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2 hours 20 minutes to get to the bottom of the 4th! Heh.
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Glad I stuck with that game! London Classic
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I'm impressed they got it done in under 5hrs. 14 pitching changes 49 baserunners. I want to know how Boston LF's went 0-6. Even John Smoltz hit one in the gap.
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Wow, yeah that's crazy.
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I don`t like modern day baseball!
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06-30-2019, 01:39 PM | #106 |
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I'm just seriously getting into the MLB this season. But I've come to the conclusion Boston's bullpen blows.
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There's a strong correlation between K rate and success in the big leagues for a hurler. And, we weren't discussing who had the best bullpen in MLB, but rather whether Boston has the worst, which obviously they don't.
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06-30-2019, 07:24 PM | #110 |
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They have the second most blown saves. They are the worst in the American league. Bullpen is measured by ERA and blown saves.
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The Boston pen is also 5th in MLB with 21 wins, 6th in WAR, and 11th in ERA. Once again, nowhere the bottom in either MLB or the AL.
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Last in the AL in blown saves means there is no argument. Please tell me what is Boston looking for at the trade deadline? Is Sox management happy with their bullpen? Whatever floats your boat.
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The Red Sox are 12-11 in one run games and 6-3 in extra inning games. And, as mentioned before their bullpen is 5th in MLB in wins. Since Kimbrel hasn't been replaced, it's no surprise the Red Sox feel in need of a lockdown closer.
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You're amazing. Someone else mentioned that Boston's bullpen is not very good, in which you replied epically that "no but they are 6th in k-rate." I responded that they are next to LAST in blown saves. You epically try to defend an indefensible position posting a bunch of numbers, that doesn't deal with the main point of an ineffective bullpen. Blown saves lead to losses. If you can't hold down leads, you can't win. Everything you said after that is fluff to save face. The point is the Boston bullpen is not good which the post that mentioned it was correct. I never said anything other than that. I am so done with you. |
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Nobody is happy with their bullpen. Rightfully to blame are the turbocharged moonshot baseballs. SP *and* RP ERAs in the AL are up 1/3 of a run compared to even last season, and starters on average log almost a full out less than in '18. That's another out that the bullpen has to collect… because of the turbocharged moonshot baseballs, which keep flying by the way.
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The Orioles bullpen has a 6.18 ERA, has contributed minus -0.8 WAR, has a won-loss record of 6-17 with 14 saves, and surrenders 1.92 HR's per 9IP. All of those figures are dead last in the AL by a good margin. The Red Sox bullpen, by comparison, has a 4.37 ERA (8th), 2.7 WAR (5th), a 21-13 W-L (4th) with 17 saves, and gives up 1.24 HR per 9 IP (6th). In no facet other than blown saves are they even remotely bad. In summation, they have been above average and the save is about as useful a stat in determining the quality of performance as batting average or the game-winning RBI.
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Am I alone in thinking the whole London experience was a complete joke? I'm normally a giant fan of MLB Network but I felt they went with the hard sell on this. Like they received a mandate from the league office to push it hard. The typical stuff you see from ESPN, which I expected at this point when I had to tune into that garbage network to watch. I get games in Japan, Mexico, anywhere in the Carribbean but nobody cares in England. I was just there last July, I asked around (I get it, small sample size) I didn't find anybody that cared. I would really like to know how many non U.S. Travelers really went to these game? Or if MLB took a page out of the NFL book and paid people to show wearing jerseys to make it look like they cared. As for the actual games that could be a longer post, but the league should be embarrassed to say the least. What did they make the pitchers use? Baseballs with a super ball core? Those balls were worse than the crap they make them use everyday here in the states. This may be my first and last controversial post. I tend to stay away from such things but for some reason this whole thing really rubbed me the wrong way this weekend and I wanted to vent.
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