Bellhorn04
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His scoreless 8th and 9th innings in the last game of the White Sox series were pretty useful too.
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Is he a luxury good if the Sox make the playoffs? He's second in fWAR for relievers on the Sox after Slaten.
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Will Grissom even be able to get playing time when he's ready to play again? The way things are going they may have to send him to Worcester.
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That's why WAR is a good thing, IMHO. Duran and DHam get a lot of value from the baserunning component. Can't just add steals to total bases without also factoring in the times caught stealing or picked off...it gets complicated.
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To play baseball idiot savant here, that "deliberate" look may be a sign that unlike Mookie Betts, Grissom doesn't have great "fast-twitch muscles" going for him, which may help explain why he hasn't put one over the fence in 220 trips to the plate.
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No, but that's part of my issue - I think Breslow had to free up that $10 million to sign Giolito. I think they should have kept Sale and signed Giolito.
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Grissom's last 220 MLB PA's per SourestCherryPicking.com: BA .203 OBP .259 SLG .238 OPS .497 HR NIL
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As for Grissom, if you look at his major league game logs from Day One, you're not going to like the trend you see one little bit.
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I don't think you're completely getting my position. Of course keeping Sale would have been a gamble - with a big potential payoff like the one we're seeing so far. And what did we gain by passing up that gamble? A 10 million dollar payroll reduction, and a prospect. Not enough, IMHO.
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The way I see it, if the Yankees, Dodgers or other current big spending teams were in the same position as we were with Sale, they wouldn't have traded him. They would have said "f*** it, let's keep him and hope we get lucky".
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To me the bottom line is that Sale's fWAR per inning has remained good through those injury-ravaged and abbreviated seasons with us. The hilarious one is 2022, when he registered a 0.2 fWAR in 5.2 IP. Even that extrapolates well.
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I do think Henry must respect Cora as a manager, to bring him back after a (well-deserved) suspension.
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Booser has actually been outstanding. 2.84 FIP, 1.12 WHIP, 6.2 K/BB. For a guy no one had ever heard of. Major props for this one.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Bellhorn04 replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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I also think Mr. Alex Cora is doing a sensational job this year. It would be a feel-good story if they announced an extension for him.
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I also like the "future signings" of Hendriks and Fulmer. And his dumpster dive signings of Booser, who has been pretty damn good, and Anderson and Keller, who have been adequate innings chewers. And with no Breslow we might have no Bailey. I'm not down on Breslow at all, and as I much as I go on about the Sale trade, I suspect that had a lot to do with making everything fit into the tight budget he was so rudely given.
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Because notin said "fWAR for his IP". An fWAR of 2 for 100 innings means you pitched very well. I was just extrapolating to show what that would be for a full season.
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OK, they all pitched well. That would be 3+ WAR for 150 innings, 3.5+ for 175 innings. What else is there to say about it?
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Not wanting to extend Sale is a total strawman. It's got nothing to do with what I'm saying. I've tried to address that point several times but you just ignore it.
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Show your work, please.
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You can do just about anything when you start chopping up the numbers to suit your bias.
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You're cherry-picking Sale's season instead of looking at the total data the way we're supposed to. He probably had some rustiness at the start and fatigue at the end. His total numbers were very good, end of story. And I think you're wrong that no one would have taken Paxton back on a modest deal like the one he signed.
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I keep hearing Sale pitched badly in 2019. That's ********, unless you're an Old Schooler who only looks at W-L and ERA. In 147.1 innings he had a 3.6 fWAR. His xFIP was 2.93. His K/BB was 6 to 1. If you keep saying he pitched badly that year, as Sam Kennedy might put it, you're lying.
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The frustration is with the men running the team.
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That's simply wrong, off the charts wrong in fact. His fWAR was always very good for the innings he pitched.
