Jump to content

Bullpen has been excellent.


DocJJ

Recommended Posts

1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:

Guess the pen wasn’t tired tonight?

I’m glad they only had to get 7 outs.   And none of the three guys we used pitched on Tuesday.   Hoping for another relatively deep start tomorrow and then our ‘pen should be pretty caught up on rest.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

Happiness is a good, reliable bullpen.  

Other than a 3-4 day hiccup at the end of June/beginning of July, the bullpen has been unbelievable.   By month:

April 3.46

May 3.16

June 2.89

July 2.65

Krehbiel and Baker have both pitched well lately, taking a little of the burden off the other guys.  
 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  

39 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Look at the stuff though.

Bautista - 99-102 fastball, 90 split finger
Lopez - 98-99 sinker, curveball, split change
Tate - 95-97 sinker, swing and miss change
Perez - 96-98 fastball, slider that can be unhittable
Kreibel - 94-96, swing and miss change, cutter
Baker - Of late sitting 96-99, change, cutter
Akin - Arthur Rhodes like length guy
Vespi - Slider and curveball that is even tough on RHB despite being lefty

I'm not sure the Orioles have ever had as many weapons.

Just thought I'd post this here (this being from tonight's game thread.)

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 7/4/2022 at 4:53 PM, Three Run Homer said:

Lopez needs to move to a mop-up role until he gets his stuff/command back.   He probably shouldn't have been out there in the 9th inning of a tie game today, and continuing to put him in game situations going forward would be serious managerial malpractice.

Yet Hyde kept doing it and Lopez hasn't allowed an earned run since.

  • Upvote 1
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 hours ago, Frobby said:

Happiness is a good, reliable bullpen.  

Other than a 3-4 day hiccup at the end of June/beginning of July, the bullpen has been unbelievable.   By month:

April 3.46

May 3.16

June 2.89

July 2.65

Krehbiel and Baker have both pitched well lately, taking a little of the burden off the other guys.  
 

Redefining regression! ;)

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I still think you can trade high on Lopez. Bautista is already handling the toughest part of the lineup in the 8th often. Vespi stays permanently and you can bring up another guy. I’d expect to get 2 to 3 quality prospects for Lopez. Something like Hamel, Ramirez, and Dominquez from the Mets.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If we've learned anything in the last few months, it's that a good, deep, and well-managed bullpen can make up for a multitude of sins. Including a lack of starting depth.

Not sure why we'd want to trade that away. Any of it.

We have a couple of decent starters now, and a few journeymen workhorses. Nothing awesome, but serviceable. And already we're on the cusp of post-season play.

Next year we add Grayson, DL Hall, and return Means.

I really don't understand why everyone is clamoring to trade away what's making us good.

This team is being designed as a conveyor belt....  With replacement parts continuously coming down the line.... As parts mature into the edge of Free Agency... you trade them for high quality replacement parts that go back onto the early part of the conveyor belt.  That's where the continuing value is. You DON'T trade them for a couple of  years of expensive established players. That's what everyone else trying to contend does... and fails at.

We want perpetual contention. We have suffered a long march of losing to get here. Maybe... if we're lucky... we can resist the urge to dive back into a losing strategy.

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

After last night, Fangraphs Team Stats relievers sees BAL back in the #1 position.   Basically even with ATL and NYY (Yankees working through recent King loss), the lead group some gap on the rest.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=rel&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2022&month=0&season1=2022&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2022-01-01&enddate=2022-12-31&sort=20,d

BAL has used about 15% more innings than ATL-NYY to compile basically the same WAR, so probably a bit worse on a per-batter basis.     Perhaps someday we'll have a Max Fried or Gerrit Cole type character to help with that mix.

  • Upvote 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

35 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:

I still think you can trade high on Lopez. Bautista is already handling the toughest part of the lineup in the 8th often. Vespi stays permanently and you can bring up another guy. I’d expect to get 2 to 3 quality prospects for Lopez. Something like Hamel, Ramirez, and Dominquez from the Mets.

I'm skeptical that they'd get three decent-to-good prospects for a guy whose entire value is staked on 46.1 innings this year.

If the tables were turned would you give up, say, Westburg, Rom, and another lower guy for someone with Lopez' resume?  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I'm skeptical that they'd get three decent-to-good prospects for a guy whose entire value is staked on 46.1 innings this year.

If the tables were turned would you give up, say, Westburg, Rom, and another lower guy for someone with Lopez' resume?  

If I thought I was a World Series contender and was one reliever short, yes, I would. Plus Lopez is not a free agent until 2025 so he's not just a rental. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.




  • Posts

    • Just did a bit of a walk. Some decently large braches down, one segment of privacy fence missing and standing water on the property in a low spot.  
    • Just woke up and I don't hear any wind or rain.
    • Not that I am in any way full agreement, but this is a classic post.  Doesn't Machado play chess?  Maybe we could get some chess boards in the clubhouse and junk all the legos.  Not all great baseball men are John McGraw bad asses.  Some can be Christy Mathewsons as well, I suppose.  Not that I imagine today's young players much resembling McGraw or Mathewson, but they are the first two contrasting old school types that come to mind.  I will say just based on his postseason alone I'd much rather have Tatis over Machado.
    • Well I refuse to believe that only the O's have no players that want extensions.
    • Customer advocate groups have tried for decades to force the cable companies to allow channel by channel (a la carte) subscriptions, but the cable companies fought this because it would result in far less revenue (than forcing us to pay for a hundred channels we don't watch).  The government refused to intervene, so we've been stuck with the existing business model for all this time.  Streaming is forcing the change because streaming -- for now -- is an a la carte model.   MLB's fear must be this: if the regional sports network cable channel model goes away, will most users pay anywhere close to what these channels made as part of a cable bundle for just one streaming channel where all you watch are Orioles games (or maybe Orioles and Nats games -- whatever the case may be)?  So if you pay $100/month for cable with MASN, you are probably watching at least a few other channels too.  But will you pay $15/month (or whatever the price may be) just to watch the Orioles -- even during the months when there is no baseball?  The existing basic cable model has been quite stable because people tend to watch at least 5 or 6 channels.  They're reluctant to cancel their whole cable package just because baseball season is over -- or they've been too busy to watch many games this season.  But with a single streaming channel of just baseball there is bound to be a far more unstable revenue base.  All the streaming channels are already dealing with this problem.  I think MLB is maybe reluctant to go all in on streaming for this reason.  Perhaps they're looking for new different model that could allow them to bundle individual team channels with Netflix, or Prime, or maybe with your cell phone plan or something else.  This could give them some stability, but it could also be a turn off for the more hardcore fans who just want the Orioles and little else.  It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out and if MLB, and the Orioles, will prosper or suffer as a result.
  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...