Pitching

[longgame]

Sox have a lot of flexibility in pitching and they're going to need it.  Sale ($20M), Eovaldi ($17M), Barnes ($8M) and Sawamura are locked in.  Pivetta and Brasier go to arbitration. 

Richards, Perez, and Andriese all have team options.  Maybe they'll take another look at Andriese.

Everyone else is pretty much club control.  Houck and Whitlock certainly project as starters, so does that mean Sale, Eovaldi, Pivetta, Houck, Whitlock?  So where does E-Rod fit in?  Big hard throwing lefty is hard to part with.  But he's so frustrating.  Someone will offer him big money so we'll see.

I'll be interested in what they (and other teams) think a major league team should look like in 2022.  When nobody in the postseason can go 5 innings for the most part, what is the role of a starter?  How the heck does a team have a "bullpen game" (Let alone two in a row) in the World Series?  Will teams configure their pitching staffs differently?  Can you get enough quality arms to fill out a season?

[Sea Dog 23]

I would add Winchowski to the prospects who are likely to get a call up sometime next year. (3.94 era, 1.23 WHIP in AAA 2021.  Winchow (from Mets) is IMO the main prize in the Beni for Franch trade with the Mets and Royals.  Also got Valdez from Royals, a few years off.    That is how Bloom works, trades overvalue for high value, some work, some don't.
Also pitchers of note are Seabold, Bello, Groome, Mata, Ward, and Crawford.

Later this month it will be interesting to watch the Sox putting Rule 5 guys and valued minor league players on the 40 man, or they might be packing their bags elsewhere.

[SeaBeachFred]

Sox have a lot of flexibility in pitching and they're going to need it.  Sale ($20M), Eovaldi ($17M), Barnes ($8M) and Sawamura are locked in.  Pivetta and Brasier go to arbitration. 

Richards, Perez, and Andriese all have team options.  Maybe they'll take another look at Andriese.

Everyone else is pretty much club control.  Houck and Whitlock certainly project as starters, so does that mean Sale, Eovaldi, Pivetta, Houck, Whitlock?  So where does E-Rod fit in?  Big hard throwing lefty is hard to part with.  But he's so frustrating.  Someone will offer him big money so we'll see.

I'll be interested in what they (and other teams) think a major league team should look like in 2022.  When nobody in the postseason can go 5 innings for the most part, what is the role of a starter?  How the heck does a team have a "bullpen game" (Let alone two in a row) in the World Series?  Will teams configure their pitching staffs differently?  Can you get enough quality arms to fill out a season?

All three of those team option guys should be shit canned off the team.  Andriese is total garbage, Perez is worse and Richards has only very minimal value because he now stinks as a starting pitcher.  A so so reliever?  Yes, and that beats the other two who smell there too.  We do have a lot of work to do in this off season.