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Originally Posted by JayP
The pitching staff has been great, but they were expected to be and it's not as if every player is overachieving. Burnett is underachieving big-time. Accardo was brutal before his injury. Marcum is overachieving, but Litsch and McGowan are about where you'd expect them to be (McGowan might even be underachieving).
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McGowan is definitely underachieving. He has the best stuff of the pitching staff but has to learn to work with it.
Litsch is overachieving. Even at 7-1, I was wary that he'd start to come back to earth, and he has a bit, losing his last 3 decisions. He's just the opposite of McGowan; he has the worst pitches in the rotation and it's only so long before hitters figure him out. When he gets hit, he gets hit hard, because his lazy balls always hover somewhere around the zone.