Pitchers Kay, Costillo, Newcomb, and Richards cannot be trusted to pitch in any meaningful game. Unfortunately, I have no solutions, other that to put Thorpe on the roster.

Kay would be fine for 3 innings or so against a LH-heavy batting order. Newcomb has been good up until his last couple outings when he's been mind-numbingly bad. Richards is meh. Castillo needs to be sent somewhere that is nowhere near the playoff roster.

Surprised we've given Thorpe zero shot at this point. Our starters have been so bad, it wouldn't hurt

15 minutes ago, oldsox said:

Pitchers Kay, Costillo, Newcomb, and Richards cannot be trusted to pitch in any meaningful game. Unfortunately, I have no solutions, other that to put Thorpe on the roster.

But you trust Hicks?

Compare numbers to Newcomb for full season.

Hopefully some much needed rest will help.

Brazoban is a big ??? as well.

lol Kay is just as trustworthy as Martin Burke and Fedde. They all have a 5th inning block

Newcomb's velocity seems fine, but his control, especially on his breaking pitches, has been terrible. I think a lot of it is from fatigue. They keep expecting him to throw multiple high leverage innings at a time with 40+ pitch counts. With Schultz pitching better (and more stretched out), they need to start thinking about using him in the multi-inning roles and let Newcomb go back to being a 1 inning reliever like he was earlier in the season.

2 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

lol Kay is just as trustworthy as Martin Burke and Fedde. They all have a 5th inning block

Kay and Fedde are much more likely to get hit the 3rd time around. Burke and Martin have at least shown they can go into the 6th inning recently.

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

Kay and Fedde are much more likely to get hit the 3rd time around. Burke and Martin have at least shown they can go into the 6th inning recently.

Everyone has the JavyVasquezes

Sir I knew Javy Vasquez...and you are definitely no Javy Vasquez.

I'm still going to war with Nuke in my bullpen as a high leverage guy (which is literally every inning in a playoff game).

Richards is probably the last guy out of the bullpen on the playoff roster. Castillo should be left off the roster entirely.

Game 1 Burke

Game 2 Martin

Game 3 some combo of Kay/Schultz/Smith

Game 4 Who Knows

8 minutes ago, Southwest Sider said:

I'm still going to war with Nuke in my bullpen as a high leverage guy (which is literally every inning in a playoff game).

Richards is probably the last guy out of the bullpen on the playoff roster. Castillo should be left off the roster entirely.

Game 1 Burke

Game 2 Martin

Game 3 some combo of Kay/Schultz/Smith

Game 4 Who Knows

Fedde has been better than those listed after Burke and Martin

first series is only three anyway

Starting Hagen for two is other option.

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31 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Everyone has the JavyVasquezes

Biggest regret of that 08 season was that we couldn't line up the rotation to have our ace (Danks) pitch game one of that series. Didn't realize this but he ranked second in WAR that year after Cliff Lee amongst AL starting pitchers.

7 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

Biggest regret of that 08 season was that we couldn't line up the rotation to have our ace (Danks) pitch game one of that series. Didn't realize this but he ranked second in WAR that year after Cliff Lee amongst AL starting pitchers.

The way they got in made it so they didn’t have the luxury to line anything up, that was pretty rough.

7 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

Biggest regret of that 08 season was that we couldn't line up the rotation to have our ace (Danks) pitch game one of that series. Didn't realize this but he ranked second in WAR that year after Cliff Lee amongst AL starting pitchers.

If their MVP candidate doesn't break his hand punching his bat it's more likely they could line their rotation up because they wouldn't have to fight so hard to win the division.