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Post by jchang on Aug 12, 2018 10:38:44 GMT -5
Half the board is obnoxious every time a relief pitcher gives up a run. Guess some Red Sox fans can never be happy unless every game is at least 8-0. Jim, this bullpen has had 2 games in the past week where they have had at least 2 blown saves. The offense picked up this bullpen. It took a error to win that last Yankee game. This team is something special, but the bullpen might need to start pitching better if they are going to win. The only thing that gives me hope is that the Astros won despite a bullpen that had over a 5 ERA in the playoffs last year. Hey at least the Sox found a 7th inning man in Brasier. Barnes is a good 8th inning man. Kimbrel will do for the rest of the year as a closer. That isn't a bad start to a bullpen if you add a starter to it. per baseball-reference (today, meaning yesterdays game included?) We have had 50 Save opp, 37 saves, 13 BSv, for a 74.0% save rate, second in MLB to Was at 75.6% (41 SvOp, 10 BSv) with MFY and Oak close at 73.9%. Oh what a disaster in the bullpen, the sky is falling, fire the responsible person, and a scapegoat too! Player BSv Wgr (Wins in Relief) Kimbrel 4 3 Hembree 3 4 Kelly 3 4 Barnes 2 4 Smith 1 1 Our pitching bWAR is 23.1, second to Phi-23.5 (third is Hou-19.4) the five mostly starters: Sale (6.2), Price (2.8), Porcello (2.2), Rod (2.7), Pom (-.2) contributed 13.7 the three SP/RP BJ (.9), Vel (1.6) and Wright (.9) contributed 3.4 and the pure relievers combine for 6.1 btw, avg pitching WAR is 9.88, so our RPs (including combo guys in RP) probably put up as much in WAR as league average for all pitchers SP+RP
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Post by jchang on Aug 11, 2018 8:23:01 GMT -5
Dangerous Dan Butler. Good for him. how is Danger not Butler's nick name?
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Post by jchang on Aug 8, 2018 10:15:12 GMT -5
If we only read the comments, its hard to seem the team as playoff competitive, never mind a historically great season
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Post by jchang on Aug 7, 2018 18:02:48 GMT -5
Price and Sale on Sat, then Pom on Sunday would seem to be a better fit
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Post by jchang on Aug 7, 2018 14:10:05 GMT -5
sorry to be off topic, but would we get compensation picks if either Pom or Kimbrel left in free agency?
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Post by jchang on Aug 6, 2018 17:47:49 GMT -5
I'm re-watching Andujar's field and throw. Charging was not clearly a better choice. so what the throw landed short, it was straight towards 1B, most times the 1B catch and holds on if Bird did not fully stretch out, maybe he would have been in a more stable position, its not like Bird had to stretch laterally
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Post by jchang on Aug 6, 2018 13:53:44 GMT -5
Devers will rehab at Lowell. He won't be the oldest player on the team. ADD: LOL, I'm a sick puppy, 1 1/2 hours sleep and it's late but had to look. 14 of his listed teammates are older than Devers. I meant to quote this one Devers will be expected to pay for dinner after game
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Post by jchang on Aug 5, 2018 9:33:26 GMT -5
I don’t think most people are upset with how he’s pitching his year overall. He’s been “solid”, but he’s been bad against the Yankees and that’s a problem. People care about the post season around here and until he puts some of those 2 run starts together in big games it doesn’t much matter if he’s solid otherwise. Just spitballing here but what if someone on the Yankees discovered a tell on Price and they have an idea of what is coming? Just a thought because I really don't believe Price is weak enough to let them into his head. Maybe I am wrong but he has had a career that would say otherwise. I wasn't bashing Price when I said I hope he is lights out for the remainder of the season. My issue is that he is drawing free-agent elite pay for a high 2 result this year. but in 21 and 22, at age 35-36, what will be? a 3 quality SP? his 32m contract will be a heavy burden. Can we resign Sale? it would simpler if Price found it opportunistic to opt out. Perhaps there will be whispers that the MFY would give him a raise? and more years? Or perhaps the Dodgers will help us out again, but give us prospects that pan out, unlike last time
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Post by jchang on Aug 4, 2018 18:28:43 GMT -5
I seem to recall Papelbon had one or more games in which he walked 3 then struck out the next three, it’s about the drama
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Post by jchang on Aug 4, 2018 18:26:39 GMT -5
Eovaldi was bWar 0.7 in 10 games, then 0.5 in his first games with us, maybe another 0.5 today?
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Post by jchang on Aug 4, 2018 18:16:24 GMT -5
Hopefully Price will go on a tear the rest of the season and opt out.
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Post by jchang on Aug 4, 2018 18:00:21 GMT -5
I can see a coach getting fired for being swept in critical 4 game division series
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Post by jchang on Aug 3, 2018 20:36:22 GMT -5
Good thing we had our stud ace to match against their best
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Post by jchang on Jul 31, 2018 9:07:36 GMT -5
I’ll take any abuse it it results in a win, but the results and peripherals to date have not been promising. Meh, even if Pomeranz throws a CG SO people saying he’s terrible and this is high probability loss don’t deserve ridicule. so normal Boston expectations then?
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Post by jchang on Jul 29, 2018 14:27:31 GMT -5
I went out for a bit a missed the parting of the red sea! or its equivalent It was on 4 pitches too. What the heck man! there is no video highlight for this!
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Post by jchang on Jul 29, 2018 14:17:14 GMT -5
Alert the media...Nunez just took a base on balls. I went out for a bit a missed the parting of the red sea! or its equivalent
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Post by jchang on Jul 28, 2018 10:35:16 GMT -5
Yesterday's critical hits 1. JBJ 2 run HR 2. Devers 9th inning game tying HR 3. Betts walk off HR I guess JDM isn't pulling his weight now? DFA the bum, no patience for slackers
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Post by jchang on Jul 15, 2018 12:31:26 GMT -5
nice to hear about Nava, nice to see he has made a decent living too
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Post by jchang on Jul 15, 2018 12:21:49 GMT -5
I turned off the sound between innings, and then missed it!
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Post by jchang on Jul 13, 2018 9:47:53 GMT -5
The way that ERA deals with errors is deeply flawed. The error that cost Happ 5 unearned runs costs you 0.7 runs on average.
Even if you're not going to adjust ER for changes in Run Expectancy, after what would have been the 3rd out, Happ gave up a walk to JBJ and a HR to Mookie. How is that not two earned runs? The "what-if" inning reconstructions that are used to determine which runs are earned and which unearned assume that the batters do the same thing even though the base/out situation would have been different. In which case, JBJ and Mookie lead off the next inning. Two earned runs. (And in fact, if they had changed pitchers to face JBJ, those runs would have earned for the pitcher but unearned for the team.)
It makes no sense. You can get the first 2 outs in an inning, have the catcher drop a foul pop, and then give up ten straight home runs, and they would all be unearned runs. However, if you retired a batter after the first five homers -- which is actually pitching better -- and then gave up homers to the next four guys, that would be four earned runs.
I just hate the assuming the samething happens, under a different set of conditions. We've seen pitchers get out of a jam then get 10 guys out in a row. Do you really think a pitcher getting rest can't change the outcome? I was just making a joke that Happ won the ERA contest. Only in Boston with the Sox on an epic season do we find reason to complain about past signing "mistakes" etc. Still, the other pivotal (non-)play in the inning was the 1B (Smoak) just barely failing to get Mookie on a pop-up foul (not far from my friends season ticket seats, though I failed to get an invite to this game). So basically, Happ got two consequential events of bad luck in the inning, the other being quick foot Devon. Napoleon Bonaparte once said, on being extolled the virtues of a particular general, "..., but is he lucky?" edit: and oh yeah, we should also count the Nunez single versus the expected (in this forum) GIDP as a minor miracle, and third piece of bad luck for Happ.
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Post by jchang on Jul 12, 2018 22:14:25 GMT -5
3 years ago, Price and Happ signed a 7 year deal and a 3 year deal. 3 years later Happ and Price have the same ERA and number of walks. Happ has more innings pitched and strikeouts. This suggests the Sox could have had made better decisions with their money at the time. Price gave up 3ER, Happ 0ER, and now has a better ERA than Price. Tough break for which?
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Post by jchang on Jul 12, 2018 15:07:19 GMT -5
Sale should adapt to throwing FB at 95, not 97+, also the burden is not on him to get us to the playoffs. Let the lesser pitchers burns themselves out. Sale should do just enough to be competitive and hit the playoffs with plenty of steam. There might be risk of missing the playoffs, which is little different from getting swept out in the first round.
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Post by jchang on Jul 11, 2018 12:59:18 GMT -5
The original post was best pedro's seen in a Sox uniform. If you want to hang your hat on one year on an otherwise coparatively unremarkable time with the Sox, that, I suppose up to you. I don't so I disagree that he's anywhere near the best in a Red Sox uni that I've seen and it's not close. But my whole point was that the first year after Ellsbury broke out in a big way, he had a major injury, so we don’t know what could have been. If he came close to replicating that he would have been insane too. I’m not arguing that he ended up anywhere close to one of the best Sox players we’ve seen. Ells big year was at age 27, the next year he was injured, then put up bWAR 5.7 at age 29, which is pretty good. After that he was in declined (and fortunately the MFY helped us avoid giving him an overpay contract). Given that Mookie is putting up the elite WAR values at 22/23, there should greater likelihood of an extended all-star career.
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Post by jchang on Jul 11, 2018 9:09:52 GMT -5
Mookie is on a better bWAR-age track the Pedroia. If we disregard Ells two injury years with us, he was probably an all-star calibre until age 29 with 1 elite year, then falling off to above average-to-average. Pedroia had a string of all-star years up to age 32, with 2015 being close to all-star pace at 93 games. Mookie hit the all-star level at age 22, Pedroia at age 24, and Ells at 27. Mookie is well above Ells, and could have a better career than Pedroia. I would rather Mookie stop trying to be a HR-hitter, thinking that this stuff takes a toll on a small body. Let the big boys do that.
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Post by jchang on Jul 8, 2018 16:28:00 GMT -5
Sandy got in on the multiple GIDP in one game act because he wanted love too
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