One thing I didn’t realize is this year, the minor league seasons run through September, which means if Duran or Cordero aren’t going to play, sending them down at least means they can still get some baseball in…
Not.
At Houck’s age, Sale had 3 top 6 Cy Young finishes.
Houck’s career to date is 47 IP. He deserves to be in the rotation today, but any comp to Sale is way premature
Manny was 27 when the Sox signed him. It made sense. Price was 31. The Sox had to hope it worked out and they won enough in the first 3 or 4 years to make the last seasons when that deal was dragging the team down more palatable…
There are ALWAYS exceptions.
As much as I think those massive contracts are a bigger detriment than boon, there are always players the Sox just should go in on.
Of course if the re-instate the “no pitchers/players over 30” guideline, about 90% of them all drop from consideration anyway…
Well his first year he’s wasn’t allowed to spend. That’s why Scutaro was traded - to free up cash. And reportedly there was some edict about signing free agent pitchers over 30…
For example, David Ortiz had twice as many sac flies in high leverage situations as he had in low leverage ones, despite having only half the PA.
Where do these show up in your data? And are sac flies “clutch”?
Technically I was incorrect. Zack Wheeler and Corbin Burnes are tied for the NL lead in fWAR with 5.6.
Both actually have a decent chance to do the Cy Young/MVP dual award thing…
Turner leads the NL in fWAR for all players not out for the season, tied with teammate Max Muncy, and 0.1 ahead of - and this shocked me - Pittsburgh outfielder Bryan Reynolds…