Lineup for game 2. You pick it...

[MurphDogg]

15 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

No Sisco again...

Day game after a night game tomorrow. Buck must have preferred Sisco catch Gausman tomorrow instead of Cashner today.

[Frobby]

18 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

No Sisco again...

 

1 minute ago, Rene88 said:

Because he isn’t a very good catcher..when his catcher ERA is 6 after several games, you will see.

Night game today, day game tomorrow.   Neither one of them was going to start both.    

[MurphDogg]

1 minute ago, Rene88 said:

Because he isn’t a very good catcher..when his catcher ERA is 6 after several games, you will see.

Yep, because catcher ERA, arguably a junk stat anyway, is definitely meaningful after several games.

[Can_of_corn]

18 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Yep, because catcher ERA, arguably a junk stat anyway, is definitely meaningful after several games.

Last season at this time Beef was being lauded as a genius.

[SteveA]

1 hour ago, Hank Scorpio said:

No Sisco again...

He'll go tomorrow, day game after night game.

[Rene88]

43 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Yep, because catcher ERA, arguably a junk stat anyway, is definitely meaningful after several games.

Yeah that’s why Castillo has a new team every year.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

So how long is Buck going to roll with Davis as the leadoff hitter.

[Natty]

8 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

So how long is Buck going to roll with Davis as the leadoff hitter.

Until he switches Jones to leadoff...

[Natty]

When Trumbo comes back he will bat leadoff, he needs to get at bats...Right? 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

18 minutes ago, Natty said:

When Trumbo comes back he will bat leadoff, he needs to get at bats...Right? 

Good thing that Buck doesn’t read this website.  Don’t want that seed planted in his mind.  

Just go with Beckham or Sisco when he starts playing more.  

[eddie83]

1 hour ago, SteveA said:

He'll go tomorrow, day game after night game.

Tells me also Buck wants Caleb catching Tillman.  

[MurphDogg]

1 hour ago, Rene88 said:

Yeah that’s why Castillo has a new team every year.

He must have forgotten how to catch after 2013 with the Cubs when he had a 4.02 CERA, the same as Dioner Navarro, the Cubs other catcher. Matt Wieters had a lousy CERA, until it was great, and then bad, and then good again. It is not a particularly reputable stat and it is (as most stats are) certainly worthless after only a handful of games.

[Rene88]

Just now, MurphDogg said:

He must have forgotten how to catch after 2013 with the Cubs when he had a 4.02 CERA, the same as Dioner Navarro, the Cubs other catcher. Matt Wieters had a lousy CERA, until it was great, and then bad, and then good again. It is not a particularly reputable stat and it is (as most stats are) certainly worthless after only a handful of games.

How about the vast extremes between Joseph and Castillo last year? 

[MurphDogg]

1 hour ago, Rene88 said:

How about the vast extremes between Joseph and Castillo last year? 

Similar to the large difference between Joseph and Wieters in 2014 and 2015 when Joseph was .87 and .73 runs better. And then in 2016, Wieters was .30 better. In 2017 with the Nats, Wieters was .86 runs better than Jose Lobaton who had always been considered a solid backup what with his career CERA of 3.65. 

It is a stat with a ton of noise, and there aren't many people that think it is particularly valuable.

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, MurphDogg said:

Similar to the large difference between Joseph and Wieters in 2014 and 2015 when Joseph was .87 and .73 runs better. And then in 2016, Wieters was .30 better. In 2017 with the Nats, Wieters was .86 runs better than Jose Lobaton who had always been considered a solid backup what with his career CERA of 3.65. 

It is a stat with a ton of noise, and there aren't many people that think it is particularly valuable.

It’s a questionable stat.   But the difference between Joseph and Castillo wasn’t .87 or .73, it was 1.37, and with the starters it was much higher than that.   And, unlike most starter/backup splits, the playing time was 55/45 between the two, so the sample for the 2nd catcher is bigger and thus more meaningful than in most situations.    None of that proves that CERA is meaningful in this case, but I personally do think it was significant.