Baltimore Orioles’ LHP Brian Matusz got shellacked again yesterday. This time at the hands of the Detroit Tigers. Matusz allowed six runs and seven hits in five innings of work. Assuming Matusz is done pitching in 2011, his 10.68 ERA will be the worst in Major League history amongst starters with at least 40 innings pitched.

Matusz got whipped again on Sunday

Quite frankly, Matusz should have never been allowed to pitch in this game. He should have been shut down a while ago.

Matusz was once the crown jewel of the Orioles’ farm system and to allow him to continue to go to the mound and suffer beatdown after beatdown makes little sense to me. I don’t see how what happened to Matusz helped this kid at all.

His confidence has to be shot and he had nothing to gain by being out there. Whatever is wrong with Matusz, wasn’t going to be fixing in a meaningless September start. He needs to start over from scratch.

Of course one could argue that he will only become stronger because of this. That is nonsense. People become stronger and find out about themselves when they face adversity. However, there’s a huge difference between facing adversity and not being able to do something. Matusz can’t pitch in the Major Leagues right now.

What the Orioles did to Matusz this month was criminal. I hope he can came back from this. Like I wrote a couple of weeks ago, it’s doable.

It’s been done before. Just ask Roy Halladay.

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