Dustin May left Wednesday's game after one inning due to an undisclosed injury.
Bad, bad news. May averaged 94.7 mph with his sinker in the first inning, down two mph from his average on the year.
He's going to get to 100 innings someday!
I think none of us are all surprised at the starting rotation being kind of a trainwreck so far. Is this really shocking to anyone?
We liked the pen.
We questioned the middle IF depth (and were right).
Nothing that has happened has been all that surprising.
The signings in 14/15 and behavior of the front office was very weird. I don't know who had the ultimate say. You would think that Ben winning a WS in 13 would give him leverage to build the organization for a few years, but they ended up with:
1. no FA pitchers over 30 nonsense
2. Lester lowball
3. Pablo
4. Hanley
5. Rusney
6. Porcello trade
7. ERod trade
8. Allen Craig/Joe Kelly trade
9. Pierzynski
10. Moncada signing
11. Miley/Masterson (5 Aces)
Duran vs LHP:
OBP 391
wRC+ 120
His power is down vs LHP (421 SLG vs 627 SLG), but he's not overwhelmed or showing a horrible split. Granted it's only 19 AB's vs 75 against RHP. Still working on a very SSS.
Nice to see Crawford and Whitlock pitch well in rehab starts.
Didn't realize Mata was on the IL with shoulder inflamation. Not a surprise as that dude doesn't stay healthy
CJ Liu is an interesting arm as he seems to be a low floor/MLB ceiling guy. Not sure he would be an MLB starter, but probably could be a multi-inning reliever.
As of today:
140 wRC+
381 OBP top 14 percentile xOBP
888 OPS
9.7 BB%
9.7 K% top 3 percentile
Even adding in his early adjustments, he's been good at baseball.
If you're going to fight endlessly with another poster at least make it entertaining. The ongoing feud between you and moon has no juice. It's just two old cranks yelling past each other with nothing of interest to note.