moonslav59

CC's decline started in 2013 not mid season. This highlight's the blind spot Cashman, Boone and Yankee fans had for their former hero. His WHIP has been over 1.314 every year from 2013-2018, except one, when it was 1.27 last year. Severino fell apart. That was unforeseen, but nothing else was. Weak starting pitching, at least when compared to other playoff teams, is never a good strategy.

Adding Stanton was supposed to make up for losing some marginal vet starters. Come on, there's no way you'd have done any better with Headley, castro and Bird still starting over the kids you replaced them with.

True, Pablo and HRam were just about the whole difference.

Golf is for sissies and Yankee fans, oh I forgot, they're the same thing!

You guys went farther than us last year and added a lot of vet talent. You Yankee fans seemed awfully confident just 3 days ago. Now, you speak like you were doomed from the start.

I'd have left Porcello in one more inning and Sale for 2 innings. I'd have started Holt at 3B. I'd have PH for Vaz in the 8th and brought Leon in with Sale. That being said, I have absolutely no issues with Cora. He knows a hell of a lot more than I do and everyone else, too. Besides, the moves I question mostly worked out anyways. Nunez got 2 hits and made the play of his life. I was fine with Pearce playing against the lefty, because Moreland is hurt, but some wanted Swihart. Who knows what Holt would have done. Cora's faith in Barnes and Brazier paid off. He's a great manager who thinks outside the box. That was one of our biggest beefs with past managers. Cut the guy some slack. We're 111-55 with the guy in his first year as a manager!

My choice was Holt at 3B, then maybe move to 2B, if we needed to PH for Kinsler. I'm not sure Holt makes that play, either.

One would have thought adding Stanton equalled JD. We "scrambled" and picked up Eovaldi, but apparently Happ was supposed to be better. Lynn did pretty well for you guys compared to what he did earlier in the year. You got Gray at the end of last year, so to say you didn't really address the rotation rings hollow. Severino imploded. He was on pace for the Cy Young at one point, then poof. CC is aging and has been for a while. Maybe his glory days blinded Yankee fans to the obvious steeper-than-you-thought decline. Your pen was spectacular, and I think this is where you guys erred. You bought into the script that to win, you have to duplicate the most recent winning teams, and the new fad is building the strongest pen. Yes, adding Britton helped, but you guys had bigger holes, and the normal way to improve a team is not to upgrade where you are already the strongest, but to improve where you are weakest. Cashman dropped the ball. McCutchen was a nice get. You needed more like him not Britton. (I'm not saying this post mordem. I said it at the time. Getting Britton was a waste.) Also, Boone sucks- plain and simple.

You need more than one "ace", so if one takes a dump, like Price, you have a couple more (like Sale & Porcello) to pick up the slack. I admit, Eovaldi was not expected to do what he did, but it does highlight your weakness against just decent righties.

When the Yankess advanced last year with such a young team, all we heard was "wait until next year." Now, after you guys added vets like Stanton, Happ, Lynn, Britton, McCutchen, Walker & Drury, we hear you lost because of youth. The truth is Happ, CC & Lynn just are not better than Eovaldi, Porcello & ERod. You thought they were, but they weren't. Severino is not Chris Freakin' Sale, either. Tanaka outpitched Price in the series, but he's sketchy, too. You guys lived and died with the HR, just like Sox teams of old. You added a ton of vet talent during the year, and still came up short. Get the gold clubs out and dust 'em off!

7.68 Normal 4 days rest (8 GS) 3.00 extra day rest (8 GS) 0.36 2+ extra days off (4 not counting playoffs)

MLBTR's arb projections: Red Sox (13) Mookie Betts – $18.7MM Xander Bogaerts – $11.9MM Jackie Bradley Jr. – $7.9MM Eduardo Rodriguez – $4.8MM Brock Holt – $3.4MM Tyler Thornburg – $2.3MM (Non tender? Sign and trade?) Sandy Leon – $2.3MM Matt Barnes – $1.5MM Brandon Workman – $1.4MM Steven Wright – $1.4MM Heath Hembree – $1.2MM Carson Smith – $1.1MM (Non tender? Sign & trade?) Blake Swihart- $1.1MM $58-60M total

New York is a great place to visit. Even better when you steal their thunder and leave them crying like babies.

Betts, Beni, Bogey & JD go just 2 for 15. Can we lay to rest all the hullabaloo about how much our offense is too top heavy?

I think the home plate umps were worse in previous games this season.

ovahhhhh!!!!!

Game 1 (BOS) Sale Game 2 (BOS) Eovaldi (+1 day rest) Off Game 3 (HOU) Porcello (+2) Game 4 (HOU) Price/ERod (Sale, if down 2-1?) Game 5 (HOU) Sale Off Game 6 (BOS) Eovaldi (+1) Game 7 (BOS) Porcello Eovaldi does was better with extra rest. Pirce or ERod for just 1 game. Do we add Johnson or Velazquez to the ALCS roster?

Don't forget the dumbest HBP of alltime.

Just 4 Ks tonight, but we got the outs.

Sale is our best pitcher, and the best part of the Yankee line-up was due up. I have a question. Had we lost, was sale starting Thursday? If yes, I can see not pitching Sale in the 9th. If no, I bring in Sale for 1 more.

Koji never walked anyone.

I'm not criticizzing Cora, but I wondered why Sale didn't go 2 innings.

No closer in MLB today is worth $18M x 5.

Looks like starting Nunez was genius.

Nunez with a tremendous play!