It was clear as day.
Worst in DRS at -152! (The next guy is at -73.
3rd Worst UZR/150 among any SSs with 7000+ innings at SS.
He was THE WORST.
(At best, he was 2nd or 3rd worst.)
Jacoby was unreliable- health wise and was very inconsistent offensively as well.
If you take away his one great year, he was about the same as JBJ on offense.
JBJ: .712 OPS with BOS
Ells: .789 OPS with BOS (.760 overall)
Jacoby before 2011: .749 OPS
Jacoby after 2011 (with BOS only): .747 OPS
JBJ since 2015: .754
Yes!
He was lights out in the 2018 playoffs, unlike Kimbrel. His career playoff ERA is 0.87.
He has 13 appearances this year- all in the 8th or 9th innings. He's had 3 bad games out of 13. Not great but not bad either.
We are now 5 GB first place and 2.5 behind the Guardians.
Don't look now, but Vaz has an .857 OPS over the last 4 weeks!
Season Splits, so far...
vs RHPs
1.155 Chavis
1.050 Betts
.893 Moreland
.851 Beni
.839 Devers
.732 Bogey
.730 JD
.592 Vaz
.502 JBJ
.414 Nunez
.306 Pearce
vs LHPs
1.577 JD
1.294 Chavis
1.262 Bogey
1.136 Vaz
.767 Beni
.694 Devers
.528 Moreland
.492 Nunez
.482 Betts
.377 Pearce
.273 JBJ
I doubt there are any takers, and Pedey has no trade rights.
If there's a high-priced RP'er out there someone is looking to dump, and Pedey wants to play there, then maybe a 1-1 trade might be slightly possible, but I think he'll have to be DFA'd, if he fails or gets hurt this next call-up, assuming nobody else gets hurt and forces a roster squeeze.
...a couple years of what?
ILs after ILs, uncertainty and another year of keeping someone else off the roster.
I say, he gets one more chance, and unless someone else goes to the IL, I'd keep Holt over Pedey, for sure. Pearce and Nunez vs Pedey are close calls.
I don't disagree, but I think Pedey gets at least this one last chance. As long as Holt remains unready, Pedey will get another chance.
When you think of who has the least chance of helping us going forward, I think Pedey heads the list- ahead of Nunez & Pearce.
The decision won't need to be made until Pedey & Holt are both ready, and nobody else can go on the IL (phantom or otherwise).
We should try to delay dumping Pearce, so he has a chance to rebound, but we can't send Chavis down right now, just because he has option..
I think it depends on where the player is in his career. JBJ is a bad example for my theory, because I thought his early and prolonged struggles brought down his career numbers by more that what he really was. I thought he was more like a .775-.825 hitter, but he has shown he is not.
Weird thing is, Workman's K/BB ratio is his worst at 1.75. (His career K/BB is 2.36.)
Workman had two almost identical years before this one:
2017: 3.18 ERA/1.210 WHIP in 39.2 IP
2018: 3.27 ERA/1.210 WHIP in 41.1 IP
He's been largely unsung. Maybe this is the year he makes a name for himself.
Assuming 13 position players:
7 Keepers:
Betts, Bogey, Beni, JD, Devers, Vaz, Leon
3 Keepers Light
JBJ, Moreland, healthy Pedey
3 Slots for 4 on the bubble (my order as of 7:46 pm CT on 5/5/19)
1. Chavis
2. Holt
3. Nunez
4. Pearce