Author Topic: Today's Game - 2025 season (Read 328757 times)

BillSharp · « **Reply #10300 on:** May 01, 2022, 08:24:33 pm »

another bad defensive game. Harrison, Anderson, McGuire & Pollock all with bad gloves.

a guy like Keuchel with no velocity has to have pinpoint control & movement. He's walked 11 in 15 innings and his pitches are flat.

josephc · « **Reply #10301 on:** May 02, 2022, 09:04:44 am »

I sure hope Keuchel's days are numbered.

msf · « **Reply #10302 on:** May 02, 2022, 12:09:43 pm »

Quote from: josephc on May 02, 2022, 09:04:44 am

I sure hope Keuchel's days are numbered.

Cueto went 4 shutout with 0 walks and 6 Ks his last outing

BillSharp · « **Reply #10303 on:** May 02, 2022, 07:03:02 pm »

today Cease had a change up that was better than I've ever seen him have.

msf · « **Reply #10304 on:** May 02, 2022, 07:24:30 pm »

Cease is slowly turning into that stud we all expected. Too bad Eloy is broken.

PeteWard · « **Reply #10305 on:** May 04, 2022, 09:50:10 pm »

Three in a row! That's a winning streak! Break up the White Sox!

PeteWard · « **Reply #10306 on:** May 04, 2022, 09:53:56 pm »

Thank God Matt Foster has returned to form. Was listening on Sirius and when DJ said Bummer was warming up I thought "they're gonna need more runs". Went away for a while and sure enough, come back to find Cubs on the corners and only one out.

PeteWard · « **Reply #10307 on:** May 04, 2022, 09:54:46 pm »

Good to see Abreu with good at bats. Now they got to get Pollock straightened out.

aka Loveland · « **Reply #10308 on:** May 05, 2022, 03:53:31 am »

msf · « **Reply #10309 on:** May 06, 2022, 10:49:17 am »

I really liked Foster 2 years ago, last year he did poorly. Sounds like he has a chance again.

BillSharp · « **Reply #10310 on:** May 06, 2022, 05:10:55 pm »

last year he was gasoline. Hit bad every freaking time out.

relief pitchers are weird.

msf · « **Reply #10311 on:** May 06, 2022, 05:54:34 pm »

Yep, so many relievers over the years like that, every other year type crap, or 2 great years and then nothing.

PeteWard · « **Reply #10312 on:** May 08, 2022, 05:03:12 pm »

Six in a row!. Glad they are winning but would like to see an occasional offensive outburst so they could give the bullpen an occasional rest

BillSharp · « **Reply #10313 on:** May 08, 2022, 05:36:39 pm »

nice job by the back end of the pen.

Harrison (35 in July) - .145
Pollock (34) - .176

these guys seem to be following the predictable Sox pattern of acquiring old vets just before their production falls off a cliff.

We have big roster questions.
Moncada will be coming off the IL/DL, so I assume Mendick goes down again - who gets sent down when Vaughn comes back?

Joe Kelly comes off rehab soon, which reliever gets sent down?

BillSharp · « **Reply #10314 on:** May 08, 2022, 09:25:41 pm »

just read that Bummer is going on the IL/DL.

And that Eloy just had surgery.

josephc · « **Reply #10315 on:** May 09, 2022, 01:09:02 pm »

Quote from: BillSharp on May 08, 2022, 05:36:39 pm

these guys seem to be following the predictable Sox pattern of acquiring old vets just before their production falls off a cliff.

One could argue that, in Harrison's case, it was well after his production had already fallen off of said cliff.

Pollock's peripherals are concerning.... his batted ball rates are not looking good.

BillSharp · « **Reply #10316 on:** May 09, 2022, 03:00:25 pm »

except that in 2020 & 2021 Harrison's BA, OBP and SLG were better than his career numbers.

josephc · « **Reply #10317 on:** May 09, 2022, 10:01:30 pm »

Quote from: BillSharp on May 09, 2022, 03:00:25 pm

except that in 2020 & 2021 Harrison's BA, OBP and SLG were better than his career numbers.

You're right.
I keep just comparing him to his one-hit wonder year in 2014.

Thank you for citing OBP and SLG in the process.

BillSharp · « **Reply #10318 on:** May 10, 2022, 01:19:17 am »

Sox give up 12 runs - only 4 were earned.

I can't remember seeing that before.

PeteWard · « **Reply #10319 on:** May 10, 2022, 08:18:30 am »

Yeah, that was pretty ugly.

aka Loveland · « **Reply #10320 on:** May 10, 2022, 03:52:35 pm »

Slash lines are all that matter gentlemen. Until they aren’t.

josephc · « **Reply #10321 on:** May 11, 2022, 07:32:54 am »

On the aggregate, slash lines are a great way to judge.
On an individual game level, they are more than offset by statistical noise.
TA needs to figure out what’s going on with him.

aka Loveland · « **Reply #10322 on:** May 11, 2022, 10:57:42 am »

Key word was all.

josephc · « **Reply #10323 on:** May 12, 2022, 01:46:58 am »

No argument there

PeteWard · « **Reply #10324 on:** May 12, 2022, 08:49:57 pm »

Very frustrating game. Cease with 11 K's thru 4 innings but has given up 6 runs. Seems when the Yanks hit 'em, they're hitting 'em a long way