When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
With all the money Cashman has thrown at the pen, you expect them to have the best, and the have since 1998- by a lot. The Sox placed 7th.
Pen fWAR since 1998:
123 NYY
99 LAD
95 OAK
90 CWS
87 CLE
81 SDP
81 BOS
The gap has narrowed since 2003, but the Sox are 10th since 2003. Even during the glory years from 2004 to 2018, the Sox only had the 8th best pen by fWAR led by...
14.0 Papelbon
6.1 Uehara
5.8 Kimbrel
4.0 Tazawa
2.9 Bard
2.9 Okajima
2.3 Timlin & Barnes
2.2 Miller
1.8 Kelly
1.3 Foulke
Not a lot of big contracts in this bunch, but 4 rings.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
I answered what I was thinking. If it wasn't as complete as you wanted, so be it.
Yes, if someone said you could have a streak with no losing records, he'd say yes, but that's not all there is to the question about records and rings.
He could repeat Cashman's record but with 10 rings, but be fired for killing someone. Would he want that?
Focusing on just one thing is a vague question that deserves a vague answer, IMO.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
2012 had some very good names in the pen; many just didn't do very good, that year.
Melancon
Andrew Miller
Tazawa
Breslow
Aceves
Atchison
Albers
F Morales
2013's pen did very well
Uehara 1.09
Breslow 1.81
Tazawa 3.16
Miller 2.64
Bailey 3.77
Workman, Aceves, Morales, Alex Wilson, Britton...
2014 was pretty good
Uehara 2.52
Badenhop 2.29
Miller 2.34
Taz 2.86
Wright 2.57
Breslow, Layne, Hembree
2015, pretty bad, despite Uehara, Robbie Ross, Ogando, Rich Hill & Layne doing okay.
Mujica 3.90
Joe kelly 4.11
Mortenson
Bard
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?