Forum: Player Performance Threads

His contract looks worse by the week. Also, it's 7/3 and he doesn't have a thread?

Welcome back!

First start is Thursday vs. Cleveland.

The young man makes it to the Big City....welcome, Mr. Wade.

Not sure why no one seems to have started a thread to complain about his terrible recent performance. Maybe he has a little teflon coating because he came up through the system and the evil Levine mocked him. But he has blown multiple games now. He actually is over paid based on his impact on this team's record and his time in the league. The control problem must be in his head and that is more annoying to me than physical limitations.

Thought it would be nice to have 1 goto place to compile all his foibles. And possible future calls. Was thinking that if Kaprielian every makes it to the bigs, what would his call be if he hits someone with a pitch? He put a Kap in his AZZ?

Welcome!!

With 9 days to go until the non-waiver trade deadline... It would be fun to guesstimate how many of today's 40 man roster (there are 43 listed names with 3 players currently on the 60 day DL) will be on the official 40 man roster opening day 2018. Currently there are 5 players (Holiday, Frazier, Garcia, Sabathia & Pineda) who will be UFA's at season end. There are others who could be non-tendered this offseason and there are a host of potential trades that can/will take place. PITCHERS...

He pitched 3 innings and got the win this morning. He grounded out in his first career plate appearance. I wonder who the last reliever was to win a game in which he had his first career plate appearance. His 5 strikeouts contributed to the Yankees tying the MLB record of 26 strikeouts. Baseball-reference goes back to 1913, and there weren't many strikeouts before then. He made it the 297th time since 1913 that a winning pitcher had at least 5 strikeouts in 3 or fewer innings.

He's SITTING 95-97 in his debut. Probably something to do with adrenaline and pitching in relief, but I saw nothing in my research on him that said he was capable of this. A fastball/change/curve LHP who has dominating results in AAA and can get it up to 97 repeatedly? WOW. I can't believe the Cubs didn't hang onto this guy - PUT HIM IN THE ROTATION AND SEE WHAT THEY'VE GOT!

Nuff said.