Grayson Rodriguez 2023

[accinfo]

8 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

For conversation sake let’s assume they stay on 6 man rotation with no injuries and rainouts. 

Grod would pitch 

Mon - Sept 4 @LAA

Mon -Sept 11 STL 

Sun -Sept 17 TB

Sat - Sept 23 @CLE

Sat -Sept 30 BOS

 

Perhaps they can in a position to skip him vs CLE and then maybe a short outing vs BOS? Maybe 18 innings first 3 games and 4 vs Boston. That’s 156. 

Hopefully they don’t go down to the last week of the season to clinch the division.  As soon as that happens GRod, Bradish, and Kremer will not pitch until the playoffs.  Voth, John Means, and they shuttle guys from AAA.

[Frobby]

I see no signs of fatigue.  He’s going to be a monster next year if healthy.  

Threw the 4-seamer 53 of 96 pitches 
and averaged 98.4, maxed out at 100.7. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Grayson is looking like a starting pitching talent we've only seen from the likes of Mussina and Bedard (and Arrieta post Orioles) the last thirty years from the Orioles farm system.

[emmett16]

17 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

For conversation sake let’s assume they stay on 6 man rotation with no injuries and rainouts. 

Grod would pitch 

Mon - Sept 4 @LAA

Mon -Sept 11 STL 

Sun -Sept 17 TB

Sat - Sept 23 @CLE

Sat -Sept 30 BOS

 

Perhaps they can in a position to skip him vs CLE and then maybe a short outing vs BOS? Maybe 18 innings first 3 games and 4 vs Boston. That’s 156. 

Skipping a start all together could actually be more dangerous.  There is a sweet spot between chronic load and acute load.  He has been on a consistent workload for quite a while now.  To deviate from that significantly and then come back and go hard would put him at risk.  He needs to stay the course, or slightly change his chronic load slightly ie. missing one game by going every 7 days vs. 6.  If he misses one start and has ~12 days in between that could put him in the danger zone.  

 

Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio | Science for Sport

Edited August 29, 2023 by emmett16

[emmett16]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

I see no signs of fatigue.  He’s going to be a monster next year if healthy.  

Threw the 4-seamer 53 of 96 pitches 
and averaged 98.4, maxed out at 100.7. 

Agree.  He looks like he is in full stride right now.  

[Frobby]

4 minutes ago, accinfo said:

Hopefully they don’t go down to the last week of the season to clinch the division.  As soon as that happens GRod, Bradish, and Kremer will not pitch until the playoffs.  Voth, John Means, and they shuttle guys from AAA.

If they clinch the duvision, they’re going to sit around for several days while the other teams play.  So, I doubt they‘ll skip the starters much at the end.   More likely they’ll limit their innings.  But in any event, it’s unlikely they clinch until sometime in that final week, assuming they do win the division.  

[Pickles]

22 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

For conversation sake let’s assume they stay on 6 man rotation with no injuries and rainouts. 

Grod would pitch 

Mon - Sept 4 @LAA

Mon -Sept 11 STL 

Sun -Sept 17 TB

Sat - Sept 23 @CLE

Sat -Sept 30 BOS

 

Perhaps they can in a position to skip him vs CLE and then maybe a short outing vs BOS? Maybe 18 innings first 3 games and 4 vs Boston. That’s 156. 

Roughly something like that.

[Moose Milligan]

21 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I see no signs of fatigue.  He’s going to be a monster next year if healthy.  

Threw the 4-seamer 53 of 96 pitches 
and averaged 98.4, maxed out at 100.7. 

Top 5 Cy Young next year. 

[bpilktree]

I would start piggy backing GRod with Means let them rotate 4 to 5 innings and keep other guys on turn.  

[Sports Guy]

26 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I see no signs of fatigue.  He’s going to be a monster next year if healthy.  

Threw the 4-seamer 53 of 96 pitches 
and averaged 98.4, maxed out at 100.7. 

Just hope that arm can hold up throwing this hard.

[Frobby]

4 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Just hope that arm can hold up throwing this hard.

Sure.  That’s always a concern.  

[Osornot]

39 minutes ago, emmett16 said:

Agree.  He looks like he is in full stride right now.  

His demeanor is different. Confidence can be a wonderful thing...

[Sports Guy]

2.84 ERA since coming back. Averaging almost exactly 6 IP per start. BB rate is 2.6. k rate is 7.8. Only given up 2 homers and 33 hits. BABIP a little on the lucky side after it was on the unlucky side in his first stint. Tends to even out..overall he’s still more on the unlucky side.

[jrobb21613]

Few more starts like that and he’ll take some votes away from Gunnar. 

[Gurgi]

1 minute ago, jrobb21613 said:

Few more starts like that and he’ll take some votes away from Gunnar. 

If he can take the vote away from Gunnar it would mean some historic pitching in September.  We should all pray for that.