Bellhorn04
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Of course you are!
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"Just win, baby". E-Rod is an interesting one, though. I wonder if they will make him a serious extension offer.
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Edinson Volquez? I swear I didn't look it up. I definitely think 'bullpen games' are a cost-conscious innovation...
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I'll bet you miss Slasher being here.
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No, I just think the development of the "third time through the order" philosophy has more to do with analytics than anything else.
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But when Cash yanked Snell in the WS, that was purely a metrics decision, no?
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Yeah, your 20/20 hindsight answer...
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I'm guessing one of the reasons is the way modern pitchers pitch. On average they throw harder and they throw more sliders and other breaking balls that put more stress on the arm. Also, I think when we look at pitchers of the past we tend to focus on the ones who were really special, like Gibson, Ryan et all, as if they were typical, which they most certainly weren't.
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So you think the 'third time through the order' principle is poppycock and that the real reason for hauling starters earlier now is to cut their innings and their pay?
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Ortiz, obviously.
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So what is the point then of pointing to success in the first 10 or 11 PA's as being meaningful?
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That's metrics at work, I'm afraid.
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Another point about that is that if your best reliever gets the job done, your offense might score another run or more and make it easier in the 9th.
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What about sample size?
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NESN has hired Ellis Burks, Mo Vaughn, Kevin Youkilis and Jonathan Papelbon to make limited appearances on broadcasts this year. Don't know about their on-air talent, but that's some pretty good baseball talent.
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And the ones who do opt out often get overpaid in the next contract. Like Sabathia did.
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Dreadful management by Buck. Another dubious one was when Hinch didn't use Cole in Game 7 of the 2019 WS.
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Gifford, Cosell and Meredith made a great team.
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Whitlock is having a nice little spring. If Pivetta and Whitlock contribute this year, that's a couple of feathers in Chaim's cap...
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I don't think it's underrated by true Red Sox intelligentsia - like us.
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And he had a home run and an RBI single in that game.
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I don't think that's what Tito was doing. Because he wasn't even using Miller as the 8th inning guy. Bryan Shaw was the 8th inning guy. Just look at the box scores for Games 1 and 3 of the 2016 Division Series when Cleveland beat us.
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With the notable exception of Andrew Miller and Cody Allen in 2016. Miller was the better pitcher that year, but Tito was using him prior to the 9th and using Allen in the 9th. It worked well, too.
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That's what I thought too. But notin's right, he has an opt out after this year as well.
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Eck and Rivera are probably the two best closers ever, including the postseason. And yet we remember each of them blowing crucial postseason saves. Eck in 1988 and 1992, Rivera in 2001 and 2004.
