watch the video clip from remy. he said that if foulke continues his downward spiral, arroyo could get some save opps. with his numbers against righties, it could be a good move.
watch the video clip from remy. he said that if foulke continues his downward spiral, arroyo could get some save opps. with his numbers against righties, it could be a good move.
Jerry Remy says a whole lot, and not much of it is worth anything. I don't see them displacing Foulke for Bronson Arroyo unless Foulke was hurt. Bronson is clearly a future stud starter, he's had a flew blips this year but he's got the stuff and just needs the starts to develop. I think moving him to the pen is just nonsense, everyone says moving Wake to the pen is bad because he's at this point in his career yadda yadda. That's insane... screw Wakefield, you have a guy that was showing signs of future brilliance for the past two years and you take him OUT of the rotation? Smart. My guess is he'll be back starting soon enough... Miller, Wells... one of the two will fall apart.
Arroyo has to go to the pen. I can appreciate his merit as a starter, but opposing managers just stack their lineups with all of their bench lefties, and he gets rocked. He has a .291 BAA for lefties, compared with a .191 against righties. I think he would actually have MORE value (real baseball wise) in a long relief/setup role, at least until another starter gets injured. He can be used for high-leverage middle innings. There, unlike in the last inning or to start the game, managers would have to think twice about using lefties off their bench.
I tend to agree. I think Arroyo would do much better in MR with his splits. I don't know about having him close...if teams have bench lefties left at that point they could run them out there at that point as well. But in MR I think he'd really shine. Foulke looks terrible though...at this point I think I'd rather have Wakefield closing.
The Loveable Losers wrote:I tend to agree. I think Arroyo would do much better in MR with his splits. I don't know about having him close...if teams have bench lefties left at that point they could run them out there at that point as well. But in MR I think he'd really shine. Foulke looks terrible though...at this point I think I'd rather have Wakefield closing.
Wakefield would be a bad closer....Some games he'd be lights out and then he'd walk the bases loaded 5 times on other days
I'm afraid to have Wakefield anywhere near the mound period when it comes to fbb...he's ridiculously inconsistent. But ridiculously incosistent >>> consistantly terrible.
This is the year wrote:Arroyo has to go to the pen. I can appreciate his merit as a starter, but opposing managers just stack their lineups with all of their bench lefties, and he gets rocked. He has a .291 BAA for lefties, compared with a .191 against righties. I think he would actually have MORE value (real baseball wise) in a long relief/setup role, at least until another starter gets injured. He can be used for high-leverage middle innings. There, unlike in the last inning or to start the game, managers would have to think twice about using lefties off their bench.
to SominaDei, He is not a future stud and is greatly overrated. He has had 10 quality starts and 5 where he has blown up this season, not to mention he is already 28 years old and has only two years under his belt in the bigs. While he will be a good pitcher, words like stud, ace and brilliance do not fit. As a bullpen guy, he could easily have a low 3 ERA with good amount of holds. As a starter, I think he will always be above 4 with 9-13 wins.
Keith Foulke is the closer. He will continue to be the closer unless he goes on the DL. Doesn't matter how bad he sucks, Francona is gonna keep sending him out there...see Embree
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Trot Nixon wrote:Keith Foulke is the closer. He will continue to be the closer unless he goes on the DL. Doesn't matter how bad he sucks, Francona is gonna keep sending him out there...see Embree
Foulke is better than Embree, right?
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