I borrowed that from Yogi Berra of course. It's a beauty. It struck me funny when moon said "of late" referring to pitchers who have mostly had only 2 starts.Originally Posted by Maxbialystock
I borrowed that from Yogi Berra of course. It's a beauty. It struck me funny when moon said "of late" referring to pitchers who have mostly had only 2 starts.
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.
The Orioles have called up Jackson Holliday for his MLB debut. The son of former MLB All Star Matt Holliday , Jackson is generally considered to be the number one prospect in baseball.
Old school is good school.
I’m counting on expected age progression growth for most of our pre prime and early prime players, who are basically everybody but Refsnyder.
Devers, Casas, O’Neill, Yoshida, Duran, our catchers should get better. Grissom, Rafaela, Abreu are unknowns.
I look at other teams and see as many or more what ifs than us for all but 8-10 teams.
Do you think Soto will keep the Yanks ahead of us on O?
Remember, we lost some real bad O players over the winter. Too
lol. Yes from their first to second start is of late!
This is great news. It will really hurt the all important prospect rankings, soon!
Lol
Sad to say, but I'm with moonslav on the pitching. Yes, absolutely, it's just 11 games.
But a year ago we didn't have a rotation. Bello led everyone with a paltry 157 IP. Our pros from Dover--Sale, Paxton, and Kluber--pitched 103, 96, and 55 innings. So Pivetta, Crawford and House--all of whom relieved last year as well as started--filled in with 143, 129, and 106 IP.
This year the rotation has been unbelievably good. The laggard is Bello, but yesterday he went 5.1 innings with just 1 ER. Yes, Pivetta dropped out, but it looks like for just 15 days and 3 starts. The other four still look good, as does the bullpen because the team ERA is still the lowest in MLB and the WHIP second lowest.
We should be shouting that from the rooftops, but instead we are predicting catastrophic failure.
Why do we know this rotation is going to fail miserably?
Because JH refused to spend $100M on it. In fact, the combined salaries of Bello, Pivetta, Crawford, Whitlock, and Houck add up to $14M, which is less than Jansen's $16M, Yoshida's $19M, etc.
It's just way too early to say how these guys are going to hold up over a 162 game season. None of them have much of an MLB history to go on.
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.
Completely agree. But virtually the entirely of the RSN--and certainly Talksox--has already decided that none of the them will do well. That's what I don't understand.
Duran will be 28 this year. O'Neill will be 29. Realistically, how much better could they get?
In 3 starts, 5.1 innings was still his longest start. He needs to really start to pick it up.
I think past history on the starting 5 did not leave anyone to get all that excited that they would be any top 10 starting staff who would last physically, and pitch well for a full season. On the other hand after just 1 time through the rotation all kinds of bells, and whistles were going off, and one poster called it the best rotation in RS history. Talk about a small SAMPLE size. Every game counts, but let’s see how the staff is holding up, and pitching on Memorial Day. 2 starters have had injuries already.🙈🤭
The Kut Man, and Whit didn’t make 5 the last time out. The BP has had plenty of work already.
Boston's starting pitchers have been tops, but if they don't go five innings every night, it won't be because of inexperience.
It takes 15 outs to get through 5 frames -- with the support of an average defense... but if you're in the Red Sox rotation, you may need 18 "outs" or more (and that number may only include official errors).
For every new miscue, a pitcher may have to throw an extra 6 pitches or more to an another batter; suddenly, a 55-pitch outing becomes 70 pitches -- and the extra throws are always high stress with at least one more runner on base.
With errors torrential, pitch counts go exponential, with more injury potential -- new shortstop is essential
You said it better than I. To me, this is often overlooked as a reason pitcher numbers look worse than they should under just normal situations. Imagine having pitchers on your team that had a plus defense behind them, especially at SS!
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Let's give Romy Gonzalez a chance to prove he can field and otherwise make plays at SS without costing the pitchers extra "outs". If after a week of games , he cannot show this board what he can do to secure a spot in the Nation annals , then I'm sure we will inform Breslow accordingly and changes will be made.then
It would also be a plus if he can hit .250 at the MLB level, or otherwise be an OBP star.
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