Carlos Rodón (#55, 33, LHP, 0-2, 4.15) vs. Luis Severino (#40, 32, RHP, 2-5, 4.23)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
DH Ben Rice L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
2B J. Chisholm L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
3B Ryan McMahon L
C J.C. Escarra L
SS J. Caballero R
ATHLETICS
RF Colby Thomas R
1B Nick Kurtz L
C S. Langeliers R
DH Brent Rooker R
LF T. Soderstrom L
CF Henry Bolte R
3B Zack Gelof R
2B Jeff McNeil L
SS D. Hernaiz R
Let’s hope this goes better than their last series against the Athletics.
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When Stanton returns, how do you just send him to the bench? Rice has got to throw some catcher’s gear on.
I guess it was SO far off the plate that I’m okay with Kurtz challenging that.
Boy, Rodon fucking sucks.
In all seriousness, whatever, Nick Kurtz is a great hitter. So Rodon doesn’t SUCK, he just annoys the shit out of me. I dread his starts so much.
Annoying is worse than sucking.
All those things can be true at the same time.
Blue Jays make it to .500,
One more win and suddenly the Yankees add two more wins against winning teams.
lol
Shit, Sevy is hurt. Hopefully it’s nothing too serious.
This really puts the A’s behind the eight ball with their bullpen this series.
He’s just so, so frustrating to watch pitch.
Even when he gets outs, it’s after making the at-bats extend too long.
In 4-innings, 75 pitches.
So McMahon is a power hitter now?
huh, I see he hit in the 20s regularly in Colorado. It’s the park effect but still
I’m shocked Judge challenged THAT.
Rodon at 75 pitches through 3? As bullpen not the only one gonna be stressed
With the offense helping, Blackburn can possibly finish the game out.
Wow, only 9-pitches in the fifth, total of 84 through five.
I figure Rodon gets the sixth, and then maybe three from Blackburn? Or do you push Rodon for the seventh?
Maybe Blackburn for the 7th and 8th, and Doval for the 9th?
Why in the fucking WORLD is Cruz warming up?!
It’s 7-1 in the fucking 6th inning with two outs!!!
Boone’s afraid to use Blackburn or Headrick needs the work?
I think it’s the latter, and fuck, I guess the dude really DOES need the fucking work. Holy shit has he been off this inning.
Headrick, dude, WHAT THE FUCK?
Wow, Cruz!!
Seven hits in the last 5.1
Huh, is Rodon hurt?
Yay win!
Re: the “record against .500+ teams” thing that came up again on this game thread, I agree with what one person here was saying back when it came up a few weeks ago – was it Pete? – that is, it isn’t an altogether meaningless stat, but the arbitrary cutoff of .500 causes a lot of confusion as teams gain and lose that status early in the season.
I think it might be better to examine record against the entire league, more heavily weighting performance against stronger opponents, akin to how “strength of schedule” might be computed. The goal would be to get a single number, a sort of plus-minus or weighted winning percentage. I haven’t read widely enough to see if someone has proposed this, but to start, I’d suggest computing a weighted won-lost record, wherein each win is weighted by the opponent’s winning percentage (against all third-party teams, not against one’s own team), and each loss is weighted by the opponent’s losing percentage (ie, 1 minus the winning percentage against third-party teams). Compare the weighted wins and the weighted losses, and you might get a plus-minus of sorts, which might tell you how many games ahead of expectation you are based solely on the strength of schedule. A slightly different operation would be to take a dot product of two vectors : one vector being [wins against each respective opponent] and the other vector being [each respective opponent’s winning percentage against third-party teams] – and then to divide by the number of games played.
Neither of these approaches would be super robust early in a season, but I suspect it might be less prone to fluctuation.
I think SRS does a lot of that work. Runs scored versus runs allowed with strength of schedule factored in.
Thanks Brian, I didn’t even know SRS existed. Cool!