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  1. moonslav59
    Agreed. I'd like Arroyo over Marwin.
  2. moonslav59
    Jon Gray may not be great, but he's an upgrade over many pitchers in MLB. I'd love to get him, this year.
  3. moonslav59
    It also shows how the Sox and other contenders need SP'ing. I still think some contender would take Richards off our hands (we pay most of his contract) and would trade for Perez, if we pay part of his deal. Add Sale and maybe Houck. Trade for an upgrade over Perez. It does not have to be someone like Scherzer or even Gibson or Berrios. Maybe add a pen arm, but unless we trade Richards and Perez, adding 2 pitchers by trade, means demoting or DFA'ing someone decent. It would have to be an upgrade over P Valdez, Sawamura or DHern. Eovaldi Sale Trade ERod Pivetta Houck Barnes Ottavino Whitlock Taylor DHern Sawamura P Valdez (Gone or demoted: Rios, Andriese & Workman)
  4. moonslav59
    You keep saying that. I don't know why. Out of 180 SP'ers June 5th> ERA- 9. Jon Gray 55 26. Eovaldi 68 88. ERod 105 104. Pivetta 120 112. Perez 131 130. Richards 159 2021 Season Eovaldi 77 Jon Gray 78 Perez 92 Pivetta 100 Richards 114 ERod 116 2020-2021 78 Eovaldi 93 Jon Gray 94 Perez 95 Pivetta 114 Richards 116 ERod 2019-2021 85 Jon Gray 90 Eovaldi 91 ERod 94 Perez 95 Pivetta 114 Richards I can list other stats, too. 2019-2021
  5. moonslav59
    One sign of how badly many starting pitchers are doing this year, even on good teams, is that I have to lower the IP number to 50 to get a sample size of 145 SP'er. (5 per team) Here's how our struggling SP'ers rank in ERA- over the whole season compared to some contending team starters: ERA- Bottom Rankings (#1 is the worst in MLB.) 2. C Martinez 158 3. D Bundy 157 5. J Sheffield 155 9. D Peterson 143 13. B Snell 137 (Do the Rays know their s*** or not?) 17. Velazquez 133 18. M Gonzalez 131 20. C Paddack 130 22. G Canning 128 24. A Heaney 122 31. R Stripling 119 38. ERod 116 (doing better recently) 40. Richards 114 42. Yarbrough 112 43. Odorizzi 111 48. A Nola 107 51. F Montas 104 54. D Smyly 103 55. Cueto 103 56. Matz 103 57. Eflin 102 59. Keuchel 102 60. Taillon 100 63. Pivetta 100 65. German 98 67. D Cease 97 70. Rich Hill 95 71. J Grant 95 73. McClanahan 94 74. A Houser 94 75. B Anderson 92 76. M Perez 92 77. Alex Wood 92 (plenty at 90-91)
  6. moonslav59
    I'll cherry-pick the worst time frame for Richards and Perez (June 5 to today). Here are the rankings and names of the worst starters by ERA- since June 5th (20 + IP)... (Note how many are on contenders and have been even worse than our 2- some worse for much longer than June 5th.) Ranking out of 143 SP'ers with 20+ IP) 102 Matz (TOR) 119 103 Cueto (SFG) 120 104 Pivetta (BOS) 120 108 Darvis (SDP) 125 109 Peterson (NYM) 125 111 A Nola (PHI) 127 112 Perez (BOS) 131 113 Walker (NYM) 132 118 German (NYY) 136 122 Gonzalez (SEA) 142 123 M Moore (PHI) 143 126 Paddack (SDP) 153 130 Richards (BOS) 159 133 Snell (SDP) 165 136 Velazquez (PHI) 171 137 C Martinez (STL) 177 We are not the only contenders with struggling starters or the worst struggling starters, since June.
  7. moonslav59
    Scherzer's last Nats start: 6 IP 3 hits 1 ER 3 BB 5 Ks Probably and hopefully west coast bound.
  8. moonslav59
    So, Marwin before Arroyo? Bummer. Brasier is close?
  9. moonslav59
    With the 27th man rule, it makes more sense. Workman is on his 10th life, now.
  10. moonslav59
    THe need for TJS will likely come way after his control years run out.
  11. moonslav59
    Well, it's hard to know what prices will be, this winter, and counting inflation...
  12. moonslav59
    Who wants Richards and or Perez (as long as we pay a sizable chunk of their deal? Mets have 5 pitchers on the 60 day IL and 1 on the 10 day. Phillies have Eflin on the IL and their bottom 3 starters are: Velazquez 5.54/1.431, M Moore 6.46/1.652, C Anderson 6.98/1.550. Braves have 4 guys on the IL and some sketchy starters. Dodgers need starters, but they won't go that low. The A's just added Jesus Luzardo 6.87/1.632. The Mariners might see an upgrade, since they have 2 guys over 5.48.
  13. moonslav59
    Why does Workman have 9 lives? I know he has no options, but sending Houck down is highly questionable.
  14. moonslav59
    Houck seems better suited for relief and long relief. I don't disagree, but Pivetta has earned another start or two.
  15. moonslav59
    Breaking news?
  16. moonslav59
    Have you seen some of these contender's 4 and 5 starters? Yes, Perez and Richards haved sucked recently, but theirs have sucked all year and longer, and most GMs don't look at just your recent 6-8 starts to definitively value anybody. Then, there are GMs and organizations who think they see a tweak they can make to a pitcher to improve them. I'm talking about paying maybe all but a bit more than minimum wage to the other team. You do know we signed Richards for $10M after not showing he was healthy for like 6 years. Now he's healthy. We signed Perez to $6M after some pretty awful numbers in 2020. It's not like GMs don't ever add marginally better players. I'm not looking for anything in return. We could even do an Ottavinoe type trade or two to lessen the amount of money we'd pay: Richards and Rosario for $2M or less in salary relief. Perez, Wilson and Potts for $1.5M or less in salary relief.
  17. moonslav59
    At his age, I'm not sure being a 4 win player 2 years ago matters all that much. I do think he might do better than his 20-21 numbers, but there is probably a better chance he continues decline. Now, we'd have him for 2 months, so no decline should be that quick. He turns 32 in 10 days.
  18. moonslav59
    If we pay most of their contracts, and teams will take them both.
  19. moonslav59
    Verlander and Greinke might just get 1-2 years not 3.
  20. moonslav59
    True but it won't be $32M x 3, either.
  21. moonslav59
    IMO, we should be much better, next year, especially if we go over the tax line by a lot.
  22. moonslav59
    Sell: Trade Richards and Perez to save money, not for any return they might get. Pay some of their contracts. Buy: Trade for a better SPer than the 2 we trade away and maybe a RPer and or 1Bman. Try to avoid getting 2-3 rentals. Call it a day.
  23. moonslav59
    Exactly. Scherzer replaces Richards. Sale replaces Perez.
  24. moonslav59
    I’m hoping the Yanks go all out, seriously! I’m watching them more than what the Sox do.
  25. moonslav59
    We may see Perez sent to the pen later. Eovaldi Sale ERod Trade Pivetta Houck Perez Richards
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