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Post by kaybli on May 21, 2024 16:19:24 GMT -5
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:35:26 GMT -5
Bryan Woo starts the 2nd game of the series for the Mariners. Selected by Seattle in the 6th round in 2021, he zoomed through rookie, A and High-A ball in just 16 starts with a very high K rate and a low HR rate in 2022. After 9 outstanding starts in AA, to deal with injuries and poor performance into the rotation, Woo was called to the majors in early June. He made 18 starts for the M's last year, and did fine: 4-5, 4.21 ERA. In 87 2/3 innings, he gave up 75 hits, 44 runs, 41 earned, 13 HR, 31 BB and struck out 93. His WHIP was a solid 1.209. This year, he suffered elbow inflammation in spring training and the M's sat him down for a month. He did a rehab stint in AAA, making 3 starts there, and returned to the majors on May 10th. He left that game after 4 1/3 outstanding innings with forearm tightness, but returned to make his regular turn in the rotation against the Royals 6 days ago. He pitched very well for 5 1/3 innings in that one, increasing his pitch count from 62 to 79 and seems to have come out of that start OK, but the symptoms in his arm are ones that are generally mentioned before a pitcher winds up needing Tommy John surgery. In his two starts, Woo is 1-0 with an ERA of 0.93. In 9 2/3 innings, he's allowed just 4 hits, 1 run (earned) 0 HR, 2 BB and has K'd 8. His WHIP in this tiny sample of innings is a microscopic 0.621.
Woo pitched against the Yanks once in his rookie season. In his 4th major league start, he got his first major league win, shutting the Yanks out for 5 1/3 innings on 2 hits and 3 walks, while striking out 5 in a 10-2 shellacking the Mariners gave the Yanks at the Stadium on June 22. Obviously, this will be his 2nd start against the Yanks. The Yanks' team quadruple slash line against Woo (tiny sample size and all) is .111/.238/.111/.349.
Repertoire: Woo was a four (really five) -pitch righty in his rookie season, but has junked his cutter so far this year, possibly due to concerns about his pitching arm, and he's distributed the 18% or so of he cutters he used to throw about equally into his other 3 (really 4) pitches. The assortment so far this season: He relies very heavily on his fastballs. Between the 4-seam and the sinker, he averages 94-5, and throws the two of them almost 80% of the time, combined. I assume that the sinker is 1-3 mph slower than the 4-seam with more run arm-side and, obviously, more sinking action. His most-used offspeed is a slider about 84 that he throws 13-14%; he also has a change 89-90 he uses 8-9% of the time.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:36:11 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Tons of "Brian"s in MLB history, but the modern variant Bryan is far less popular, and mostly a modern appellation. The overwhelming majority of Bryans who've played in the major have done so in the last 30-40 years, and eight of them are currently active. The best career of any of them, at least until Woo passes them by if he can, is either Bryan Harvey, the successful closer for the Angels and Marlins who saved 177 games over 6 seasons in the late 80s and early 90s before his pitching arm died, or Bryan Reynolds, the All-Star outfielder of the Pirates. Pages and pages of "Wood"s, "Woods"s and other longer variants, such as Woodhead and Woodruff, but Bryan is the only Woo in MLB history. Woo-hoo!
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:36:49 GMT -5
Opposing Woo, the Yanks will throw Clarke Schmidt, who has been great of late. He had the best and longest start of his career against the Rays in Tampa 11 days ago, then followed it up with an even better and longer start against the Twins in Minneapolis in his last start. On the season, Schmidt is 5-1 in 9 starts with an ERA of 2.49, good enough for 3rd in the AL in wins, and 8th in ERA. He's also 10th in the league in K's per 9 innings. In 50 2/3 innings, he's allowed 42 hits, 15 runs, 14 earned, 5 HR, 15 BB and stuck out 55, and his WHIP has come down to an excellent 1.125. (It was nearly 1.5 after his first five starts, it's been under 0.8 in his last four.)
As with Woo, this is just Schmidt's 2nd game against the M's, and his 2nd start. His first in late May of last season in Seattle was outstanding: 5 2/3 shutout innings, allowing 3 hits and 3 BB and striking out 7. He got a no-decision in a 1-0 loss. George Kirby fired 8 shutout innings of 3 hit, 7-K ball at the Yanks, and Cal Raleigh lead off the M's 10th by singling off Ron Marinaccio to knock in the ghost runner in a 1-0 Mariners win. Again, it's just one game and just 21 PA, but the Mariners' team quadruple slash line vs. Schmidt is: .150/.191/.150/.341.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:37:35 GMT -5
Yanks' lineup vs. Woo: Only four Yankees on the current 26-man roster faced Woo in his one start against them last season (Judge was on the IL with his foot injury):
Volpe is 0-1 with a BB
Stanton is 0-2
Rizzo is 1-2 with a BB and a K
Torres is 1-3 with 1 K
On the bench: with Judge getting a half-day off today and the usual lineup re-arrangement: Stanton sits, Judge to DH and Grisham in center. Cabrera back in the lineup at 3rd and Berti on the bench. Wells catching and batting 6th, Trevino on the bench.
Mariners lineup vs. Schmidt: In contrast to the Yanks and Woo, 9 current Mariners have faced Schmidt before, despite him having pitching almost the exact same number of innings against them as Woo vs. the Yanks:
Crawford is 1-3
Rodriguez is 2-3
Raley is 1-4 with a double, 1 BB and 1 K
Raleigh is 0-2 with a K
Canzone has never faced Schmidt.
Garver is 1-3
France is 0-3 with 2 K
Rojas has never faced him
Moore hasn't either
On the bench, Polanco is 0-1, Zavala is 2-2 with 2 HR and 3 RBI; Zavala was on the White Sox then, and Urias is 1-3 with 1 K
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:38:26 GMT -5
Yesterday, the Yanks blew two three-run leads and took a crushing 5-4 loss against the M's, with Clay Holmes allowing his first runs and blowing his first save of the season. Yanks got 4 runs, but flubbed numerous opportunities to tack on, grounding into 3 double plays. The loss snapped their 7-game winning streak. The did get some help from the Cards, who took an early 5-0 lead on the O's and held on to win 6-3. The Red Sox whitewashed the Rays 5-0 in Tampa. The Jays, backed by a great start by Alex Manoah, crushed the feeble White Sox 9-3 in Toronto.
The Yanks' loss drops them back to 17 over .500 at 33-16. They're still 2 games up on the Orioles, and 8 up on the Rays, so they're a bit lucky that their two closest chasers didn't gain ground, but the Sox climbed to 8 1/2 back and the Jays to 10 1/2 out of 1st.
Elsewhere in the AL East today: Besides the Yanks-M's game at the Stadium at 7:07, the Rays play the 2nd game of their series against the Sox at 6:50. Rookie Cooper Criswell, 2-1 2.76 ERA for Boston, Zack Littell, 2-2 3.44 ERA for the Rays. The White Sox and Jays play their 2nd game at the same start time as the Yankee game, 7:07. White Sox' notional ace Garrett Crochett, 4-4..4.18 ERA for Chicago, and lefty Yusei Kikuchi, 2-3 2.60 ERA for Toronto. Finally, the O's play their 2nd game in St. Louis at 7:45, Kyle Bradish, still looking for his 1st win in his 4th start since coming off the IL for the O's, he's 0-0 with a 2.63 ERA so far. Veteran righty and ex-Yankee Lance Lynn goes to the mound for St. Louis; he's 4-4 with an ERA of 4.17 so far this season.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:41:49 GMT -5
Mariners' Lineup for tonight:
1. Crawford SS
2. J. Rodriguez CF
3. Raley LF
4. Raleigh C
5. Canzone RF
6. France 1B
7. Garver DH
8. J. Rojas 3B
9. Moore 2B
10. Woo SP
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 16:44:44 GMT -5
And that wraps up the preview data drop for this afternoon. See you in about 83 minutes or so for 1st pitch.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 18:01:48 GMT -5
Red Sox and Rays are underway in Tampa, 0-0 bottom 1st. Criswell against Littell in that one.
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Post by ill636 on May 21, 2024 18:07:46 GMT -5
Missed way too many opportunities yesterday. We need an offensive blast from the Yankee hitters.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 18:08:52 GMT -5
Schmidt on the mound throwing his final warmups. Crawford about to step in.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 18:11:22 GMT -5
Game underway. Crawford...
Takes a sinker above the knees at 97 (!?!), 0-1
Cutter into the top of the zone near middle, 0-2
Cutter backs up high over the outside corner, 1-2
Curve drops low, 2-2
Cutter turning inside jams him a little, his flare liner to 3rd is caught by Cabrera with a big leap, fine play, 1 down.
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Post by chiyankee on May 21, 2024 18:11:29 GMT -5
Air Oswaldo!
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Post by ill636 on May 21, 2024 18:13:03 GMT -5
For what it is worth, I am having a hard listening to the guy with Kay. Frazier?
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 21, 2024 18:13:26 GMT -5
Rodriguez chases a slider well out of the zone low/away 0-1
Curve to the same spot taken 1-1
Pulls off a cutter in the zone up and away, 1-2
Curve bounced outside, 2-2
Cutter on the high outside corner, spoiled
Cutter above the low outside corner, fouled off
Slider low and outside, count goes full
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