moonslav59

There's not much difference between AA & AAA, but I agree, Move him up. Casas will move up, too, at some point.

WRONG! He's neither an iron man or injury prone. Is there no gray area for you? Not all 20-24 start seasons are due to injury. Surely, you know this. 2015, he started 8 games at Pawtucket then 21 in BOS. That's 29, not less than 25. 2016, 20 BOS + 7 Pawtucket = 27 and again, not less than 25. 2017, 28 starts in majors (25) and minors (3)= 28. You guessed it- not less than 25. 2018, 27+2=29. 2019, led the league in GS'd with 34. 2020: COVID is not an injury. 2021: 7 starts, already. True, he's missed a few games here and there, and had to rehab in the minors. He missed some time with a knee injury but in all but 2020, he's started 27 or more games since 2015. (5 of his previous 6 seasons.) Look again at Eovaldi vs ERod. Try Taillon, Kluber, Richards, Sevarino and more...

Injury prone? 1 Knee injury a ways back COVID last year (not an injury)

You don't need to be an ace to be a stopper, and ERod is a stopper, if there ever was one. We've won 50 of his last 64 starts. He's a solid #2, but would be an "ace" on half the teams due to the fact that some teams have 2-3 "aces" and there are only 30 in the top 30 top pitchers in MLB.

SS holds the highest value- to us or as trade value. Once he's close to ML ready, then they will look at the big club positional needs, and perhaps move him to 2B. We are actually kinda light on SS depth. If Bogey goes down, we have Marwin and Arauz. At 2B, we have Kike, Arroyo, Marwin, Chavis, Santana and Munoz. Has anyone heard anything about how good he is at SS defense? (You don't have to be all that good to be better than Bogey.)

Yes. Does anyone even look at BA anymore?

For one thing, ERod might not actually face Cole in a head-to-head playoff series, but of course, I'd take Cole. It would not be a slam dunk. ERod finds ways to win. Period. As for other team aces, I don't see the purpose of looking at a 6 week sample size to determine who he's better than. Taking a 2020-2021 sample size is rather small, too, and ERod did not pitch in 2020. Going back to 2018 and including all seasons in-between, here's how pitchers are ranked in various categories. Let's say the top 30 are "aces." Without looking, I'd view ERod as one of the game's best #2 starters and likely better than half the team's #1, but here are some numbers. 2018-2021 (150 pitchers with 170+ IP- that's 5 per team) Wins (more of a team stat, but still...) 47-14 Cole 38-16 Bieber 38-15 Verlander 38-20 Greinke 37-12 ERod 37-20 Nola 37-27 Gonzalez 36-20 Scherzer 36-15 Kershaw 35-13 Morton (Some of these guys are now hurt or extremely aged.) ERA- 49 deGrom 57 Ryu 60 Verlander, Cole 65 Clevinger, Soroka, Gallen, Scherzer 68 Sale 69 Kershaw 70 Bauer, Bieber 71 Snell 73 Buehler 74 Kluber, Means. Plesac, Glasnow 75 Nola, Woodruff 32. ERod 83 (slots as a top #2) xFIP- 59 Sale 63 deGrom, Cole 67 Bieber 43. ERod 90 (slots as a mid #2) WHIP 0.85 Verlander 0.92 deGrom 0.93 Cole 0.97 Sale 86. ERod 1.30 (slots as a low #3) WAR: 14. Sale 9.8 43. ERod 6.3 (not bad missing the 2020 season) It's one thing to say, I'd rather have this starter than that one, but age, contract status, past history and future outlook. If you go by just past performance and weigh the last 2-3 years more heavily, my guess is ERod can be slotted anywhere from #20 to #40 without much argument from me. Erod is a winner, and while using wins is not something I usually do, since run support, park dimensions, luck and strength of opponents play into wins, ERod is unmatched since 2018. 19-4 in 2018 (17 games with 0-4 run support) 26-8 in 2019 (8 games with 0-4 run support) 5-2 in 2021 (2 games with 0-4 run support) 50-14 last 4 years (27 games with 0-4 runs support) 14 Slam dunk better than ERod: deGrom Cole Scherzer Bieber Bauer Nola Morton Sale Kershaw Buehler Snell Gray Strasburg Woodruff I can probably name 14 more that are better. I'd put him around #30-35.

Agreed. Just being the best defender is not reason enough to jump 2 levels to the bigs.

I don't either, but he's likely not a .400 hitter. (Maybe Cordero isn't either- going forward.)

Agreed, but he might already be our best defensive OF'er close enough to ML readiness.

Yankee runs scored in last 4 wins: 4 3 3 1 Before this, they've also won 2-0, 2-1 and 3-1 in 3 of their 11 wins. The Sox have scored 4,1,2,1 and are 1-3 in their last 4 games. I'm not trying to say it's all about offense or pitching: it's both along with a little luck.

They must think it's worth a shot, but their readiness to play, right now, is the issue, IMO>

So what? Is there only 2 aces in MLB, right now?

What a joke. ERod has been the winningest pitcher his last 3 seasons combined. None were "stopper" situations? PLEASE! 2019 4/19 Had lost 3 in a row (4 of 5)> Win 4/24 Had lost 2 in a row > win 4/29 Had lost 2 in a row (4 of 6)>win 5/15 Lost the game > win 5/26 2 in a row> win 6/18 lost 1> win 6/24 lost 2>win 7/17 lost 1 (2 of 3)>win 7/23 lost 1 (2 of 3)>win 8/7 lost 1 (9 of 10)>win 8/12 lost 2>win 8/23 lost 2>win 9/4 lost 1 (2 of 3)>win 9/12 lost 5 (6 of 7)>win 9/19 lost 2>win 9/24 lost 1 (3 of 4)>win 9/29 lost 3 (8 of 11)>win (He won 5 of our 10 games in September.) Let's look at our winningest year in history, where there were hardly any 2 game losing streaks: Here are all the 2+ game losing streaks of 2018 4/21-24 (3) ERod stopper 4/27-28 (2) Porcello 5/8-9 (2) ERod 5/14-15 (2) Sale 5/31-6/1 (2) Price 6/7-8 (2) Porcello 6/15-16 (2) ERod 6/19-20 (2) Porcello 7/24-25 (2) Sale 8/19-21 (3) Johnson 9/7-8 (2) Porcello 9/18-19 (2) ERod 9/22-23 (2) Eovaldi 9/26-28 (3) Porcello 3 three game losing streaks: ERod stopped 1 of the 3 (33%) 11 two game losing streaks: ERod stopped 3 of 11 (27%) 4 of 14= 29% not the expected 20%. ERod is a winner- plain and simple. He's hit a rough patch, no doubt, but let's hold off on the "not a stopper" talk a bit, huh?

Letting up 4 runs is no longer very good pitching. Times have changed. The Yanks are scoring as much as us and winning. Hard to blame just one aspect of this team.

It's times like this that a cross-up happens. We start winning, again, tomorrow.

We don't need to win 9 in a row to be competitive, and we seem to do better on the road and worse against teams like Texas, so let's stay optimistic.

Then, assume 2-1 in the opening series and we're above .500.

We'll start finding ways to win, again. Hopefully, sooner rather than later. Right now, we're finding new ways to lose.

Seems like a fitting way to end a hopeful inning. We're in a tough moment in a long season,right now.

So true. Perspective.

I'm gonna enjoy this season, if we win 75 or 85 games. I knew we'd have some bad stretches and some good ones. I'm still thinking we win 84-87 games. If things go right, maybe more and maybe a playoff slot. I still think that, especially when you look around and see most teams have the same issues we do- or worse. We'll win again and even have another nice streak or two. Hopefully, it won't be too long from now.

I'm just saying what will happen when it is?

We haven't even seen our 4 and 5 starters s*** the bed, yet.

We're doomed.