Based on the Cardinals' announcer's voice, they just won the world series.
Based on the Cardinals' announcer's voice, they just won the world series.
757690 (09-13-2015)
IMO they are indeed still stretching him out. I'm guessing they're probably shooting for around 120-130 innings or so.
Stretching out usually means going deeper in games. Iglesias has already pitched 7 innings several times IIRC, they aren't using him deeper.
As for the overall innings, as a reliever who didn't pitch last year, this seems adequate to me. He's laboring more in the middle innings now.
Need to baby these arms a little. Use Josh Smith to start some games.
Sam not throwing strikes. Not a good plan.
Gone. 4-2 cards. Now Jay with a double.
Oh well, the sweep wasn't meant to be.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
I tend to err on the side of caution, but Iglesias is such a weird case that I don't really feel comfortable hazarding a guess as to what his innings limit should be. I think he's close to getting shut down, but I don't blame the Reds for wanting to let him pitch quite a bit this year to get him ready for a full season workload next year.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Ideally it would mean going deep in games. But I'm talking about his seasonal innings workload and # of pitches thrown. And he went only 5 innings and didn't reach 90 pitches. I've got confidence that the Reds know what they're doing regarding handling these pitchers' workloads. At least a heck of alot better than I sure do. But I get your point. Err on the side of caution. They seem to be doing that IMO.
Way off subject, but when did MLB become the NBA in terms of tattoos?
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
757690 (09-13-2015)
Adam Duvall passing the responsibility to Tucker
Side note: the Cardinals 6-8 hitters have a total of 11 letters in their last names. I assume this is a MLB for letter thriftiness by 3 consecutive hitters.
Last edited by klw; 09-13-2015 at 03:29 PM.
Hope this is not a preview of next year.
Updated Reds HR list (players in italics are active):
Reds 100-Home Run Club
1. Johnny Bench - 389
2. Frank Robinson - 324
3. Tony Perez - 287
4. Adam Dunn - 270
5. Ted Kluszewski - 251
6. George Foster - 244
7. Ken Griffey, Jr. - 210
8. Eric Davis - 203
9. Jay Bruce - 202
10. Barry Larkin - 198
11. Joey Votto - 190
12. Vada Pinson - 186
13. Brandon Phillips - 180
14. Wally Post - 172
15. Gus Bell - 160
16. Joe Morgan - 152
16. Pete Rose - 152
18. Lee May - 147
19. Dan Driessen - 133
20. Reggie Sanders - 125
21. Ernie Lombardi - 120
22. Sean Casey - 118
23. Frank McCormick - 110
24. Dave Parker - 107
25. Todd Frazier - 106
26. Chris Sabo - 104
27. Dave Concepcion - 101
Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman. Damn glad to meet ya.
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Game result sucked...but I'll never get upset about taking 3 of 4 from the Cardinals.
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