Far from showing up in the big leagues and dominating like he had at every other level, baseball’s top pitching prospect has an ERA north of 9 and a FIP well above 8.

Should you really use statistics like ERA and FIP with a sample size of 8 innings pitched? Believe it or not, another Dodger pitcher, Clayton Kershaw has pitched 8 innings awful before. Not exactly enough data to safely project future player performance, would you not agree?

Also, the statement that Urias has showed up and dominated at every other level. I disagree. His AAA arrival in 2015, was full of short, rocky, hard-hit starts with crooked-numbers galore. Urias adjusted to the talent increase eventually and in 2016 his pitching overwhelmed AAA.

Could the same adjustment period be needed at the Major League level? And, even if he is only able to pitch 6 innings, or if they decide to skip a few of his starts this season, with the amount he is going to be paid over his career & the increase in TJ surgery to star pitchers (Harvey, Fernandez, Strasburg, etc.) why not play it safe and add arms who are under less team-control contracts at the Trade Deadline?