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Everything posted by notin
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It’s one thing to suggest it on an innocuous message board. We get 5 sillier ideas before breakfast. (I’m good for two of them.) But if the Sox actually attempted it, I’d lose all faith in Cora and Bloom…
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No it wasn’t. Schiraldi took over the role after Stanley and Sambito faltered…
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So no 1b? My point stands…
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Schiraldi had fewer IP because he assumed the role later on the year, but his 299 ERA+ wasn’t good enough? That’s better than Foulke had! I fear you might be entering the Realm of Circular Logic. The Sox won because they had a great closer! And the closer was great because they won!!
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If his defensive learning curve was one reason for delaying his promotion, it would be unfathomably stupid to just thrust him into another completely new position…
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Calvin Schiraldi (1986) and Byung-Hyun Kim (2003) both were very good closers…
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Technically we were establishing why you don’t apply fWAR limits for position players to relief pitchers. But summing up 4 time Gold Glive winner Gaetti by his batting average feels right. It would be like calling Rivera “a failed starter”…
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Duran might only be up until someone returns from IL…
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The Braves acquired Joc Pederson from the Cubs. Pederson was one guy I completely overlooked as a potential LHH platoon partner for Dalbec. (Pederson has 149 career innings at 1b. Not ideal, but it’s something.).
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This team has only 3 hits in the past 4 days!! Talk about a team slump!! -
The thing is, the guy most likely to platoon with Dalbec is Marwin…
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Gaetti, but bear in mind closers rarely get deals over 4 years…
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But iortiz was applying the fWAR standards for position players to a reliever to minimize Barnes' role on the team. If you use Barnes fWAR that way, you are basically saying Rivera = Gaetti, as their careers were virtually identical with regards to fWAR...
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Or 1990 Minnesota Gaetti, when he came to Fenway and became the only player in MLB history to start two triple plays in one game...
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Even if you're a fan of closers, they're not where you start building a team. They're like the dessert of your pitching staff. You need a team/dinner in front of them before you can enjoy them...
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Well, this is his first pennant race with a team that has an actual budget. But I don't think he has the prospects to be the top bidder for Berrios...
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Schoop is a reasonable target. But what would the Sox give up for Berrios?
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You had to follow the whole back and forth, Hugh..,
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Well, finish kidding, damnit!!
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Relief pitchers are all role players by definition. If you’re using fWAR to compare relief pitchers to other players, bear in mind this means you are saying that the greatest relief pitcher of all time , Mariano Rivera (19 seasons, 39.1 fWAR) is the same value as Gary Gaetti (19 seasons, 39.0 fWAR)
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Duran was .594 in July with 10Ks in 34 PA and he got promoted…
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Not even one bad season. 23 innings. That’s like evaluating a starter based on 3 or 4 questionable starts…
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With relievers, the small IP samples can be heavily influenced by 1 or 2 bad innings. Go look at Adam Ottavino’s 2020 season. Also ERA ignores how many inherited runners a reliever allows to score and is dependent on following relievers for runners left for the next pitcher. So a RP who gets relieved by a better reliever benefits much more than one followed by a worse reliever. And this is a big factor because of that while IP thing I just mentioned. Also ERA depends on team defense. A pitcher is not a better pitcher just because he has Jose Iglesias behind him instead of Xander Bogaerts…
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ERA isn’t a good way to evaluate a relief pitcher, which is a bit ironic as that’s exactly what it was created to do…
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Also it appears Cordero has 4 games and 29 innings under his belt as the Worcester 1b. Let’s see how this plays out…
