4/11/16
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4/6/16
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NO TIMESTAMPS BECAUSE I’M A LITTLE TIME CRUNCHED FOR DINNER & SOFTBALL, I’LL TRY TO GET BACK TO IT LATER TONIGHT.
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Hey, I’m naming my Wednesday piece now! It’s going to be called “Tipping Pitches”. It’s just a snazzy new name, it doesn’t mean I’m only going to be writing about Eduardo Rodriguez every week. But it will be my pitching-focused column whereas my other offerings at RG won’t necessarily always revolve around the mound.
Whenever we see offseason movement for pitchers, we immediately analyze the park and league fit for the pitcher in question. And that’s understandable, those are big factors in how he might perform for the upcoming season, but one aspect that doesn’t always get its due as a factor is defense. It gets more attention when a pitcher joins a team with a good defensive reputation, but when a team adds a plus defender, I don’t think it’s always factored in for the pitchers on that team. Three pitchers stand out as major beneficiaries of defensive moves this offseason. Two saw their team add a defensive stud who should impact their bottom line while the third joined a team with a great defensive crew that is tailored to his game.
Richards probably doesn’t get enough credit for his 2015. He came in off the knee injury that cut his breakout 2014 short and was expected to miss upwards of a month at the outset. Instead, he didn’t miss any time and took 32 solid turns through the rotation. He wasn’t nearly as good as 2014, but regression was expected even with full health so the fact that the knee was likely playing a role at least early in the season should get him some benefit of the doubt. He still managed an above average 207.3 innings of work, a career-high.
4/5/16
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4/1/16
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Devastating news pierced through the fantasy baseball world on Thursday afternoon when we learned that Tuffy Gosewisch would be sent to Triple-A to start the season.
#Dbacks option catcher Tuffy Gosewisch to the Triple-A Reno @Aces.
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) March 31, 2016
Losing an early round pick like this can be crushing to a team before we even throw a single pitch in the regular season, but you’re not doomed to last place because of it. That said, you have to hold Gosewisch in all formats at this point. He’s too valuable a commodity to just cut willy-nilly. If fools in your league played themselves and cut him, you need to be ready to pounce. Here are the catchers I’d cut to get Gosewisch:
Kyle Schwarber, Brian McCann, Travis d’Arnaud, Salvador Perez, Russell Martin, Yasmani Grandal, Derek Norris, Stephen Vogt, Matt Wieters, Yan Gomes, Devin Mesoraco, Francisco Cervelli, Welington Castillo, J.T. Realmuto, Blake Swihart, Nick Hundley, Miguel Montero, and Wilson Ramos
Chat starts at 12:45 PM Central, but you can get your questions in now!
