moonslav59

Well said. People see the 5.12 ERA and that's all they want to know. They forget the guy had serious issues with COVID and missed a whole season, yet still began pitching in early April. He's really done a fine job in his last 11 starts- a time when other starters were losing their roles, and the pen began its implosion. Despite having the worst D in MLB behind him, he's put up a 3.83 ERA and .693 OPS against in the past 11 games- not easy when the OPS have a .328 BAbip over that time (thanks to the D). The team has gone 11-4 in his last 15 starts and 16-9 over the whole season. The team W-L record with him starting, since 2018 is astounding. I believe it's the best team winning % in MLB. With Sale & Eovaldi looking solid, ERod might just be the key to it all.

What's doubtful is that Rizzo made a big difference. Without Dalbec and Schwabs bats, we might have 2-3 more losses. What's not doubtful is that the Yanks gave up more than we should have to get him. (To me, Gallo was the bigger get.) The Yanks wwere something like 7-3 before the trade, so I'm not sure one can point to Rizzo in the dugout and clubhouse as the turning point. We'll never know, and maybe who the Yanks gave up will not amount to squat, but we did the right thing, IMO.

One stat that always jumped out at me, well more like a kick in the gut, was how Marwin was top 6 or 7 in PAs. The guy is still 9th and won't likely be passed, unless Arroyo gets 100 more PAs. This got me thinking about how we might gain by subtraction, this winter. Only ERod and Ottavino's slots will be hard to fill. PAs 271 Gonzalez .567 136 Cordero .497 113 Santana .554 82 Chavis .549 That's about 600 PAs replaced by more from Arroyo, Duran and maybe an addition. IP 120 ERod 5.19 119 Richards 4.90 107 M Perez 4.89 50 Ottavino 3.58 37 Andriese 6.03 20 Workman 4.95 14 Brice 6.59 10 Robles 7.84 6 Weber 17.47 That's about 500 IP replaced by 2-3 additions and/or more IP from Sale Whitlock Houck Taylor DHern Brasier Seabold Davis Bazardo/Valdez

Enjoy the streak. Too early to peak. Yank fans are never meek. Go take a leak.

Other GMs should use this year's Sox example as the lesson on depth building in one short winter. Perez went from our innings leader to 5/6 starter. Eovaldi was second in IP, last year. Here is the rest of the horrific staff Bloom had last winter, listed by most IP, after Perez and Eovaldi: Weber Valdez Mazza Godley Brewer Brasier Barnes Springs Brice Houck Osich Covey Kickham Stock Walden Hart Pivetta Hembree Hall DHern Triggs Taylor Workman (under 6 IP) Leyer Tapia We used 30 different pitchers in a 60 game season! This year, Eovaldi and Pivetta are the innings leaders, then... ERod Richards Perez Whitlock Ottavino Barnes Sawamura Taylor Houck Andriese DHern Valdez Rios Workman Sale Brice Davis Robles (Under 6 IP) Weber Brennan Bazardo Brewer With everyday players be basically replaced these top 9 PA guys with... Chavis> Dalbec (Santana/Schwarber) Pereza> Arroyo (full year) & Kike (Marwin) Pillar & Beni> Kike & Renfroe (Cordero) That being said, I'd like to see us add a closer and a set-up man as we say good bye to Ottavino. Maybe have Houck pitch from the Pen. (I think Whitlock starts.)

We're just saying you may have given up more than you all tried to downplay it. Your farm got worse, this summer. Ours got better. The tides are turning.

Some of the results of deadline trades: Scherzer 4-0 1.55 Berrios 1-2 4.81 Gibson 3-2 3.77 Kimbrel 0-1 5.23 Bryant .877 Turner .804 Gallo ,694 Baez .678 N Cruz .745 Rizzo .707 Schwarber 1.205

You could say that about half the Yankee team, and didn't we hear this about Whitlock, too?

I know you guys don't want to hear this, but Barnes is going to close again, this year- mostly likely sooner than later.

Nope. Jacko assures us they only traded "duplicate values" and nobody special.

As always, many fell for the immediate gratification trick. Rizzo had an OPS barely better than Dalbec's. Some of us pointed that out, but the Bloom doubters swarmed this board. Not only did we get the best guy, we gave up less.

We're starting to pull games out, like we did the first 100 games. Let's hope we keep it going. We did this without JD, Kike, Arroyo, Renfroe, Barnes, DHern, among others.

LOL. Good one!

Despite the walks that always seem to be to the lead off guy, his numbers look pretty good.

He has to start learning to walk the 3rd guy not the first.

The walk was to the 4th slot. the next guys were 5, 6, 7 not 7, 8, 9, but yes, LOL!

Huge win!

It was the 4, 5, 6 hitters, but you are beyond numbers, right now. LOL!

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You just know the big O is going to walk somebody.

So were mine.

After the AS break in 6 game intervals: 1.050 1.052 .241 1.089 .844 .268 (last 6 games) I guess it's all about how you divide it all up.

Crawford just earned his rule 5 protection pass, tonight, if he hadn't already had it. 6 IP 1 H 0 BB - 8Ks 0 ER Ockimey with a 3-run job. Meneses and Wong with 2 hits. AA: Santana, R Hernandez and Baldwin with 2 hits, each.

Garrett for Mayor!

So, does this mean Richards is the next Ottavino and Taylor is the next Barnes?