Even with the trade of Buch, spring training still becomes significant. I also think that if he is healthy there is no way E-Rod is sent back but the spring work is going to help sort out how we fill out the starting pitching situation.Originally Posted by moonslav59
Not in favor of a Knuckler coming out of BP in tight situations, or close games. 1 walk, stolen base, pass ball, you can score a deciding run without the benefit of a hit.
Long relief, if a game is out of hand, to save innings more like it for me. Otherwise I rather Start him, to get his feel for the Pitch, you can almost tell if a Knuckler has it or not, to see if he should continue.
I really don't think that it is a stretch to say that in most cases, teams tend to play their best players. Those that for some reason choose to not play their best, might not win as often. I'm not saying that it can't happen, but it would seem very unlikely and unusual to me that if E-Rod is healthy and well and throwing better than the other two this spring, that he would get sent back. It would seem even more unusual now that DD seems to be a "win now" mode.
Yes. This is exactly why I believe we traded Buch too soon.
It does raise a question with me. When to player's contracts start and end? Are they structured to begin on January 1 of the year? Do they begin at the start of ST? Or some other date certain with each player's contract date being different?
It matters (a little) because as in the case of Buch, if his contract starts on Jan. 1 and we traded him on June 30 we'd owe him ~$6.7M which would count toward our LT, but if his contract starts on.... say.... April 1, we'd only owe him ~$3.4M. That $3.4 million difference could be very significant if we're bumping up against the LT ceiling.
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Well, were the 2015 Cubs in "win now" mode when they kept Kris Bryant down for 10 weeks? They certainly didn't do it because they thought opening day third baseman Mike Olt was the better player.
Teams do this kind of thing all the time, and some who don't sometimes find they should have. For example, if the Nationals were dead set on sticking to an innings limit on then rookie Stephen Strasburg, would it have made sense to wait until June to bring him up and have him for the post-season? Or were they right shutting him down prematurely and going into the post-season with Ross Detwiler making starts in the NLDS?
Ross is better than Barnes, Abad, Hembree and Elias..
Wright is the 6th starter, imo. I'm not the biggest ERod fan, but I'd rather have him be a starter than Wright. My guess is that one of the starters will be injured in April/May and Wright will get a ton of opportunities to get into the rotation.
Yup, I think everyone sees Eduardo's potential.
He just hasn't been consistent enough yet.
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I don't think it's ridiculous to talk about.
Things that are ridiculous: DFA Sale, Price or Porcello. Trade Betts. Beni should start the season in AAA. Kimbrel should become a starter.
I think Eduardo is one of our best 5 starters as well, both now and going forward...I just don't think he's separated himself enough from the other two guys at this point that it's ridiculous to even talk about.
(Reposting because the mobile version of this site keeps deleting my post when I go to edit it..? Sorry.)
The mistake is in using the mobile version of the site. Even on my phone, I use the full version.
Yeah, I wasn't referring to your post, but some of the earlier ones. Someone called it stupid and dumb a page or two back.
Sound advice.
I guess you proved your point. Teams do sometimes do this. I think that it always is debateable whether it is the right call or not. Sometimes they get it right and sometimes they don't. I'm not sure that it happens all the time but I do realize that it happens.
Pretty close, in my mind, because of the pen. Wright or Pom in the pen greatly improves it.
ERod in AAA does nothing for our pen, except to maybe allow us to hold onto Abad or Hembree, which is nothing a creative DL can't handle.
Pom & Wright both have pen experience and could provide long and middle relief like nobody else in our pen, except maybe Kelly, but I think grooming him for the 7th or 8th inning set-up man makes more sense. However, if we are going to view Kelly as a possible spot starter and use him as the long man to start the year, I guess starting ERod in AAA could happen. I still think he'd have to be struggling in ST'ing for that to even be a consideration.
Just my opinion.
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