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Post by laurenfrances on Jul 3, 2024 17:29:42 GMT -5
Jonathan India (R) 2B
Elly De La Cruz (S) SS
Jeimer Candelario (S) 1B
Spencer Steer (R) LF
Tyler Stephenson (R) C
Noelvi Marte (R) 3B
Stuart Fairchild (R) CF
Santiago Espinal (R) DH
Blake Dunn (R) RF
Anthony Volpe (R) SS
Juan Soto (L) RF
Aaron Judge (R) CF
J.D. Davis (R) 1B
Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Alex Verdugo (L) LF
DJ LeMahieu (R) 3B
Jahmai Jones (R) DH
Jose Trevino (R) C
Carlos Rodón
LHP
9-5, 4.42 ERA, 92 SO
Andrew Abbott
LHP
7-6, 3.41 ERA, 72 SO
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 3, 2024 17:42:44 GMT -5
Sitting Rice and Wells.  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 17:51:16 GMT -5
Sitting Rice and Wells. Abbott is a lefty and lefties have a .605 OPS vs. him. For righties, it's .753. Not saying it's the right play, neccesarily, but that's why. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 17:51:37 GMT -5
The Reds send Andrew Abbott to the mound tonight for the middle game with a good chance to win and deny the Yanks a series win for the 6th straight series. Originally a 36th round pick of the Yankees in 2017, he decided to pitch for the University of Virginia and was drafted for the second time by the Reds in the 2nd round in 2021.
He made a brief appearance in rookie ball that season, then made 4 outstanding starts in A-ball in 2022, and then struggled a bit in AA, going 7-7 with a 4.75 ERA in 20 starts. In 2023, he had three great starts in AA and 7 more good starts in AAA, and the Reds called him up to their rotationin early June. A deceptive lefty, his deception kept hitters from getting a book on him for a while. In his first 10 starts, he was 6-2 with a 1.90 ERA. But the league did figure him out, and in his last 11 starts, he was 2-4 with a 6.42 ERA. On the season he was 8-6 with a 3.87 ERA. He made some adjustments over the winter and has so far been a good #3 type starter for the Reds this season, if a bit short on innings. In 16 starts this season, he's 7-6 with a 3.41 ERA. In 89 2/3 innings, he's allowed 76 hits, 35 runs, 34 earned, 16 HR and 32 BB and he's K'd 76. His WHIP is a solid 1.204. In his last 4 starts, he's pitched well, 3-1, 3.48 ERA, but has gone past 5 innings in just one of the four. Tonight is his first-ever appearance against the Yankees. A deceptive lefty they've never seen before; that oughta be fun, huh, gang?
Repertoire: Abbott is a fastball-heavy 5-pitch, uhh, lefty. He throws the 4-seamer, the sweeper as his main slider, the curve and the change. He also throws a more traditional slider maybe once every three games. He gets much less drop than average on his offspeed stuff: curve, change, and the sweeper, though the sweeper does better than the other two. He gets better than average run on the FB and tail on the change. The horizontal movement on the other three is basically average. By run value, the change is a small plus, the sweeper and fastball are larger plusses, and the curve is a small minus. The rarely used normal slider has been hit hard the few times he's used it, which may why he's stopped using it. If I'm reading the batted ball tables right, how he's succeeding this year is something of a mystery. His chase rate is below average and so is his swinging strike rate and so is his CSW% (Called strikes plus swing and miss percentage). He gets a lot of soft contact; not sure how. His line drive rate is slightly below average, his ground ball rate is a little above average. His barrel rate and hard hit rate are both significantly below average, but he doesn't get many popups. In fact, his popup rate is below average. His FB spin is average, and the velo is below average. The curve spin is elite, and his extension is slightly above average. The pitch mix so far this season: FB averaging 93 about 55% of the time, change 85 about 17%, slider 82-3 about 15%, curve 81 about 13%, and he's thrown all of five regular sliders total this season.
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Post by inger on Jul 3, 2024 17:52:06 GMT -5
Sitting Rice and Wells. Gives us a chance to get those two big right bats in there, Davis and Jones… 🤓 |
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Post by inger on Jul 3, 2024 17:53:26 GMT -5
I’m going to start this one watching without my phone, as it’s nearly dead. I was doing housework and ignoring it. Oops…
See you in a few innings, unless Rodon poops the bed again… if he does, no guarantees…
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 17:54:05 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Andrew; there have been over 100 Andys, Andrews and Drews in MLB history. A few of the well-remembered, if not particularly great Yankee Andys: Stankiewicz, Heaney, Benintendi, Carey and Miller (well Miller was great in his time with the Yanks). On the hitting side, the greatest Andrew in MLB history is probably the still-active Andrew McCutcheon, back where he started and achieved his greatest success with the Pirates this season after time with the Phillies, the Brewers, the Giants, and yes, part of 2018 with the Yankees. On the pitching side, the greatest Andy in MLB history is the Yanks' own Andy Pettitte, hero of many a clutch game in the post-season (and a few shellackings thrown in, too.). On the "Abbott" side, the most famous Abbott in MLB history was undoubtedly William "Bud" Abbott, the tall straight man in the famous comedy duo of Abbott and Costello, for their well-loved and often-performed comedy routine "Who's on first?" Beloved for almost 100 years by generations of baseball fans, I wonder if nowadays its fame is fading because it's "corny". Not to me, but maybe it's not as popular with fans nowadays.
Aside from comedy, the best MLB player (of 12) with the last name Abbott is the the courageous one-handed pitcher, Jim Abbott. Despite being born without a right hand, he managed to work his way to the majors and stay there for 10 seasons, winning 87 games. The Saturday before Labor Day, 1993, while pitching for the Yanks, Abbott pitched a no-hitter at the Stadium against the Cleveland Indians. I was there that day; it's the only no-hitter I've seen in person among perhaps 300 major league games I've attended in my life. A digression: I was sitting in the last row of Main Reserve, in a seat where a wall pillar jutted out and separated it for the seat next to it. That seat was always available at Ticketmaster, because I went to games alone usually, and most people go in couples or groups, and I enjoyed because it was right next to an exit to the parking lot by the big smokestack bat right across the street at the second Stadium. It also gave me plenty of leg room. It cost $10 when I first started trying to get that seat, and was $12 later on (Imagine that; sitting in the lower bowl of the Stadium for 10 bucks.)
It was the perfect seat, except when sitting there, you couldn't follow exactly where popups and flyballs were. But I had a clear view of Carlos Baerga's grounder to Andy Velarde that ended the no-hitter, watched the celebration for a little bit, then darted to the nearby exit, out the Stadium, and across the street, and I was out of the parking lot and back on the Major Deegan south headed home before most of the crowd got out of the park. As a teacher, I took advantage of the summer and the relatively cheap prices to go to a game a homestand, sometimes more than one if the weather was good, but school started up again that Tuesday. I went to the game thinking a bit sadly I'd have to stop going to games during the week, and that I might not get a chance to go again that season, but that was a perfect afternoon, a great game and a great way to end my summer vacation in 1993.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 3, 2024 17:54:54 GMT -5
Sitting Rice and Wells. Abbott is a lefty and lefties have a .605 OPS vs. him. For righties, it's .753. Not saying it's the right play, neccesarily, but that's why. We'll never know what Rice and Wells will do against lefties if they don't get the chance, especially Rice. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 17:59:20 GMT -5
To say that Carlos Rodon has been bad lately is a vast understatement; he's been brutal, burying the Yanks early in each of his last three starts, bereft of his top stuff and lacking all command within the zone. In just 3 starts, he's gone from an outstanding 9-2 with a 2.93 ERA to a nerve-wracking 9-5 with a 4.42 ERA. As of now, he and Luis Gil are both "holes" in the rotation, and until one of them turns it around, the Yanks are going to struggle, because aside from bad pitching early burying the team is games, they're also draining the bullpen every time out.
On the season, Rodon has the record and ERA stated just above. In 17 starts, he's pitched 93 2/3 innings and allowed 92 hits, 48 runs, 46 earned, 16 HR, 26 BB and struck out 92. His WHIP for the season is now an average 1.260. This will be Rodon's 4th career start against Cincinnati. He's done well in the first three: 2-1 with a 2.76 ERA. In 16 1/3 innings, he's allowed 12 hits, 5 runs, all earned, 1 HR, but with 9 BB and 14 K. His WHIP vs. the Reds is 1.286, and their team quadruple slash line against him is .207/.313/.293/.607. His last start against them was a mediocre effort for the Giants at Great American in late May of 2022: 5 1/3 innings, 7 hits, 3 runs, all earned, 1 HR, 3 BB and 2 K's, taking the L in a 5-1 Reds win.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 18:03:43 GMT -5
Yesterday, Luis Gil looked good...for three innings and then it all disappeared against after a leadoff triple by Reds' star Elly De La Cruz forced the doubts back into head, and for the next 1 1/3 innings, he looked like he did against the O's in the beating they gave him. By the time he left, he had walked two batters, hit two more and gave up a HR to #9 hitter Will Benson. When Caleb Ferguson came in and an immediate 2 run HR to De La Cruz, the Yanks were in a 5-0 hole they couldn't quite climb out of. The tried, scoring 3 in the 6th and getting a run in the 7th on Judge's 32nd home run, but couldn't manage even a baserunner against the Reds' outstanding setup/closer combo of Fernando Cruz and Alexis Diax in the 8th and 9th. The loss was the Yanks 11th in their last 15 games, and dropped them back to 21 games over .500 at 54-33.
In other AL East action, the Red Sox pounded rookie Valente Bellozo early, getting 5 runs off him in the first four innings, and Kutter Crawford threw 6 innings of 3 hit ball to get just his 4th win of the season, and the Sox beat the Marlins 8-3. Ceddanne Rafaela hit a big 3-run HR in the 4th to break it open. The Jays built of a 7-0 lead and withstood a 5-run rally by the Astros in the 5th, holding on to win 7-6. George Springer hit another big 3 run HR, this time in the 4th, to help give the Jays enough cushion to hold off Houston. Ex-Yankee Chad Green gave up a leadoff double in the 9th, got two strikeouts, then had to hold his breath as Jose Altuve just got under one, and flied out to Kiermaier in medium deep center to end it. Zack Littell was just a bit better in his five innings than Brady Singer was in his, and the Rays added tack on runs in the 6th, 7th and 9th innings and beat the Royals 5-1 in Kaufman Stadium. The big blow was Isaac Paredes' 2-run double in the 7th that made a 2-1 lead into a 4-1 lead. Three Rays relievers combined for three innings of scoreless ball, allowing just one hit, to close it out. Grayson Rodriguez outdueled George Kirby, shutting out the Mariners for 6 1/3 innings on just 2 hits with 8 K's, while the O's got RBI singles from Santander in the 4th and Mullins in the 7th, and the bullpen made it stand up for a 2-0 O's win. The M's got the tying run to 2nd in the 9th when O's closer Kimbrel hit two batters around a K. A grounder moved the runners up to 2nd and 3rd, but Kimbrel whiff erstwhile Marines star Julio Rodriguez to end it.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 18:04:10 GMT -5
The Yanks failure to complete their rally last night caused them to lose a game to the entire division again, and they begin play today one game behind the O's for first, 7 1/2 up on the Red Sox, 10 ahead of the Rays and 14 ahead of the Jays.
Elsewhere in the AL East today, the Red Sox play the 2nd game of their series in Miami at 6:40 pm. Brayan Bello (7-5, 5.55 ERA) goes for the Sox, he's been terrible in his last 8 starts: 3-4 with a 7.49 ERA, allowing 71 baserunners in just under 40 innings. Trevor Rogers (1-8, 4.87 ERA) is having a down season himself, but has pitched better lately, he's thrown three quality starts in his last 4 games, and has an ERA of 2.96 in those games, but the inept Marlins haven't been able to win any of them. The Astros and Jays play the 3rd game of their 4-game series at Rogers Centre at 7:07 pm. Ronel Blanco (8-3, 2.49 ERA) is still having a suprise breakout season at age 30, though the Mets beat him up a bit in his last start. He starts for Houston. The Yanks finally got to Yusei Kikucky (4-8, 4.18 ERA) in his last start, and he's now pitched three bad games in a row. He starts for Toronto. In the 2nd game of their series in KC at 8:10, the Rays will start the up-and-down Ryan Pepiot (4-4, 4.40 ERA). His last game against the Mariners was "up", 5 1/2 innings of one hit, one run ball with 8 K's, but Tampa lost anyway. Opposing him is veteran Yankee nemesis Michael Wacha (4-6, 3.91 ERA), who had a 5.50 ERA the first week in May, but has pitched 7 good games in a row coming in. Later on at 10:10 in Seattle, Dean Kremer comes off the Il to make his first start in 6 1/2 weeks (funny, I thought he was headed for TJ surgery but it was actually a right triceps strain, which...can be related, and he still might wind up needing the surgery). Kremer was 3-4 with a 4.32 ERA before he was IL'ed. The Mariners send another one of their strong starters, Logan Gilbert (5-4, 2.72 ERA) out against the tough O's lineup. Gilbert comes into the game 6th in the AL in ERA and 1st in WHIP, but impressive credentials didn't get George Kirby a W last night, so we'll have to wait and see.
And, in 2-3 minutes at the Stadium, it's Abbott vs. Gil in Prime Video Pain of the Week.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 3, 2024 18:08:01 GMT -5
Really need a bounce back from Rodon.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 18:10:00 GMT -5
Abbott is a lefty and lefties have a .605 OPS vs. him. For righties, it's .753. Not saying it's the right play, neccesarily, but that's why. We'll never know what Rice and Wells will do against lefties if they don't get the chance, especially Rice. That may be true, but they didn't trade for Davis to sit him against lefties. Rice will get chances. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 3, 2024 18:10:24 GMT -5
Really need a bounce back from Rodon. Have no idea if they'll get one, but, yeah. |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 3, 2024 18:11:32 GMT -5
This game's on Prime? Todd Flammit. I have to switch over now.
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