean Manaea has a 5.79 ERA and 4.20 FIP in 51.1 IP. Tyler Anderson has a 5.54 ERA and 4.67 FIP in 74.2 IP.
Martin Pérez has a 4.38 ERA and 4.97 FIP in 84.1 IP. Jameson Taillon has a 6.71 ERA and 5.18 FIP in 53.2 IP. Chris Bassitt has a 4.32 ERA, and 5.02 FIP in 93.2 IP. Taijuan Walker has a 4.10 ERA (104 ERA+), and 4.50 FIP in 83.1 IP. He currently has only pitched 57.0 innings and has an ERA of 4.11, and 4.21 FIP. Justin Verlander is the closest to Morton’s age and is making more than double. Quintana is also injured and has not pitched yet. Salaries of 2023 SP FA signingsĭeGrom, Rodon, are hurt and are making much more than Morton.
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According to Spotrac, below are the free agent signings from 2023 for pitchers that were close to Charlie Morton’s salary. To really make comparisons, it makes more sense to look at the free agent pitchers that signed deals this off-season. How does Morton compare to the FA signings of 2023? Yes, he makes a lot more money, but players like Spencer Strider and Max Fried, and arguably Kyle Wright and Bryce Elder would most likely be making much more money both in terms of AAV and guaranteed money if they were in the point in their career that they were no longer under team control. However, the truth of the matter is that twenty million is about on par to what a player like Charlie Morton would cost typically.įirst, you can’t compare his salary to the other rotation arms on the roster in terms of output vs the dollar because none of the other members have reached free agency yet.
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However, hitters have been fortunate getting on with their high BABIP.Īnother reason could be that he is making twenty million dollars this year, which is 9.89 percent of the team’s payroll and 6.5 million higher than the next highest paid rotation arm (Fried).įrom the outside looking in, with not a full understanding of how payrolls work, it makes sense as to why some may have high expectations for this reason. His LOB percentage is higher than average at 76.9 percent when the average is 71.9. To be fair, there are a lot of variables in play here. However, he has doing his job when it comes to keeping them from crossing the plate. So, it appears that from an overall standpoint, the qualm may be that he gives up base runners higher than average. League average WHIP is 1.314, Morton is at 1.482. League average SO/BB ratio is 2.62, Morton is at 2.56. League average HR per nine innings is 1.2, Morton is at 1.0. 297, Morton has been unfortunate to have. So far this season, the league average ERA is 4.26, Morton is at 3.81. All the while hitters have their second BABIP against him in his entire career. However, if you look at his overall season thus far, in 85.0 innings he has a 3.81 ERA which is good for a ERA+ of 117 (17.0 percent better than league average), 3.84 FIP, 2.56 SO/BB ratio with hitters slashing. Why the high expectations for Charlie Morton?Īre expectations high because his last thirty days have been a bit of a drop-off from his first nine starts in which he posted a 3.61 ERA? He actually had a higher FIP of 3.95 with hitters not as lucky with a BABIP of. However, why are we expecting elite numbers from Charlie Morton? These are not elite numbers by any stretch of the imagination. 264/.372/.424 against him, all the while being extremely lucky with a. Over the past thirty days in 32.2 innings he has pitched to a 4.13 ERA, 3.66 FIP, 2.42 SO/BB ratio with hitters having a slash of. The odd part is when paying attention over the last month, he has been getting heat more than normal, yet has been preventing runs at an above average clip. But, he has not been as bad as some of the hate that he has been receiving.
However, let’s take some time and focus on some expectation management of Charlie Morton. We can debate and argue till we are blue in the face, and it brings joy to many of us. It could be due to him making the most money of anyone in the rotation, even though he is the only one in the rotation that has been through free agency yet, a combination of both, or something else. It could be because the rotation has been depleted, so expectations are out of whack thinking he should be pitching like a staff ace. There could be a multitude of reasons for this. The Atlanta Braves have been one of the hottest teams on the planet, yet for some reason, across social media, Charlie Morton has been catching a lot of grief.
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