7/16 Sox @ Cubs

[Hugh2]

Faria had a 6.47 ERA in 55 innings at Worcester and he gets brought up to the majors. What a country!

 

They needed a body, probably never see him again.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Buttwipe takes a 1 hit shutout and walks a run in ruining the shutout , then a hit for another, still no outs.

 

Had to leave after the 6th inning. Just finished watching the rest of the game and discovered this. Just when you thought you'd seen the shittiest pitcher the Sox could bring to the mound so far this season, it turns out they even have a shittier pitcher in reserve. Faria and others like him are the reasons expansion makes so little sense.

Edited July 16, 2023 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Great job by Crawford today. Only the 2nd starter for the SOX to pitch 6 or more scoreless innings this season. Also, Masa was Massive today.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Faria had a 6.47 ERA in 55 innings at Worcester and he gets brought up to the majors. What a country!

 

What a farm system!

Edited July 16, 2023 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[moonslav59]

What a farm system!

 

People said the same of Walter, Murphy, Bernardino and others.

[moonslav59]

Crawford took a big step forward in my book!

[Bellhorn04]

Crawford took a big step forward in my book!

 

He does seem to be progressing nicely. Maybe the Bloom Pitcher Development System is starting to really kick into gear.

[mvp 78]

Crawford took a big step forward in my book!

 

2023:

Starter - ERA 4.73, OPS 783, WHIP 1.34, xFIP 4.02

Reliever - ERA 1.66, OPS 371, WHIP 0.69, xFIP 4.32

 

If you look at his Statcast, the big change is the value on his 4 seamer. There's no change in velo or hard hit rate (40ish%). Either he's been lucky while relieving, or the shorter starts have allowed him to control the pitch more effectively.

[moonslav59]

2023:

Starter - ERA 4.73, OPS 783, WHIP 1.34, xFIP 4.02

Reliever - ERA 1.66, OPS 371, WHIP 0.69, xFIP 4.32

 

If you look at his Statcast, the big change is the value on his 4 seamer. There's no change in velo or hard hit rate (40ish%). Either he's been lucky while relieving, or the shorter starts have allowed him to control the pitch more effectively.

 

Since his return to starting in June, he has a 3.93 ERA and 3.75 FIP.

 

His starter numbers were hurt by those 2 early April starts.

[mvp 78]

Since Jun 1:

8 G, 36.2 IP, 1.25 WHIP, 1 QS, GSv2 51

 

It's fine? I'd still take those relief numbers over the starter numbers...

[Dojji]

What a farm system!

 

O stop it. Faria isn't a farm product, he's a guy we brought in off the scrap heap to pitch some garbage innings so our actual arms don't have to.

[mvp 78]

What a farm system!

 

The WOO pitching staff stinks. We knew it wasn't going to be very good going into the year (and was only made worse by the ineffectiveness and injuries in the Sox rotation and bullpen). The strength right now starts in AA, where all the Bloom guys are. Drohan is in AAA, but they aren't going to rush him up for a start or two.

 

These guys they are throwing to the wolves are just waiver wire journeymen.

[Dojji]

The WOO pitching staff stinks. We knew it wasn't going to be very good going into the year (and was only made worse by the ineffectiveness and injuries in the Sox rotation and bullpen). The strength right now starts in AA, where all the Bloom guys are. Drohan is in AAA, but they aren't going to rush him up for a start or two.

 

These guys they are throwing to the wolves are just waiver wire journeymen.

 

34 walks in 50 IP for the Worsox says that Drohan isn't fully cooked anyway.

[vegasbob]

Crawford took a big step forward in my book!

 

Crawford did take big steps because he induced 2 DP balls to survive a shaky first 3 innings. Marginal command and control. After that he was lights out and picked up a nice win. It helps when the bats go batty and score 11, 55% by Masataka

[Dojji]

Crawford did take big steps because he induced 2 DP balls to survive a shaky first 3 innings. Marginal command and control. After that he was lights out and picked up a nice win. It helps when the bats go batty and score 11, 55% by Masataka

 

I think it says even bigger things when a guy like Kutter can go out there, battle, struggle, not have his A stuff, and still scrap it out and deliver a high quality start. He didn't have his A command and still delivered an A+ outcome. Made the pitches he needed to make even when not at his best.

 

Kid better be careful because he's beginning to develop a bad case of reliability. Might be seeing him in the rotation going forward.

Edited July 17, 2023 by Dojji

[Maxbialystock]

Crawford did take big steps because he induced 2 DP balls to survive a shaky first 3 innings. Marginal command and control. After that he was lights out and picked up a nice win. It helps when the bats go batty and score 11, 55% by Masataka

 

One of those GIDP's needed a slick play by Chang who raced to his left, caught it, and flipped it (backhand I think) to Arroyo.

[Bellhorn04]

I think it says even bigger things when a guy like Kutter can go out there, battle, struggle, not have his A stuff, and still scrap it out and deliver a high quality start. He didn't have his A command and still delivered an A+ outcome. Made the pitches he needed to make even when not at his best.

 

Kid better be careful because he's beginning to develop a bad case of reliability. Might be seeing him in the rotation going forward.

 

We'd be pretty screwed without him right now.

[Dipre]

The awesome name makes it even better.