moonslav59
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Absolutely no Red Sox fans would have traded playoff rosters with the Guardians before that series, especially the starting pitcher set-up, so I find criticizing who we ended up putting out there rings sort of hollow.
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Yeah, and I believe Price had struck out the side in the 6th. Looking at Price's playoff WHIP compared to his career regular season WHIP, he basically has let up 1 more walk or hit per 9 innings, although his HR/9 goes from 0.9 to 1.6 (or 2 HRs per 2 games to 3 HRs per 2 games).
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Yes, I know, and I was adding to the silliness of the whole idea of benching Price.
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I have that feeling about 1B.
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JBJ is 1 for 10 in the playoffs. I guess he should be benched as well! Pedey's almost 100 points lower in playoff OPS than REG season OPS. Should he be benched too? Buch has a 1.500 WHIP in the playoffs, so maybe we should have put our whole rotation in the pen last fall.
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Maybe, if Beni looks real good, we go to this and "lengthen the line-up": 1) Beni 2) Pedey 3) Betts 4) HanRam 5) JBJ/Young 6) Bogey 7) Moreland/JBJ 8) Pablo 9) Leon-Vaz I wouldn't mind seeing Pedey up 5th: 1) Beni 2) Bogey 3) Betts 4) HanRam 5) Pedey 6) JBJ/Young 7) Moreland/JBJ 8) Pablo 9) Leon-Vaz
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Is this what you think Farrell will start with? 1) Pedey 2) Bogaerts 3) Betts 4) HanRam 5) JBJ/Young 6) Moreland/JBJ 7) Pablo 8) Leon-Vaz 9) Beni
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"Clearcut?" LMAO! It's not even close to beginning to even think about the possibility of even considering a remote possibility of a tiny chance of Price not starting in the playoffs.
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Good read. I wonder if the change of catcher moving from SD to BOS made any difference. I say this because he had a wild differential in SD while putting up those great numbers in 2016 there. with Derek Norris:1.56 ERA and .499 OPS against in 313 PAs against w. C. Bethancout: 6.00 ERA and .738 OPS against in 98 PAs against 2015: w S Vogt 3.16/.576 (202 PAs) w Phegley 5.22/.778 (134)
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Porcello will be fine too.
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I've been preaching for years that the bloated contracts and aging Yankee roster was going to catch up. It took a lot longer to "fall" than I expected, and it wasn't a bad a fall as I expected, but it's taken way shorter for you guys to look promising again. If I were Cashman, I'd look to sign some guys to one year deals with the idea of trading them at the deadline for more prospects.
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We're better, but our pen is worse (on paper). Our pen was not very good for much of last year, so it worries me, if we go down that path again and don't have Uehara and Taz to pull us up. We all were left feeling good about Kelly, Kimbrel, Scott, Ross, Barnes and Hembree, but we all know they went through tough times. I'm not crying chicken little here. I love our roster as is, but at this time of the year, it's hard to avoid looking for the weakest link, even if it's not really "weak" at all.
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Maybe not "well below", but he did decline quite a bit.
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Yea, the dreaded double negative, but we are in agreement.
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Sometimes you need to get past the stats when assessing value. Ryan Dempster is an ideal example of that. When it comes to stats, I like to look at game logs to see how often a pitcher kept his team in the game. Compared to his previous 5 seasons, Ryan did not do as well in his year with Boston. I watched every one of his games pitched. He did okay, but not nearly as well as before. I get the clubhouse stuff, but on the field, he declined.
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Yes, but I don't disagree that added IP adds value. The 33 IP were a bif part of the higher WAR, but so was the 4.17 xFIP vs 4.64 his second year. He only started 3 more games in 2007 vs 2008, but he lasted longer in 2007, which does have value.
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I like WAR, but I don't use it as much as ERA- and WHIP for pitchers.
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OK, I misread the age span as showing one less year and missed the "through his 28th birthday" part. Thanks.
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Yes, and I hope that happens with Beni.
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Too much xFIP in WAR. His ERA went from 4.40 to 2.90 from year 1 to year 2. (ERA- from 95 to 64), but your point is well taken. He clearly did worse after his first 2 years, so he should not be included in the "slow adjuster" category.
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His WAR was between 2.5 and 4.7 the previous 5 seasons. It was 0.5 in 2013.
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No, but all struggled in their first year, although Clements was more injury-related than any adjustment period excuse.
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The age difference between Benintendi and Mitch Haniger is also notable in that the Red Sox will control Benintendi for his age 22-27 seasons (through his 28th birthday) while the Mariners control Haniger for his age 26-31 seasons (assuming each spends little or no more time in the minors). 26 to 31 is probably better years than 22-28 but with one less year. Makes you think about the result of calling a player up at such a young age. You lose the "prime".
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Looking at these numbers, I see a few things that may indicate these moves: 1) Young needs to start every game vs LHPs and should be in the top 5 line-up slots. 2) Moreland's numbers vs RHP are actually pretty decent, so the Young-Moreland platoon makes a lot of sense (Young DH vs LHPs and Moreland 1B vs RHPs with HanRam playing 1B vs LHPs and DH vs RHPs and at NL Parks). 3) JBJ should bat higher vs RHPs. 4) Bogey should bat higher vs RHPs. 5) Small sample sizes, but it appears Swihart hits RHPs better than Leon & Vaz, but the opposite is true vs LHPs. (Vaz is way better vs LHPs than RHPs.) I might go with this as my line-up template: vs RHPs: 1 Beni 2 Pedey 3 Betts 4 HanRam 5 JBJ 6 Bogey 7 Pablo 8 Moreland 9 Leon (Swihart) vs LHPs: 1 Pedey 2 Bogey 3 Betts 4 HanRam 5 Young 6 Beni* 7 JBJ 8 Leon/Vaz 9 Rutledge/Pablo *Keeping an eye on Beni's numbers vs LHPs
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2015-2016 combined L-R Splits --145+ PAs unless noted vs RHP .984 Beni (85) .870 Betts .871 JBJ .812 Pedey .782 Moreland (w TX) .762 Bogey .766 HanRam .727 Holt .733 Pablo .727 Swihart .705 Leon .668 Hernandez (47) .665 Young (BOS + NYY) .650 Rutledge (96) .527 Vazquez vs LHP .980 Young (5th best in MLB among 144 players with 250+ PAs vs LHPs) .916 HanRam .883 Bogey .829 Betts .822 Pedey .804 Vazquez (40) .795 Rutledge (45) .759 Leon (117) .748 JBJ .725 Moreland (w TX) .684 Holt .673 Swihart (98) .465 Pablo .429 Beni (33)
