7/07 SOX @ Detroit

[Oscars]

Is JBJ cooling off already ?!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It appears that Marco may be the fastest runner on the SOX.

[d-money]

Two batters and then bring the pen.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

A good way to make a BP seem worse than they actually are is to have them pitch 3 and 4 innings on a daily basis.

[a700hitter]

Tighten your seatbelts. We will get 4 bullpen innings today at a minimum.

[jung]

So Price is done. Time to tally up the swing and miss in the strike zone that he got for this stint.

 

1st inning, 2 foul balls held by catcher, Decided to count those as swing and miss in the strike zone

2nd inning, 2 swing and miss in the strike zone

3rd inning, 1 swing and miss in the strike zone

4th inning, 4 swing and miss in the strike zone

5th inning, 0 swing and miss in the strike zone but after the Sox gave him the larger lead Price got a couple easy outs letting the kittycats hit the thing.

 

So that is 9 swing and miss in the strike zone out of 99 pitches. Not bad for this day and age until you realize that this is the kittycats Price was pitching to and he really did not even challenge them! Notice that Price appears to have figured out what not challenging one of the worst hitting teams in baseball was doing to his pitch count and threw 4 swing and miss in the strike zone in the 4th inning. Then with a bigger lead pretty much pitched similarly in the 5th just letting them hit it.

 

But the real question is how much farther could Price have gone in this game if he had been challenging this crap hitting team right from the first inning, even as much as he challenged them in the 4th and 5th innings.

 

Price is the best Starter we have this year, pitching against the worst hitting team in the league and Price does not even challenge them really.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If I was making a ton of money and only had to work minimally, I would love Cora as my boss.

[d-money]

Our starting pitchers have to do a better job going 7. Our crappy BP will be taxed by the end of the year.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I don't believe Brewer and Barnes are available today. Hell, I'm surprised anyone is available.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Our starting pitchers have to do a better job going 7. Our crappy BP will be taxed by the end of the year.

 

How about just 6? Price, again, doesn't even qualify for a quality start.

[Tedballgame]

Don't look now but Taylor's E.R.A. is down to 4.41. Woot, woot!

[YastrzemskI]

I don't believe Brewer and Barnes are available today. Hell, I'm surprised anyone is available.

 

Trot Sale out there to work out his kinks.. he’s been dreadful lately.

[TylerD]

Price still can’t go more than 5. Concerning.

[OH FOY]

Averaging 20 pitches per inning against the Tigers is not a strong game plan.

 

This^

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

As bad as the Tigers are, it looks like they decided to start the ASG break today.

[a700hitter]

Price still can’t go more than 5. Concerning.

Or is Cora holding him back?

[OH FOY]

We go from Tigers to the Dodgers, with all their Pitchers lined up, anyway they want to set it up. Quite a test.

[a700hitter]

Radio announcer said “he gone!” on Tiger’s 3rd out in the 6th.

[Station 13]

Price still can’t go more than 5. Concerning.

 

Pitch count way too high.

[Tedballgame]

A good way to make a BP seem worse than they actually are is to have them pitch 3 and 4 innings on a daily basis.

I think this bullpen is really as bad as they seem.

[Tedballgame]

Machine Gun Kelly can get his WS ring when the Dodgers come to town.

[jung]

Porcello was even worse in his start....going all the way to his 42nd pitch before getting his first swing and miss in the strike zone in the entire game. IMO Porcello is toast. He turned himself into a power pitcher for all of a 1.5 years. He was never a power pitcher. He did enjoy the best period of his career but appears to have burned himself out in the process and will likely simply be another over the hill, rag arm for the remainder of his career.

 

Since MLB has burned through buckets and buckets of minor league pitchers as pitchers break down trying to accommodate this power pitching game I am sure Rick will be able to stay in MLB. There is really nobody in the minors that can replace him. MLB needs about 400 pitchers to support its teams. He will find a home somewhere putting up hideous numbers out his career (see Zimmerman).

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Devers smoked that and he's rewarded with 2 outs. Such an unfair game.

[TylerD]

Or is Cora holding him back?

 

Sounds like his pitch count was high but yes we will never know. Something is odd though.

 

End of the day 5 innings given just one run. I’ll take it. But want longer innings from our starters.

[TylerD]

Pitch count way too high.

 

Sad it happened against Detroit but oh well. We all get a rest after today.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I think this bullpen is really as bad as they seem.

 

I never said it was good, but continually exposing them on a daily basis isn't going to make them look better. The starting pitching needs to share some of that blame. Especially considering the high percentage of the payroll that they're receiving.

[moonslav59]

Nice game by Price. 99 pitches in 5 IP is somewhat ERodesque, but I'm not complaining.

 

It's just another game where our pen is asked to go 4+.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Did anyone see the line-up for the HR Derby? I've seen better line-ups on DRAGNET.

[OH FOY]

That kid Ryu is having a unreal season for the Dodgers, Bellinger is having a HOF season. Should be interesting, regarding the revenge factor.

[moonslav59]

I never said it was good, but continually exposing them on a daily basis isn't going to make them look better. The starting pitching needs to share some of that blame. Especially considering the high percentage of the payroll that they're receiving.

 

They're paid well.

 

They've been babied and pampered all ST'ing and first 89 games.

 

They have good to great resumes, especially when looking at their last 3 seasons combined.

 

It's time the rested millionaires start to carry the load and pick up the slack for others. Our offense may not always hit this well.