moonslav59
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What Cora does works way more than not, so it's hard to complain, too much, for me anyway, but I wonder why, when the numbers don't seem to support it, he's more than willing to keep Eovaldi in games through the third time through a line-up, but not guys like Wacha and Hill, who both had better 2021 and career numbers in 3rd PAs. So far, this year, Big Nate has done fine through 3 PAs, but I wonder if his size and just looking stronger than Wacha plays into the choices a little bit. Again, I'm not complaining about Cora's choices, I just wonder about the thought processes and what other information he sees that supports his choices.
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Who? You?
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Lugo is 3-5 and Binelas 2-5. Northcut is at 1 for 4. Yorke 1-5 and Jimenez 1-3 w BB. Rafaela doubled with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth to end up 1-5, and Lugo singled him in to tie it up at 5. Binelas flew out to end the rally.
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A lot of our starters on the farm are off to very good starts. It's early, yet, so a lot can happen. ERA/OPS Against pitcher (K:BB) 1.17/.381 Walter (29:0) 1.74/.548 Seabold (23:6) (1.63 ERA after today. OPSA not updated) 2.61/.594 Bello (32:8) 2.62/.551 Murphy (28:11) 3.41/.594 Santos (21:6) 3.60/.638 Groome (19:5) All these guys are in AA or AAA, now.
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Hicks lead the team in OBP at .405, but he sucks over 2 ABs?
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Yes! The guy with a .540 OPS Against in AAA, which is almost like getting JBJ results from all 9 batters, combined!
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Indeed. He's only had more than 21 starts once since 2015.
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Didn't he miss a quarter of his starts in 2020? (Like how I did that? 3/12 is 25%.)
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That blows away many current Sox OPS. (plus, it must be at about .300, now.) 26 K's in 71 ABs is not too good.
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All of 'em, but no time travel was needed, in this case.
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I agree. often a second place team is better than 1 or 2 of the division winners, and I suppose a 3rd place team might be from time-to-time, but where's the limit? It's all about money, and these game bring in big TV and gate money, and teams staying in the hunt longer fills up more seat so it's likely here to stay or even get worse, too.
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Haven't heard much talk about this guy's "quiet" 9 taters.
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I'm not sure why I let MVP talk me off Seabold Mountain, last winter. It's good to see him K 8 in 7 innings, so he's now up to 23 in 27.2 IP on the season with 6 BBs (1 today). His ERA is down to 1.63. It's all so "non magical" how Bloom got these guys.
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Huh? Renfroe signed 12/14/20 Beni was traded 2/10/21 I know I've been wrong on my Math quite a bit, lately, but we had Renfroe in the fold before trading Beni. 2020 comes before 2021.
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Yes, but we traded Beni after we got Renfroe, and would not have had we not gotten another capable OF'er for the same lux tax cost equivalency. We've already been through all this. Go ahead and say we got Cordero and signed Marwin to replace Beni and got Renfroe to replace JBJ. Either way, Renfroe was a major reason we traded Beni.
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It was pretty close. 2021 Renfroe .816 OPS 114 wRC+ -3.1 UZR/150 and -1 DRS(-0.5 dWAR) 2.1 fWAR/2.3 bWAR Beni .766 OPS 102 wRC+ +5.5 UZR/150 & +7 DRS (+0.3 dWAR) 1.8 fWAR/ 2.4 bWAR
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Agreed. It's not like 14 inning games were killing baseball. Baseball plays 162 games for a reason. It takes about that many games to take the luck factor out of the equation. Adding the 5th WC team negates some of that. At least MLB is not like the NBA and NHL where more teams make it than don't.
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.637 is pretty good, but really, an 11 PA sample size shows me very little. If you look at 2021 and career numbers, Wacha looks okay the 3rd time through, where Nate has been not quite as good. I'd let both go 3 times through, going forward, but of course in game considerations matter, too.
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You betta- Wacha- ya- self!
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He'd probably still play in a defensive replacement roll, but yes, he seems like the easier choice. Also, as badly as Kike is doing, he's still 100 points higher than JBJ.
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Kavadas has 22 BBs in 18 games and a .475 OBP. Nice to see Bello crack the top 100 with BA. Where are our 4 ranked? Gotta love the 32:8 K:BB ratio for Bello, so far (20.2 IP) The BB's are a bit high, but when you K 32 in less than 22 IP, a little forgiveness is understandable. The .594 OPS Agaisnt is pretty awesome, too! Others in AA .381 Brandon Walter (29K: 0 BB) .551 Murphy (28:11) .594 Santos (21:6) .638 Groome (19:5) AAA .540 Winckowski (9:4) Beni who? .548 Seabold (15:5) .601 Keller (17:5) .619 DHern (23:12)
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I'm okay with last night. Your points are well-taken. I'm talking about going forward. I just don't see Wacha as being the type of pitcher who has proven he needs to be yanked after 2 times through. In fact, he's one of our better starters in that light.
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5/03 Angels @ SOX 7:10PM ET
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
No problem. Every game counts the same, but I don't think being just 3 games back after such a horrific start is all that concerning. I think we are better than this, and the long season may bring that out, but certainly we may look back at April and think, all we needed to do was win one or two more of those games, and we'd be in. We could say that about any loss over the long season, too. -
Agreed, but don't bring him up to sit on the bench. The ideal situation would be to platoon JBJ and someone else, so Duran can play, but they're all lefties, except Kike, and I'm a long way from advocating platooning him. It looks like Franchy might be securing a platoon with Dalbec, and Cordero can be used in the OF, too.
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5/03 Angels @ SOX 7:10PM ET
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
When did I ever say they didn't? I basically said the same thing, and you replied "NO" to my post that said, "Very true, but that does not negate the fact that we have 138 games to make up 3 games on the WC3 leader (HOU). If we keep playing under .500, then it won't matter, anyway. Sure, we may play very well and end up missing the playoffs by a game, and we can certainly blame April for that, but it's a long season, and 138 games count more than 24." How is this saying these 24 games don't count as much as any other? What was the "no" directed at? I agreed with your post, and the only point I really added was that 138 was worth more than 24.
