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Post by kaybli on Aug 13, 2024 16:16:43 GMT -5
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:22:53 GMT -5
3/4 nark if the season. Hard to believe just 40 games after tonight...
In the middle game in Chicago, the White Sox send righty Jonathan Cannon to the mound against the Yanks. Drafted by the White Sox in the 3rd round of the June Amateur Draft, the White Sox let him pitch 7+ innings in 4 games before the season ended. He spent last year in high-A and AA, pitching OK in 14 starts at high-A before getting blasted in 11 starts at AA. Despite his poor perfromance at the higher level, Longerhagen at Fangrphs had him as the #10 prospect in the White Sox system with a grade of 45, he praised his athletic, repeatable motion and rated him as major league average starter level in everything except his change and the lack of a usuable breaking ball against left-hand hitters. Despite the discouraging pitching at AA in 2023, he opened at AAA for two starts this year, and lacking better options, they called him up in mid-April. He threw 3 poor starts, and they sent him back down There, he also pitched poorly: 2-3 in 8 starts with a 5.50 ERA. They called him back to the majors about three weeks after they played the Yanks at the Stadium. He pitched two more great starts, ran into some trouble, going 0-3 with a 6.20 ERA in his next five games. Lately, he's turned things around with three outstanding starts against the Rangers, the Royals and the A's, 1-1, 1.89 ERA. Not sure how he's doing it, he's walked 7 and struck out just 8 in 19 innings. On the season, Cannon is now 2-5 with an ERA of 3.91 in 12 starts and 2 relief appearances. He even has 1 save. In 76 innings, he's allowed 77 hits, 36 runs, 33 earned, 10 HR, and 20 BB with 51 K's. His WHIP for the season is near league average 1.276. This will be his first game ever against the Yankees.
Repertoire: Cannon is a 5-pitch righty who mixes the use of his 4-seamer, sinker, sweeper, cutter and change very well. The sinker has elite drop, top 10% among 277 pitchers who use one; the tail is average. The sweeper has both less drop and less break into lefties, acting more like a conventional slider. Like the sinker, the change also gets elite drop, 7th best among 240 pitchers who throw one, but just league average tail in on righties. The cutter gets average drop, and far less than average break into lefties, 4th lowest among 159 pitches who throw one. The 4-seamer gets below average rise but better than average run. In run values, the sweeper and cutter are solid plusses, the sinker is a small plus, the change is a solid minus, and the 4-seamer is a big minus, which is why he throws it less than 10% of the time. His FB velocity is below average, both his FB spin and extension are bottom 20% in MLB. His line drive rate and flyball rates are a bit above average, the groundball and popup rates a bit below. His barrel rate and hard hit rate are about average. His swinging strike rate and called strike rates are somewhat below average, as is his CSW. His HR/FB rate is well above average, but the BABIP and strand rates are about average. His ERA estimators think his ERA should be about a half-run higher, mostly because of his very low K%. If he had enough innings to qualify, his K% would be 2nd lowest among 65 qualifed starters. The pitch mix through 76 innings: sinker averaging 93 about 32%, sweeper 82 about 22%, cutter 90 about 20%, change 86 about 17%, and 4-seamer 94-5 about 9%.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 13, 2024 16:24:43 GMT -5
No Jazz tonight.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:29:04 GMT -5
Playing the name game: Way to many Johns to play, but if I include just Jonathans, there are 58 who've played in the majors. The best pitcher is Jon Lester by a small margin over Jon Matlack. Lester beat lymphoma early in his career to lead the Red Sox pitching staff to two titles and helped the Cubs break their 108-year long jinx in 2016. He made 5 All-Star teams and finished top 5 in the Cy Young voting 3 times. He finished his career with exactly 200 wins. The best hitter named Jonathan is probably infielder Johnathan Schoop, who had just over 1000 hits and over 170 HR in his 11 year major league career, and was frequently a thorn in the side of the Yanks, especially in his 6 seasons with the Orioles. The Yanks have had two Jonathans play for them this year; frequently-injured reliever Jonathan Loaisiga, and gone-before-we-knew-he-was-here 1st baseman/DH Jonathan "J.D." Davis. The only other playrd with last name Cannon in MLB history is outfielder/pinch-runner Joe Cannon, who spent part of 4 seasons with the Astros and Jays from 1977-1980. His best credential? He had 12 steals for the Jays in 1979. The most famous "Cannon" in MLB history is an ex-Yankee, if only briefly...Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn, a short, slugging outfielder who achieved his greatest fame with the Astros in the 1960s. He hit nearly 300 HR and drove in almost 1000 runs in his 15 year career, making 3 All-Star teams and getting MVP votes in 3 seasons. With his career winding down, the Yanks purchased Wynn from the Braves in November, 1976, and in 30 games for the Yanks, he hit .145 with 1 HR in 3 RBI. The Yanks released him in June, and he signed with the Brewers for the last 36 games of his career, but the last HR he ever hit was the HR he hit for the Yanks, a solo HR on Opening Day 1977 in his first at bat as a Yankee.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:30:58 GMT -5
Nestor Cortes goes for the Yanks vs. Cannon. Nestor got off to a good start the first two months of the season, but has been brutal since the beginning of June. In his last 12 starts, he's 2-6 with a 5.68 ERA, giving up 13 HR in 63 1/3 innings with a WHIP of 1.405. He's thrown just 3 quality starts among the 12. On the season, Cortes is 5-10 with a 4.42 ERA. In 134 1/3 innings, he's allowed 136 hits, 67 runs, 66 earned, 21 HR, and 29 walks with 129 K's. His WHIP for the season is somehow still below MLB average: 1.224. He has the 7th worst H/9 and HR/9 ratios, but is 7th in fewest BB/9 and 10th in K/BB ratio. When Clarke Schmidt is ready to return to the rotation, either Cortes or Marcus Stroman will have to leave it.
This is Cortes' 6th game and 5th career start against the White Sox, and he's pitched very well against them; 5-0 with a 2.03 ERA. In 31 innings, he's allowed 27 hits, 8 runs, 7 earned, 3 HR and just 2 BB with 34 K's. His career WHIP against them is an outstanding 0.936, and the White Sox team quadruple slash line against Cortes is .229/.248/.322/.570. His most recent start against Chicago was earlier this year; he won the first game of the 3-game sweep of the White Sox at the Stadium in May. He went 7 innings, giving up 5 hits, 1 BB, 1 unearned run and struck out 6 in a 4-2 win.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:37:59 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Cannon...he's never faced them, and only one Yankee on the roster has faced him: Chisholm, who's out of the lineup with some sort of elbow injury. Not on the IL...yet...he's considered day-to-day. Cabrera plays 3rd in his place against the righty Cannon. DJ and Jazz on the bench.
1. Verdugo (LF)
2. Soto (RF)
3. Judge (CF)
4. Wells (C)
5. Stanton (DH)
6. Rice (1B)
7. Torres (2B)
8. Cabrera (3B)
9. Volpe (SS)
On the bench: Chisholm (3B) is 0-2 with 1 BB
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White Sox lineup vs. Gil:
1. Sosa (2B) has never faced Cortes
2. Robert (CF) is 1-9 with 1 BB, 3 K and 1 GIDP
3. Benintendi (LF) is 2-13 with 1 double and 3 K
4. Vaughn (1B) is 3-12 with a 2-run HR and 2 K
5. Sheets (DH) has never faced Cortes
6. Lee (C) hasn't either
7. Vargas (3B) hasn't as well
8. Julks (RF) is 1-3 with a double and 2 K
9. Baldwin (SS) hasn't faced Cortes
On the bench: Lopez is 1-9 with 5 K's; Senzel is 1-3 with a K.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:39:00 GMT -5
Yesterday, the Yanks humiliated themselves getting blown out by possibly the worst MLB team in at least 60 years and maybe 120 years, 12-2. The less said, the better.
In other AL East action: In Tampa, the Astros got 4-runs in the 3rd off Rays' starter Taj Bradley, the big blow being a 3-run HR by Yainer Diaz, his 12th HR of the season, and rode an excellent 5 2/3 innings from Framber Valdez, 1 run on 3 hits and 9 K's, to coast to a 6-1 win. Valdez got the win to get to 12-5 on the season, Bradley took his 3rd straight loss to drop under back .500 at 6-7. In Boston, the Rangers rallied from down 3-1 when Corey Seager hit a 2-run HR (his 26th) in 7th off Bailey Horn and took a 4-3 lead in the 10th on a RBI grounder by Josh Smith, but the Sox rallied for two in their half of the inning on a RBI ground-rule double by Emmamuel Valdez and a two-out, bases loaded walkoff "single" to deep left center that bounced to the wall, and the Sox won 5-4 in 10 innings. Walter Pennington gave up the single, but it was Gerson Garabito who put the winning run on base and took his first loss of his career. Josh Winckwoski, who started and pitched three innings on Saturday, pitched the 10th for Boston and got the win, improving to 3-1 on the season. In Anaheim, the Jays got 4 in the 3rd on an RBI double by Spencer Horwitz, a RBI single by Will Wagner and the last two on Leo Jimenez' 1st major league HR, and that was all they needed to beat the Angels, 4-2. Bowden Francis threw 8 brilliant innings, allowing just a solo HR by Mickey Moniak in the 8th, walking none and striking out 8, to impove his record to 5-3. Chad Green gave up a solo HR to Jo Adell in the 9th and nothing else to earn his 12th save. Davis Daniel gave up those 4 runs in 5 innings for his 4th loss against just 1 win. The Orioles had the night off.
Going into today's games, The O's lead the Yanks by a half-game, the Sox are now 7 back of the O's and 6 1/2 behind the Yanks, the Rays are now 10 behind New York and 10 1/2 out of 1st, but they've called up uberprospcct infielder Junior Caminero to try to stem the tide of their current poor play; the Rays have lost 5 of 7. The Jays are 15 out of 1st and 14 1/2 behind the Yanks.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:41:15 GMT -5
Elsewhere in the AL East today... At 6:35 pm at Camden Yards, the Orioles begin a 2-game Beltway Series against the Nationals. Jake Irvin (8-10, 3.76 ERA) starts for Washington; he's trying to bounce back from consecutive bad starts against the Brewers and Giants. Trevor Rogers (2-10, 4.71 ERA) makes his 3rd start for the Orioles, 0-1 and has yet to throw a good game for Baltimore. At 6:50 pm at the CrazyDome™, the Astros and Rays play the middle game of their 3-game series. Yusei Kikuchi (5-9, 4.62 ERA) makes his 2nd start for the Astros, his first was a solid 5 1/3 innings against the Rangers for a win. Shane Baz (0-1, 4.30 ERA) makes his 7th start for the Rays since coming off the IL; he'll try to bounce from a bad start against the Cards. At 7:10 pm, the Rangers play the Red Sox in the middle game of their 3-game series in Fenway. Jose Urena (3-7, 3.74 ERA) makes his 3rd straight appearance as a starter for Texas; he's 0-2 with an ERA over 9.00 in the first two. Kutter Crawford (7-9, 4.11 ERA) starts for Boston; he's thrown 4 terrible starts in a row in which he's given up 13 HR and 22 ER in 18 2/3 innings. At 9:38 pm, the Jays and Angels play the middle game of their 3-game series in Anaheim. Kevin Gausman (10-8, 4.42 ERA) starts for Toronto; his pitched a great game against the Orioles last time out, throwing 8 innings of 2-run ball for a win last time out. Carson Fulmer (0-2, 3.74 ERA) goes for Anaheim; he's pitched well in 5 starts, with a 3.60 ERA in 25 innings, but hasn't been able to get a win in any of them.
And, at 8:10 pm at Guaranteed Rate Field, it's Cortes vs. Cannon. Game preview stuff done, I'll take it easy, make dinner and come back well in time for the game in about 2 1/2 hours.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 13, 2024 16:45:31 GMT -5
Fom NBC Sports MLB Player News (formerly Rotoworld): Jazz Chisholm Jr. (elbow) is absent from the lineup for Tuesday’s showdown against the White Sox.
The positive news here is that Chisholm hasn’t landed on the injured list after suffering a left elbow on a slide into home plate during Monday’s loss to Chicago. The versatile 26-year-old has been on fire since arriving in New York a couple weeks ago, batting .316 (18-for-57) with seven homers and five steals over 14 games in Pinstripes. There’s optimism that he won’t require a lengthy absence, so fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now. It’ll be Oswaldo Cabrera filling in at the hot corner on Tuesday night in his absence.
Rotowire says almost the exact same thing. |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 13, 2024 16:49:02 GMT -5
It’ll be Oswaldo Cabrera filling in at the hot corner on Tuesday night in his absence.
Cabrera is making a strong case to be UTIF in '25. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 13, 2024 17:45:15 GMT -5
Nasty Nats up 2-0 on Baltimore in the first.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 13, 2024 17:48:57 GMT -5
It’ll be Oswaldo Cabrera filling in at the hot corner on Tuesday night in his absence.
Cabrera is making a strong case to be UTIF in '25. Oswaldo has good numbers against right handers. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 13, 2024 17:53:09 GMT -5
Not good at all.
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 13, 2024 17:58:27 GMT -5
Cabrera is making a strong case to be UTIF in '25. Oswaldo has good numbers against right handers. He's shown he can handle any IF position well...not to mention his ability to play OF, as well as being a SH. Not claiming he's Zobrist or even Brock Holt, but very versatile. |
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Aug 13, 2024 18:01:21 GMT -5
Of-freaking-course. This team is absolutely cursed with the injuries - every damn year. So as of now, the deadline has netted an infielder who may not play again this year, and two relievers who have been getting hit hard; one of whom may be the worst Yankees pitcher I've ever seen. At least Jazz's injury shouldn't have any long-term effects and he looks to be a big piece of the future. Not sold on Leiter at this point, and if the abomination on the mound last night ever pitched in pinstripes again it'll be too soon. |
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