Ort has entirely stopped walking people which is driving his good number. Sample size is quite small, however.
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Well, he's also stopped giving up hits.
2022: 28.1 ip, 35 h
2023: 23.0 ip, 27 h
2024: 19.1 ip, 9 h
WHIP:
2022: 1.77
2023: 1.57
2024: 0.62
When you don't walk anyone and don't give up any hits, it's hard to give up runs.
OPS against:
2022: .845
2023: .904
2024: .470
BABIP:
2022: .360
2023: .328
2024: .136
Ort was also struggling in AAA this year and walking a ton of people, so this stretch of 20 innings might not, you know, last. But hey, good for him!
In other news, Kavadas is heating up! 5 hits in his last 8 plate appearances, including a double and a home run. Overall line is still quite miserable, and the K% is bad -- 39% -- but it's not Bobby D bad. Go Niko!
In other news, Kavadas is heating up! 5 hits in his last 8 plate appearances, including a double and a home run. Overall line is still quite miserable, and the K% is bad -- 39% -- but it's not Bobby D bad. Go Niko!
The Kimbrel experience is over in Baltimore. DFAd today.
The last month and a half has not been kind to Mr. Kimbrel:
The last month and a half has not been kind to Mr. Kimbrel:
Kinda random, but I was poking around B-Ref the other day and noticed that despite his Cy Young-quality season, Chris Sale is no longer the all-time leader in K/9. His 11.1 career K/9 is second to Blake Snell’s 11.2 K/9.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia will manage the Falmouth Commodores
https://www.capenews.net/falmouth/news/falmouth-commodores-name-new-manager/article_cb5a13d5-fb80-5022-9a54-46cda2c87106.html
https://www.capenews.net/falmouth/news/falmouth-commodores-name-new-manager/article_cb5a13d5-fb80-5022-9a54-46cda2c87106.html
Benintendi has 3 walk off hits this year. Remarkable for a team that doesn’t have 40 combined wins.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Szu3uvyX_z8
https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/white-sox-4-angels-3-10-innings-walk-off-single-staves-off-history/
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Szu3uvyX_z8
https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/white-sox-4-angels-3-10-innings-walk-off-single-staves-off-history/
Cool article about bit players who won World Series rings has several former Sox players:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5864160/2024/10/23/mlb-world-series-rings-cameo-players/
Jalen Beeks, 2018 World Champion, was not a big contributor to the Red Sox cause:
Phil Seibel, 2004 World Champion, with more rings than Ted or Cobb:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5864160/2024/10/23/mlb-world-series-rings-cameo-players/
Jalen Beeks, 2018 World Champion, was not a big contributor to the Red Sox cause:
The article should note that Beeks was traded for Nate Eovaldi, who was a HUGE part of that team. So in that way, Beeks helped the cause a lot.
Phil Seibel, 2004 World Champion, with more rings than Ted or Cobb:
Jimmy Anderson, 2004 World Champion:
Such a neat article - great quotes with a strong emotional tug.
Maybe I'm missing it - but why is Trammel guaranteed a ring? Is this a new policy post-labor strife? The article says each team makes its own calls . . . do we know the Dodgers and Yankees give to players with 5 games only? Have those teams spoken about it? Genuinely interested.
I always thought the ring thing was pretty straightforward- you’re on the team for a game, you get a ring but I guess that’s because it seems to be the Sox policy and I’ve never really paid that much attention to other teams’ ring process. I do find it funny the Yankees in 2000 are an example of a team cheaping out.
I found that ring piece absolutely intriguing and right in my wheelhouse. I’ve always wondered how fringe players view the rings they win when they never played in the Series.
I know that Canseco sold the ring he got with the 2000 Yankees but I’m not sure what he did with his 89 ring.
if it was me, I’d keep that thing forever. I don’t understand the player who wouldn’t go to the ring fitting because he felt like he didn’t deserve it. Who’s judging you, man? And why should you give a shit?
People that do things against their own self interests are strange to me.
I know that Canseco sold the ring he got with the 2000 Yankees but I’m not sure what he did with his 89 ring.
if it was me, I’d keep that thing forever. I don’t understand the player who wouldn’t go to the ring fitting because he felt like he didn’t deserve it. Who’s judging you, man? And why should you give a shit?
People that do things against their own self interests are strange to me.
I'm still pissed that he was traded for Vaughn Grissom. Sale will win the Cy Young Award in all likelihood.
Grissom is in the mix of a stockpile of middle infielders.
Full throttle this.
Braves won just as many postseason games as the Sox did this year, in large part because once again Sale got hurt and left them high and dry when it mattered.
Thaddeus Ward claimed by the Orioles
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/11/orioles-claim-rene-pinto-thaddeus-ward.html
Ward, 27, pitched in 26 games for the Nats last year. Washington took him out of the Boston system in the Rule 5 draft. Like many Rule 5 picks, he struggled in his debut campaign. The UCF product posted a 6.37 ERA with nearly as many walks as strikeouts in 35 1/3 innings. Washington kept him on optional assignment to Triple-A for the entire ’24 season. Ward started 28 games but allowed a 5.64 ERA over 119 2/3 frames. He walked an untenable 17% of batters faced.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/11/orioles-claim-rene-pinto-thaddeus-ward.html
Ward, 27, pitched in 26 games for the Nats last year. Washington took him out of the Boston system in the Rule 5 draft. Like many Rule 5 picks, he struggled in his debut campaign. The UCF product posted a 6.37 ERA with nearly as many walks as strikeouts in 35 1/3 innings. Washington kept him on optional assignment to Triple-A for the entire ’24 season. Ward started 28 games but allowed a 5.64 ERA over 119 2/3 frames. He walked an untenable 17% of batters faced.
So that took me a second to figure out. But largely because I think you’re thinking of Carl Everett.
I guess apropos to both the Sox history with race, and the evergreen Homer Simpson joke “white guys have names like Lenny, and black guys have names like Carl”, it’s amazing that the Red Sox only have one guy named Lenny and two named Carl (I mean recent years, ignoring a kind of more famous one of yonder). That ratio still lands vis-a-vis Yaz.