The real wild card is our owner. JH turns 70 in 2019 and he is worth billions. Maybe he just wants to say screw it to all the tax considerations because he wants to win one more title before he sells the team or dies.
moon is our only serious number-cruncher with the payroll stuff and he tries to factor the arb raises in.
We may have no choice but to trade Bradley.
Kimbrel is a tough call any way you look at it. He might command 5/90. As good as he is, that's too much.
Red Sox fans are nuts without a doubt.
When we lost this game it struck me that we lost a game to the Rays in almost identical fashion to start the season in 2003. A nice lead with Pedro cruising and it was blown by our 'closer by committee'. Shaughnessy confirmed this is in his crazy column day. The score was 6-4. Kind of freaky. Check it out!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TBA/TBA200303310.shtml
Barnes has pitched more than 1 inning many, many times, including 7 2 inning stints last year. But I agree with you that we shouldn't be freaking out over one game.
Not at all. And this is the type of bullpen management Phil Mushnick at the NY Post keeps complaining about. Why wouldn't you let Barnes go out for a second inning when he looked so good in his first one. But the modern method is to limit guys to one inning and to base a lot of it on matchups.
Kelly and Barnes were fine last year and for that matter so was the bullpen in general.
Time will tell if DD has left us short-handed this season. We certainly need some of the no-name guys that didn't pitch last night to step up.