Could not say it here , but I was glad he got traded. It also moved Price, and eventually cleared up the lux tax reset allowing younger controllable talent to be brought in. Is he an MVP type, yes but you still need 8 others plus a pitching staff
Visual observations get trounced here by the stats analysts. Cash and the Rays are stat guys; Friedman in LA trained Bloom in TB. In the long run I think it works well for overall talent evaluation but on the field in the short sample of one game, go with what you are seeing. Why did Cora pull Sale after 1 ? What if Luplow had hit a sac fly instead?
Great observation. Dilemma, you can't waste that ability as a one inning reliever (you actually could) , but to start he would need to be able to get 5-6 innings... oh wait that is what he does apparently
Oh, you mean like 2 pitch Houck. The difference I see tonight is that Houck's pitches have more movement than Sale's and he kept it low. Vaz must have noticed too.
Both Houck and Sale would be devastating with a change up
Just thinking that Cash might have trouble managing in a city with nutso fns and media. He pulled GS Luplow out in favor of Choi last inning because the Red Sox went from LH to RH pitching. As was said by others, he follows the analytics closely.
Freakin' will remain a question mark until he goes 25+starts next year with good results. In truth his last ACE/Stopper quality work was in the first half of 2018. Yes he closed the final game of the greatest season but that was a token appearance
No pitcher can simply get even a 100mph+ FB past any MLB hitter no matter how mediocre, time after time. That's how these hitters got to be in the box in the first place