Some good fun with baseball names yesterday.
Sonny Gray and Peyton Gray were winning pitchers.
Christian Scott was a winner, Tanner Scott was a loser.
And in the same game, Brad Lord was the winner and Michael King was the loser.
This team is clearly headed in a bad direction. I'm 70 now, so I am kind of short-sighted LOL. But as I say, I see little chance of it happening. It's an expression of hopelessness, you might say. We did have a good run from 2004 to 2018, though.
It's not just about the spending, not at all. It's more about the revolving door of CBOs that has made the job unattractive to most, which has led us to Breslow, who is looking more and more like an abject disaster.
BTW there is a crazy spread between Rivera's bWAR and his fWAR, 56 vs. 39. He's not the only one with a big spread like that. Rick Porcello is another one.
Take a look at Rivera's postseason game log. He had a huge number of outings that were more than an inning. A pile of 2 inning outings. He was the farthest thing from a 9th inning only guy.
Closers might be overrated, but a good one is still nice to have. The leverage thing does matter, of course.
One of the things that made Rivera great was that when needed he could give you the 8th AND the 9th.