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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 21:01:48 GMT -5
Devers with a three run...single?
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 15:11:39 GMT -5
You have to have someone warming up here. To bring in after they take the lead? Lol |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 15:00:55 GMT -5
The scary thing is his velo is slightly down and he *still* can't locate it
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 14:55:44 GMT -5
What is wrong with Farrell? Why would you bring in Kimbrel here?!!
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 14:42:54 GMT -5
I don't buy that he's leaving guys in to make them feel good either.
I just think he believes in guys "cruising" and underrates the times through the order effect, like pretty much every manager.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 14:39:29 GMT -5
Who did you guys want him to bring in? Kimbrel? Not gonna happen. Zieger and either Ross or Abad should have been warming to start the inning, and either should have come on after the first baserunner reached. No I'm talking about the people complaining that he brought in Abad instead of somebody else. There is no obvious better option there against a switch hitter. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 14:36:29 GMT -5
Who did you guys want him to bring in? Kimbrel? Not gonna happen.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 14:35:08 GMT -5
Does anyone else's stomach churn the second they see any Red Sox reliever in a close game? Yep. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 13:18:57 GMT -5
His Salem and Lowell coaches say Kopech has an arm unlike any they have ever seen before (I may be paraphrasing). I know you like to create your own meaning for common terms, but what they mean is that he throws incredibly hard. Not that he's some generational pitching prospect. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 13:13:36 GMT -5
And they still got it wrong!
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 13:12:55 GMT -5
How is this taking so long? How is MLB so bad at this?
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 15, 2016 12:44:54 GMT -5
Butterfield sucks.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 15:24:15 GMT -5
"It costs you nothing" assuming you don't let him near a high leverage situation, in which case what is the point?
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 14:16:17 GMT -5
Amazing.
Mookie's power is like if deepjohn's Kopech predictions actually came true.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 14:09:55 GMT -5
I seriously doubt he gets a 200m extension unless it's some sort of forever Stanton-like contract.
He's obviously a 200m player but he'll likely need to go to free agency to get it.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 14:03:28 GMT -5
His ERA was 49 something. There is no stat that doesn't break when you give up 9 runs in less than 2 innings. Granted. I realize that. I'm just saying that the "he got unlucky" argument becomes irrelevant at some point when you get hit that hard. Yeah, luck wasn't on his side. He still sucked, and FIP misses that. Anyway, I've said my piece. I don't disagree. Using FIP to say Greinke was unlucky today betrays a serious misunderstanding of the purposes of FIP. That's not FIP's fault, though. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 13:53:18 GMT -5
My sources tell me the only reason the Red Sox aren't calling up Kopech is because he would just be too dominant and they don't want other teams to resent them for embarassing their hitters.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 13:50:40 GMT -5
If the bullpen needs help, I expect Kopech to be promoted to AA in the next week or so, and then get called up Ahaha. Here comes the hedging now that you know it's not happening (not that you ever really believed it). You are classic, man, I'll give you that. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 13:43:10 GMT -5
I think Greinke hasn't had very good luck in this game, giving up 359 foot and 360 foot home runs to go along with a .778 BABIP. 48.60 ERA and a 1.53 xFIP This is one game where I question the accuracy of the various FIP models as tools to evaluate the pitcher's performance. When a pitcher gives up several runs on bloops and grounders, then yeah, it's fair to say that he's probably pitching better than his results. That was not this. These hits were crushed all over the park - or out of it. His ERA was 49 something. There is no stat that doesn't break when you give up 9 runs in less than 2 innings. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 13:34:23 GMT -5
This interview is what Strieski was born to do.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 14, 2016 13:06:13 GMT -5
This team can't hit good pitching.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 12, 2016 16:55:08 GMT -5
 Mike Antonellis @seadogsradio Yoan Moncada starting at third base tonight. First of his career. |
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 10, 2016 21:14:55 GMT -5
Wow this is ugly. Here comes the grand slam.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 10, 2016 21:10:00 GMT -5
It's funny how people thought Abad was good because he was a trade deadline acquisition.
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Post by burythehammer on Aug 10, 2016 15:17:41 GMT -5
My take: the plan for Kopech would be September of next year with the possibility of being a bullpen weapon down the stretch and in the playoffs. Then back to AAA in 2018 for more starts until needed in the rotation, perhaps. obi van, there's this: They gave Mookie 253 PA in AA with even better numbers, so a promotion to AAA in less than 6 weeks would be a faster track. I think he plays a few weeks in AAA to end the season, starts there next year, and shows up sometimes in 2017. Correct predictions we sometimes make not.  The difference is most of us, even Eric, actually believe our predictions when we make them and aren't just trolling. |
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