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  1. harmony
  2. harmony
    Anthony Bender has a career FIP of 3.46 despite the cited FIP in 8.1 innings this year.
  3. harmony
    FWIW last week Anthony Bender posted four saves in four scoreless outings: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=bendean01&t=p&year=2022 Bender has more saves this year than the entire Red Sox staff.
  4. harmony
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But it's early.
  5. harmony
    Please distinguish opinions from facts.
  6. harmony
    Perhaps Seiya Suzuki did not want to play for the Boston Red Sox despite the urging of Koji Uehara.
  7. harmony
    FanGraphs currently gives the Red Sox a 53.5 percent chance of advancing to the postseason while FiveThirtyEight has the Sox chances at 46 percent: https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-mlb-predictions/
  8. harmony
    Was five years at $115 million too much to pay for 30-year-old lefthander Robbie Ray coming off a Cy Young season? Over this first three starts Ray had posted only a negative 0.1 fWAR and 0.0 bWAR before posting his third quality start on Sunday. Ray's ERA of 3.91 would be about 2.55 but for a four-run second inning in a Chicago monsoon on April 13. Ray has gone at least six innings in all four starts but has seen his strikeout rate drop precipitously from his career rate of 11.1 per nine innings. The worth of Ray's contract may be determined by whether Ray helps the Seattle Mariners to the postseason rather than whether his production justifies his salaries in Years 4 and 5 of the contract.
  9. harmony
    FWIW entering today's game Red Sox starters had posted a negative 0.1 fWAR in 49.2 innings this year while Red Sox relievers had posted 0.9 fWAR in 48.1 innings: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=sta&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2022&month=0&season1=2022&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2022-01-01&enddate=2022-12-31
  10. harmony
    Under the traditional QS definition, the Red Sox are among 10 MLB teams with no quality starts this year: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/stats/team/team/extended-pitching/mlb/regular/?sortcol=qs&sortdir=descending The San Diego Padres lead the way with eight quality starts in 13 games. The game has changed.
  11. harmony
    The Seattle Mariners have called up first baseman Mike Ford, who played collegiately at Princeton with the son of Seattle manager Scott Servais.
  12. harmony
    Duly noted but the three players listed played for Penn, not Penn State (the latter has filled the NFL with many players).
  13. harmony
    Five former Ivy League players have seen MLB action this season: Brent Suter and Sean Poppen from Harvard, Kyle Hendricks and Cole Sulser from Dartmouth and Jake Cousins from Penn. According to one source, the NBA currently has one former Ivy League player in Devin Cannady from Princeton https://basketball.realgm.com/ncaa/conferences/Ivy-League/14/nba-players As of January 2021, 13 former Ivy League players were in the NFL, according to another source: https://en.as.com/en/2021/12/10/nfl/1639158921_102106.html
  14. harmony
    Through 10 games the Red Sox starters have averaged 4.5 innings per game and the bullpen 4.4 innings per game.
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    Through Sunday, Seattle pitchers had surrendered 15 home runs, second-most in the league, despite a team ERA of 3.14, third-best in the league. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/2022-pitching.shtml
  16. harmony
    Different teams deploy their pitching staffs differently. In eight games this season the Seattle Mariners have posted three quality starts under the traditional definition. A starter has gone at least six innings in four games and at least five innings in two others. Through seven games Seattle starters had an ERA of 3.43 while the relievers had an ERA of 2.77. Later this season will the Mariners pay the price for extending their starters early in the season?
  17. harmony
    John W. Henry reportedly attended a community college and then took classes at three University of California campuses -- Riverside, Irvine and Los Angeles -- where he majored in philosophy but did not graduate. Chaim Bloom holds a bachelor's degree in Latin classics from Yale.
  18. harmony
    Red Sox fans hope the distance is in the right direction (and tend to underestimate opponents such as the Twins with their Opening Day starter Joe Ryan).
  19. harmony
    Last year the Red Sox went 5-2 against Minnesota, outscoring the Twins 46-29.
  20. harmony
    Not significantly better than some other divisions ... but this is not the thread for that debate.
  21. harmony
    That would be a problem in any division.
  22. harmony
    As do some other underdogs.
  23. harmony
    FWIW in 2021 Ty France played 915 of his 1,107.1 innings in the field at first base, which skewed his fWAR downward because of the position adjustment: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/explaining-win-values-part-three/
  24. harmony
    FWIW FanGraphs ranks the Red Sox bullpen ninth in Major League Baseball: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-positional-power-rankings-bullpen-no-1-15/ FanGraphs ranks the Seattle bullpen 19th despite the additions of Ken Giles, Andres Munoz and Sergio Romo to a bullpen that last year ranked fourth in reliever fWAR: https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=rel&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31
  25. harmony
    This biased poster likes the 16th-ranked Seattle rotation (and depth).
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