I think JBJ is a perfect example of why WAR is a valuable thing. If you only looked at the back of his baseball card, you'd wonder why he's been our everyday CFer so long.
That's a fair point, but the fact is that our offense is .01 runs per game from being the highest scoring offense in MLB.
The offense is fine. The pitching is brutal.
No, man. The earlier bunt was to move a runner from first to second. Here the runner was already at second.
Your WTF confirmation bias is really getting the better of you.
For defensive ratings that mean anything you only have two choices - WAR analytical stuff or eyeball stuff.
As flawed as WAR stuff may be, the idea that eyeball stuff is better is kind of a joke IMHO
When you go on a game thread and predict a player is going to have a good game, and he does, you always get some congrats for it. If he goes 0 for 4, of course, you just look like a regular stooge.
But what the hell. I'll predict 2 hits for Beni tonight.
You're just guessing about Wright.
Velazquez pitched 3 days in a row and wouldn't be available for a couple of days so he got shuttled.
And you just said Nunez should have been gone weeks ago.
If you don't mind me throwing around some really rough numbers here...
I would say that the 10 game difference between us and the Yanks is about 50% on the rotation and 50% on the pen.
Dombrowski probably isn't surprised we're trailing the Yanks, but he probably figured we'd be within a few games of them at this point, and that he could add at the deadline.
On that point, you can probably fault Dombrowski for over-relying on this rotation to eat innings, with Sale's array of issues, Eovaldi's injury record, Price's age, and a lack of depth options.