Screw the bad contract trades. We need to find another team willing to pay Price 54 million or more. If no such team exists, might as well forget the re-set for 2020.
Grady was going to have to use the bullpen in that game eventually. I don't think even Grady planned to have Pedro throw 155 pitches like Luis Tiant did in Game of the 1975 WS.
2020 projections (from B-R)
Kopech 61 IP 4.57 ERA
Beeks 85 IP 4.55 ERA
Allen 54 IP 4.83 ERA
Those numbers are just stabs in the dark, obviously, but it shows what unknown quantities they are.
The four WS wins have taken the sting out for me. I just find it's impossible to resist revisiting those occasions. You certainly don't forget them or how tragic they seemed at the time.
The 1978 playoff game was the worst for me. I was crushed.
It has declined marginally.
2017 4.45
2018 4.41
2019 4.38
I'll bet anything it's higher in 2020 than in 2019.
The highest contract for a pitcher just went from 217 mill to 324 mill.
And look at the arb raises Mookie and E-Rod are expected to get.
The younger players thing is being offset a lot by the higher arb salaries.
For those who would have left Pedro in, let's say he did get Posada out on that pitch. He's at 123 pitches with still 4 more outs to get, and the next hitter was Giambi, who has homered twice in the game. Would you leave Pedro in to face Giambi?