Last year he leads the league in ERA with a 2.53, but the bullpen blows 7 games Santana left with a lead. Therefore he ended up with only 16 wins, which should have been 20 and could have been 25.
This year he's pitching even better and the bullpen has been fine, so the team is refusing to score runs for him, 15 in 7 games.
And the defense is betraying him as well. He's given up as many earned runs (4) as unearned runs.
Last night it was David Wright and Jose Reyes playing the role of saboteurs.
I won't complain because they are coming off a 7-game losing streak but you'd like to see Santana win more games, out of a general sense of fairness, but also because they need to win at least 75% of his starts in order to stay in first place in the NL East.
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