jacksonianmarch

I keep telling you but you don’t listen. You cannot look at our overall pen numbers. We’ve used an opener a lot. This year, we saw a regression out of the gate from Green, but Kahnle returned in dominant fashion. Green has been good since he came back in June. We lost Betances but added Ottavino. We have a full year of Britton but lost KRob. Holder imploded and hasn’t been internally replaced but he was more an ancillary piece of our pen. With Green better and the guts of our bridge pitching better than the bridge we had last year, we are incredibly effective at locking down leads. Our pen has essentially been middling when trailing or tied but exceptional locking down leads. This is why our pen numbers are skewed

Day to day with a bruise. We beat up the two aces of the Dodgers and avoided their third. We were one sac fly in the ninth from sweeping in LA. Paper Dodgers for sure. Those A’s are tough, though

Didi just got pulled. I assume he’s injured

And from the sounds of it, Betances will be back soon. If he’s right, the pen is far deeper

He’d need a ladder

Calvin followed Barry Sanders as Lions legends who were sick of losing and had no recourse due to their contract issues. Willis essentially had a career ending injury to his foot. Luck, I guess, is a conglomeration of shoulder and ankle injuries. But this generation and their need for fulfillment really is to blame here. Maybe it’s a good thing, maybe not that these players care more about their quality of life and their fulfillment than about being the best they can be in their chosen craft. Luck didn’t like that he was always hurt. Well, that’s football for you. Take a look at LT, Montana, Theismann, any of the greats, and they were always battling something. Maybe Luck said, I’ve got my money, now let’s see if my brain will work long term. Who knows? It’s a blow to the league. It’s a blow to his legacy. But maybe it’s good for him, who knows. I have a sneaking suspicion that Luck returns next year after taking a year away from football

WTF? Mentally worn out? Wow

JD is an elite offensive talent. On a squad looking to keep it's best two way talent, the money from JDM would be better allocated. That being said, offense only players have been devalued in today's game. Because everyone is hitting homers now, a guy who posts .900-/950OPS and offers nothing defensively isn't worth as much as it used to be. With his market dropping, I think JDM stays on

What about using WAR per game?

Corbin would have been good here, but the long term contracts for pitchers, especially non-elite SPers are death to a club trying to stay relevant long term. It isn't like we got nobody, Paxton has been just as effective as Corbin the last 2 seasons and he is far more likely to dominate a game as his stuff is better. Just turned out that this season, he's been bitten by the first innings. Who knows, maybe Corbin would experience the same thing if he was in NY?

Big time beat down of the MLB ERA leader then we cannot score vs a rookie. Crazy, but still well played by us outside of small ball to tie it late.

West coast trips always cause some trouble

Every team was juicing. I’m debating the point that all but two of the Yankees titles were legitimate.

You guys got sped up quick with DD entering the fray, while we were still rebuilding. I knew our time was coming. The worst is when we are at our peak and you guys beat us. That was 04

Severino got through his latest sim game well. He has another in 5 days then will be shipped out for a rehab game. His return seems to be moving along well

Yajure has had a good season for sure, but I like Gomez as one of our best pitching prospects. Clarke Schmidt also is up there with Gil as well. We’ve got pitching in the lower levels. Garcia is in the upper level, Schmidt just entered AA. We have options. We just need them to stay healthy, something Adams, Acevedo, Loaisiga and Abreu couldn’t do

You clearly have an issue with facts and opinions. Also, Ortiz and Manny were juicing hard, so if you need an asterisk, you might as well hang one on 04, 07, and 13.

You hopes it’s only 4

Probably because the Astros are scuffling

You don’t go to the good ones if you aren’t close. Also, a 7 game series has at least 2 off days built in and in some cases 3. But tax the pen is what you do in the playoffs if the pen is your best asset

The Yanks were the only team that showed fire against the sox. The Astros won game 1, then s*** on themselves. The Dodgers didn't show any life the whole series. The Yanks came back and almost won game 1, they pounded Price in game 2. The tide turned when Boone left Sevy out there to die when he clearly had nothing. He didn't treat it like a PO game. He treated it like a cold April getaway game

Well, that's kinda the point of the phrase, lol. I did predict the Yanks would finish first last year. They won 100 games, so it isn't like they slouched. No way to predict the sox would win 108. The ALDS was an uber clusterf*** of management. Our asshat manager didn't go to the strength of his team until the final two games were pretty much decided. He had a pen that has proven capable of pitching a full game yet he allowed Sevy to get buried and CC to cough it up in game 4. No way you let Cardiac Cripple have the ball in an elimination game. He seems to love to do it, though, as he did it in 2017 twice and last year. Maybe he will learn his lesson this season

We need 4 innings from our starters

If you count Chapman, Ottavino, Kahnle, and Britton, those 4 have a WAR of 5. They also have something else in common. Kahnle is the outlier here as a flyball pitcher, but Ottavino, Chapman and Britton keep the ball in the yard. Ottavino has a 0.65HR/9IP, which is stellar. It's higher than Britton's and almost double Chapman's. Betances return should add to that, with his career HR/9IP of 0.65. Britton is the only guy who doesn't have elite K numbers, yet his GB numbers are insane and contribute a considerable amount of GIDP's. This pen is phenomenal. Give them the ball with a lead and we will win a title.

You really cannot use TB's pen WAR. 2.4 of that WAR is Ryan Yarbrough acting as the bulk guy. Also, the Yanks have the kind of pen that a team dreams of. Guys who have proven to be effective over their careers. Power arms with high K rates. Former closers who are now in a setup role. An ace closer who played a crucial role in winning a WS. And that WAR includes no contribution from Betances, who is going to return next month. If we can stay/get healthy in the pen, our alignment of Kahnle, Betances, Ottavino, Britton and Chapman effectively makes the 5th inning the inning an opposing team needs a lead in order to beat the Yanks or have to come back against 5 dominant relievers. That's the Yanks calling card for the POs. A dynamic and deep offense. A rotation that features a proven post season pitcher with a bunch of promise over production and a pen that can take the game from the end of the 4th inning to the close without burning anyone out. If our offense can tie or beat the opposition through 4 innings, then we will likely win