Yankees fans have essentially no confidence in the team’s pitching staff

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According to the most recent SB Nation Reacts survey, 14 percent of Yankees fans are confident the team is headed in the right direction. That’s down from 37 percent last week.

For any team to find success they need to have faith in their pitching staff. Less than a quarter of Yankees fans said that they are confident in the team’s pitchers.

Already this year, there have been some exceptional pitching performances around the league. In the timespan of less than a week, no-hitters were tossed by both San Diego’s Joe Musgrove and Chicago’s Carlos Rodón. They were the 306th and 307th no-hitters thrown in the league’s history and the seventh and eighth thrown since the start of the 2019 season.

Despite the growing regularity of the outstanding performances, a vast majority of MLB fans believe that pitching a no-hitter is still a historic accomplishment.

In both Musgrove’s game for the San Diego Padres and Rodón’s for the Chicago White Sox, only one runner reached base. In both instances, the lone man on base reached after getting hit by a pitch.

According to fans nationally, allowing someone to reach by HBP in a no-hitter is the least acceptable way to get a runner on base. A total of 40 percent of fans said the most acceptable way to allow someone to reach was by an error, while 30 percent said a walk.

While the two most recent performances only saw one runner reach, some pitchers have completed the milestone despite allowing multiple people on throughout the game.

However, a plurality of fans, 39 percent, don’t believe a no-hitter is diminished unless a pitcher allows at least five hitters to get to first. Meanwhile, 26 percent of fans think the accomplishment is lessened after only a second runner gets on.

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