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  1. Bellhorn04
    The 6 innings, 3 earned runs is of course the bare minimum for a QS. That point can't be stressed enough (LOL). I guarantee that a pitcher who produces a high number of QS's will have an ERA much lower than 4.50 in those starts. There is also the High Quality Start which I believe has a minimum of 7 innings, 2 earned runs. I agree with Palodios that 9 innings, 4 earned runs should be a QS, not that it happens very often.
  2. Bellhorn04
    +100
  3. Bellhorn04
    Failure may have been foreseeable. Destroying his ability to throw strikes and ending his career in the big leagues was not IMO. I don't think there are other cases quite like Bard's. They called it Steve Blass Syndrome, but Blass was always a starter, it just happened to him out of nowhere.
  4. Bellhorn04
    What happened to Bard was rare and unforeseeable, IMO. Countless other guys go back and forth between starting and relieving without this kind of disaster occurring.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Personally I think they want the best of both worlds - they want to make money and they want a winning team. I don't think they're trying to create the illusion of having a contending team. That illusion quickly vanishes in the face of being 10 games under .500. There's no way it is any fun for those guys to take the beating they have been taking so far this year.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Good for JBJ, seriously. If he could get an offensive game going that would be a big plus for the team.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Yep. But the offense has been on the rise lately, moving toward middle of the pack at least. Pitching is still in the basement.
  8. Bellhorn04
    But we have the worst staff in the league.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it's the 8th time in June we've scored 4 or more runs and lost.
  10. Bellhorn04
    The pitching hasn't performed like projected either.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Miley has worked his way off the problem list for now.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Those are bad numbers. But looking at the history, he has gotten much better in these venues in the second half of his career or so. In the new Yankee Stadium he has a 3.78 ERA and 1.10 WHIP in 66.2 innings. And at Fenway his numbers have been quite good since 2011, in a fairly small sample.
  13. Bellhorn04
    To the average fan, and I guess in many respects that's me, the Castillo deal is a bit of a head-scratcher. It's something new. A 72.7 million investment in a guy who is now almost 28 years old and appears to be not MLB-ready either as a hitter or a fielder. Especially when they grab a guy like De Aza off the scrap heap and you find out your manager likes him considerably better than the 72.7 million guy.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Buchholz's numbers with Leon catching him are outstanding. 11 games - 74 innings - 2.80 ERA. Leon may have won a job for this alone - a David Ross caddy position.
  15. Bellhorn04
    With perfect hindsight, plug Lackey in for Kelly and Shields in for Masterson, we keep all our prospects and add very little to this year's payroll.
  16. Bellhorn04
    There were other options beside trading for Hamels. We could have not traded Lackey, or signed Shields, or done both, without a huge financial outlay. I agree that it's hindsight stuff. But I think most of us were at least a little shocked that they went into 2015 with the rotation they did.
  17. Bellhorn04
    To me there's a point that's hard to dispute. If we had one TOTR starter replacing one of our batting practice starters, we'd be at least 3 games better in the standings. 3 games would put us 4.5 games out of the Wild Card with 90 games left, and with our offense starting to produce. It would be a significant swing in our position.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Hamels has been pretty good. 14 starts, 94.1 IP, 2.96 ERA, 10 Quality Starts. Joe Kelly: 14 starts, 74.2.1 IP, 5.67 ERA, 4 Quality Starts.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Sure, but that's one month. We're not completely dead as it is. If we had Hamels or Shields or whoever, from Day One, we'd be a few games better right now, with better odds of making the playoffs.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Ah yes, the 'we would have sucked anyway' defense.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Time to take Jelly out of the rotation.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Man did we get f***ed over on the Lackey trade. Kelly and Craig have been a disaster.
  23. Bellhorn04
    That's actually an understatement. 10-21 vs. AL East before tonight.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Based on this story, Porcello started throwing the four-seamer more on his own and Farrell and Willis want him to throw it less. http://t.co/qX2uxthwBk
  25. Bellhorn04
    Off topic here, but for you Papelbon fans, I just read a rumor that the Cubs are interested in him.
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