OnlyBucs

guy is very under-rated





Sortable Pitching

RK PLAYER TEAM GP GS IP H R ER BB SO W L SV BLSV WAR WHIP ERA

1 Jacob deGrom NYM 27 27 182.0 137 41 34 41 224 8 8 0 0 8.0 0.98 1.68

2 Aaron Nola PHI 27 27 176.0 123 42 41 47 177 15 3 0 0 9.2 0.97 2.10

3 Max Scherzer WSH 28 28 186.2 120 50 46 45 249 16 6 0 0 8.1 0.88 2.22

4 Mike Foltynewicz ATL 25 25 145.0 108 49 43 56 169 10 8 0 0 3.3 1.13 2.67

5 Kyle Freeland COL 27 27 164.1 144 53 53 59 142 12 7 0 0 6.9 1.24 2.90

6 Zack Greinke ARI 27 27 168.2 143 57 55 34 171 13 8 0 0 3.8 1.05 2.93

7 Miles Mikolas STL 26 26 162.0 150 58 53 26 112 13 3 0 0 3.0 1.09 2.94

8 Patrick Corbin ARI 27 27 168.2 132 59 59 40 207 10 5 0 0 3.7 1.02 3.15

9 Jake Arrieta PHI 25 25 144.1 131 71 54 45 106 9 9 0 0 3.1 1.22 3.37

10 Trevor Williams PIT 25 25 136.0 118 57 52 45 90 10 9 0 0 2.4 1.20 3.44

RK PLAYER TEAM GP GS IP H R ER BB SO W L SV BLSV WAR WHIP ERA

he is a keeper

It went down tonight.

very under-rated



not a bad trade acquistion

If Archer gets straightened around the Bucs have 4 very good starting pitchers going into next season. I am going to guess they will try to move Nova this offseason and fill the fifth starting pitcher slot with Kingham, Holmes, Brault or a minor league free agent until Keller gets called up around mid June.

1F3833105D0 wrote: It went down tonight.
He is now 9th:

1. deGrom • NYM 1.68

2. Nola • PHI 2.10

3. Scherzer • WSN 2.22

4. Foltynewicz • ATL 2.67

5. Freeland • COL 2.90

6. Greinke • ARI 2.93

7. Mikolas • STL 2.96

8. Corbin • ARI 3.15

[highlight]9. Williams • PIT 3.30[/highlight]

10. Wood • LAD 3.42

Not to dismiss what he's doing (far from it) but it really speaks to the state of offense in Baseball when a 3.30 ERA is good enough for 9th in the NL.

I’m actually very optomistic about the pitching going into 2019. Offense...who knows...but pitching, I like.



Taillon, Archer, Musgrove, Williams is a solid 1-4. Kingham has shown enough potential to be serviceable at 5.



Bullpen should be pretty good as well. Rodriguez, Santana, Crick, Kela, Vazquez are five dependable arms. I have a bit more confidence in Brault coming out of the pen than starting.



And with Mercer, Harrison, Freese, and potentially Nova coming off the books, there should actually be some room in the salary. Mercer, Harrison, and Freese alone is worth about $20 million in salary, figuring in their respective buyouts next year. I see no reason to believe that Newman, Kramer, Frazier, Hech (whom I would resign), Tucker can’t duplicate their performance for far less money.



Rodriguez's salary coming off the books adds another $5.75 million. Even with suspected arb raises, there still should be plenty there to go out and upgrade the rotation even more. If they find takers for Nova and/or Cervelli, the Bucs could actually be in play for some real talent.

487A76766250737A77727D7A1B0 wrote: Not to dismiss what he's doing (far from it) but it really speaks to the state of offense in Baseball when a 3.30 ERA is good enough for 9th in the NL.


Sammy, you make me laugh. Just did it with coffee in my mouth and spurted it out my nose laughing so hard. If what you say is true then where is the Buccos offense? ;D ;D ;D

52606C6C784A69606D686760010 wrote: Not to dismiss what he's doing (far from it) but it really speaks to the state of offense in Baseball when a 3.30 ERA is good enough for 9th in the NL.
Yeah, we're not in the Bob Gibson 1.12 ERA era anymore! Smaller parks, better bats. Maybe even a lighter ball. Even NL pitchers have to face a few DHs instead of pitchers in interleague play. But also, pitchers are usually pulled at 100 pitches even if they are cruising, which is normally 6-7 innings. Williams was pulled at 92 pitches last night in a 6-inning shutout with 92 pitches. Years ago he might have added 3 more shutout innings and further reduced his ERA. But starters rarely get a chance to further reduce their ERA in the late innings.