The Sox have given up 83 runs in their last 12 games including spring games. The fewest given up in any of those games is 4. That needs to turn around in a hurry.
The curious case of Reese McGuire's CERA with the Sox continues. I have it at 6.58 now - 179 earned runs in 245 innings. Yes, I know it's likely a statistical anomaly. But it's a disturbing one.
You may be right, Hugh. But the kid could have strained his back whether he was with the Phillies or still with us. It's an unsurprising development.
The more we see of this the more obvious it is that the rule needs to be fixed.
I thought you two said you were going to cut out this crap. Somebody needs to put somebody on ignore, rather than subjecting the rest of the forum to this again and again.
So you would have hooked him when? After the double, when he'd given up 1 run?
King and Holmes, two of the Yankees' best, ended up allowing 4 of the 7 runs.
I think there's only so much you can do with baseball analytics, and not much of it has made the game more enjoyable.
Fortunately, baseball is such an innately magical game that it remains fascinating no matter how much they screw with it.
Dice-K's deal was a larger layout of cash. There was also the extension for Beckett.
Those are not massive deals by today's standards, but they do kind of dwarf Kluber's deal...