Over at Camden Chat, I wrote about Goose’s 2014. I focused mostly on how hitters’ reactions to his split-fingered fastball changed.
One thing we can say about Gausman’s 2014 is that, superficially at least, it was better than his 2013. His ERA dropped from 5.66 to 3.57 and his FIP also dropped from 3.99 to 3.41. Not to mention, Goose got his first taste of the playoffs and did extremely well, striking out seven of the 27 batters he faced while walking just two and getting a ton of ground balls. However the devil’s in the details, and these particular devils show that Goose was actually a tiny bit worse in the regular season than he was in 2013.