Why? Urias is good. Tellez took Morton deep a few days ago. Base open. Clearly it worked out unfortunately. Overall not the worst inning. We got some traffic, Morton threw out of the stretch for a lot of high stress pitches. I'm past the point of finding any silver lining in any inning. It was predictable and it happened. It was yet another scoreless inning. That's the only way I see it. They've given no reason to make us think they can punch a run across no matter how much traffic we get and no matter who throws against us.
I don't see Yelich waiving his NTC to go to NYC. The Yankees say no, immediately and without hesitation. Brinson is a neutral value player. He can be non-tendered immediately and cost nothing. Christian Yelich is an extremely negative value player. I don't know whether or not Christian Yelich would go to New York but I do know there is a 0% chance that any team, even the Yankees, is going to just give us a free salary dump of Christian Yelich.
If you can be certain that you're getting the same Burnes on 3 days rest as you get on 5, I think it's an easy call to go to him. But we just can't know that. So you ask if Burnes on 3 days rest is going to be better than Lauer on 5....I don't know. I couldn't say.
I'd include all 3 games....they are fortunate to still be alive, actually. Yes. They've been thoroughly dominated. This could easily have been a sweep. Not much to do now other than try to win tomorrow and go from there.
Woody on four days rest, in an elimination game, is probably only going five, if you’re lucky. Houser is probably toast, and no Suter. Yeah, that’s pretty much a bullpen game. Huh? Why? 4 days rest is normal rest.
I get it. There’s no good answers, and you have to get to game 5 for it to matter. But a fully rested Morton against our offense while we throw a bullpen game in game 5 is not appetizing. Why would we throw a bullpen game? Woodruff would be on full rest. He would absolutely go for Game 5 if Burnes pitched in Game 4.
I liked the deal. Doesn't change the fact though. It is looking horrific for the team right now. He's worse than I think any nightmare scenario could have imagined. I know I was on an island, but I hated the deal. I get why they did it ....but man, is it ever going to hamper this organization.