2020 Around the MLB Thread

[CDAV45]

Indians starting pitching ranked 8th in MLB.

Ranking All 30 Starting Rotations

Whose starting rotation is the best in baseball? This off-season saw plenty of starting pitchers change teams, with the trade market being a hot commodity....

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Yeah, other than maybe the Dodgers, you could put the other 9 in a bag, shake them up, and pull them out in whatever order. The biggest likelihood of underperforming has to go to the Yankees. I think Strasburg is hurt again with a leg injury. I'm not so sure the Brewers rotation is that good. I do think that the White Sox rotation is capable and close to the Indians'. These lists are fun, but obviously mean very little. There will be some surprises and some under-performances.

 

[DCTribefan]

Yeah, other than maybe the Dodgers, you could put the other 9 in a bag, shake them up, and pull them out in whatever order. The biggest likelihood of underperforming has to go to the Yankees. I think Strasburg is hurt again with a leg injury. I'm not so sure the Brewers rotation is that good. I do think that the White Sox rotation is capable and close to the Indians'. These lists are fun, but obviously mean very little. There will be some surprises and some under-performances.

I’m all in favor of preseason fun. The real rants begin on April 1st.

 

[jup]

Carrasco with a torn hamstring 6 to 8 weeks.

 

[LL3]

Carrasco with a torn hamstring 6 to 8 weeks.

Very sad to hear it, and am rooting for his recovery, but his risk of injury always seemed a factor in his inclusion in the Lindor trade.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Carrasco with a torn hamstring 6 to 8 weeks.

Not even pitching - he was doing "conditioning". And it's torn, not just strained. Wow.

If I were a GM I would never trade with the Indians for a pitcher, not after Kluber, Clevinger, and Carrasco, although Cookie could still start 24 games this year. Even the Reds with the Trevor Bauer deal; they gave up a top prospect for a guy who ended up going 7-9 in 21 starts and then signed with the Dodgers.

 

[CATS44]

A torn hamstring hurts.

Once I got to my mid 20s, I had all kind of hamstring problems, but then I tore one.

I played every sport imaginable from the time I was six or seven, and have had just about every injury imaginable...both shoulders, three chipped vertebrae, ankles, hip, fingers, toes, torn Achilles.

I was the original Tyler Naquin.

My doctor said that it was because I spent twenty years running as fast as I could into people and objects bigger than I was....lol.

The absolute worst in terms of pain was that torn hamstring.

 

[CATS44]

Ashton Goudeau is a 28 yr old pitcher I had never heard of.

He debuted disastrously for the Rockies last year, after which he was waived.

He was picked up by the Pirates and subsequently waived again.

He was picked up by the Orioles...and once again waived.

He has been claimed by the Giants.

My question is this...

How bad of a pitcher do you have to be to be waived in one off season by the three worst projected teams in MLB...and by three teams projected to have bottom five pitching staffs?

Now, watch him become a mainstay in San Francisco....lol.

 

[Gson]

A torn hamstring hurts.

Once I got to my mid 20s, I had all kind of hamstring problems, but then I tore one.

I played every sport imaginable from the time I was six or seven, and have had just about every injury imaginable...both shoulders, three chipped vertebrae, ankles, hip, fingers, toes, torn Achilles.

I was the original Tyler Naquin.

My doctor said that it was because I spent twenty years running as fast as I could into people and objects bigger than I was....lol.

The absolute worst in terms of pain was that torn hamstring.

C'mon buck up!!!.. quit being such a wuss.. rub some dirt on it, add a bandaid and get back in there !!

 

[CATS44]

C'mon buck up!!!.. quit being such a wuss.. rub some dirt on it, add a bandaid and get back in there !!

Thanks, Coach!

 

[Kevalier]

Not even pitching - he was doing "conditioning". And it's torn, not just strained. Wow.

If I were a GM I would never trade with the Indians for a pitcher, not after Kluber, Clevinger, and Carrasco, although Cookie could still start 24 games this year. Even the Reds with the Trevor Bauer deal; they gave up a top prospect for a guy who ended up going 7-9 in 21 starts and then signed with the Dodgers.

Kind of forgot to mention that he won the NL Cy Young for them last season.

 

[Alabuckeye]

Not even pitching - he was doing "conditioning". And it's torn, not just strained. Wow.

If I were a GM I would never trade with the Indians for a pitcher, not after Kluber, Clevinger, and Carrasco, although Cookie could still start 24 games this year. Even the Reds with the Trevor Bauer deal; they gave up a top prospect for a guy who ended up going 7-9 in 21 starts and then signed with the Dodgers.

my thought coming into this thread. Wow, the pitchers the Indians have traded the last year and a half have just had some devastating injuries.

 

[jup]

Kind of forgot to mention that he won the NL Cy Young for them last season.

And put the team on his back down the stretch to get them their first playoff appearance in like a decade

 

[LL3]

And put the team on his back down the stretch to get them their first playoff appearance in like a decade

Some will say "60 game season"...just like we discussed last summer -- it still counted, and it was "real".

 

[jup]

Some will say "60 game season"...just like we discussed last summer -- it still counted, and it was "real".

60 relates to the Cy and is arguable if someone chooses - pitching on short rest when you need a win to get into the playoffs and then throwing shutout baseball in the playoffs have nothing to do with 60. Those really aren't arguable - like you said, they are real

 

[CDAV45]

Carrasco with a torn hamstring 6 to 8 weeks.

Could this be a blessing in disguise? If he misses significant time with this injury and recovers fully, would that not limit his IP significantly? Sucks he got injured, but maybe it prevented something worse? I doubt they'll rush him back.