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In my view , the trend of not using your best reliever to close , whatever the reasoning may be , is misguided , wrong and just not smart . Whether it is done to best win games , save money or any other reason , it is not a good idea . Blown saves are becoming a nightly occurrence around baseball . Just take a look . If you have an elite closer , and there are not too many of them , use him to get those elusive final outs . That is why the Yankees signed guys like Britton and Ottavino . So they could have Chapman for the ninth . Too many people want to re-invent the wheel .
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Thanks to the hokey innovation ( money grab ) known as the second wild card, Minny and Oakland were able to make it in . Their post season consisted of a trip to New York , a beating and a return trip home.
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As noted previously , Givens is pretty good , but closing ain't easy .
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The Cooler .
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That is quite a stretch . I very much doubt it . However , there is certainly an effort by baseball owners and management to control spending . No doubt about that .
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I don't really understand those odds . There are five post season spots , and only six A.L. teams with any chance of getting there . It's all about who will be the one who doesn't make it .
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5/20 SOX @ Toronto
dgalehouse replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Struggling with pitch recognition is practically epidemic in MLB right now . Everyone is looking to launch . I have never seen so many hitters chase breaking balls in the dirt as I see this year . There will be an all time high in strikeouts if this continues. -
5/19 VS Astros
dgalehouse replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Have to come away with a win when you have a lopsided advantage like Sale vs Miley . -
My comments about save opportunities , etc . were mostly in reference to the proposition that Cora lacked faith in the bullpen . I do like Barnes . I see him as our best arm in the pen . Brasier , to me , is kind of iffy . Interesting that Cora opted for Workman today , rather than Brasier . Walden is a surprise . Not sure yet if he is for real .
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Still confusing to me . Take Barnes, for example . What do they mean when they say he has had 14 career save opportunities? Obviously, he has had many more hold situations than 14 . So , the 14 refers only to actual save situations. Is that not right ?
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Well , back to the previous point . He has had 10 save opportunities. He has 6 saves . What about the other four save opportunities? Holds are entirely separate.
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24 save opportunities is not a lot for a career . Look up Ryan Brasier on Baseball reference. Advanced pitching stats . Reliever pitching . It shows 10 save opportunities with six saves and four blown saves . 60 % save rate . Hold stats are listed separately. You can do the same for Barnes or anyone else .
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A hold is not a " save situation " . You don't get a save in that situation. In their careers , they have had just 24 actual save situations. They have converted 11 of them . They have had many more hold situations, but that is not the issue here . We are talking only about actual save situations.
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A save situation refers to the ninth inning. They have had 24 of those save situations. They have converted 11 of them . It has nothing to do with an earlier inning. I am only talking about what happened in a ninth inning save situation. If they were charged with a blown save in an earlier inning , it has nothing to do with this . Simply put , they have converted 11 out of 24 save situations.
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I guess that is a remote possibility. At least you are addressing the situation. Everyone else keeps talking about blown saves in an earlier inning. I feel like I am butting my head against the wall . Or else I am just not explaining it properly. The bottom line is , one way or another , they have converted just 11 out of 24 save opportunities.
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They have had 24 save opportunities. That means the ninth inning. That is all I am talking about . They have 11 saves out of those 24 opportunities. It has nothing at all to do with the eighth inning. Just the ninth inning save situation.
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That is completely irrelevant to the point . Of course I know about the blown save rules . This is as plain as I can state it ; they had 24 save ( not hold ) opportunities. They converted 11 of those into saves . That means that 13 times they failed to get the save in a save situation. Plain and simple.
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Bell , I am getting it . I understand exactly how you can get a blown save in a hold situation. But that is not the point . The point is that , in 24 save situations, they have 11 saves . That means they failed to get the save in 13 of those opportunities. It has nothing at all to do with hold opportunities. I can't make it any clearer than that . And I am not saying they suck . In fact , I like Barnes as the closer .
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I know it was a blown save . That is not the point . The whole point is that they have had 24 save opportunities and just 11 saves . That means that 13 times they failed to get the save . It has nothing to do with what happens in a non save situation. This is frustrating. I don't understand what is so hard about this .
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You are missing the point. I'm not saying they suck . Just giving numbers . Are they right or not ? If you have 24 save opportunities, and you have 11 saves , it means you failed to get the save thirteen times . It has nothing at all to do with holds . I honestly don't know what you are missing here .
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Bell , that doesn't explain away the situation here . I'll say it again , in a different way , between Barnes and Brasier, they have had 24 career save opportunities, and just 11 saves . Forget holds and hold opportunities.
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But I'm pretty sure the game Brasier blew in New York was not counted as a save opportunity. The fact remains , they have had 24 " save opportunities " and just 11 career saves .
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We have no way of knowing that now . 13 times seems like a lot for that to happen. Don't know about Barnes , but I don't recall that happening with Brasier . These things can get complicated.
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Well , I still ask , if they had 11 career saves and 24 career save ( not hold ) opportunities, what happened in the other 13 save opportunities?
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5/19 VS Astros
dgalehouse replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Glad we missed Verlander. Sale vs Miley should be a lead pipe cinch . No way the Sox lose today .
