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Everything posted by notin
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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...
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Bunting was not taken away due to some sort method of rule enforcement. It's just some have realized the strategic disadvantage. Now if some new study ever comes out to counter that claim, bunting will return...
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And that's part of the problem that does fall on Dombrowski. Porcello is clearly having a horrible season, effort notwithstanding. But he is still out there starting games. Eovaldi is having a horrible season due to injury. He has had his role bounced around, but he is now back in the rotation. DD did got out and get Cashner, who was actually a smart pickup despite his failures at the time. But with all the struggles and injuries in this rotation, why so little effort to improve? Why did DD do nothing else? I get his trade assets were limited, for which he is culpable, but understandably so. But nothing else? Other teams in the playoff race have been at least trying. AS I pointed out on another thread, the Yankees have a killer bullpen, but they keep adding to it. Meanwhile Dombrowski looks at the Sox pitching and says "do better! That's it." It's not his fault Sale and Porcello and Cashner and Eovaldi have struggled. But it is his fault for having no one else to pick up the slack...
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But there is some fault in theGM just sitting back and watching it happen. The 2014 team had a fire sale and still only regressed about the same as the 2019 team. The only difference remaining will be that the 2014 team finished in fifth place. The 2019 team will probably finish 3rd place despite the relatively equal regression...
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Very true, although if having someone like Martinez at DH alloows the #9 hitter to be some Nick Ahmed type at SS with less risk offensively, that counters the defense issue...
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I would point out having a good dedicated DH can help defensively, as it allows for a good glove/no hit player at a key defensive position without really killing the team offensively. Obviously a 1 or 2 SP typically costs more than a DH, but I think I'd be more apt to give the long term mega deal to a DH because those pitcher contracts can be very risky for injuries...
