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Post by laurenfrances on May 10, 2024 14:45:08 GMT -5
Anthony Volpe (R) SS
Juan Soto (L) RF
Aaron Judge (R) CF
Alex Verdugo (L) LF
Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Jose Trevino (R) C
Jon Berti (R) 3B
Yandy Díaz (R) 1B
Randy Arozarena (R) LF
Josh Lowe (L) RF
Isaac Paredes (R) 3B
Harold Ramírez (R) DH
Jonny DeLuca (R) CF
Richie Palacios (L) 2B
José Caballero (R) SS
Alex Jackson (R) C
Taj Bradley
RHP
0-0, -.-- ERA, 0 SO
Clarke Schmidt
RHP
3-1, 3.50 ERA, 41 SO
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Post by chiyankee on May 10, 2024 14:50:53 GMT -5
Let's start a new win streak!
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Post by kaybli on May 10, 2024 15:52:00 GMT -5
Let's start a new win streak! Longer than the previous one! |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 16:15:55 GMT -5
Taj Bradley, former highly rated pitching prospect, throws for the Rays tonight. Drafted by the Rays in the 5th round of the 2018 Rule 4 Draft, he had poor results in his first two seasons in the minors, but in the weird COVID season in 2020 when the minors didn't play, like all other minor leagues, he was in the developmental camp of his team, and boy, did he develop. He pitched great in A and high A in 2021, and nearly as great in AA and AAA in 2022. At that point he was a good enough prospect to be rated in the top 100 by all three major online prospect lists before the 2022 season, and was again top 100 on both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline (which had Bradley as the #20 prospect in all of MLB for that list).
In 2023, he struggled. Because of multiple injuries to the Rays normal starting five, Bradley bounced back and forth between AAA and the majors, pitching poorly at both levels. 2-5 with a 6.45 ERA in 10 starts at Durham, and 5-8 with a 5.59 ERA in 21 starts in the majors. He struck out a lot of hitters, over 11 per 9 innings, but his walk rate was high, and he allowed 2 HR per 9 innings. His WHIP was a rather high 1.385. This season, he suffered a pectoral strain in spring training, and had to rehab until two weeks ago, which the Rays sent him to Durham for a couple of tune-up starts. He pitched great, giving up just 2 hits and 1 BB while striking out 15 in 11 innings. He appears ready to go, and the Rays are calling him up to make his first start this season tonight. As Bradley did not face the Yanks at all last season, this is his first appearance against them.
Repertoire: Bradley was a hard-throwing 4-pitch righty last year. FB averaging 96 thrown about 45% of the time, cutter 89 about 25% of the time, curve 79 about 17% of the time, and change 89 about twice an inning. Whether he'll make any changes to that mix for this season...we'll just have to wait and see.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 16:16:52 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Bradley is the first and only Taj in MLB history. There have been two dozen major league players with the last name Bradley, including one who founded a major board game company, Milton. (Actually, the game company was founded in Massachusetts in 1860, 118 years before the outfielder was born. Hasbro bought them out in 1984, merged them with Parker Brothers in 1998, and discontinued manufacturing games under the name Milton Bradley in 2009. I enjoyed playing Life, Battleship and even Yahtzee when I was a kid. Sigh.)
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 16:17:27 GMT -5
The Yanks send Clarke Schmidt to oppose Bradley. Schmidt has been erratic from start to start, inning to inning and even pitch to pitch, but has generally been somewhat better than last season so far this year. He still has the same command issues, and the same durability issues within a game, finding it nearly impossible to get through any other team's lineup three times in the same game. In 7 starts, he's 3-1 with a 3.50 ERA. In 36 innings, he's allowed 34 hits, 15 runs, 14 earned, 5 HR, and 13 BB with 41 K. His WHIP is a mediocre 1.305 so far.
This will be the 10th appearance against the Rays for Schmidt in his career; 5 of them in relief, 5 of them starts. He's 1-3 against them with a 3.77 ERA. In 28 2/3 innings, he's allowed 28 hits, 14 runs, 12 earned, 2 HR, and 5 BB, and K'd 29. His WHIP against the Rays is very good: 1.151. His last start against the Rays was 3 weeks ago at the Stadium. He did a good job, allowing just 1 run in 5 1/3 innings, allowing 7 hits, a solo HR for the only run, struck out 7 and didn't walk anyone. He left trailing 1-0, but the Yanks took him off the hook by scoring 5 runs in the 7th, aided by two Rays' errors and caps by another big HR by Soto, a 3 run shot off of Chris Devenski. The Yanks wound up winning 5-3. Schmidt has never pitched against the Rays in the postseason. The Rays' team quadruple slash line against Schmidt is .257/.292/.404/.656
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 16:18:05 GMT -5
Yanks' lineup vs. Bradley
Although Bradley has never faced the Yankees, one Yankee has faced him before:
Verdugo is an absurd 5 for 5 against Bradley, 3 of the hits are doubles, 1 is a triple. He has 1 RBI and 1 BB against him as well.
Rays' lineup vs. Schmidt
Diaz is 3-9 with 1 double, 2 RBI, and 1 K
Arozarena is 2-14 with 1 double, 1 RBI, a sac fly, and 3 K
J. Lowe is 1-5 with a double, a RBI, 1 BB and 2 K.
Paredes is 4-9 with 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K and 1 GIDP
Ramirez is 3-10 with 1 double, 1 RBI and 2 K
DeLuca has never faced him
Palacios is 1-2, a solo HR and 1 HBP
Caballero is 1-2 with a K
Jackson has never faced him
On the bench, Rosario is 2-7 with a solo HR and 2 K. Siri is 3-4 with a double and a K, and Rortvedt has batted against him twice and K'd twice. His quadruple slash line is much worse than the sum of these batter vs. pitcher lines: .318/.352/.530/.882. A lot of the current Rays hit Schmidt well, at least in tiny sample sizes.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 16:19:33 GMT -5
Yesterday, the Astros escaped the Stadium with one win in the series, hanging on to a 4-3 win. The Yanks fell behind 3-0 in the 1st, but rallied and had the tying run at 2nd with 1 out in the 9th before Hader with a flyout and a whiff of Volpe to end it. All the other East teams were off yesterday, so the Yanks will either lost a 1/2 game to all four.
Right now, the Yanks are 1/2 game back of the O's for 1st in the division, the Red Sox are 5 games behind the Yanks, the Rays are 5 1/2 behind, and the Jays are 7 behind and 7 1/2 out of first.
Elsewhere in the AL East today:
The Orioles begin a 3-game series against the D'backs at 7:05 pm; the D'backs come in having won 4 in a row, Playoff standout Brandon Pfaadt 1-2, 4.61 ERA is opposed by Cole Irvin, 3-1, 2.86 ERA
The Jays open a 3-game set at home against the Twins at 7:07 pm. The Twins have won 3 out of 4 and 14 of 16. Joe Ryan, 1-2, 3.54 ERA will take on Yusei Kikuchi, 2-2, 2.72 ERA.
The Red Sox host a surprising competent Nationals team in the first of a 3-game interleague series at 7:10 pm. Patrick Corbin takes his long-gone former ace turned slag-arm self to the mound against Tanner Houck. Corbin is 0-3 with a 6.45 ERA and that's not deceptive. He's allowing almost 13 hits per 9 innings and his WHIP is consequently near a dreadful 1.800. Tanner Houck has been ace-like this season; despite the 3-3 record, his ERA is 1.99, he's allowed just 1 HR in 7 starts, his K/BB ratio is 46 to 7. and his WHIP is under 1.000. For those of you who follow these things, the money line on betting sites for this game is roughly 9-11 in favor of the Sox, meaning they're basically 2 to 1 favorites.
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Post by Renfield on May 10, 2024 16:23:06 GMT -5
Boone doesn't seem to be as obsessed with giving players rest days this year. I generally approve.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 16:31:32 GMT -5
Boone doesn't seem to be as obsessed with giving players rest days this year. I generally approve. Starting lineup is much better and the bench is much worse. We'll see what happens if/when DJ gets off the IL. Jasson Dominguez, too. |
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Post by laurenfrances on May 10, 2024 16:46:59 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Bradley is the first and only Taj in MLB history. There have been two dozen major league players with the last name Bradley, including one who founded a major board game company, Milton. (Actually, the game company was founded in Massachusetts in 1860, 118 years before the outfielder was born. Hasbro bought them out in 1984, merged them with Parker Brothers in 1998, and discontinued manufacturing games under the name Milton Bradley in 2009. I enjoyed playing Life, Battleship and even Yahtzee when I was a kid. Sigh.) Bradley as in Bill Bradley, playing ten-year of professional basketball career for the Knicks, |
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Post by qimqam on May 10, 2024 17:19:31 GMT -5
Schmidt has been a lot better this season then last ... His ERA is over a full point lower, and pretty much everything is lower except for BB but his SO/W ratio is down
He still gets in trouble after 5 innings but that seems more psychological then physical
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 17:48:36 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Bradley is the first and only Taj in MLB history. There have been two dozen major league players with the last name Bradley, including one who founded a major board game company, Milton. (Actually, the game company was founded in Massachusetts in 1860, 118 years before the outfielder was born. Hasbro bought them out in 1984, merged them with Parker Brothers in 1998, and discontinued manufacturing games under the name Milton Bradley in 2009. I enjoyed playing Life, Battleship and even Yahtzee when I was a kid. Sigh.) Bradley as in Bill Bradley, playing ten-year of professional basketball career for the Knicks, There was also a baseball player named Bill Bradley, who spent most of his 1s year career with the Cleveland (then) Indians. He was mostly a 3rd baseman and wound up his career with a .271 BAVG and 1471 hits playing from 1899 (with the Cubs) until 1910 with the Indians. www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bradlbi01.shtml |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 17:50:08 GMT -5
The "bill comes due" for having Kay, Cone and O'Neill for the Astros series. None of them are here to do the Rays series, which will be Flats and Jeff Nelson.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 10, 2024 17:50:53 GMT -5
Game underway, Volpe fouls off a FB at 98.
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