moonslav59

Kluber leads the Sox in IP, actually tied with sale with 29.1. IP/GS 5.3 Whitlock 5.2 Houck (League Avg 5.2, which is not 5 and 2/3) 4.9 Kluber, Sale, Pivetta 4.5 Crawford 4.1 Bello Team Total 4.9, which is about 1/3 an inning off the league average. With an 8 man pen, I'm not sure we are overtaxing anyone- not that anyone is saying we are. QS% (League Avg= 31%) 33 Sale 33 Whitlock 20 Houck 17 Kluber 0 all others OPS Against .710 Houck .804 Pivetta .825 Sale .841 Kluber .944 Whitlock .974 Bello Others: .500 Jansen .513 Wink .545 Bern .634 Craw .754 Bra-man .761 Schreib .763 Bleier .780 Martin .824 Kelly .960 Ort bWAR+fWAR x 2.6 (to equal a full season) 2.9 Wink 1.6 Jansen 1.4 Craw 1.4 Bern 1.4 Houck .9 Schr .8 Martin .2 Kelly .0 Piv & Sale -.2 Bello -.3 Bleier -.4 Kluber -.4 Whit -1.1 Brasier -1.4 Ort

That 13 man staff would also force the DFA of Brasier, so YES! (Bleier, too. Oh well.)

I'm not against the idea, but like you said, our rotation is in shambles.

I wonder, if we even talked to Iggy. You'd think he'd have chosen Boston, to play in the bigs over the minors, so I'm thinking we did not bother. We'd have had to DFA (Brasier, Brasier or Brasier) or 60 day IL someone (Duvall, retroactively?).

Yankee fan: "Our GM neglected the lineup!" Red Sox fan: "Our GM neglected the rotation!"

Is there room for 4 long men in the pen? Wink Craw Whit Houck

Wrong, again, Mr. DFArroyo.

That's a given.

I'm not sure we can blame his injury on starting a few games. He only went beyond 4 IP, twice in 2022. BTW, in 2021 he did pitch with just one day rest 8 times and back-to-back days, once. You could be right: the pen might be safer and better for him.

The 0 Ks in 5 IP was very unusual, but I'm also not sure about tipping pitches. To me, he has 2 good starts in his last 3 and needs another 2-3 in a row or 3 out fo his next 4 for me to feel confident he is back. He may still have some bumps coming up, but I will say, I feel better about him than I have in years.

You mean 3BB/9 to 1.5?

Tiny sample size, but.... .545 OPS Against, despite a .353 BAbip. 22 PAs against 0 BB 5 Ks 1.63 FIP 1.059 WHIP MVP can give you the "real" advanced stuff. He got lit up in 6 IP with SEA's AAA team, earlier, this year.

Better than what we have, now, although he is no longer great on D at SS. He was a rare "available" April/May player that signed a minor league deal just days ago. I guess DFA'ing someone ( Brasier) was just too much for Bloom to handle.

He missed on Mondesi's return date. Chang was not "doing nothing," but his injury was a killer. I agree, though, we should have signed Andrus, like many of us wanted- even after the Mondesi trade.

How could I forget? Good call.

I'm super high on Sale, and I think the tipping pitches is a real possibility, but he has not been consistent, yet. He's the closest of the 5 or 6. Bello is second on my trust list- far from Sale. Far from Pivetta, too. Whitlock is hurt. I'm not sure what to do with him, when and if he returns.

I'm waiting for someone to say we should have locked him up before this breakout season.

I'll take a stab at this... Best defensive SS on the 40 and not on IL: T1. Arroyo & Hamilton (neither is very good) 3. Kike 4. Valdez 5. Dalbec Not on 40? Mayer? Bonaci? Lugo?

The 2 over sounds about right. The Yankee part, no. This team still has a major issue with the rotation, and that has not changed because we are +2 in the win column. If we don't start seeing some starters finding a groove, we will be back playing the +1 and -1 qame, all year long. Bello and Sale have had good starts, but still not a few in a row. A friend once told me, a SP'er is only as good as his last start, which certainly is not true, but it does have some merit. Right now, Kluber, Whitlock and even Houck look very questionable- for different reasons. Crawford may be able to fill one slot, but just saying that causes shivers down my spine.

Neglecting the rotation over the winter, or thinking Kluber and Paxton could combine to fill one slot, well was a major boo-boo by Bloom. It was one thing just about everyone here agreed on, although at varying levels of intensity. Just about all the other additions, including those made last deadline are working out from well to better than almost anyone expected: Duvall before getting hurt Yoshida is looking mighty fine. Jansen, who some felt was over-the-hill Martin, who still has much to prove Turner is a late season batter, who has started out okay. McGuire was on fire. EValdez has shocked many. (Abreu is doing well, on the farm.) Mondesi, Joely, Mills and a few others have yet to play. Tapia, Chang and others have been meh. Some players acquired a while ago that were looking kinda sketchy, are now looking like good additions: Dugo, Winckowski, Wong and even this week's version of Arroyo. The Devers extensión helped with team morale. The Whitlock, Schreiber and Refsnyder additions are looking sketchy, now, but I am far from writing off at least two of these guys. Wow, being 2 games over .500 sure changes the mood around here.- (We are currently 0.5 GB for the last WC berth- Houston.)

There is still a long way to go on Yoshida's contract, but what's not to like about his approach? It seemed like the kind that would transfer well into MLB, and after a couple weeks of adjusting, it looks like a winning approach. There had to be some culture shock, too, and playing in the WBC prolonged that adjustment time, as well. It's hard to know just how good he will be, but it is looking more and more like it will be on some level of "good."

All this fragile glut has been pointed out over and over. You are a Yankee fan, so I don't blame you for feeling confident in March, but you and others, including Sox fans "drank the Kool-Aid" on the Yankee projections. Now that what was always there has become obvious, changes need to be made.

That he did. My confidence level did not move off from a very low point, but at least it didn't move down a notch.

Rest the hottest batters?

He's younger but this will be his 8th season in MLB. He's had over 291 PAs, once. He's never gone over 443. He's only been over 150, 3 times. Paxton had 28+ starts in 2 straight seasons and 20+ in 4 straight. I was being kind to Mondesi.