Our pen was supposed to suck, last year, too, and we used 33 pitchers.
This year, we have more "long guys," so I'm sticking with the under.
This 28 man roster may create more chances in April, though.
Santana was not paid much. Marwin just 3 yrs/1. Those deals don't baffle me as much as 2 x $4M.
On Marwin, what baffled me was how long Cora stuck with him. There was a time in May or June where he was still something like 7th or 8th in PAs on the team!
No doubt, but if blame has to be given- not that it has to be given- to one aspect of our pitching in game 1: starter vs pen, it was more Eovaldi's fault we lost.
That's more than Sawamura and others. It's a better deal than Hill got. It's total more money than Wacha.
Until the Story deal, it was the biggest 2 year deal after Kike.
I was baffled on day one. There is nothing spectacular about him or even really anything clearly positive about his career, except a decent year here and there- mostly long ago.
Portland won 11-5.
Hamilton 4 for 5 with 7 RBI from the lead-off slot. (2 HRs and a triple) Maybe Bloom was right! JBJ who?
Koss, Reed and Cottam with 2 hits, each. Potts with 2 BB and 2 runs scored
Murphy 4 IP, 1 ER (2H, 3 BB, 7K)
Portland won 11-5.
Hamilton 4 for 5 with 7 RBI from the lead-off slot. (2 HRs and a triple)
Koss, Reed and Cottam with 2 hits, each. Potts with 2 BB and 2 runs scored
Murphy 4 IP, 1 ER (2H, 3 BB, 7K)
The damn man on second to start the inning rule makes it very hard to judge the effectiveness of an extra inning RP'er's outing.
They don't count it as an earned run, but it kinda feels like one.
Officially, today our starter and pen did this:
SP: 5 IP 3 ER 5 Hits & 1 BB & 1 HBP & 2 HR
RP: 6 IP 1 ER (plus the 2 " non earned" runs allowed in extras.) 5 hits & 3 BB & 1 HBP & 1 HR
Just looking at the numbers, the pen did slightly better than Eovaldi.