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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, October 08, 2021As Blue Jays ponder off-season moves, focus should be on closing gap to Rays
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1. Rough CarriganAnd, this may be me not Atkins, but I took him as implying that they needed more BA, less walks to match the Rays. But that's not the Rays' offense at all. It is a mystery why they Rays barely outscored the Jays given the Jays have higher BA, OBP and SLG. Sometimes that's RISP performance but the Rays did nothing special there -- their RISP performance was very TTO line of 250/340/450 with a ton of walks; The Jayw were 270/340/470 -- same OBP, same ISO, higher BA, fewer walks.
Which isn't to say the Jays couldn't improve and, most importantly, they have to replace Semien's production (possibly with Semien who's not likely to be that productive again). They could use more production at C, 3B and CF but nearly every team could use more production at C and CF.
As #1 notes, a +183 differential shows they basically did everything right except win 2 more games than they did. Repeat that run differential next year (unlikely) and they'll be fine. Semien and Ray decistions need to be made, I suspect both end up overpaid by somebody.
Wow, Ray led the league in IP with just 193. That's the first time in a non-strike year that the leader has been under 200 ... and in 1981 and 1994, one of the leaders was over 200 and Fernando was just one inning shy of Ray in 1981. I suppose we gotta get used to that.
I saw the 2015-2019 stats for the average number of innings pitched by starters in MLB recently:
2015: 5.81
2016: 5.65
2017: 5.51
2018: 5.36
2019: 5.18
I believe 2020 was even lower, but it was such an odd year for athletes across sports that I think it's tough to fairly use it in an apples-to-apples way...
Logically, more of the money should be going to where the innings are going (the bullpen), right?
But also it has gotten closer. Again the fithy rich Dodgers -- their 3 highest-paid relievers totalled $32 M in salary** and 185 IP. Three years ago, the Yanks added Britton's 3/$39 to Chapman's 5/$80. The White Sox committed 3/$54 to Hendricks and traded for what's left of Kimbrel's $16 M this year (plus option). Before they got cheap, the Cubs would usually have a closer making about $16 and two setup guys making $6 each. Why they're still paying extra for closers I'm not sure but "proven" elite relief is expensive.
Teams mainly care about their top 4-5 relievers (I've taken to calling them their "leveraged" relievers) and, if you have to buy your top 3 off the FA market, you're gonna spend $25-30 M for about 180 innings with a pretty big risk that one will be hurt and one will start sucking.
It was going to be interesting to see what Hader was gonna get paid but the Brewers have used him as a standard closer in 2020-21.
** technically $36 this year because Jansen's 5/$80 is back-loaded.
No surprise, the Rays have been at the forefront of this, really taking it to an extreme this year. They had 753 innings by "starters" (including openers) and 703 from "relievers" (including any starters in relief of openers). That starters were credited with just 42 wins, the relievers 58. I'll admit I didn't think we'd ever get to a near 50/50 split and it looks like they had "Just" 16 openers this year, maybe a couple more hidden in there. They averaged only 73 pitches per start but the league averaged only 83.
They used 38 pitchers (and 3 position players) to get through it all. Yarbrough led with just 155 innings and only 4 guys over 100, another 4 over 60. So that was 8 guys to get through 800 innings ... and 30 guys to get through the other 655. That seems absurd but if Louis Head, Ryan Thompson and Matt Wisler can combine for 98 innings of about a 2.30 ERA, it's hard to say it's a bad idea. Or maybe you'd prefer JT Chargois, Dietrich Enss and Adam Conley combining for 66 innings of 2.35?
700 relief innings with a collective ERA of 3.24 in a 4.32 league -- starters can't compete against that.
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