Do the 2021 Twins Have the Worst Pitching Staff in Team History?

[HokieRif]

59 minutes ago, Major League Ready said:

They have had 3 seasons given we lost last year so I will reserve judgment.  They cobbled together a pretty good group of starters and RPs in 2019 & 2020 despite several years of failing to develop pitchers internally.  If Duran / Balazovic / Canterino / Enlow / Ober / Winder / Valimont and Sands all fail to assimilate to the MLB level in the next two tears we can say they have failed.  Right now we can only observe that they have assembled a group of prospects that are promising.

Maybe this was all part of their mad genius plan... get by on B-rate (at best) pitching, maintain club control on the young staff, and call them up when its obvious we're not competing this year to give them the extra reps before next season.

[Trov]

I have said for a long time that you can never trust bullpen pitchers to be what you expect year in and year out, even stretches throughout the season.  I think this has been even worse in recent years with the increased used of pen pitchers.  We expect greatness from every pen guy it seems, but when you use them so much then it increases the chances they will perform poorly at least one of the times.  

For example.  If you have the starter got 5 innings or less, even when doing well.  That leaves at least 4 innings from the pen.  Normally, we have been using 1 guy per inning, sometimes more.  That means at least 5 pitchers being used in games, 4 from the pen.  If one has an off night, that increases the chance you lose a close game.  

I know the team wants their best arms to possibly be available if needed, but feel there should be times to let a guy who is doing well to pitch an extra inning.  The team seem so concerned with injury, which has merit, but is potentially sacrificing output.  I am not saying I know better than the team who I would have done studies and looked into this, but for whatever reason this year has been a huge train wreck.  We will have games where the pen pitches well, but we really need to get more innings out the starters, so we do not rely on the pen always getting it done and needing you top guys each game to be at best.