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  1. moonslav59
    1. EHern LF 2. Vaz DH 3. JD RF 4. Bogey SS 5. Devers 1B (no, just kiddin- 3B it is) 6. Renfroe CF 7. Arroyo 2B 8. Dalbec 1B 9. Plawecki C Some head scratchers on positioning players on defense and line-up slots, but I'm not complaining or criticizing.)
  2. moonslav59
    My point is this: I don't even think Mata getting a second opinion is worth a separate thread on this site. Do you? Why should the 4th best pitcher on the Yanks getting a second opinion warrant a whole thread on a Sox site? I don't understand why it should. Enlighten me.
  3. moonslav59
    Other than Taylor, everyone else has looked good, except for maybe Richards, who looked good his last start, and Valdez, who looked good in 3 games and bad in his last. Brice is out of options and is, for some reason, loved by the Sox brass. Keeping as many options on the table is not getting any beef from me.
  4. moonslav59
    Joni Mitchell? I absolutely love her and Sox management. I have nothing else to add on this topic.
  5. moonslav59
    I don't disagree.
  6. moonslav59
    The thing is, injuries have been a big part of Yankee seasons for several years, now. They have done nothing about adding durable players, and in fact, they added more injury prone players, instead (Kluber & Taillon). It's almost like expecting many injuries for their team should be the norm.
  7. moonslav59
    They look at rosters and projections more than game results after just 9 games, which isn't really illogical.
  8. moonslav59
    I'm not sure we have 3 better guys at the alt site or AAA. 1 for sure, is Houck, but the others are just as sketchy.
  9. moonslav59
    That sounds about right. Guys like barnes do much better every other day, but I think most one inning guys can go 2 out of 3 days, as long as their innings aren't mostly 20-22+ pitches.
  10. moonslav59
    Again, I am not doubting what management wanted or its merit. A poster said: "Now I see why we need 14 pitchers. Do we have anyone that can be sent down in order to bring up fresh arms then bring him back up again?" I did not see a "need," but that does not mean nothing was gained or learned by going with 14, or that going with 14 was dumb or worthy of criticism. I didn't think we need 14 for the first 11 days, and it turned out we did not. We certainly don't need "fresh arms," because anyone has been overworked or sucked enough to be replaced. Want and need are two separate things, and wanting to see how our pen arms looked has a lot of merit and I'm not doubting their choice, since they know what they want to see more than I do. One can argue they "needed" to test several arms in live action, and that need superceded the need to have Chavis as a PH'er, and I can't argue with that. But we did not NEED 14 pitchers over 11 days, nor are we in need of "fresh arms."
  11. moonslav59
    I've said all along, I trust Sox management. I even called Cora our best manager, ever, and caught a bunch of flack for that. Now, I'm being criticized for responding to a post about the hindsight need for 14 pitchers. I criticizing that position NOT Cora/Bloom. I then pointed out that I had held that position before the season started, when you made it sound like I was Monday morning QB'ing. I didn't think we needed 14 pitchers over the first 11 days, and it turned out we didn't. Had we needed 14, we could have called someone up in a jiffy. Holding that position does not mean I think Cora/Bloom messed up or were "wrong." They got to see what they wanted to see: Valdez, Brice, Whitlock, Andriese and others in live action. That has real value and merit. I know they know more than I do, but that dosn't mean I can't hold and express my opinion without sounding like or even implying I know more than they do. You should read a game thread to see real sharp Cora criticism. What I said was not. Can anyone honestly say we NEEDED 14 pitchers? Of course not (in hindsight).
  12. moonslav59
    ...and that's why I said and have said often, "I trust Cora and Bloom." I will add that both Brice and Valdez started out with 3 IP and 0 ERs, so that was nice. I think the choice was probably between Valdez and Chavis, since Brice is out of options, and we could have had Valdez in Boston within hours, had we started the season taxing the pen. Again, this is not a big deal, and I'm not trying to be critical of Sox management. I love it. I was just pointing out that we did not need 14 pitchers as one poster implied we had needed them all.
  13. moonslav59
    I'm not saying it's a big deal and didn't when I suggested 13 pitchers. I trust Cora and Bloom as much or more as anyone. I was just responding to a post that said "Now I see why we need 14 pitchers." (I do think 14 pitchers is not a bad idea for this upcoming stretch, and I said that before the season started, too.)
  14. moonslav59
    It was an opinion, and yes, a bit of a guess, but with a couple days off over the first 11 days, and the ability to call up a pitcher, if our starters floundered, early, it wasn't an uneducated guess. It might have been nice to have Chavis as a PH'er in some of those close games. The fact is, we haven't come close to needing 14 pitchers and in hindsight, even 12 would not have taxed one pen arm. Now, had our starters lasted 2-3 innings and not 5, we could have demoted Chavis in a flash and been no worse off. That's not really a guess.
  15. moonslav59
    A 9 game sample size, with 6 vs the O's os not really enough to convince many people this team might be for real. That being said, I do think maybe 15th or 16th would be acceptable. Let's see what happens in the next two series. If we can come away at .500 or better, you'll see that ranking rise (Twins ranked 4th and CWS ranked 7th). USA Today has us 16th (up 6 slots): https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2021/04/12/mlb-power-rankings-2021-baseball-season-week-1/7184948002/
  16. moonslav59
    So? Did Mata get his own thread? Okay, okay, he's not a top 100 prospect, but "a second opinion?" Even if the guy was getting surgery, this is not the place for his own thread. Just put it in the Yankee thread.
  17. moonslav59
    Good points up and down. One good thing about this is that we could still win a lot of games, even if 2 of these 3 do not do all that well, and haviving Duran, Casas, or maybe even Downs or Arauz/Munoz could fill in, if one or two totally flop or get hurt.
  18. moonslav59
    It's not hindsight, on my behalf. I was saying 13 pitchers was more than enough until mid April before the season began. Now of in a day or two, we enter a stretch where it may be needed.
  19. moonslav59
    Our starters have gone 5+ in all but one game. Why did we need 14 pitchers until we reached about now, when we have consecutive games for a while? Even with a couple extra inning games,we haven't run out of pitchers. Pivetta 6, Brice .2,Sawamura 1.1, Valdez 1.0 Richards 5,DHern 1.1, Ottavino 1.0, Taylor 0.2, Barnes 1.0, Andriese 1.0 Day Off ERod 5, Whitlock 2, Andriese 1, Barnes 1 Eovaldi 7, Taylor 2 Perez 5, Brice 1, Sawamura 1, DHern 1, Barnes 1, Houck 1, Valdez 1 Pivetta 5, Andriese 2.1, DHern 0.1, Ottavino o.1, Valdez 1 Richards 2, Taylor .2, Whitlock 3.1, Sawamura 1, Barnes 1, Ottavino 1 Houck 5, Brice 1, DHern 1, Valdez 1 Day Off Eovaldi 5.1, Andriese 1.2, Taylor .1, Brice .2, Sawamura 1 Where's the problem with pen overuse? Hardly anyone has gone back to back days and many have gotten 2 days rest between short stints on the mound.
  20. moonslav59
    Now, a third opinion might....
  21. moonslav59
    He doesn't even deserve a thread on a Yankee blog.
  22. moonslav59
    We have never needed the 14th pitcher, but now we have a long stretch with no days off.
  23. moonslav59
    You're right. I'm just about a decade behind the times.
  24. moonslav59
    He ended up with 101 pitches. That's a lot for mid April. It would have helped his confidence had they yanked him after 5 with the line he had, then.
  25. moonslav59
    MN is indoors. I heard they changed the games to day games due to the trial going on and not wanting people out at night.
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