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Post by desousa on Jul 10, 2024 15:33:43 GMT -5
Verdugo batting leadoff, Rice in the 4 hole.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 10, 2024 15:37:08 GMT -5
Maybe Boone should just put Soto at leadoff and Judge in the 2 spot?
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Post by bumper on Jul 10, 2024 16:14:42 GMT -5
Maybe Boone should just put Soto at leadoff and Judge in the 2 spot? yeah i guess get them both as many ABs as possible. only downside is maybe you want someone on base in front of them. when were winning, volpe did a good job getting on in front of them. unfortunately now he refuses to take a walk.
not sure i like moving a kid with all of 69 ABs into what used to be "clean-up". rather not put any undo pressure or expectations on him. don't want him thinking HR. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 10, 2024 16:16:13 GMT -5
Maybe Boone should just put Soto at leadoff and Judge in the 2 spot? yeah i guess get them both as many ABs as possible. only downside is maybe you want someone on base in front of them. when were winning, volpe did a good job getting on in front of them. unfortunately now he refuses to take a walk.
not sure i like moving a kid with all of 69 ABs into what used to be "clean-up". rather not put any undo pressure or expectations on him. don't want him thinking HR. Desperate times. |
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Post by bumper on Jul 10, 2024 16:16:45 GMT -5
will stroman stop the bleeding tonite. it always starts with pitching.
do feel after a couple quiet nites that maybe the offense breaks out.
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Post by bumper on Jul 10, 2024 16:17:08 GMT -5
yeah i guess get them both as many ABs as possible. only downside is maybe you want someone on base in front of them. when were winning, volpe did a good job getting on in front of them. unfortunately now he refuses to take a walk.
not sure i like moving a kid with all of 69 ABs into what used to be "clean-up". rather not put any undo pressure or expectations on him. don't want him thinking HR. Desperate times. yeah i know. |
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Post by ill636 on Jul 10, 2024 16:22:15 GMT -5
Maybe Boone should just put Soto at leadoff and Judge in the 2 spot? yeah i guess get them both as many ABs as possible. only downside is maybe you want someone on base in front of them. when were winning, volpe did a good job getting on in front of them. unfortunately now he refuses to take a walk.
not sure i like moving a kid with all of 69 ABs into what used to be "clean-up". rather not put any undo pressure or expectations on him. don't want him thinking HR. What else will he think. His swing has already started using a significant up swing... |
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Post by JEGnj on Jul 10, 2024 16:36:09 GMT -5
Another game on Prime. Fan's are doomed to follow their team anymore.
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 10, 2024 16:38:33 GMT -5
Verdugo batting leadoff, Rice in the 4 hole. Eflin and the horse he rode in on.  |
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Post by nw on Jul 10, 2024 16:39:28 GMT -5
Boone is completely lost and now he's lost the clubhouse and captain. He could put any lineup out there and it won't really matter.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 10, 2024 17:47:52 GMT -5
Sorry this is so late. Forgot the game began at 6:50 and not 7:05 or so.
The Rays send out Zach Eflin to try for their 2nd straight win and a series victory over the Yankees. Eflin shut out the Yanks for 6 innings in a start at the Stadium back in April, so I need not give a rundown of his career again. Instead, here's what happened with him since that game. Eflin was 1-2 with 3.68 ERA and just BB in 28 1/3 innings pitched after that game. Nothing much has changed in the BB department; Eflin is still historically stingy with walks. Eflin leads all of MLB at 0.78 BB per 9 innings. His season would rank 56th best in all MLB history, but if you take out pirchers with less that 150 innings pitched, it would rand at #49. If you take out all seasons before 1900, it would rank 10th. For seasons after 1946, it would rank 6th all-time. Since faced the Yanks in April, Eflin has made 11 starts, pitching 63 innings. He's allowed 69 hits, 34 runs, 31 earned, 9 HR, and 6 BB, while striking out 46. He 4-3 in those 12 starts with an ERA of 4.43, though the Rays are 8-3 in the 11 games. His WHIP since that start in April is 1.190. On the season, Eflin is 5-5 with an ERA of 4.19. He's pitched 92 1/3 innings in 16 starts, allowing 98 hits, 46 runs, 43 earned, 13 HR, and 8 BB with 72 K's. His WHIP for the season is 1.148. The Royals beat him up a bit in his last starts, but he threw 6 shurout innings against the Nationals the start before.
Including the game from April, this is Eflin's 7th start against the Yanks, and he's pitched superlatively against them: 3-1 with a 1.54 ERA. In 35 innings, he's allowed 28 hits, 8 runs, 6 earned, 3 HR, and 5 BB while striking out 45. His WHIP against New York is 0.943 and the team quadruple slash line against Eflin is accordingly bad: .217/.246/.310/.556. In the start at the Stadium earlier this year, he went 6 innings, allowing just 3 hits, no runs, no walks and struck out 6. Nestor Cortes threw 7 shutout innings against him, and game was 0-0 until the 10th when the Rays scored the go-ahead runs off Caleb Ferguson on a RBI double, a stolen base and a single. The Rays won 2-0.
Repertoire: Eflin is another kitchen sink righty, throwing six pitches: both fastballs, a slider, a change, a curve and a cutter. The sinker is his primary FB, he gets elite drop on it; 18th most in MLB among 276 pitchers who use a sinker. He gets average "tail" on it. The cutter has above average drop, below average break. The curve is more 2 to 8 than 12 to 6. He gets above average break, but less drop than average. His sweeper gets about average break both ways. His 4-seamer FB gets far less "rise" than average and average tail. He uses it for a little bit of a different look off the sinker. He rarly uses his change; it gets a little better than average movement both ways. By run values, the sweeper and cutter are plusses, the two fastballs are basically average, the change is a small minus and the curve is a big minus. He gets below avg spin and velocity on the fastball, and the curve spin is right around average. His extension used to be top 15% in MLB, now, it's merely good: 70%. His barrel rate is about MLB average, and the hard hit rate is a little worse than average. His ground ball, fly ball, line drive and popup percentages are all within 2% of league average, a little higher than average on the flyballs and popups. His "luck" factors appear neutral: his BABIP, strand rate and HR per FB rate are all close to MLB average one way or the other. In spite of this, all the ERA estimators, which are based in large part on walk rate, all estrimate his ERA should be 0.4 to 0.8 runs per 9 innings less than they are.
Playing the name game...we've done this one before. There are 56 MLB players with the name Zach/Zachary. The only Hall of Famer so far is Zack Wheat, the outfielder from the 1900's-10's-20' who played mostly for the Dodgers, had almost 2900 hits and a liftetime .317 BAVG, though the recently retired 20-season starter Zack Grienke stands an excellent change of joining Wheat in the Hall someday. The best Zack in the majors right now is Phillies starter Zack Wheeler, and Zach is the only Eflin in MLB history.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 10, 2024 17:48:19 GMT -5
Marcus Stroman has struggled lately, pitching poorly in 3 of his last 4 starts. After a solid run with the rest of the rotation, he's gone 1-2 in the 4 starts, allowing 15 ERA in 21 innings for an ERA of 6.42. Last start, he gave up 3 HR for 5 runs in 5 innings in a loss to the Reds at the Stadium. On the season, Stroman is 7-4 with an ERA of 3.58 in 18 starts. In 100 2/3 innings, he's allowed 85 hits, 44 runs, 40 earned, 15 HR, 45 BB with 76 K's, and his WHIP is now below average at 1.291. His BB/9 is 3rd worst among 35 qualified AL starters, and his K/BB raio is 2nd worst.
This is Stroman's 18th career start against the Rays, and his record against them is medicore at best. He's 6-8 against them, with an ERA of 4.59. In 100 innings, he's allowed 103 hits, 57 runs, 51 earned, 13 HR, 32 BB and struck out 83. His WHIP against Tampa is 1.350, and their quadruple slash line against him is .261/.321/.425/.746. His last start against them was a gem; in late May last season, he threw a complete game 1-hit shutout against them, walking 1 and striking out 8 in a 1-0 Cubs win at Wrigley.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 10, 2024 17:48:47 GMT -5
Yankees lineup vs Eflin:
Verdugo is 4-14 with a double, a solo HR, 1 BB and 4 K
Soto is 13-28 with 3 doubles, 2 HR, 10 RBI (1 sac fly), 5 BB and 7 K
Judge is 1-12 with 8 K's (!!)
Rice has never faced Eflin
Torres is 1-10 with 3 K and 2 GIDP
Volpe is 2-10 with 3 K's
Grisham is 1-8
Trevino is 0-2 with a K.
LeMahieu is 5-15 with a solo HR, 1 BB and 3 K
On the bench: Cabrera is 2-4 with a 2 run HR; Jones is 0-2 with a K, Wells is also 0-2 with a K, and Gerrit Cole has batted once and K'd.
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Rays lineup vs. Rodon:
1. Diaz (1B) is 0-7 with 1 RBI, 2 BB, 2 K and 1 GIDP
2. B. Lowe (2B) is 2-11 with 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 BB and 2 K
3. Paredes (3B) has never faced Stroman
4. J. Lowe (RF) is 2-6, 1 double, 1 triple, 1 RBI, 2 K and 1 DP
5. Arozarena (LF) is 1 for 8 with a double, 1 RBI 1 K and 1 BB
6. Palacios (2B) has never faced Stroman
7. Siri (CF) is 0-3 with 2 K
8. Rortvedt (C) has never faced Stroman
9. Walls (SS) is 2-5
On the bench: Rosario is 1-3 with 2 RBI and a K.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 10, 2024 17:49:26 GMT -5
Yesterday, Carlos Rodon buried the Yanks early, and the offense couldn't quite catch up, and the Yanks lost their 2nd in a row and their 15th in the last 20 games, 5-3, dropping to just 17 games over at 55-38
In other AL East action...the Cubs did the Yanks a favor, crushing the Orioles 9-2, the Red Sox held off a late A's rally and won 12-9, and the Jays lost a squeaker in San Fran, 4-3. The Orioles stil lead the Yanks by 3. The Red Sox are 6 1/2 back and just 3 1/2 behind the Yanks. The Rays are 5 1/2 behind Boston, 9 behind the Yanks and 12 out of 1st. The Jays are still in last, 4 behind the Rays, 8 1/2 behind Boston, 13 back of the Yanks and 16 games out of 1st.
Elsewhere in the AL East today, the 2nd game of all three series. Cubs at O's, A's at Red Sox and Jays at Giants.
And, about to get underway, Stroman vs. Eflin at the GoofyDome™
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 10, 2024 17:52:29 GMT -5
Verdugo pops up the first pitch to Rortvedt in foul ground, 1 immediate out.
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