Here's one.Originally Posted by BillyWilliams
Here's one.
After 2 games, pen looks mightier than rotation (which has been used by Mariners for batting practice).
And apparently, the answer is .... Barnes...
Wrong thread.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Rough night for my fantasy team with Ryan Brasier, Hunter Strickland and Yusei Kikuchi.
Wrong thread.
1. The thread is called “the Pen”.
2. The question was omnipresent enough all winter...
You missed the joke, man. There's another thread here 'Who Will be the 2019 Red Sox Closer'?
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Meh. You're right of course, but so is Notin because most people think the closer is a vital part of the pen.
In any case, this is a great thread because it's all about Topic A this early in the season. With Kimbrel and Kelly gone and no pricey additions, most of us have identified the pen as the potentially fatal weakness in the 2019 Sox roster. Lineup looks fine and probably better than last year's. Rotation ditto. But the pen?????
Cora, of course, has gone on record as saying the pen will be fine. So far it looks like our brilliant manager is right once again--even though 2 games are a ridiculously small set of data.
To be fair, it’s a topic on 522 threads plus 4,649 blogs and 10,995 articles, not to mention 5,777,553 calls from Craig Kimbrel’s agent ...
Meh. He said the answer is Barnes. Meh. The post obviously fit the other thread perfectly. Meh.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Two years with Barnes as the closer and then Feltman takes over.
You are mad the Yankees haven't really been relevant to Boston fans in 10 years. Minus 2009, and its been 15 years.
@SoxNotes
The 8 relief pitchers on the Red Sox’ 25-man roster have combined to post a 1.86 ERA this season (8 ER/38.2 IP). Matt Barnes, Ryan Brasier, and Brandon Workman have combined to allow 0 runs in 14.1 IP while holding opponents to a .087 AVG (4-for-46) with 17 K, 2 BB, and 1 HBP.
but our pen sucks tho!!! jacksonianmarch says so.
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If you want to use this season's SSS to say that your bullpen is good, then that SSS also says that your rotation is rubbish. It goes both ways. I'm sure you wouldn't agree because it's only been 11 games. But that's the point. It's only been 11 games. Based on the players in your bullpen it's not unreasonable to predict that they'll provide below average production. They've looked solid so far (except for Johnson) but let's see where they stand in another month. Same with the Yanks currently dominant rotation (2.91 total ERA).
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