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**Official 2014 MLB Regular Season-All over but the shouting (1 Viewer)

Mets pitching staff hitting a combined .016 this year. Pretty sure I could hold a bat out over the plate and hit .016 on the off chance I got a dribbler down the line to roll just right once in awhile.

 
Grahamburn said:
Long Ball Larry said:
Indians bullpen certainly getting a workout this week.
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Masterson realizes Cleveland didn't actually sign him to that proposed extension, right?
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When he had a bad pitch or two last year he made quick adjustments before a leak became a flood. Once he's losing his command and location this year the wheels fall completely off. He breezed through 4 yesterday, but then lost command quickly in the 5th. He got out of it that inning, but wasn't so lucky in the 6th.

 
This is my first year doing H2H. Need some advice. More of a general strategy question, but it applies to my specific scenario. Pitching this week, I am up 5-3 in WINS, 4-3 in SAVES, 65-35 in K's, 3.44 - 3.94 in ERA, and 1.30 - 1.44 in WHIP.

I have 4 guys starting today. Iwakuma (HOU), Bauer (@BAL), Pomeranz (@TOR), and Keuchel (@SEA). Opponent has 2 guys going, Nolasco (@SFG), and Tanaka (@CWS).

As far as RP, he has Perkins and Rodney, while I have Robertson, Bellisario, and Britton.

How many of my SP do I start? I have K's locked up, obviously. And I would think that as long as I keep my IP low today, I can't hurt my ERA and WHIP enough to lose those. Do I feel comfortable with being up 5-3 in WINS, and not start any of them? Or start just Iwakuma and Keuchel who face each other so a decent chance that one of them gets the WIN?

So yea, advice?

 
I would start iwakuma and keuchel. Should be a safe game for both and as you said, gives a good chance at a win. I would not trust Bauer in this spot yet and in Tor is not a great spot for a pitcher.

 
I would bench Kuechel. He has gone deep into three games in a row and had a very heavy pitch count last time out. Dead arm potential. That and Iwakuma has been more efficient in his recent outings, gets a bottom five offense at home, that has been horrible vs righties all year across the board except for one guy who may not play with a bad hip.

 
MAC_32 said:
I would bench Kuechel. He has gone deep into three games in a row and had a very heavy pitch count last time out. Dead arm potential. That and Iwakuma has been more efficient in his recent outings, gets a bottom five offense at home, that has been horrible vs righties all year across the board except for one guy who may not play with a bad hip.
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I was just looking up why he didn't go last night and they were mentioning that last game was his career high pitches.

He got an extra day of rest before today's start.

It's fair point.

 
the moops said:
This is my first year doing H2H. Need some advice. More of a general strategy question, but it applies to my specific scenario. Pitching this week, I am up 5-3 in WINS, 4-3 in SAVES, 65-35 in K's, 3.44 - 3.94 in ERA, and 1.30 - 1.44 in WHIP.

I have 4 guys starting today. Iwakuma (HOU), Bauer (@BAL), Pomeranz (@TOR), and Keuchel (@SEA). Opponent has 2 guys going, Nolasco (@SFG), and Tanaka (@CWS).

As far as RP, he has Perkins and Rodney, while I have Robertson, Bellisario, and Britton.

How many of my SP do I start? I have K's locked up, obviously. And I would think that as long as I keep my IP low today, I can't hurt my ERA and WHIP enough to lose those. Do I feel comfortable with being up 5-3 in WINS, and not start any of them? Or start just Iwakuma and Keuchel who face each other so a decent chance that one of them gets the WIN?

So yea, advice?
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I have Bauer, Pomeranz and Keuchel in one league, and the only one I'm starting today is Kuechel

 
I still think that keuchel is relatively low risk in this situation due to being a heavy gb pitcher, safeco being a more pitcher-friendly park, an seattle's terrible BA.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
I still think that keuchel is relatively low risk in this situation due to being a heavy gb pitcher, safeco being a more pitcher-friendly park, an seattle's terrible BA.
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i don't disagree he is low risk and he is on a roll, given moops' specific situation I wouldn't do it but in roto? Most other h2h situations? Absolutely. Just when arms like his go dead the ball usually stays up and for gb heavy pitcher that is big trouble.
 
Red Sox in full :cry: :cry: :cry: mode.

Escobar steals 3rd because they gave it to him, up 8-3 in the 7th. Incites a bench-clearing brawl.

Since when is a 5-run lead insurmountable?

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Raider Nation said:
Red Sox in full :cry: :cry: :cry: mode.

Escobar steals 3rd because they gave it to him, up 8-3 in the 7th. Incites a bench-clearing brawl.

Since when is a 5-run lead insurmountable?
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Psycho Lyons really taking it to Escobar for talking crap but then doing the ole backpedal when the benches emptied.
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Yeah, evidently he wanted to fight one of the smaller guys, but when Gomes got in his face he changed his tune.

 
Raider Nation said:
Red Sox in full :cry: :cry: :cry: mode.

Escobar steals 3rd because they gave it to him, up 8-3 in the 7th. Incites a bench-clearing brawl.

Since when is a 5-run lead insurmountable?
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Yea, I don't get what Ross was upset about. He looks like a pu$$y yelling from the bench.

 
MAC_32 said:
Long Ball Larry said:
I still think that keuchel is relatively low risk in this situation due to being a heavy gb pitcher, safeco being a more pitcher-friendly park, an seattle's terrible BA.
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i don't disagree he is low risk and he is on a roll, given moops' specific situation I wouldn't do it but in roto? Most other h2h situations? Absolutely. Just when arms like his go dead the ball usually stays up and for gb heavy pitcher that is big trouble.
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wow. that's unbelievable. just 106 pitches.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
MAC_32 said:
Long Ball Larry said:
I still think that keuchel is relatively low risk in this situation due to being a heavy gb pitcher, safeco being a more pitcher-friendly park, an seattle's terrible BA.
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i don't disagree he is low risk and he is on a roll, given moops' specific situation I wouldn't do it but in roto? Most other h2h situations? Absolutely. Just when arms like his go dead the ball usually stays up and for gb heavy pitcher that is big trouble.
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wow. that's unbelievable. just 106 pitches.
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dude is on some kinda roll.
 
In the category of Stupid Stuff RN Wonders About, how much do you figure it costs Foxwoods to display their logo in such a huge and prominent fashion on the green monster all season? It's gotta be a small fortune, no? I know you gotta spend money to make money, but a NY Times article in 2012 reported that Foxwoods is $2.4 billion dollars in debt.

 
Raider Nation said:
In the category of Stupid Stuff RN Wonders About, how much do you figure it costs Foxwoods to display their logo in such a huge and prominent fashion on the green monster all season? It's gotta be a small fortune, no? I know you gotta spend money to make money, but a NY Times article in 2012 reported that Foxwoods is $2.4 billion dollars in debt.
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based on this, it is maybe a couple million dollars a year. http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2007/04/Issue-136/Sponsorships-Advertising-Marketing/Covidien-Inks-Deal-With-Red-Sox-Gets-Spot-On-Green-Monster.aspx

i hear what you are saying, but it is probably meaningless relative to that debt.

 
Raider Nation said:
In the category of Stupid Stuff RN Wonders About, how much do you figure it costs Foxwoods to display their logo in such a huge and prominent fashion on the green monster all season? It's gotta be a small fortune, no? I know you gotta spend money to make money, but a NY Times article in 2012 reported that Foxwoods is $2.4 billion dollars in debt.
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I read that the rooftops at wrigley generate 3 million per year and a proposed scoreboard would generate 20 million. So thats fixed ads as well as video ads, I guess in theory.

The monster it's second only to the ivy as most iconic of elements in baseball. And since you can't really advertise on the ivy, it's kind of the best real estate you can get. I'd guess 10-20 million on that placement.

 
When we look back on it, this Memorial Day weekend might be the touchstone you point to if the Red Sox’s 2014 season falls apart for good.First, they put Shane Victorino on the DL with a strained right hamstring. Then Mike Napoli joined him there, due to a multitude of maladies including a long-dislocated ring finger. On Sunday, Boston lost its tenth game in a row – thereby becoming the first reigning champion to have a losing streak that long since the post firesale 1998 Marlins – but not before they had added insult to their injuries.

It happened in the seventh inning, when the Rays shortstop Yunel Escobar took third base on defensive indifference with his team ahead by the score of 8-3. Apparently swiping a bag with a five-run lead is forbidden in an unwritten rulebook possessed by only the reeling, cranky Sox, as players in their dugout began cursing at Escobar, and then Jonny Gomes took it upon himself to run in from left field and shove him. Predictably, both benches cleared.

After the game, Rays manager Joe Maddon correctly pointed out that five-run leads aren’t exactly safe, even in the seventh inning, and that his side did not object in last year’s ALDS when Jacoby Ellsbury stole second base with the Sox leading the Rays by the score of 8-2 in the eighth inning.

“Our goal is to not permit them to score runs,” said the Rays’ skipper, who had his 700th Rays victory overshadowed. “Their goal is to score runs – the whole game. That’s always been the goal within the game of baseball. Apparently some of the guys on their bench did not like that.”

What they probably liked less was that 10-game losing streak, and that they’re suddenly 20-29 and eight games behind the AL East-leading Blue Jays. Last year’s self-assured Sox wouldn’t have cared a bit about something like what Escobar did on Sunday. Even though it features most of the same faces, this year’s club is different, as its absurd behavior on Sunday demonstrated.
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http://mlb.si.com/2014/05/25/red-sox-rays-brawl-yunel-escobar-jonny-gomes-10-game-losing-streak/

 
Like baseball players don't have enough of a reputation for being the wussiest of all pro athletes, we have to hear about these whiny #####es who actually COMPLAIN about the other team trying to win. Jesus.

And don't give me this crap about the games being in-hand. There's no ### #### clock. The game is NEVER totally in-hand.

 
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Michael Brown said:
Like baseball players don't have enough of a reputation for being the wussiest of all pro athletes, we have to hear about these whiny #####es who actually COMPLAIN about the other team trying to win. Jesus.

And don't give me this crap about the games being in-hand. There's no ### #### clock. The game is NEVER totally in-hand.
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I happened to be watching it live and I got the sense it was more about frustration over the losing streak than the actual act of stealing the base. Still, they gotta pipe down there.

 
Raider Nation said:
Michael Brown said:
Like baseball players don't have enough of a reputation for being the wussiest of all pro athletes, we have to hear about these whiny #####es who actually COMPLAIN about the other team trying to win. Jesus.

And don't give me this crap about the games being in-hand. There's no ### #### clock. The game is NEVER totally in-hand.
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I happened to be watching it live and I got the sense it was more about frustration over the losing streak than the actual act of stealing the base. Still, they gotta pipe down there.
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So maybe it is just a release...but relate this to football. What would happen?

 
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