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Post by kaybli on Aug 17, 2024 10:39:52 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 17, 2024 10:46:39 GMT -5
I would have sat Volpe and gave Peraza another start.
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 17, 2024 10:52:09 GMT -5
I would have sat Volpe and gave Peraza another start. Agreed. Yanks are gonna have big decisions to make re the '25 IF...need to see if he can hit ML pitching. |
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Post by bigjeep on Aug 17, 2024 11:07:11 GMT -5
I got the NY Giants today, but my heart and mind will be here!  |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 17, 2024 11:11:43 GMT -5
I got the NY Giants today, but my heart and mind will be here! But the football doesn't count.  |
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Post by bigjeep on Aug 17, 2024 11:15:14 GMT -5
I got the NY Giants today, but my heart and mind will be here! But the football doesn't count. When your a Giants fan, it does! |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:30:30 GMT -5
In the middle game, the Tigers send rookie righty Keider Montero to the mound for his first game against the Yanks. Signed by the Tigers as a 16-year-old International free agent from Venezuela in 2016, he spent his first two years with the organization in the Dominican Summer League. They allowed him to throw 10 starts and 47 innings in rookie ball and low-A in 2019, and he pitched well in both spot. His 2020 season was cancelled by COVID, so like all other prospects, he spent the year in developmental camp. He missed the first and last months of the 2021 minor league season with some unknown injury or injuries, but in between he threw 15 short, poor starts in high-A, going 4-8 with a 5.28 ERA. He spent the entire 2022 season at high-A as well, and in his first 18 starts, he pitched very poorly, going 5-6 with a 6.03 ERA. But he closed out with a great last seven starts: 2-1 with a 1.54 ERA, throwing exactly 5 innings in each of the seven. He made two more poor starts, and two decent one, starting 2023 again in high-A, and the Tigers promoted him to AA. He made 15 starts there, and the ERA wasn't good, 4.93, but he still went 10-2, so they moved him up to AAA to close out the season. He repeated that performance in his first give starts in AAA, ERA over 6.00, but went 3-1 anyway, and closed the season out with 3 excellent starts in the playoff, going 2-1 with an ERA of 2.65 in 17 innings.
The Tigers started him back at AAA this year, and he was so-so in 9 very short starts: 0-1 with a 4.40 ERA, just 30 1/3 innings pitched. They called him up to pitch the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Pirates in late May, and he threw a poor 4 1/3 innings, so they sent him back to AAA. He was 1-3 with an ERA over 6.00 in his short return to the minors, but the Tigers had multiple injuries in the rotation, so they brought him back to the majors. He pitched very well in his 2nd and 3rd starts back with the Tigers against the division rival Twins and Guardians, but has since pitched poorly, 5 bad starts in his last 6. For the Tigers this season, Montero is 3-5 with a 5.76 ERA in 9 starts and 1 relief game. In 54 2/3 innings, he's allowed 57 hits, 36 runs, 35 earned, 12 HR, 17 BB and has struck out 44. His WHIP for the season is 1.354. This is his first start ever against the Yanks.
Repertoire: Montero is a 5-pitch righty: 4-seamer, slider, knuckle curve, change and a rarely used sinker. He's listed at 6-1, 145 lbs, but I think that must have been his height and weight when he signed at 16 years old; looking at him briefly on video, he's thin, but not Oil Can Boyd blade-thin. Longerhagen at Fangraphs had him as the Tiger system's #22 prospect. His scouting grades are kinda weird; Longerhagen says his FB is a 55, slider 50, curve 50, change and command 40, but overall 35+(???) and sees him eventually being a middle/long reliever for the Tigers. His 4-seamer has less rise and significantly less run in on righties than average. His slider looks like a terrific pitch on paper, more than average drop, way more than average break glove-side. The curve is similar to the slider, but more like a slurve, slightly better than average drops, much greater than average glove-side break. The change gets slightly less drop than average, slightly more tail than average. The sinker gets worse than average sink and tail. In run values, the curve and change are farily big minuses, the sinker and FB are smaller minuses, and the slider is his only plus pitch, so far. His FB velocity is about average, the spin is below average, and the curve spin is elite, top 10% in MLB. His extension is a tiny bit below average. Montero's line drive rate is above average, the groundball and popup rates are below average, the flyball rate is about average. His barrel and hard hit rates are somewhat higher than average. His called strike rate is a bit above average, but the swinging strike and CSW rates are a bit below. His BABIP is slightly high, the strand rate is quite low, and the HR/FB is very high, nearly 20%. The three "luck factors" are all working against Montero, and his ERA estimators say his ERA should be about 2/3 of a run lower than it is, but even so, still above 5.00. The pitch mix so far in his time in the majors: 4-seamer averaging 95 about 45% of the time, slider 83 about 31%, curve 79 about 11%, change 86 about 10%, and sinker averaging 94-5 about 3 times a start (3%).
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:33:14 GMT -5
Carlos Rodon goes for the Yanks vs. Montero. He's having a bit of a rollercoaster season. First 7 starts: 2-2 with a 3.68 ERA. Then a 7-start, 7-game win streak with an ERA of 2.38. Then he got hammered for 6 starts: 0-5 with a 9.67 ERA. Finally, 4 more good starts, winning 4 in a row with a 2.22 ERA. Add it all up and he's 13-7 on the season, tied for 2nd in the league in wins, but with a mediocre ERA of 4.18. The main problem is that he's been giving up a ton of HRs: in 131 1/3 innings, he's allowed 117 hits, 67 runs, 63 earned, 24 HR, 43 walks and struck out 143. He's 3rd in the AL with 24 HR allowed and has the 3rd worst HR per 9 innings ratio at 1.6.
Against the Tigers, unlike Cole, the Tigers have hit Rodon hard. He's 6-3 against them in 12 starts, but with an ERA of 5.23. In 65 2/3 innings, he's allowed 64 hits, 39 runs, 38 earned, 11 HR, 19 BB and struck out 78. His WHIP against them is acceptable: 1.264, but again, the HR rate is too high. The Detroit team quadruple slash line against Rodon is .256/313/.452/.765. He didn't get to face them in the 3-game sweep at the Stadium; his last game against the Tigers was a brutal beating he took at the Stadium in early September last year, probably his worst game of the season until that annihilation he endrured in his last game of the season (you know, the one in which he gave up 6 hits and 2 BB and 8 runs without getting an out in a 12-5 Royals rout). Against the Tigers that day, in 3 2/3 innings, he gave up 8 hits, 7 runs (earned), 1 HR and stuck out 4 in another lopsided loss, 10-3.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:33:58 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Montero...you know the drill: he's never faced them, none of them have faced him So just the lineup instead:
1. Torres (2B)
2. Soto (RF)
3. Judge (CF)
4. Wells (C)
5. Stanton (DH)
6. Verdugo (LF)
7. Volpe (SS)
8. Rice (1B)
9. Cabrera (3B)
On the bench:
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Tigers' lineup vs. Rodon: The Tigers have recalled Spencer Torkelson, and sent Bligh Madris back to AAA, to get another righty bat in the lineup vs. Rodon:
1. Vierling (CF) is 3-5 with 2 doubles, 2 RBI and 1 K
2. Ibanez (1B) is 0-1 with an RBI (sac fly)
3. Malloy (LF) has never faced Rodon
4. Keith (2B) hasn't, as well
5. Dingler (C) hasn't either
6. Torkelson (1B) is 1-5 with a 2-run HR and 1 K
7. Jung (3B) hasn't faced him
8. Baez (SS) is 2-13 with 6 K
9. McKinstry (LF) is 0-1 with 1 K
Rogers (C) is 1-4 with 2 K
On the bench: Carpenter is 1-2
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Post by Max on Aug 17, 2024 11:36:01 GMT -5
I would have sat Volpe and gave Peraza another start. Peraza was swinging a hot bat at Triple A before being promoted, then he hits a HR last night. So I guess it makes sense for the Yankees not to start him today (sarcasm). |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:36:50 GMT -5
Yesterday, the Yanks played the Tigers and Gerrit Cole was excellent for his 3r straight start, firing 6 shutout innings, allowing just 4 hits and 2 BB, while striking out 8. The Yanks got a sac fly from Verdugo in the 1st, and two solo HRs: Oswald Peraza's 1st major league HR in nearly a year in the 5th, and Judge's 9th HR in his last 19 games in the 8th, and the Yanks beat the Tigers 3-0. The Yanks got scoreless innings in relief from Weaver, Kahnle and Holmes (for his 26th save). Cole got the win to get to 4-2 on the season, lowering his ERA to 4.18. Beau Brieske opened for the Tigers and gave up Verdugo's sac fly in his only inning, taking the loss to drop to 1-3 this year. The win was the Yanks 3rd in a row and 13th in their last 18 games, and moved them to 23 games over .500 for the first time since late June.
Inother AL East action....the Jays flew to Chicago to start a 3-game series against the Cubs yesterday afternoon. The Cubs took a 2-0 lead in the first, but the Jays tied it with runs in the 4th and 5th, and then the Cubs got two more in the bottom of the 5th on back-tp-back solo HRs by Crow-Armstrong and Minaya, and added another in the 7th on a HR by Ian Happ. The Jays rallied for 3 in the 9th when Cubs' current closer Hector Neris balked in a run with 1 out, then gave up a game-tying two-run triple to George Springer. The game stayed tied into the bottom of the10th, when with nobody out and runners at 1st and 2nd, Seiya Suzuki singled through the left side to score ghost-runner Happ, walking it off against Jays' current closer ex-Yankee Chad Green, wining 6-5. The winner in relief was Tyson Miller who pitched a scoreless 10th working around the ghost-runner. He's now 4-1 on the season. Green's loss dropped him to 3-3. In Tampa, the Diamonbacks took a 2-0 lead on RBI singles by Pederson and Gurriel, Jr, but the Rays struck back in the 5th on a solo HR by Dylan Carlson, and took the lead in the 8th on a 2-run single by Josh Lowe and a RBI single from Carlson to take a 4-2 lead. The D'backs tied it in the 9th on a two-run HR by Corbin Carroll off Rays' closer Pete Fairbanks, but the Rays walked it off in the bottom of the 9th when, with two outs and Johnny DeLuca on 1st, Brandon Lowe hit a hard grounder up the middle, that hit the side of the mound, deflected to the right of 2nd, when off Blaze Alexander's mitt as he dove to his right, died in short center, and when centefielder Jake McCarthy charged hard to stop DeLuca at 3rd, he botched the barehanded pickup and the ball got behind him, allowing DeLuca to score on the single/E-8. Fairbanks got the vultured win after blowing the save on Carroll's HR; he's now 3-3 on the year, Justin Martinez to the undeserved loss to drop to 5-3 on the season. The loss was just the 4th in 18 games for Arizona and broke a 6-game winning streak. The win was just the Rays' 3rd in their last 10 games. In Camden Yards, the Red Sox and Orioles staged a back-and forth death struggle...the Sox got 2 in the first on a pair of RBI double, the O's got 1 back in the 2nd on a single by Urias. The Sox got two in the 3rd on a HR by Devers, the O's answered with 3 in their half on a RBI double, a RBI triple and a walk wild pitch that scored Holliday after his triple. The Sox countered with 4 in the 4th on a single by Wong and a 3-run HR by Yoshida. The O's fought back with 2 in the 5th on another RBI single by Urias and a sac fly. The Red Sox got a solo HR by Duran and a 2-run HR from Hamilton in the 7th to make it 11-6, but the O's got back within 2 runs in the bottom of the inning on a 2-run HR by Urias and a RBI groundout. In the 8th Yoshida knocked in his 4th run of the game with a RBI single to make it 12-9, and Urias answered with his fifth RBI of the game on a sac fly to make it 12-10. There was no scoring in the 9th, and that's the way it ended. Kenley Jansen pitched a 1-2-3 9th for Boston and got his 23rd save. Coope Criswell gave up 6 runs in 3 1/3 mostly ineffective innings as the bulk releiver, yet somehow was credited with the win (I guess it wasn't "brief and ineffective"), he's now 5-4 on the season, Corbin Burns somewhat poor pitching of late got a whole lot worse; he was pounded for 8 runs and 10 hits with 3 walks in just 4 innings, and took the loss, dropping to 12-5 on the season. Yoshida had three hits to go with his 4 RBI, Duran had 3 hits and 3 runs scored, Devers drove in 3 for Boston; Henderson had 4 hits and scored 3 and Urias had 3 hits with his 5 RBI for Baltimore in the losing cause. The win was the Sox' 3rd in 9 games; the O's are now 7-7 in their last 14 games.
Going into today's games, the Yanks lead the O's by a full game, the Sox are 3rd, 8 games back, the Rays are 4th, 11 back, and the Jays are in the cellar, 15 1/2 back.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:38:21 GMT -5
I would have sat Volpe and gave Peraza another start. Peraza was swinging a hot bat at Triple A before being promoted, then he hits a HR last night. So I guess it makes sense for the Yankees not to start him today (sarcasm). The current plan is to platoon Cabrera (vs. righties) and Peraza (cs. lefties) at 3rd, and Rice (vs. righties) and LeMahieu (vs. lefties) at 1st. We'll see how long this lasts. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:38:39 GMT -5
Elsewhere in the AL East today...the Jays are in Chicago to play the middle game of the series against the Cubs this afternoon at Wrigley at 2:20 pm. Chris Bassitt (9-11, 4.30 ERA) starts for the Jays; his struggles resumed after a good game against the O's when the A's pounded him for 7 runs in 4 innings last time out. Bassitt is now 2-5 in his last 7 starts with an ERA over 7.00. Justin Steele (3-5, 3.16 ERA) goes for the Cubs, coming off back to back good games against the Cards and White sox. At the DisturbingDome™ at 4:10, the Diamonbacks play the middle game of the series against the Rays. Zac Gallen (9-5, 3.69 ERA) starts for Arizona; he's struggled some lately, his ERA is just over 5.00 in his last 8 starts, but the D'backs have been so hot, he's still 3-1 in those 8 games. Jeffrey Springs (0-1, 4.61 EA) makes his 4th start since coming back from Tommy John surgery, and he pitched a good 5 innings againt the O's in a no-decision last time, striking out 8, walking none and giving up just 1 run. At 7:05 pm at Fenway, the O's and Red Sox play the 3rd game of their 4-game series. The Red Sox go with the somewhat lucky Brayan Bello (10-5, 497 ERA); he luck turrned on his a bit when threw a good game his last time out against the Rangers, but took a no-decision after giving up just 1 run in 6 innings. The O's will start veteran retread Albert Suarz (5-4, 3.39 ERA). Suarez has come out of a 4-start funk to throw 11 2/3 innings of shutout ball in winning his last 2.
And, at 1:10 pm at Comerica Park, it's Rodon vs. Keidero.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:39:23 GMT -5
Now comes The Saturday Leaders™ for August 17th:.
Among AL hitters....
Aaron Judge leads the AL in bWAR at 8.4; Bobby Witt, Jr. of the Royals is 2nd at 8.1. Gunnar Henderson of the Orioles is tied with Juan Soto is tied for 4th with 7.4 bWAR.
Witt still leads in BAVG at .352, but Judge has passed Steven Kwan of the Guardians to move into 2nd at .333. Kwan is 3rd at .320. Vlad Guerrero, Jr. of the Jays reamined hot and is 4th at .319 and Soto is 5th and .305.
Judge is 1st in OBA at .466; Soto is 2nd a .436
Judge still leads in slugging at .709; Witt is back in 2nd at .611, and Soto is 3rd at .610. Devers has dropped to .588 and is 4th.
Obviously, Judge has opened up a wide lead in OPS at 1.175, and Soto is currently a distant 2nd at 1.047. Witt is 3rd at 1.022.
Witt is is tied for the lead in games played 122 with Anthony Volpe. Judge is in a 5-way tie for 3rd at 109 with Henderson, Guerrero, Willie Castro of the Twins and Marcus Semien of the Rangers at 121. Soto is in a 6-way tie for 8th at 119 games played.
Witt leads in runs scored with 105. Soto is 2nd with 103. Henderson is now tied for 3rd with Judge at 96. Volpe is 9th with 75, but given his slump, not for much longer.
Jarren Duran or the Red Sox leads in plate appeances with 566; Henderson is 2nd with 551. Soto is 3rd at 548, Volpe is 4th at 547, and Judge is 6th at 542, with Semien in 5th at 545.
Volpe is still 1st in at bats at 506, Duran is now just one behind and will overtaken him this coming week, unless he takes a day off.
Witt still leads in hits with 171, Guerrero is now a distant 2nd at 150, Duran is 3rd with 147, and the Astros Jose' Altuve is 4th at 145. Judge is 5th with 143 hits. Henderson is 6th with 138, Soto is 7th with 134, Volpe's slumped has him out of the top 10 again.
Judge still leads in total bases with 305 and once again threatens to reach 400 for the season (currently on pace for 402). Soto has moved back up to 3rd at 268, but Witt right behind Judge in 2nd at 302.
Duran leads in doubles at 37. Witt is 2nd with 34. J.J. Belday of the A's is 3rd with 33, Devers and Guerrero are tied for 4th with 32, and Judge is tied for 6th with Yordan Alvarez of the Astros at 28.
Duran still leads in triples at 13, and Witt is still 2nd with 11. Volpe is still 3rd with 7, but he's now tied with Kyle Isbel of the Royals.
Judge still leads in HR with 44, and Anthony Santander of the Orioles is still 2nd at 36. Soto is by himself in 3rd with 34.
Judge still leads in RBI with 111, Jose Ramirez is still 2nd at 100, Witt is 3rd at 90, and Josh Naylor of the Guardians and Vinnie Pasquantino of the Royals are tied for 4th with 88. and Soto has is by himself in 6th with 87.
Soto is first in BB with 103, and Judge is 2nd at 102.
Cal Raleigh of the M's leads in batter K's with 137, but Zack Gelof of the A's has caught him and they're tied for 1st in the AL. Judge is tied for 3rd with Jose Siri of the Rays at 132.
Jose Caballero of the Rays still leads in steals with 32, 1 ahead of David Hamilton. Volpe has dropped out of the top 10 in this list as well.
Vinnie Pasquantiino leads with 12 sac flies; Alex Verdugo is now in 2nd with 10, and Alejandro Kirk of the Jays is 3rd with 9. Gleyber Toors is in a 4-way tie for 4th with 7, together with Taylor Ward of the Angels, Yainer Diaz of the Astros and Witt.
Josh Smith of the Rangers leads with 17 HBP, Tyler Freeman of the Guardians is 2nd with 16.
Judge is now in a 4-way tie for the lead with 16 GIDP, together with Diaz, Justin Turner of the Mariners, and George Springer of the Blue Jays.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 17, 2024 11:40:13 GMT -5
In the NL:
Ketel Matte is first in the NL with 6.0 bWAR, just ahead of Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers with 5.9.
Luis Arraez of the Padres back in his accustomed spot, leading the NL in BAVG at .309. Marcel Ozuna of the Braves is 2nd at .302. A slump has seen Ohtani's batting average plummet to .291 and he's dropped to 9th in the NL.
Profar has zoomed past the slumping into 1st in OBA at .393, and Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers is 2nd at .391. Ohtani is now in 4th at .378, with Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies in 3rd at .380.
Ohtani's still leads in slugging at .606, Ozuna is in 2nd at .580.
Ohtani leads in OPS at 0.984, Ozuna is 2nd at 0.954
There is now a 6-way tie for 1st in games played: including Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor of the Mets, Ozuna and teammate Matt Olson of the Braves, Willy Adames of the Brewers, and Nick Castellanos of the Phillies are all at 122.
Lindor leads in PA at 558, Ohtani is 2nd at 550.
Ezequiel Tovar of the Rockies is 1st in at bats in 503, Lindor is 2nd at 499.
Arraez still leads in hits with 151, 12 ahead of Ozuna.
Ohtani still leads in runs scored with 91, and despite a .219 BAVG, Corbin Caroll of the Diamondbacks has ridden his team's white-hot streak into 2nd with 85.
Ohtani still leads in total bases with 288, 21 ahead of Ozuna.
Alex Bohm of the Phillies continues to leads all of MLB in doubles with 43, Tovar is 2nd in the NL, now 10 behind..
Corbin Caroll of the D'backs still leads in triples at 11, Mike Yastrzemski of the Giants is 2nd at 9.
Ohtani has still leads in HR with 37, 2 ahead of Ozuna .
Ozuna leads in RBI with 90, Ohtani is 2nd with 86.
Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies still leads in BB with 88, Ohtani is 2nd with 66.
De La Cruz of the Reds continues to be way out front with 59 steals, 22 ahead of Brice Turang of the Brewers. He's also retaken the lead in K's with 163.Tovar has passed Nolan Gorman to move into 2nd with 152. Gorman is 4 K's behind Tovar.
Profar is tied with C.J. Abrams of the Nationals for the lead with 15 HBP.
Marte still leads the NL in sac flies with 9, his teammate Eugenio Suarez is now by himself in 2nd with 8.
Manny Machado of the leads the NL and all of MLB with 25 GIDP, Josh Bell, now with the D'backs has blown past Arraez and is 2nd overall and in the league with 19. Arraez and Ozuna are tied for 3rd at 17.
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