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  1. mvp 78
    The reason we shouldn't have an accurate strike zone is us piggies don't deserve it?
  2. mvp 78
    He was also getting shaky the prior year in the pen. It took a LOOOOONG time for him to get it back.
  3. mvp 78
    He needs to get Wong to not throw the ball down the RF line to nobody.
  4. mvp 78
    Beni was having a fine season, but they still remember the 2018 vintage. He's not that guy anymore. That seems to be his high water mark. He's a LFer that may end the season with a SLG under 400. "But he won a GG!" 0 DRS this year. The Beni trade was fine. The Renfroe trade was dumb.
  5. mvp 78
    He's been worth 16 fWAR the past two years. Judge is right behind him at 15.
  6. mvp 78
    Khalil Lee isn't exactly lighting it up either.
  7. mvp 78
    What if I told you that Schreiber pitched for the 2021 Red Sox. Would you believe me?
  8. mvp 78
    2021 relievers: Josh Taylor 1.0 fWAR (a real cog that was missing from this pen) Garrett Richards 0.6 fWAR (relief only numbers, at the end of the year he really provided a big surge to the pen) Adam Ottavino 0.6 fWAR (This is basically Strahm now) Hansel Robles 0.4 fWAR (partial season, as much value as Houck or Brasier provided all year) This year's pen was just Schreiber, Whitlock and Strahm with the later two having lost significant time due to injury. Last year's pen had anywhere from 5-6 guys they could go to especially down the stretch when Robles and Richards were throwing well. Valdez and Andriese were the only regulars with ugly ERA's (some of the FIP's did show that a few of the guys were a bit lucky last year).
  9. mvp 78
    Most rankings have the Sox about 10th or 11th best farm, so I guess most pens are just horrible then. Pack it up everyone. For the first time in a long time the Sox were actually able to bring up younger pitchers (Winckowski, Crawford, Bello) and there are others on the horizon that could bolster the pen next season (Mata, Bazardo, Murphy, German, Politi). There are even some longer shots like Thaddeus Ward who has pitched well since coming back from TJS and Ryan Zeferjahn who has been much better since converting to relief and reducing his pitch mix. You could have posted this a few years ago and been right on the money, but I think you're a little off base at the moment.
  10. mvp 78
    The Sox made it to the ALCS in 2021, but how did his reliever strategy work then? 8th in fWAR 12th in xFIP 12th in ERA (for some of our friends on here) 11th in LOB% The pen is much, much worse in 2022. They are 29th in Left on Base% in 2022 and it feels like it.
  11. mvp 78
    Nick Northcut announced as PTBNL sent to the Reds to complete Pham deal.
  12. mvp 78
    It didn't say why though? It was just another article venting frustration we all feel.
  13. mvp 78
    The Red Sox were high on him in 2020. He was talked about as a potential closer during that season. I was surprised when they didn't bring him back in the following year even though his results were less than impressive. If you take out his very first appearance where he got rocked, you can see how his numbers would have normalized over a whole season, especially if that high BABIP regressed.
  14. mvp 78
    They were running out of healthy arms and thought he was a guy they could take a flier on for cheap money. Maybe he'd be an average guy out there and be better than some of the junk they had put out there. He went to WOO and struck out the side. They liked what they saw and brought him up. He looked like absolute s*** in his first appearance against the f***ing Pirates https://www.fangraphs.com/wins.aspx?date=2022-08-17&team=Red%20Sox&dh=0 and should have DFA'd him then.
  15. mvp 78
    Schreiber, Kelly and Danish aren't also over the hill guys like Familia. Familia hasn't had a positive fWAR season since 2018 (about 180 appearances prior to joining the Sox!).
  16. mvp 78
    If they were actually trying to be competitive, he wouldn't have been signed.
  17. mvp 78
    You're also not alone in this argument on here. I believe kimmi also is staunch anti-automatic k zone. Maybe if the k zone wasn't superimposed on every tv screen it wouldn't be as big of a deal? IDK.
  18. mvp 78
    There's a difference between: "I want robo umps." "I like human umps." and "Bloom needs to sign a bunch of guys to fill out the roster next season." "You're a pink hat ballwasher who thinks Chaim Bloom can do no wrong." We can disagree about some things and just be normal kind human beings about it.
  19. mvp 78
    Familia is a NY plant that should have been DFA'd.
  20. mvp 78
    The same one he was out with earlier this season, his hip.
  21. mvp 78
    Ahem.
  22. mvp 78
    Honestly, if umps just fixed their equipment and weren't always fixed on the inside part of the plate, they could call the outside part of the plate more reasonably. Right now, how they call outside balls and strikes is just ridiculous because they just can't really see that part of the plate because of where they set up.
  23. mvp 78
    And it's perfectly ok that you have this opinion. Part of me wishes every team was built like the 1985 Cardinals. Holding onto something from the past is what baseball fans do best.
  24. mvp 78
    Who is even on here defending Bloom all day? I don't even see this happening. We are truly witnessing someone's delusion every time they post.
  25. mvp 78
    He's clearly still injured when you see him walking around the mound.
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