moonslav59
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I do wonder, if they even considered Luis Castillo.
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Are you sure there were no other offers or hopes for another one? If that's true, I find it hard to blame one other GM interested in such a great pitcher for not matching the Rangers. Are you sure, we just needed to match it? That 3rd year option looks pretty good.
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That certainly seems like a better strategy, but until we get that system in place, and I should have said "if," we'll have to find a way to add a solid pitcher or two. I'd hate to trade mayer, when we have such a big hole at SS. I'm not sure anyone else brings us an ace. Buying aces hardly ever works out.
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If his ERA equaled that 4.55 xFIP, he'd be one of baseball's best #5's. (I'm NOT for putting him in the rotation, as of now. He might not even be my #6 or 7, either.)
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In all fairness, his budget was not very much, the first 2 years, so it is not really a clear M.O., but he had a chance this past winter and could have signed a pitcher, instead of Story back in 2022. IMO, he better acquire one, soon, because I'm not ready to put all our eggs in our system producing pitching gems.
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Houck and Bello, both DD guys seem to be coming along, well. Whitlock and Wink we "developed" more by other systems, but Bloom did add them to ours before they reached the ML level. I was hoping Mata, Walter or Murphy could step it up in '23, but all have gone backwards. Drohan looks real good. E R-C might make an upward move, this year, as well as a couple others.
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No Drohan? Wonder how much Rafaela dropped.
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Agreed. We all knew it was our weakest link and by far, but the 4 pitchers I listed have been god awful, Had they just been this, we'd be in a WC slot, right now: 5.50 Kluber 5.25 Pivetta 4.50 Whitlock 4.00 Houck Those numbers might have been viewed as very conservative in March.
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No he isn't, but he has been a fine #5 from the time he joined the Sox, until April 14th, 2023, or his last 7 starts.
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We could use some "luck," now.
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He made attempts at Nate and Eflin and maybe more we never heard about.
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It might have had something to do with the player option year 3: 2025:$20M player option if Eovaldi 1) pitches 300 innings combined in 2023-24 or 2) finishes in the top 5 of the 2024 Cy Young vote or 3) finishes in top 7 of 2024 Cy Young vote and makes 2024 All Star team All of what you said does not mean playing closer to home did not matter at all. I guess he was lying, when he said "It means everything." Who wants liars on their team, anyway? LOL!
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I knew the Price deal was a gross overpay, but we needed an ace. badly, and he seemed to be a once or twice (Scherzer) in a decade kind of available pitcher, so I was okay with it. I liked the Sale signing and argued he was worth the money, even if he missed one full season due to injury. Obviously, he has missed more. Taking chances on aces is something I can stomach.
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I would also suggest nobody expected these misfortunes that outweigh the Sale (5.01 ERA) and Paxton good luck: 6.26 Kluber (most expected 4.50 to 5.25) 6.17 Pivetta (most expected 4.25 to 5.00) 6.19 Whitlock (most expected 3.50 to 4.25 or better) 4.99 Houck (most expected 3.50 to 4.25 or better)
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One glimmer of hope on Pivetta is that he seems to have some nice to very nice stretches, some lasting more than 2 months long. Maybe we can get one of those, this summer. 2020: 2 GS (10 IP) 1.80 ERA 2021: 12 GS (64 IP from 4/5 to 6/7) 3.78 ERA (3.42 FIP) 2022: 11 GS (74 IP from 5/7 to 6/27) 1.95 (3.17 FIP) Also in 2022, 23 GS (135 IP from May 7 to Sept 7) 3.74 (3.91 FIP) Also in 2022, 28 GS (159 IP from May 7 to end of season) 4.13 ERA (4.28 FIP)
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No BBs from Bello was a minor miracle. Wong would have made him walk 5. LOL
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The response was on "stuff." BTW, he has a .731 career OPS Against. .727 Late & Close .699 RISP .685 2 out, RISP He's had some luck- good and bad over his career. He's got some good "stuff" but not great and not bad.
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Someone disagrees: SCOUTING REPORT A towering right-hander with an ideal pitchers' frame (6-6, 215 pounds), he has very good sinking movement on his fastball and a great changeup. Displays great command of the strike zone. Can dominate under pressure. What may prevent him from becoming a big winner in the bigs is his lack of a dominant breaking pitch, though his slider is improving. It may also prevent him from becoming a big strikeout pitcher. Injuries are an issue. Long Range Potential: Excellent right-hander, when healthy. -Sports Forecaster
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I think Houck is going to get a longer look at the rotation. He probably would have, even if he didn't have a nice "3rd time through" last game. The fact is, Houck going 18 batters is still way better than what we can expect from Pivetta and Kluber. Crawford looks to fill the long man role much better than SP'er. The rotation (all healthy) 1. Sale 2. Bello 3. Paxton 4. Houck 5. Whitlock Pen Closer: Jansen Set-Up: Martin Set-UP: Schreiber (can go more than 1 from time to time) Lefty: Joely Rodriguez (Bleier?) High Leverage Long Man: Winckowski High Leverage Long Man: Crawford Low/Mid Leverage Long Man: Pivetta Low Leverage Long Man: Kluber
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I wouldn't count 2020, and not just because it was a short season. He only started 9 of the possible 12 starts. That's 25% of the season lost.
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Maybe not the number one reason, but he did mention it as a reason... SI article: Signing with the Texas Rangers and getting a little closer to home in the process has been a bit of a theme the past two offseasons. Newly-signed pitcher Nathan Eovaldi is the latest to use that as incentive to sign with the Rangers. “I mean, it's everything,” Eovaldi said. “I think one of the biggest things is family... I know everybody always loved it when we'd go down there and play the Astros because there's an opportunity for them to come out and watch me play,” Eovaldi said. “Even if I wasn't playing, they would come out there to just watch the game and support us, so it's going to be a lot better I think this year having them so close.”
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I knew you'd love that!
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Sox pen in the last 7 games: 22.1 IP 3 ER 1.21 ERA 20 BB+H 0.896 WHIP
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Nate was born not far from me: Alvin, TX. He went to school in Alvin, too.
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It's pretty easy to determine why we are currently on the outside looking in on the WC slots: pitching. Current rankings, per fangraphs: 26th fWAR at 2.3 (KCR 2.5, CWS 2.8, SG & WSH at 3.1) 24th ERA- at 106 (Det & MIA at 105, PHI 104 and AZ 103) 22nd WHIP at 1.34 (6 teams between 1.31-1.33) 17th xFIP at 4.31 (TEX 4.26, STL & PIT at 4.22) 15th K-BB% at 14% On the other side of the coin.... 5th best K% at 20.5% but 22nd in BB% at 8.3% 8th in OPS at .766 (CHC at .768) 10th in FWAR at 6.8 (LAA at 7.0) 10th in ISO .171 10th in O at 14.4 20th in D at -11.1
