I like the idea of recent trends to spot decline.
But sometimes OPS just don’t tell the whole Story Story. Sure his numbers dropped, but in some cases, for whatever reason, the whole league’s did. And he did have a significant home field change in there.
If you look at OPS+
2019 - 120
2020 - 120
2021 - 102
2022 - 102
It’s less of a steady trend, but it does show a difference…
Save one inning, Ottavino was good. Those Yankee fans whose opinion you prefer over data also yell at the TV and boo any player who fails to dominate in the same fashion a Division I college player would in a Little League game…
Actually I think some of this is just your perception.
For example, you single out Ottavino as struggling in NY, presumably based on his 5.89 ERA. But that year, Ottavino made 24 appearances and only gave up runs in 5 of them. And only more than one run twice.
His ERA was so high because of one singular bad outing in which he gave up 6 ER. One half his season total.
Was he really struggling when Bloom acquired him?
So yes Ottavino had a 5.89 ERA. But he also delivered goose eggs in 19 of his 24 outings that year…
I’ve been anti-Brasier for years. But I suppose the counter argument is whatever other reliever you get for $2.3mill isn’t going to be substantially better…
I think they tendered Brasier arbitration because the Sox have zero plans to DFA him.
While Brasier has been high on MY DFA candidate list for a while now, (years, actually) the Sox simply do not care for my input…
Just remember folks, dgalehouse is one of the nicest people on here. He has to tell us that because no one would ever draw that conclusion from anything he posts.
And don’t worry if your think Your opinion isn’t getting across to him; he won’t read it anyway and plans on assigning you an opinion and then berating you for it. Albeit nicely…
Oh. I wasn’t getting the stupid point apparently.
The “point” was supposed to be that when the Sox have a bunch of expensive players winding down deals, the team does badly, I guess.
Simple opinion question - if DD didn’t get fired, how good would the 2020 Red Sox have been? And the 2021 Red Sox?
The Sox don’t have 5 last place finishes in the last 7 years period.
In the last 7 years, the Sox have finished last twice, first 3 times, second once and third once…