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Everything posted by notin
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The way Swihart has been of late, he might not need to be pinch hit for. I do doubt the Sox take 3 catchers - especially since Vazquez has been inactive for a huge chunk of the season - into the postseason...
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Which tells me sometimes the folks at Fangraphs might struggle a bit with the concept of significant digits...
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To cover for short outings from starters as needed and to do so without leaving a dead bullpen for the next game. It’s not like we have a lot of hitters that need to be pinch hit for. Also I wouldn’t even take Johnson or Velasquez...
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Or he is ranked tied for fourth with Osuna and Miller, if you look at the values....
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I think Pomeranz and Johnson are probably best left off. While I hate the LOOGY strategy over the course of a season, I could see it happening in the playoffs. If that is the case, Bobby Poyner makes some sense. And I think I'd rather see Workman than either Johnson (whose numbers as a reliever are not so enticing) or Pomeranz as well. So - out with Pomeranz and Johnson and in with Workman and Poyner...
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Or maybe there were some health concerns...
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And the Red Sox will have to go (-7) and 34 in the final 27 games to reach his pre-season maximum of 86 wins...
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He didn't hire an agent to get a reasonable deal...
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Yep. The Sox are trading Devers and keeping - dare I say extending - Pedroia...
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Devers should be starting in MLB. However, given the presence of Nunez and the depth behind him in the system with Chavis and Dalbec, Devers could also be a very interesting trade bait. Although emptying the farm depth behind Devers is more of Dombrowski's style...
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Wrong Seager. Kyle already plays 3B. No need to reposition Bogaerts...
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And the Cubs might be OK with that deal, given their CF is currently an Almora/Happ platoon. Happ is best suited to other positions (like 2B, where Baez primarily plays). Almora is a pretty good defensive CF in his own right, but Bradley is a definite upgrade. Obviously CF defense is not something the Reds need, although dealing Suarez would clear a path for Nick Senzel, assuming he is ever healthy again, and they stop trying to plug him in at 2B. It does leave them with some decisions on Billy Hamilton. I do doubt the Natinals consider moving Turner for Bradley...
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There should be a price for JBJ, and Dombrowski has one. So far, we know it is more than Edwin Encarnacion and more than Yasiel Puig. Using fWAR as a guideline, Bradley has been worth 10. fWAR since 2016. That makes him roughly the equivalent of Buster Posey, Justin Upton, Trea Turner, Eugenio Suarez, Kyle Seager and Javier Baez for position players and Zack Greinke, Jon Gray, Chris Archer and Jose Quintana as pitchers. (Also Rick Porcello, but obviously not going to happen.) And there are others fairly close, but I limited the list. Greinke, Upton and Posey all have long term expensive deals in place, unlike Bradley, which makes them lesser trade candidates, since you have to pay more cash for essentially the same contribution. Seager also has a pretty big deal and isn't having the best year right now, either. But it is for less than the previous ones mentioned. But would you trade Bradley straight up for any of the others or someone I just didn't mention?
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To be fair, his rise to stardom was equally meteoric...
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Most organizations, and certainly Baseball America, rank prospects on the likelihood of being impact players. I think their point was that the Yankees have a large quantity of players who might make an impact, the quality of that impact from many of them might not be so great. A future utility infielder, for example, is a future major leaguer. While this is a good thing to have, it doesn't really increase the impact from the farm substantially. But it does allow for one more minimum wage player on the team, increasing the available budget. However, this is likely not taken into consideration when measuring the impact of the farm, and it should not be.
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There may be a reason he has never really been a starter. At 35, this isn't likely to change...
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Remember back in March when I was clamoring for more minor league pitching depth? This is why...
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And if that isn't enough to get him a nod for the Rolaids Reliever of the Yeat, then what is? (I mean, besides resurrecting the Rolaids Reliever Award in the first place.)
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Movement on a 4-seam fastball at those velocities is not a thing. The ball gets to the catcher two fast to have any time to break, and the 4-seam grip mitigates the air flow around the ball. Primarily, the fastball with movement is the 2-seam fastball, but it has to be thrown about 93mph or less to even have time to move. If it is thrown harder, the movement will take place to late to matter. That's why most pitchers throw 2-seamers in the 91-93mph range...
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It's not mean. His teammate Jay Howell started that movement and Wetteland embraced the phrase. There were several relievers like him, Rob Dibble, Dan Plesac, etc. is the late 80's and early 90's whose philosophy of pitching was "change speeds by throwing harder" and referred to themselves as the Brain Dead Heavers. https://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/wetteland-living-life-to-an-extreme/article_111d8c68-7357-55b3-afd6-59542f409b57.html "Howell enrolled Wetteland in the "Brain-Dead Heavers Club." Their motto -- "We are not relievers; we are brain-dead heavers." The idea, Howell said, is that changing speeds means throwing harder. "Once a heaver, always a heaver," Wetteland said."...
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Ah yes. The John Wetteland “Brain Dead Heaver” theory of pitching...
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The general theme of the board this week is “Matt Barnes sucks!! Craig Kimbrel is struggling!!! The whole pen is collapsing!! We need Ty Buttrey now!!!”
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That’s not what the head coach at ASU thought...
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He’s a 36yo who plays a position manned by utility infielders all season long and we got him for a 25yo career minor league pitcher, whose value is suddenly in question after all of 6 innings pitched? The Sox could use bullpen help. What makes people think Ty Buttrey is better than the pitchers we already have in the pen?
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Would you have traded Ozzie Smith because of his inconsistent bat?
