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Everything posted by notin
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Exactly. "Bullpen role by inning" does not appear to be a thing with Cora, with the exception of the closer. And he is far from alone is his use of the closer that way...
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Are we making up bullpen roles? What exactly is a "2nd 8th inning guy"? Martin has largely been the setup guy, coming in for the 8th inning in 4 of his 6 appearances, and in the 7th in the other two (more on these later). In Winckowski's 4 appearances, he has been brought in in the 7th (twice), sixth and 10th innings. I don't see that as a long reliever. But I don't think Cora is managing his relievers by innings as to when to bring them in, despite than many fans seem to like that method. I see strong tendencies to go after matchups instead of innings as for when he brings guys in. For example, the two times Martin came in in the 7th inning, he came in to face the 3-4-5 hitters in the opposing lineup. This is very likely not a coincidence. Cora appears to see the value of using his better arms against the 3-4-5 guys rather than using a lesser releiver agsinst 3-4-5 in the 7th and saving Martin to face 6-7-8 in the 8th. You can only get hitters out when they come up...
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Reyes may only have three hits, but Dalbec only has 3 fair balls so far this year...
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For most of the off-season, the Sox looked like the bullpen would have Jansen, Martin, Winckowski, Schreiber, Bernardino, and one of Houck or Whitlock. Why would anyone put Campbell third? The trade of Schreiber and the injury to Giolito dug into this depth, and the inexplicable demotion of Bernardino didn't help. But none of this still ever made any of the arm you mentioned as the third best option in the bullpen. And two weeks into the season, both Slaten and Weissert look better, as well...
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Ahead of Winckowski?
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It's still .310 points higher than Dalbec's...
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Strong disagree. Hall of Famer. 3,000 hits. Seven All Star appearances and five Silver Sluggers with Boston. Jim Rice only got two Silver Sluggers, for comparison...
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I think so. He seemed like a typical, boring MR guy that you bring in if the starter can't g0 five innings. Of course, for most of the off-season, I thought the Sox would have Winckowski and Schreiber in front of Martin and Jansen...
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So would opposing pitchers...
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Yes, it should. Not like they retired his wedding ring...
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OK, I thought it was entire career, not ending career. Possible misinterpretation on my part. But in my defense, for a long, long time, the only names up there were Doerr, Williams, Yaz and Cronin. So if I'm questioning Cronin, the list still fits.
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SoxProspects ranking of the Red Sox bullpen roles isn't worth anything. They're no more affiliated to the team than we are...
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"Almost missed" equals "hit", right? The team has enough issues right now without getting critical of the ones that don't exist...
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Valdez is just flat out useless. If you can't field, you need to at least be able to get your OPS+ up over 82. He's like an even more useless Dalbec...
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Didn't Higgins at least manage a couple African American players? I'm sure he was not exactly fair to them, but he managed in the early 1960s, so he had Wilson and Green, right? Not like some of the other racist MLB managers like Ben Chapman, whose racism forced him out of baseball...
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Is MLB different in Atlanta? Only 236 PAs, but that's 236 more than Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer and Kyle Teel combined...
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To be fair, Earl Wilson was in the Sox system in 1953 and Pumpsie Green in 1956.
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They did change the rules at one point. But it was a big deal when Boggs' number was not retired right away.
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Grissom has played plenty of games...
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That’s poor planning in itself. His MLB past was minimal at best, consisting of 29 innings in Seattle. I’m sure they saw plenty of things they loved about him in the minor league level, but certainly professional baseball people folks should know by now that doesn’t always translate to MLB success. But he can pitch for the minimum wage, so he did meet that criteria…
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I just gave a strategy. Use your closer in the tenth in home games. How many do you need?
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How is his number retired anyway? Didn’t the criteria for having your number retired by the Sox back then include 1) making the Hall of Fame and 2) playing your entire career for the Red Sox? That was why we were told 26 couldn’t be retired. And 24. So why does this former Washington Senator have his number hanging at Fenway?
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It becomes one of you get through the ninth and still have your best reliever. This isn’t a Cora criticism specifically since most (all?) managers do it. But it seems like too many manage the game now as if they didn’t know the ghost runner was coming. It also depends who is coming up. Last night, Cora brought in Jansen to face the 6-7-possible 8 hitters with no one on and one out. The leaves very little margin for error for the tenth. If Jansen gets the first two, the 8-9-1 hitters come up in the 10th, which isn’t bad. But if he lets one or more runners on, that inning gets increasingly difficult for a lesser reliever. The ghost runner has been around a long time now. And while it’s a dumb rule, it’s apparently not going away. But outside of road teams that don’t score using an IBB to set up a double play, there hasn’t been much in the way of strategies to handle this situation…
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Don’t you think it’s easier to get through the ninth inning where no one starts on base than it is the tenth inning when a runner is already in scoring position with no outs?
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One strategy I’m not getting yet is using the closer in the ninth inning of tied home games. As the closer is ideally in most teams one of, if not the best RP, it makes sense to hold him for the 10th inning, as ghost runners make that inning tougher. In tie road games, the closer in the ninth makes sense since you want to force another inning. But in home games, I’d think use the lesser reliever in the ninth and if he can keep the tie, you have an edge with regards to remaining bullpen arms…
