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Everything posted by notin
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tough call on Tampa, whose entire starting rotation seems to consist of Charlie Morton while Snell and Chirinos are out...
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Might be worth pointing out the Yankees haven't won 100 games yet. And there big lead in the AL East gives them less cause to go full bore for the rest of the season. If it comes down to a decision of fighting for home field vs resting the rotation pitchers, the Yankees might take the foot off the gas pedal for a bit...
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It's not just the rest days. It's the overexposure to the same hitters, too. Unlike during the regular season, it's the same hitters for all seven consecutive games....
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Baseball Reference does have them third, behind Houston and just ahead of Atlanta. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2019-playoff-odds.shtml
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Right now, current odd (from whatever date) have the Yankees second behind Los Angeles. https://mybookie.ag/sportsbook/mlb/world-series/
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I'm half his age and make typos about twice as often. (I do tons of edits and corrections.) If I even live that long, my typing (which may be a thing of the past by then) won't even resemble English. I ignore his typos (as we all should), but I treat the content of his baseball input as I would anyone else's. And I doubt he would want it any other way...
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They will be for a while. But if you need them for 28 innings in a 7 game series, fatigue and overexposure could become a huge problem...
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Why stop posting? You're always welcome here, at least by me...
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I wonder how many people still think Feltman is the closer of the immediate future...
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As he i not on the 40 man roster, the Yankee have to add him quickly. I doubt they do add him this season, as Cashman has been claiming and signing other bullpen alternatives. If the Yankees add another reliever to the 25 man roster, they have already put Ryan Dull on the 40 man roster. But David Hernandez should be the most likely of that bunch to actually see the post-season, IMO, as he has been the most effective in MLB this year. (I do expect Dull or David Hale to be DFA'd in this case.) I doubt the Yankees give Garcia a trial by fire of MLB post-season baseball. Dellin Betances might even be more likely, assuming he has anything to offer right now. Garcia will probably be in the bullpen mix next season as the replacemet for Betances. He might be fighting for a spot with Trevor Rosenthal...
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If that helps you sleep at night...
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Again, the author of the OP (and title) is a 90+ year old WWII vet with severe macular degeneration issues that lead to frequent typos. Just overlook them...
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So... tax the bullpen during the post-season? Not a good strategy...
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The Yankees' problem won't be getting 4 good innings from their bullpen. It will be getting the 5 good innings from the rotation...
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jad reminded me of it on another thread...
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Ah but we also don't have a 12.5 game gap to close...
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At the time Iglesias was dealt, the two of the top 3 active career leaders in UZR/150 for shortstops were Adam Everett and Nick Punto, both of whom had been dealt by the Red Sox in previous deals. No one cried nearly as much when those two excellent defenders were traded away. Punto was reaching the end of his career, so he wasn't the player he was in Minnesota. But Everett went on to have a great career as a defensive infielder, and was dealt for Human Volcano Carl Everett (no relation) in a move that some have said was to undermine Sox manager Jimy Williams, who envisioned a future Sox infield with Everett and David Eckstein up the middle. (Eckstein was DFA'd and released to accommodate the worthless Ed Sprague.)
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I was as down on Miuddlebrooks a any Sox fan, even when he was still a minor leaguer. I wanted Middlebrooks to be dealt there (which would have made sense because the White Sox had never replaced Joe Crede at 3b and could have just kept Detroit out of that deal altogether.) But Iglesias did have issues. He reportedly had a mild tantrum upon a demotion to Pawtucket once, which Castiglione discussed on the radio as a Cuban thing as Cubans viewed demotions as statements they were not good enough (his words, not mine). And Iglesias also started a dugout fight with Detroit catcher James McCann during a game against the Red Sox. He certainly wasn't perfect. I never cared, since I never planned on hanging out with him anyway...
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The 1995 Seattle Mainers are another good example. They were 12.5 games out on August 20th and still won the AL West....
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Or the 2002 Oakland A's. Or the Sox need to bring in Joe Morgan and relive 1988's Morgan Magic! Is Morgan still alive?
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1988 Morgan Magic!! The Sox were basically a .500 team under John McNamara, but he was replaced mid-season by Joe morgan and the Sox promptly won 19 of Morgan's first 20 games. And everything Morgan did worked perfectly. Very early in that streak, he removed Mike Greenwell, who was the MVP runner-up that year, and replaced him with pinch runner Kevin Romine. Romine would up batting in the 9th inning of a tie game and lead off the inning with a walk off home run, his only home run of the season. That team was amazing with their ability to just win and get key hits from everybody. It was one of the most fun regular season stretches in recent Sox history...
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Drew did excellent glove work in that series. I agree on that. But have you ever seen a shortstop show the range Iglesias displayed on that opposite field blooper by Ortiz?
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No problem with JDM. But maybe some question why he makes so much more than Ortiz did...
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By the end of the offseason, pitchers like Nick Vincent, Francisco Liriano, Tommy Milone, Alex Wilson, Josh Tomlin and numerous others were waiting out opportunities for minor league deals. While not all of them have been successful in MLB this year, some actually have. But Dombrowski tried to sign 0 of them....
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This year, it has been a real problem. I don't mind not taking evasive action when none is needed. But I expect an attempt when it is...
