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I would, too, and if they think it would help his progress, they won't hold him back out of fear of injury. They will just limit his pitch count and tell him not to overdo it.
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Put the barrel of the bat to the ball for a dinger. You know what a dinger is, right?
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Maybe AAA has more players similar to ML players and AA is where players try to work on new approaches, pitches and positions a little more than AAA. Sometimes, AA has stronger pitchers than AAA but they may be more wild or limited in pitch choices. But, yes, not much difference. Note: Devers played 15 games at AAA and came into MLB with a bang.
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30 #1s in MLB, since there are 30 teams. #42 would place him in about the middle rankings of all #2's. (31-60) -
Vaz might be waking up the echoes a bit, too.
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Duran is 24 and played some winter ball. I'd think keeping him in AA would be unwarranted. Down is 22. I can see how he might be viewed as "borderline," but he did play some AA ball in 2019. Plus, it's not like there's all that much difference between AA and AAA, these days. Many pros go from AA right to the bigs. Casas is 21 and played very little in A+ ball in 2019. I can see thinking he might be "pushed" ahead a bit, but there are some that think he might be one of those types of players that can jump to ML readiness very quickly. Who are the Yankees holding back?
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Certainly nothing all that surprising.
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Here are some numbers from the last 2 weeks. I can't find FIP for that time frame. OPS Against .381 Ottavino .428 Barnes .471 Pivetta .673 Richards .684 Perez .711 Eovaldi .733 Whitlock .764 ERod .814 Taylor .852 DHern .953 Andriese 1.000 Sawamura 1.161 Brice ERA 2.81 Pivetta 2.89 Perez 3.24 Richards 4.91 Eovaldi 5.25 ERod (Nearly an exact flip from the first 2 weeks.)
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We are fast approaching the 1/5th point of the season. The Yanks have taken over 2nd place. We knew they'd not go away gently. We're up 2.5 and have the second best record in the AL (1/2 behind OAK.) Our offense looks solid, despite being top heavy. Our rotation looks solid, and we haven't even gotten to Sale & Houck. Our pen has been our savior and is well rested due to carrying 9 pen arms. Our defense is bad, despite our team UZR/150 not being bad. We have several slots in our line-up with horrificly low OPS numbers, but newsflash: so do almost all teams- even the best ones. We are on pace for 97 wins- the Yanks for 84, but we all know that will not be the final outcome.
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Pivetta was nearly our ace, until last night. I'm not sure how one bad night "proves" he's a number 5. Now, his career has shown he looks like a 5- maybe worse, but he seems to have turned things around, somewhat, this year. Maybe he's just a late bloomer. It's strange that he's doing so well despite his worse BB/9 (5.6) of his career- by far, but his FIP is 3.34- thanks to his super low H/9 (6.2) and HR/9 (0.3). FIP by Sox starters: 2.13 Eovaldi 3.34 Pivetta 3.54 ERod 3.59 Perez 4.02 Richards
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Dalbec did hit .903 v RHPs, least year in pretty close to the same sample size as this year. Hitting .607 career vs RHPs is concerning, no doubt, but I'm not ready to call for a platoon at 1B, just yet. We also might want Marwin to platoon with Renfroe not Dalbec. Maybe switch off between the two. Then, there's the pending call-up of switch-hitting Danny Santana, who hits righties better.
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We can see what just 3 games can do to Renfroe's OPS. He's nearly caught Kike & Arroyo. This season is way too early to get super critical over .579, especially when the whole league is down, offensively.
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Yanks won. Toronto down 4-0.
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Just goes to show you: players can change, even after seemingly proving they can or cannot do something well. There's still a long season ahead. Who knows? Maybe at some point, we are roasting Barnes and Praising Ottavino as our new closer.
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Duran oh for 4. Houck: 3 IP and 8 hits (3 ERs). Not much good. Munoz 2 for 4 (both dbls). Chavis and Wong with a double each. Weber 3 IP 0 H & ER. At Portland, Casas and Rosario both had 2 doubles. Not much else good.
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Where would we be without Barnes? (This is the same guy most felt could never, ever, ever be a closer.)
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I did say Houck or Bazardo.
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It's one month. He had a good month, last year. Let's see what May brings. I'm not even close to writing Dalbec off.
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Do they not belong there?
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They must have told him they were limiting his innings, this year, so if the demotion hurts his ego, I'm worried. It could just be he had a bad game. It happens to the very best. There doesn't have to be a pyschological reason for every bad outing.
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Even with a broken finger.
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Renfroe is proven vs LHPs. He's never shown he can hit righties well for long stretches. We need to use him in ways that sets him up for success. Cordero's history was too scattered and incomplete to know much of anything. It's understandable they gave him a pretty long look. It's about time to send him down, but I wouldn't be surprised, if he gets another look, at some point this year- assuming he earns it by looking good at AAA. I'd platoon Marwin & Renfroe, until Santana is ready for a call-up. Demote Cordero. DFA Brice. Call up Bazardo or Houck.
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Can this please be the last night we see Brice on the Sox mound?
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Maybe Renfroe is an example of why you don't give up on a player after 4 bad weeks.
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I think we use all of our remaining tax line budget space for a pitcher or two. Our other weakest positions have multiple options: OF: Verdugo, Kike, Renfroe, Santana, Marwin, Duran, Cordero (2nd look), Chavis (OF???) 2B: Arroyo, Kike, Marwin, Arauz, Downs, Santana (2B???) 1B: Dalbec, Marwin, Kike, Santana, Casas
