The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles will face off head-to-head tonight in a big series for both clubs, as big as can be in July anyway. The Orioles and the Yankees are battling the other three teams in the American League East Division for supremacy in a race that could go down to the final weekend of the series. First thing is first though as the Yankees send Nathan Eovaldi to the mound tonight looking for his 10th win while Wei-Yin Chen looks to keep Eovaldi at nine wins for the Orioles. The game will be played at 7:05 pm ET and can be seen on the YES Network, MLB Network and MLB TV.
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Eovaldi has been nicknamed "The Revolver" by some of the site while others never would have guessed he would have won 10 games all season, let alone in mid-July. Let's see if he can get that 10th win and help the Yankees get another game cushion in the division. Go Yankees!
What is that... six, seven straight good starts for Evo?
ReplyDeleteTHE REVOLVER...has shown Hans to be nothing more than macaroni salad.
ReplyDeleteEovaldi should have been 10-2 tonight. Jinxed by too much management. Shame.
I'll go back to the words of Nolan Ryan, the last time the Yanks were in Houston, a short time ago.
Hope I get the words right.
....."man, that f-----g cowboy can pitch ! Reminds me of me !"
I think I got it right.
Drew is a short timer, and Prado will fill his slipper shoes.
Eovaldi has definitely PITCHED, not thrown, better and I think that's the difference. He's not an ace, and he's not asked to be one either.
Delete6.8 runs of scoring is allotted to the water pistol when he pitches. Has a tendency not to get past 6 full innings. If you think thats a stud well you got another clue you have to buy Patty Boy
DeleteThat would matter if Eovaldi was still winning games 7-6 and 8-5 etc. but he's not. He's winning, just throwing numbers out there and these are not exact scores, gamed 3-1, 4-3, etc. Low scoring games.
DeleteAnd you can mention him being taken out early but for one that's on Girardi and not Evo and for two he's a fourth or fifth starter. He's being treated as a fourth or fifth starter. In my opinion he's a great fourth or fifth starter, run support or not.
I'm not going to fault him for 6.8 runs, that's just luck of the draw. His ERA is going down, and he wins ballgames, but you're right Hans. (Man I hate saying that) He's got to go deeper in games for me to consider him more than an expendable type pitcher. Right now, he can either stay or be traded and I wouldn't lose any sleep.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Levin the Yanks realize this guy isn't going to give them length and at one time he was the league leader in hits given up and he has a 4 plus era so we need to score for him. Interesting argument I heard on the radio today is if you put Eovaldi on the Met's he would have a record of 2-9 and put Harvey on the Yankees and he would be 11-4 or there about. That leads to my point that the guy is at best a number 4 and more like a 5 and to me the better starter for the Yanks is in the bullpen in Warren and as always I point out numbers don't lie
DeleteOf course Warren is probably the better starter, especially this season, but it's worth mentioning also in my opinion that Eovaldi is 25 years old and Warren will be 28 in a month. At 25 Warren was giving up 10 hits per nine innings, pitching to a 1.429 WHIP and making Phil Hughes look like a groundball pitcher inside Yankee Stadium. Numbers don't lie.
DeleteWell said you jerk! Sometimes it is hard to remember that Eovaldi is only 25. I'll stop bashing him until he's at least 26!
DeleteFebruary is so far away.
DeleteBurch shouldn't the best starters be paraded out weekly to give the team the best chance to win? Has Eovaldi pitched better then when he was in Miami? Yes, however I'm not buying what Mulch head is selling just yet. He gets the most run support, yet gives you the least amount of length of any of the starters. Eovaldi taxes the bullpen every start he makes and sooner or later it will come back and bite us. Warren should be in the rotation and he is being penalized because he can do bot facets of pitching.
DeleteThat and Warren will presumably hit an innings wall this season. He hit that wall last year as a reliever only so asking him to make 30 starts is probably unrealistic. Well unrealistic if you want good and efficient starts anyway.
DeleteI just keep going back to the fact that eovaldi is a 4th or 5th starter. Sure he taxes the bullpen every time out but most back end of the rotation starters do, that's why they are there and not pitching on opening day.
Pineda and Warren avg. 6.2 innings.
ReplyDeleteTank 6.1
CC 5.9
Evo 5.5 take away that one game he was blown out in the first 2/3 of innings is at 5.7.
Which means we really don't have any #1 type pitchers, do we? #1s go 7+ innings most every start.