Maxbialystock
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This is also the 2d straight game in which a chicago batter gripes about a perfectly good strike.
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Especially irksome when Vazquez once again swings at a pitch out of the strike zone on a 2-0 count. He did that last night I think with the bases loaded.
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Ahem. Wright is not just a great pitcher, but a skilled all around baseball player as well. I don’t know about pinch-hitting, but the guy is a wonder on the basepaths. Hopefully, Devers will watch him a learn a thing or two.
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Whoa, there, pard. The quality start, 6 innings, 3 or fewer earned runs, was created by a sportswriter in 1985. It's not an official stat and can be used or not. Like WAR and other stats. What has helped the quality start stat to stay alive is that you can also show a stat on the percentage of starts that are quality starts. Kershaw, for example, gets 71%, Tom Seaver 70.2% Price 68%, Bob Gibson 68%, Randy Johnson 67%. This season so far: Verlander has 14/17 quality starts, Greinke 13/17, Scherzer 13/16, Ryu 13/15, and Berrios 13/16. Chris Sale is 9/16, Porcello 8/16, Price 6/13, and ERod 6/16. The stats guys are telling front offices and managers that pitchers get hit harder and harder as the number of times they go thru the lineup increases. By the third and fourth time, most of them are at risk of a big rally, especially if their command starts to crumble. So 6 innings kind of makes sense. Thus too the value of a great bullpen--like the Yankees currently have. Their ace, Tanaka, is 9/16.
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One 6X/mont 5-6 Inning Starting Pitcher, or
Maxbialystock replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Sale isn't as good as last year, but his June numbers are close. But the real point is that our biggest weakness is the rotation, not the bullpen, because the Sox needs a rotation to eat a whole lot of innings, not 1 or 2 every freaking 3 days. A good starter should throw 6 x 33 = 198 innings in a season, not the measly 62 Kimbrel pitched last year. FWIW, the Yankees bullpen ain't great because of one guy, but because of several guys. OP is a bad idea. -
My, my, my. Mookie decided to stop taking those first pitch fastballs and actually took a swing.
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I don't like losses any more than you do, but before the game it was a given that the White Sox had the edge tonight in starters. ERod has been up and down like a yo-yo this year, and Giolito has an ERA of 2.87--better than any Boston starter. ERod was actually pretty lucky tonight because he had no curve and no slider and relied way too much on his fast ball and cut fastball. Plus his control was off, which is normal for him.
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Sometimes hitters--our guys too--can look so dumb complaining about a called strike clearly inside the zone.
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Chicago loves those inside fastballs, and Vazquez keeps calling for them. Why?
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Walden throws the same exact pitch--an inside cut fastball. Is Vazquez really as dumb as he looks tonight?
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It was a cut fastball inside which Chicago has had no problem hitting.
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When is that idiot Vazquez going to finally notice that the White Sox are murdering inside fastballs by ERod? That's now two dingers and a scoring double--all pulled.
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Hello, hello RISP disease. Welcome back. Vazquez and Nunez--the z brothers--sure missed you.
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The guy was actually pitching well--good control and good stuff. Then Bogie hit that very hard double and he lost his command.
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Too bad Devers is playing. He's be perfect to pinch hit right now. I think the only two left are Hernandez and Leon--unless Holt is on the IL and the Sox brought someone up.
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That at bat by Vazquez was way, way, way dumber than the baserunning error by Devers. He just refused to take a pitch, then refused to swing on a strike.
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Both dingers have been off fastballs or cut fastballs on the inside corner.
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Shoulda said that earlier. For whatever reason, the White Sox have not hit ERod like they should have. He's only got the changeup and the fast ball and the occasional cutter, and it's working!!!???
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A lot we don't agree on, but not on the stupidity of the London series.
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I just gotta say the Chicago pitcher is pitching, well, unfairly too Mookie. Too many fast balls and breaking balls. No wonder he can't get a hit. Here we have an over 1000 OPS no-baloney MVP, and he is helpless at the plate. Later in the game Cora might have to send Leon in to pinch hit for him.
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Nunez lucky on 2 straight pitches the ump was previously calling strikes. And Nunez breaks the no-can-hit-with-men-in-scoring-position curse!
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I'm not even sure he was a fake tag up. He just took a small lead, and the leftfielder made a great throw behind him. Besides, the next batter was going to make an out anyway. RISP disease has hit this team hard this year.
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He looks good, and he is also lucky. All fastballs and changeups. No sliders or curves. He has thrown several fast balls right in the middle and not had to pay the price. The dinger was of a cut fastball on the inside corner.
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I’m getting it on the mlb channel.
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I am far from an expert on front office moves, but have to disagree that DD fell asleep because I too thought Kimbrel was asking for too much, especially after his collapse in the postseason. Losing Kelly to the Dodgers actually turned out well--so far. We lost Kinsler, but really haven't missed him, especially when Chavis was hitting so well. Meanwhile, the entire rotation, including midseason addition Eovaldi, is back, and basically so is that great lineup of 2018. It's just that JDM and Betts are having down years, ditto Beni somewhat. But Devers is way better, so is Bogie, so is Vazquez, and Chavis is a good addition with Pearce and Moreland on the IL. And let's not forget that the Sox already have the highest payroll in MLB, which mostly why Kimbrel ended up in Chicago. I of course defer to kimmi's bitterness over what DD has done to the farm system because that is on DD.