Red Sox (Criswell) vs Orioles (Burnes): 8/16/24, 7:05pm

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Speaking of big money pitchers, the Yankems signed Rodon for 28mil/year thru 2028. Today Rodon pitched 3 innings, giving up 4 runs and throwing 85 pitches.

In his 2nd year with the Yankems Rodon's ERA was 5.06 before today's game. Last night I posted that most of the SOX BP were slugs. Rodon is what one would call a 'high-priced slug.'

 

It's actually wonderful he's doing so badly with the Yankems.

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It's actually wonderful he's doing so badly with the Yankems.

 

Some interesting Yankee numbers:

 

Cole 52 IP 4.15 ERA

Rodon 131 IP 4.18 ERA

Stroman 121 IP 4.01 ERA

All 3= just over 300 IP and an ERA over 4.10.

 

Team OPS: .778 is best in MLB (Bal .774 & BOS .770), but...

 

The Yanks only have two batter with 62+ PAs and an OPS over .780:

1.175 Judge (542 PAs is 3rd on team)

1.047 Soto (548 PAs is most on team)

Others:

.780 Stanton (6th in PAs)

.773 Wells (7th)

.722 Trevino (11th with just 190 PAs)

.683 Volpe (3rd)

.670 Cabrera (9th)

.663 Torres (5th)

.660 Verdugo (6th)

.522 LeMahieu (10th)

 

Grisham .683 inn 186 PAs and Rice .687 with 155 PAs are 12th and 13th in PAs.

 

Talk about an unbalanced line-up. That being said, maybe a balanced line-up is not all it's cracked up to be, as the Yanks have scored 8 more runs than BAL and 26 more than BOS.

 

All of the Sox top 10 players by PAs are over .705. Seven are over .790. (Romy & Casas are over .790, too.)

 

By position:

.901 RF (Yanks 1.074)

.866 LF (Yanks .659)

.845 3B (Yanks .672)

.801 DH (Yanks .868)

.779 SS (Yanks .689)

.775 C (Yanks .760)

.718 CF (Yanks 1.019)

.705 1B (Yanks .634)

.535 2B (Yanks .665)

 

By Batting Order:

.841 1st (Yanks .646)

.813 2nd (1.036)

.756 3rd (1.164)

.938 4th (.651)

.718 5th (.738)

.883 6th (.714)

.649 7th (.723)

.606 8th (.628)

.697 9th (.701)