These numbers are all before his big night tonight:
Total career numbers 2415 PA
237/316/404 - 720 OPS
Hitting 9th 1049 PA
255/329/437 - 766 OPS
His best spot has actually been 6th, with an 820 OPS in 399 PA. Other than that, 9th is easily his best.
You generally do need some luck and unexpected stuff to go your way to win it all.
Just for one example, in 2004 Derek Lowe was a playoff hero after a horrible season with a 5.42 ERA and a 1.62 WHIP.
Pom as a reliever:
15.1 IP
255/349/364 = 713 OPS
310 BABip
His numbers are mediocre but not awful. Too many walks but not a lot of extra base hits.
He can pitch multiple innings up to 4 or 5.
The carrot at the end of the stick is that he might still be working back to full strength from his injury.
Nothing to get excited about but no reason to write him off yet either.
5 walks per 8th 9th innings, huh?
And what exactly is the point of your random list of pitchers?
You're an ignorant twit, as well as a pussy for being afraid to say you're a Yankee fan.
We'll see man. Joel Sherman had a pretty good column the other day about how 2018 should be scaring teams away from big money for relievers. Wade Davis and some of the others who got paid have struggled and Chapman and Jansen have concerning health issues.
And Kimbrel, let's face it, has had some concerning performance issues this year.
I think the recency effect can come into play sometimes. When you look at what Johnny Cueto got compared to Price, it looks like some GM's were concerned about Cueto's poor numbers with KC in 2015.