Rowan Wick was excellent today. He has been a pleasant surprise this season. He stepped up and took two innings off the books for the bullpen today. And, Strop was fairly efficient and free of drama in the 9th.
Wear your hat normal. Damn hippie.
Rowan Wick was excellent today. He has been a pleasant surprise this season. He stepped up and took two innings off the books for the bullpen today. And, Strop was fairly efficient and free of drama in the 9th.
GD Almora can't even keep his hat on anymore.Wear your hat normal. Damn hippie.
Take out that 14-7 record in his best year( the year he got CY votes) and he's got a career record of 52-51 with a 3.5 ERA. That's the definition of average/mediocre. He's certainly not the only MLB player that capitalized on one good season. It's a very big reason why player salaries are so outrageous.What measures are you using to determine mediocre?
LOL! Counting his best season, he had a career mark of 44-36. I guess most people have a different interpretation of "good". Take out that 2015 season(14-7), he's 30-29.What are you talking about? He had four good years in Oakland and one dud.
LOL! Counting his best season, he had a career mark of 44-36. I guess most people have a different interpretation of "good". Take out that 2015 season(14-7), he's 30-29.
But I agree he'll be good in the NL Central facing that unmurderer's row.
Link?Nobody under the age of 80 cares about pitching win/loss records.
Link?
Scherzer's career record is 168-87 . deGrom is 62-48.You'd obviously much rather have Eduardo Rodriguez and Max Fried over Max Scherzer and Jacob DeGrom since wins and losses are such an important way to gauge the success of a pitcher.
Take out that 14-7 record in his best year( the year he got CY votes) and he's got a career record of 52-51 with a 3.5 ERA. That's the definition of average/mediocre. He's certainly not the only MLB player that capitalized on one good season. It's a very big reason why player salaries are so outrageous.
This started out as my comparison to some snarky comment about Montgomery now being in the AL. Gray's stats should improve as he pitches less games against teams with the DH. Typically, all pitchers in the NL would have better ERAs. In Montgomery's case... his results should be better because he no longer has the albatross of Joe Maddon around his neck. JM is a pitcher's worst nightmare.
Odd that 3.5 is about.5 to .75 better than the average in those time frames. Does that make him better than average?
All that matters is WINS, that's how you measure great pitchers. Just like everyone knows RBIs is the best way to measure great hitters. Mitch has no use for any other stats that you nerds make up.
Is it total wins or win %? Staying away from whip and war
Can I still hold on to my he's very good but not great take?
sure mitch!
He's on pace for about 5 WAR, that's all-star level but not MVP level. I would say that's really good, but not great. When he was putting up 7.5 WAR in 2016, that was a great year.
Javy's at 4.6 WAR already, Yelich is at 6.0, Bellinger at 7.6. I just have a hard time calling this season from Bryant a great one.
I won't quibble with that as long that's not the justification used to decide he has to be traded for a so-so package in the offseason. I think the key with KB is health. If healthy, he can still be the guy who went on a 4-year run of college POY, MiLB POY, ROY, MVP.
Oh I wouldn't want to trade him. I hesitate to say I would never trade him, because there's always a package that makes it worth it, but I would only want to move him if some team makes an insane offer for him.
Hendricks sucked again, and looked like he didn’t even care.
Cubs just seem incapable of taking these games with the Reds seriously.
He certainly sucked the other night, though, and it didn't look like it bothered him a bit how bad he was.Hendricks went 7 1/3 to clinch the pennant and didnt looked like he cared
He certainly sucked the other night, though, and it didn't look like it bothered him a bit how bad he was.
He certainly sucked the other night, though, and it didn't look like it bothered him a bit how bad he was.
Why the complete opposite comparison?Would you rather he act like Trevor Bauer? I prefer my pitchers to act like grown ups
Why the complete opposite comparison?
I want to see that he cares when he sucks like he did the other night.
Furthermore, who pitched better this weekend, Bauer or Hendricks?
Castellanos again. I like this guy
Castellanos again. I like this guy
Are you fn kidding me with that pitch Kemp was just rung up on
Oh I wouldn't want to trade him. I hesitate to say I would never trade him, because there's always a package that makes it worth it, but I would only want to move him if some team makes an insane offer for him.
I certainly hope so. He offers so much more than Schwarber, in my opinion.Me too. Might they keep him around after this season?