Jones & Keefe: Is Tanner Houck broken?

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00:00Getting the trust tree, Keefe. The team kind of stinks.

00:03Team stinks, and the guy on the mound yesterday, I think, is one of the faces.

00:07It'd be unfair to put him as the only face.

00:09I mean, you can't be 8-10 getting blown out by the White Sox,

00:12blown out by the Rays, and blame only one guy.

00:14But let's start with Houck, because last year he was an All-Star

00:18and a deserving All-Star.

00:19At the break, he was a Cy Young candidate.

00:22He fell off in the second half, but he didn't implode in the second half.

00:27It wasn't like this.

00:28He sort of went from being an All-Star pitcher to an average pitcher,

00:31and then the end-of-year totals looked like above average.

00:34Like, hey, that's somebody that you got going.

00:37Now, I think the Red Sox even knew, eh, maybe not the most reliable guy.

00:42It's why they went out and got Crochet.

00:43That's why they got Walker Bueller.

00:45But he is the second starter right off the rip, right in your rotation.

00:49He's right after Crochet, so they're kind of rewarding him from last season.

00:53He was terrible in the spring, awful in the spring, but working on stuff.

00:57He was working on stuff for a while.

00:58That's what I was told on the Nessun broadcast.

01:00He was working on stuff all spring while he's getting his brains beaten in

01:02at his first two starts.

01:03But work is not finished.

01:04He maybe needs to go back to spring, because we have seen him for four starts,

01:08and only one of them has been good.

01:12Only one of them has been good.

01:13He has already given up five home runs this year.

01:15You were talking about how he's not a big home run allower.

01:18Yesterday was obviously atrocious, but he's got an ERA over nine on the season.

01:24The team is one and three in his four starts.

01:28So, yeah, he's been brutal, because he's one guy, even if you didn't expect him to

01:33duplicate his all-star season, that'd be a lot better than this.

01:37He'd at least be like an average major league starter, and we haven't gotten that out of him.

01:42Tanner Houck, 11 home runs last year in 178 and two-thirds.

01:46It's all he allowed all year.

01:47Wow.

01:48Five already in 18 and two-thirds.

01:50Not great, Bob.

01:51I would agree with that.

01:52Not great is one way to put it.

01:54His strikeout-to-walk ratio is almost a push.

01:56It's like 11 Ks to nine walks.

01:58Not great.

01:59No.

01:59So, Houck, in his first start in Texas, five and two-thirds, four earned,

02:03a couple of home runs.

02:04All right, first start of the year off spring.

02:06Maybe he's working on stuff still, whatever.

02:07He's working on it, tinkering.

02:08Next one against Baltimore, four innings, three earned,

02:11gave up another home run in that one.

02:13He goes six and two-thirds against Toronto, an earned run.

02:15They lose the game, which we were lamenting at the time.

02:18Yeah, but that was his best start by far.

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