This is really powerful analysis. I have been wondering about the general inability of most everyone but Sale and Kimbel in this regard. The plot with Kimbrel and Kelly in it was very revealing .
That said, the Sox staff has the fourth best K/9 in baseball, so they can't be doing that badly.
Well... if you remove every teams ace starter and closer that would adjust the Sox way back up, no?
Or another way of putting this would be that if we replaced Kelly's and Abad's 2017 K rates with their career numbers, we'd be in (eyeballing it) second, probably. If a healthy David Price had pitched the innings Wright, Kendrick and Johnson pitched, we'd be in first.
They have 13 pitchers on the roster, so I don't think it'll be another arm - especially with Sale going today. They need an IF since it's only Rutledge on the bench. No logical choice down there though since Pablo and Holt need more time.
I think Workman has earned it too. That said he threw 2.2 innings yesterday so probably needs two days to rest.
Makes sense to send a pitcher down. Makes little sense to send him down in favor of another pitcher, not with a short bench.
Where's that picture of a terrified Farrell looking up from the dugout at a bomb?
Workman's first three appearances in Pawtucket after being sent back down were rather poor: 3 IP, 5 H (1 HR), 3 ER, 3 BB, 0 K. So maybe there was a mechanical issue or something.
Yep
Boyer replaced Johnson. Now Price will probably replace Boyer, unless they send Travis back down.
White Sox have 2 LHP starting on Monday and Tuesday. Baltimore starting Miley on Thursday. Travis probably sticking around
psst! Have you checked Kelly's walk numbers? 5.4/9 innings last year, 3.9/9 this year.
Fair, but in May he's made 10 appearances and has 10ip, 2bb/12k while giving up 6 hits.
8th inning 7th inning. Its all high leverage. Unless you're thinking of just dumping Barnes altogether. And if kelly didn;t throw 100 pitches in his inning yesterday, he might have gotten another.
This, and...I suspect Farrell is thinking of leverage in more sophisticated terms than just inning. Last night Kelly faced Carter, Gardner, Sanchez, with Judge waiting if somebody gets on. Barnes faced Holliday, Castro and Hicks. Both pretty good groups of hitters, but which would you reserve your better reliever for?
It's 13 games. I think people just keep expecting him to revert back to SP Joe Kelly. His track record as a MR in the minors and the majors is considerably better than as a starter and the sample size isn't that small as a MR if you do include the minors. I don't think some people will ever truly trust him just like some people still worry about JBJ. During those 13 games, his LD% is 31% though. He's also only at 11% in Strikes swinging, 16% looking. Although his GB ratio is at 1.90.
