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  1. They also excel at the things stats don't cover as well as defense, smart base-running and good management. Their pitching has looked real good, recently, but it is not a given this will continue.
  2. Well, his high impact years have not worked out very, so far. 2020 was a 60 game season. This year has been a let down over the first third of the year.
  3. With a righty going, I'd keep Dalbec on the bench. Santana at 1B, Arroyo at 2B, Kike in CF.
  4. I don't think managers make these calls based on someone's last 5 games, but I don't disagree with your current choice.
  5. Base running is sustainable. Timely hitting is not.
  6. An early exit from the wild card slot might be enough. Boone should have been long gone.
  7. If they project Davis as a ML catcher, he may be their pick. If they see him as a 1Bman, maybe not. Catchers are hard to project value.
  8. I only said fire Boone, now, but I assumed Cashman would get the axe by the fall. too.
  9. I'm no guru. I just read it somewhere. Here are some possible players with BTV's values. Mets (notin suggested maybe Ginn) Lee, the guy they got from KC has a current value of 9.3 Vientos 3B 13.2 (unlikely as we got Winckowski, too) Ramirez OF 5.4 Ginn RHP 4.9 Dominguez RHP 2.6 Palmer 3B 2.4 Valdez OF 2.4 Santos RHP 2.3 (They have no prospects valued between 13.2 and 5.4, which is about what I'd expect us to get.) 2 from KC (Beni is currently valued at 10.8 and we are paying part of his contract) Kowar RHP 16.8 (nope) Loftin SS 9.3 (unlikely) Pena OF 8.5 (unlikely) Marsh RHP 7.5 Pratto 1B 6.8 Cox LHP 5.8 Melendez C 4.8 Bowlan RHP 3.8 Guzman SS 3.1 Hernandez RHP 2.6 Vasquez SS 2.6 Fox SS 2.3 Candelario SS 2.0 Several prospects between 1 and 1.8. For reference, they have Sox prospects valued at... 9.9 Mata 7.6 Yorke 5.4 Seabold 5.3 Ward 5.0 Lugo 4.3 Groome 3.8 Song 3.5 Whitlock 3.3 Rosario 3.1 Wong 3.0 Murphy 2.6 Decker 2.4 Bonaci, Jordan & Potts
  10. No ERod. We got a chance. The 'Stros have been handing games away, left and right, recently. It's our turn, tomorrow.
  11. I’m bringing the Maine mojo to tomorrow’s game. Go Sox,
  12. This is just his 4th straight bad start. On May 7th, he went 5 innings allowing 1 run. 7 hits and 3 BB with just 2 Ks were still concerning, but that was a decent start. He had 4 bad starts in his previous 5 starts before today. 6.48 May ERA, before today.
  13. They handled him just right out of the gate, IMO, but why say you are going to stretch him out and then not do it? Stretching out does not mean use more often. It means use for more batters and innings, when you do use him. His getting shelled in a couple games may have been part of the reason to apply the brakes a little, but here is his game logs since the April 19th statement: (Days off) IP- pitches (4) 2.1 -41 (5) 2.0- 31 (4) 1.0- 15 (HR) (3) 1.0- 23 (HR) (2) 2.0- 27 (6) 3.0- 52 (finally a sign of stretching!) (6) 0.1- 15 (HR) (2) 1.2- 35 (4) 2.0- 36 I'm just not seeing the effort to turn him into a starter.
  14. He probably needs a rest. I'd yank him and 10 day IL him. It's getting too predictable, now.
  15. Marwin's leash has been very long.
  16. How long a leash do you give a guy that was a "winner" for so long? The team went 19-4 in his 2018 starts. The team went 26-8 in his 2019 starts. The team went 4-0 in his first 4 starts in 2021. That's 49-12 in his previous 61 starts. The team has gone 1-4 in his last 5 starts. I'm not trying to defend him. I'm usually one to want larger sample size before doing anything rash, but this is very concerning looking at today's start.
  17. I thought we were "stretching out" Whitlock. You'd think he'd be ready to pitch 5 by this time, after they first said that. (He's not.)
  18. Because you expected a B not a C. (I expected a B, too.)
  19. Why did we expect a B? His last 3 seasons with Detroit. His final grade was a B- or C+. He was a B from 2016-2018. An F or D in Ben & DD's final seasons. I don't think it's sugar coating to discount a pitchers first 3 seasons, especially at ages 20-22, when you have 3 full seasons of sample size from ages 23-25. There is no doubt, his 2015 season was an outlier, in this context. When you count what he did in his 3 years afterwards, it is even clearer. Ages: 23-25 good (4.08) 26 bad (4.92) 27-29 good (3.99) You can call it cherry-picking, but those are the meat of most any pitcher's career, and it is usual to expect a bell curve and not a low spike right at the peak of prime.
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