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Post by kaybli on Oct 29, 2024 9:07:22 GMT -5
One game at a time! Let's just win this one and extend our season! Let's go Gil! Let's go Yankees!  |
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Post by desousa on Oct 29, 2024 9:15:56 GMT -5
This is unbelievable.
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Oct 29, 2024 9:27:50 GMT -5
Juxtapose this with what Freeman is doing. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 29, 2024 11:10:20 GMT -5
This should answer the question on whether Anthony Rizzo will be back. |
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Post by cocopugg on Oct 29, 2024 11:58:49 GMT -5
This should answer the question on whether Anthony Rizzo will be back. The ball barely made it out of the park. LeMahieu (now that most of his talents are in the past) is even worse than Rizzo, so what's it say about HIS future on the team? The Yankees have some hefty payrolls on their shoulders...even this generation's "Mr. October", Giancarlo Stanton won't be having the same season in 2025 that he had this year, because let's face it, the guy is ALWAYS injury prone in the regular season, getting older, and running the bases over the course of 162 games will add to his wear and tear for sure! That's the sad situation about the current Yankees, and why this season was the "win it all or don't expect to be back to this stage to try it again for a long time if you don't" season it was all along. |
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Post by JEGnj on Oct 29, 2024 13:27:43 GMT -5
I honestly think the Yankees win tonight then lose tomorrow so the Steinbrenner's can suck every dollar from the Yankee fans before they get outbid for Soto.
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Post by desousa on Oct 29, 2024 14:05:43 GMT -5
Stanton is dropped to 5th in favor of Jazz.
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 29, 2024 14:17:21 GMT -5
Stanton is dropped to 5th in favor of Jazz. What sense does that make? |
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Post by ypaterson on Oct 29, 2024 14:20:35 GMT -5
Stanton is dropped to 5th in favor of Jazz. What sense does that make? I imagine that Boone is rotating his L and R hitters in the hope it will cause match up issues for the Dodgers bullpen. |
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Oct 29, 2024 14:25:08 GMT -5
Stanton is dropped to 5th in favor of Jazz. What sense does that make? Boone'd. |
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Post by inger on Oct 29, 2024 14:31:00 GMT -5
I hate to grovel in the hopes for a single win, so instead I’ll cling to the remote chance we can get this to game 7. Then, winner take all and hats off if we lose…
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Oct 29, 2024 14:33:39 GMT -5
What sense does that make? Boone'd. Maybe he's hoping Jazz gets better pitches with Stanton protecting him? I don't know, with so many guys not hitting and a really weak bench it's hard to construct a lineup that looks good. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 29, 2024 15:00:38 GMT -5
Maybe he's hoping Jazz gets better pitches with Stanton protecting him? I don't know, with so many guys not hitting and a really weak bench it's hard to construct a lineup that looks good. I think you should do what you can to make sure your best hitters get up as often as possible. Like last night, 2 of the final 3 innings ended with Soto on deck. |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Oct 29, 2024 15:09:00 GMT -5
Maybe he's hoping Jazz gets better pitches with Stanton protecting him? I don't know, with so many guys not hitting and a really weak bench it's hard to construct a lineup that looks good. I think you should do what you can to make sure your best hitters get up as often as possible. Like last night, 2 of the final 3 innings ended with Soto on deck. I agree, just trying to offer what he may be thinking. He may also be thinking he wants to use Jazz's legs more and Stanton could clog the bases in front of him. But I agree with your point and would rather have Stanton hitting in a big AB late in the game than Jazz. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 29, 2024 15:26:07 GMT -5
There's a slight chance I might go to the game tonight, so I'm posting a somewhat abbreviated preview. Didn't have time to check it all for typos, grammar and redundancies, so forgive it if it's a bit messy:
The Dodgers will use a bullpen game to try and wrap up the championship in game 4 of the World Series, but opener will be former Rays’ starter Brent Honeywell. In the only other game he’s started this season, he threw three shutout innings against the Tigers. Honeywell pitched more than 2 innings in 4 of the 20 games he pitched this season, but I wouldn’t expect him to go more than 3 innings, unless he can get through them in say, 35 pitches or less. As the Yanks have not faced Honeywell this season, I’ll do a brief recap of his career.
Honeywell was drafted by the Rays in the 2nd round of the 2014 June Amateur Draft. He was dominant in 9 starts in rookie ball that season, and pitched excellent ball split between low A and high A in 2015. He was a top 100 prospect in all three major top 100 lists before 2016. That season, his run of injury-riddled seasons began as he missed six weeks in May and June. In 20 starts, he was 7-3 with a 2.34 ERA and before 2017, he had moved into the top 30 on all 3 lists. He stayed healthy in 2017, and pitched well at AA and AAA, 26 starts, 13-9, 3.49 ERA, 172 K’s in 136 2/3 innings. Before 2018, he was a top 15 prospect on all 3 lists. Honeywell’s career derailed for the first time in spring training of 2018, when he tore his UCL and had to get Tommy John surgery. Anticipating his return mid-season, all 3 list still had Honeywell as a top 30 prospect before the 2019 season. In June that year, he broke a bone in his pitching elbow while rehabbing, and any hope of a comeback that year disappeared. Baseball America and MLB Pipeline still had him in their Top 100 before 2020, but near the bottom of the list. While trying to rehab the multiple injuries to his elbow, Honeywell was still having a lot pain, and had to have surgery in May, 2020; a compression procedure on the ulnar nerve in his pitching arm, and 2020 was lost as well.
In 2021, the Rays let him start the season as an opener, but after the Jays hit him in his 3rd game, they sent him back to AAA. There, Honeywell moved to the bullpen to start with so he could gain innings. After 20 games in the pen, the Rays transitioned him back to starting, and gradually stretched him, but with increasingly poor results. In the last 10 starts, he was able to pitch over 50 innings, but his ERA was over 4.00 and his K rate was way down from where it had been in AAA before he got injured several times. At the end of the season, the Rays sold Honeywell to the A’s. In early 2022, he had a stress reaction in his elbow, and boom, another season was lost. The Padres signed him as a free agent in 2023, and was able to stay mostly healthy, but pitched so-so ball for 4 months, and the Padres waived him. The White Sox picked him up on and waivers, and he was terrible in 4 games and 6 innings, so they sent him back to AAA. They tried to stretch him out as a starter again, but he again pitched very badly, so they let him go free agent. The Pirates signed him and let him try to work things out at AAA, then brought him up for 2 games, and waived him. The Dodgers picked him, and he’s been their long man/swing man since late August. On the season, Honeywell was 1-1 in 20 games with an ERA of 2.63. In 37 2/3 innings, he’s allowed 32 hits, 12 runs, 11 earned, 3 HR, 11 BB and struck out 18; his WHIP for the season was a very good 1.142. In the playoffs, he wasn’t on the roster for the series against the Padres, but pitched twice against the Mets. In game 2, he pitched two scoreless innings; the Dodgers were down 6-0 when he came in, rallied to 6-3, but lost 7-3. In game 5, he saved the Dodgers pen after Flaherty got hammered out of the game, giving up 5 runs, but going 4 2/3 innings. The Dodgers lost that one as well, 12-6.
This is Honeywell’s 4th career game and 2nd career start against the Yanks. He threw 2 shutout innings while opening against them in a game in 2021, and pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief against them over 2 games in 2023. He gave up 3 hits, 2 runs and a HR against them in a game the Yanks won against the Padres, 10-7, then 2/3 scoreless innings against them for the White Sox in game the Yanks lost, 5-1. His totals against the Yanks coming into tonight: 3 games, 1 start, 0-0, 3.86 ERA, 4 2/3 innings, 5 hits, 2 earned runs, 1 HR, no walks and 3 K’s, and his WHIP against them is 1.071. The Yankee team quadruple slash line against him is .263/.263/.461/.724 in just 19 batters faced.
In his two postseason games, his totals are: 2 games, 7 2/3 innings, 8 hits, 4 earned runs, 0 HR, 2 BB and 2 K; the ERA is 4.70 and the WHIP is 1.304. This is obviously Honeywell’s first World Series appearance, and first postseason appearance against the Yanks.
Repertoire: Honeywell used 6 pitches at some point this year, but relies on three of them, the 4-seamer, the screwball and the slider. He also threw 11 sweepers, 6 sinkers and 2 changeups, but that adds up to about 3% of his total number of pitches. He averaged 94.7 on the 4-seamer, 80.6 on the screwball and 86.0 on the slider. He uses mostly fastballs and screwballs against lefties, most of his sliders (over 80%) were against righties. His only movement outliers are well above average break into lefties on the slider and well below average tail on his fastball. It’s amusing to see no comparisons on his screwball, only because he’s the only pitcher in MLB currently throwing one. The fastball is a decent sized plus in run value, the slider is a big plus per pitch, but he uses it mostly against lefties. The screwball is a big minus per pitch. Honeywell has a very low chase rate, and while the FB velocity is above average, the FB spin and extension are well below average. Honeywell’s average exit velocity is about average, the barrel rate is low, but the hard-hit rate is slightly above average. His line drive rate is average, the GB rate is slightly above and the flyball and popup rates are slightly below. His swinging strike rate is very low, and even though the called strike rate is above average, his CSW is way below average. In luck factors, his BABIP is well below average, his strand rate was high, and his HR/FB rate was very low. All three luck factors working heavily in Honeywell’s favor, it’s no surprise his ERA estimators say his ERA should have been over 2 runs a game higher; 4.76 vs. the actual 2.63. In his first game against the Mets, he greatly increased his slider usage, and decreased the screwball usage. His velocity and spin didn’t change much either way from the regular season. He got more sink on his sinker. The average exit velo was 4 mph harder than in the regular season, but his whiff rate was way up, 12% (vs about 6% in the regular season), but the called strikes were way down so his CSW was largely unchanged. In game 5 against the Mets, he was more or less back to his normal usage. He did throw more changeups, 5 in 67 pitches, and fewer screwballs, but this time, he used the slider more, not the sinker. His pitch velocity was down, probably because he got tired; it was by far his longest outing of the season. The spin rate was down, too, as was the drop on the slider. The average exit velo was 91.5, and he again got an elevated percentage of whiffs, about 11%, and the CSW was better, 24%. The Dodgers almost certainly will not leave him in the give up 5 runs in 4 2/3 innings tonight unless they get 10 runs in the first.
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