hill is no more inconsistent than any of the other cub starters. i don't know why people keep saying otherwise. Where did he say otherwise in the post you quoted? There's a prevailing opinion (on this board, and maybe throughout MLB's fandom), that inconsistency is a "reason player X is bad." I would guess that abuck was reading between the lines (as I did) in mhuber's post... Rich Hill may be inconsistent, but he's not "bad" because of it. Right, but he didn't say he was any more or less inconsistent than any of the Cubs' other starters. by saying that he's inconsistent, don't you think that he's implying that he's more inconsistent than the other cubs or more inconsistent than most pitchers? I simply took it to mean that he was saying Rich Hill himself is or has been inconsistent since this thread is about Hill and not any of the other Cubs starters. I agree with that for a stretch of this season, but it looks like Hill has flipped it back. Hopefully the Cubs can start remembering how to hit the ball when he takes the mound. I do not, however, think that Hill is a "good or bad" only pitcher.