Last Night

[DOUGHBOYS]

So far this season, Chris Sale has been mortal.
As seen by box office attendance of Super Hero movies, the public prefers immortal.
Sale is not throwing near as hard as we're used to seeing. Making him...ugh....average.
We hate 'average' for Aces.
Sale owners are holding their breath.


Yesterday turned my head....So many things.
Alex Bregman and Mike Trout leave their games with injury. Two first rounders.
Sale, a first rounder pitched like Brett Anderson.
Only Brett Anderson is 3-0, not 0-3.
Jake de Grom, who never has a bad game...had a bad game.
Two catchers, Mitch Garver and Yasmani Grandal had two homer games.
Gary Sanchez had three the night before.

Going back to Trout and Bregman leaving their games...are you happy with your first pick right now?
Scherzer has not been unhittable.
Sale has no swing and miss stuff.
deGrom got beat up last night.
Mookie Betts is playing like Mookie Wilson.
Trout is hurt.
Bregman is hurt.
Trea Turner is REALLY hurt.
Jose Ramirez is Jose Oquendo.
Nolan Arenado has as many home runs as Babe Ruth. Which sounds good, but Ruth is dead.
Ronald Acuna is hitting below the Mendoza line everywhere but Coors.
JD Martinez has one rbi in April.
Aaron Judge strikes out in 40% of his at bats.
Trevor Story is hitting .209
And as much as everybody clamors about Justin Verlander, for roto, he is just a one win, 4.24 ERA, 1.29 WHIP guy.
Trout (before hurting himself) and Christian Yelich owners are the only happy campers in first round selections early in the season.
So much for first rounders being the foundation of NFBC teams.

We find out that Luis Severino and Mike Clevinger are going to be of no use to us for at last two months....

Dakota Hudson and Kyle Gibson getting pulled from their games with good leads and 4 2/3 innings pitched.
Leaving their fantasy owners with blue balls.
The number '4 2/3' hated only by us in fantasy baseball.

Joey Lucchesi saw his ERA go from nothing to 4.40 in four innings flat.

(This has nothing to do with last night....
Joey Gallo has never hit a sacrifice fly.
Never.
Weird.
He is the only player in baseball history to have hit 92 home runs and never have a sacrifice fly.
Ok...Back to last night...)

Four pitchers with their first names starting with 'M' won games last night.
Matt Andriese
Matt Shoemaker
Max Fried
Marco Gonzalez
Matching the Major league leading Wins by Marco this year.

Jose LeClerc was a sexy pick in drafts this year.
Last night, he allowed three earned runs and blew a Save.
It was the first runs he'd given up since July 25, last year.

.299/113/21/76/52
Helluva a roto line, right?
It is that of Lou Brock in 1967.
Brock would finish 7th in MVP voting and second to his own teammate, Orlando Cepeda, who won the award in '67.
The reason I bring up Brock is that he was the last St Louis Cardinal to hit six homers in 11 games.
Until Paul Goldschmidt last night.

The Cleveland Indians used 12 offensive players yesterday.
10 of those players were hitting below .208 before or after the game yesterday.
Of course, Cleveland scored eight runs and won their game.

ERA of Boston Starters....

David Price- 6.00
Nathan Eovaldi- 8.10
Chris Sale- 9.00
Eduardo Rodriguez- 12.38
Rick Porcello- 13.50

When does "It's still early" become "This is concerning" ?

Tyler Chatwood had already walked seven batters after his first two starts in 2018.
In 2019, Yu Darvish has walked 11 batters in two starts.

And finally, the Cincinnati Reds scored 14 runs last night.
Yasiel Puig was suspended and did not play.
In all of their games with Puig before, the Reds scored 21 runs.
The amusing thing (except to his owners) is that Puig scored as many runs last night as he had in all of Cincy's previous games. Zero.