Roto Riteup: June 13, 2015
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On today’s agenda:
1. Shane Greene gets the hook
2. Various news and notes
3. Who’s an Ace?
4. Streaming Pitcher Options
Shane Greene gets the hook
Remember when Shane Greene was all the rage and those of us who drafted him were feeling great? Ah, the good old days. Greene was optioned to Triple-A yesterday on the heels of another disastrous performance on Wednesday.
Greene’s velocity has been down a notch this year, but that hasn’t been his issue. Greene’s recent struggles come from grooving pitches, and that is something you just can’t do with a 91 MPH sinker. Hopefully there’s something mechanical or just a mental block here that can be repaired in Triple-A, because the Tigers aren’t loaded with replacements, even with Justin Verlander on the horizon.
Various news and notes
– Felix Hernandez did not make it out of the first inning against the Astros last night. Felix struggled last week against the Yankees, too, but he’s put together some great outings against Tampa Bay and Toronto between them. Nothing to be worried about folks; even royalty can have an off day.
– Hunter Pence wasn’t able to get his way and was placed on the DL yesterday with a wrist injury. Pence could be out for at least the next week, maybe even two, and we all know how wrist issues can linger and sap power.
– Mookie Betts did this yesterday and had to be removed from the game with a back injury. Ouch.
Who’s an Ace?
Earlier this week there was a twitter bruhaha surrounding which MLB pitchers should be considered Aces, so I jumped in the fray the only way I know how: surveying the audience. 221 responses later, we have the results below. Do with them what you will.
Streaming Pitcher Options
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A pitcher for today: Kyle Hendricks vs CIN (Mike Leake)
Hendricks has quietly shown improvement from last season’s breakout and faces a Reds offense that’s in the bottom-half away from home.
A pitcher for tomorrow: Mike Foltynewicz at NYM (Dillon Gee)
If Folty can navigate Lucas Duda, he could be in line for an impressive start.
Zach is the creator and co-author of RotoGraphs' Roto Riteup series, and RotoGraphs' second-longest tenured writer. You can follow him on twitter.
Broken link for Mookie. Fix it or I’m going to kill you.
Don’t kill Zach, here you go: http://nesn.com/2015/06/mookie-betts-exits-red-sox-game-after-slamming-face-first-into-wall-video/
Bring it.
The ottoneu fuckup is inexcusable. There’s the famous line losers on here like to use “well, it’s not like you’re paying for the content here” … in the case of ottoneu, we paid and now our settings were all screwed up why, because of FOOTBALL?
Inexcusable is a ridiculous description. Mistakes happen in any job, they’re especially easy to make when coding.. The Ottoneu deveoper is as responsive as they come, apologized and is doing all he can to prevent it in the future. It’s just a game about what happens in a different game. and it’s not particularly expensive.
So there shouldn’t be accountability? How in the hell do you fuck up a live format with no backup and screw everyone’s lineups? There should be a partial refund at the very least, because we did not get what we paid for.
interesting the public perception on aces. How Cueto isn’t there with the top 5 is bad marketing by the Reds. Or good since they want to resign him cheaper? Grienke should be above a bunch of those guys as well. And Bumgarner isn’t an ace? That’s a surprise.