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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 20:50:04 GMT -5
Bernandino came in and sucked and here is Brasier shitting all over the mound 3 runs and counting 9-1 in the 8th Cardinal fans are loud, smart Red Sox fans left 2 innings ago.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 21:51:57 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 49m Interleague games were once a feast for the Sox. 5-9 this season, 14-20 the last two seasons.
Sox (22-19) have lost 5 of 6 and are back in last place in the division.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 21:52:25 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 43m 42 pitches and 2.1 IPs both career highs for Brasier. Hard not to wonder if that's a precursor to something with more bullpen moves coming soon.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 21:53:27 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 1h Is this a eat it all Braiser you’re getting DFA’d game we are witnessing with Rodriguez ready to go?
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 21:53:53 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 38m Win 8 straight and immediately puke all over ourselves losing 5 of 6. Starting tomorrow we actually have to face some tough starting pitching.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 21:58:39 GMT -5
Christopher Smith @smittyonmlb 35m “Good chance” Joely Rodriguez will be activated Monday, Alex Cora says
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 14, 2023 21:59:11 GMT -5
Tom Caron (blue checkmark redacted) @tomcaron 7m Sox swept by the Cards. Third time they’ve been swept this season. Every time they’ve been swept they’ve responded with three straight wins. They’ll begin the week in last place in the East, one-half behind the Yankees in both the East & the Wild Card race.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 15, 2023 2:07:26 GMT -5
Great news
Red Sox Designate Ryan Brasier For Assignment By Mark Polishuk | May 14, 2023 at 11:58pm CDT
11:58PM: Rodriguez will be activated from the 15-day IL to take Brasier’s roster spot on Monday, The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey reports.
10:12PM: The Red Sox have designated Ryan Brasier for assignment, as the right-hander himself told reporters (including Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe) tonight in the aftermath of a tough outing against the Cardinals. Brasier allowed three runs over 2 1/3 innings of relief in a 9-1 Red Sox loss.
No corresponding move is yet known, though manager Alex Cora told reporters over the weekend that Joely Rodriguez was going to be activated from the 15-day injured list on Monday, so the Sox could be clearing room for Rodriguez’s return. Rodriguez suffered a Grade 2 oblique strain in mid-March during Spring Training, and has yet to pitch this season.
Tonight’s performance inflated Brasier’s season ERA to 7.29 over 21 innings of work out of the Boston bullpen. There is some level of misfortune in that ERA since Brasier’s strand rate (52.8%) and BABIP (.344) are both skewed, and his FIP is a more moderate 4.38. That said, he has also posted below-average strikeout and walk rates, and Brasier is near the bottom of the league in hard contact.
The advanced metrics were much more favorable to Brasier last year, but the bottom-line results still weren’t there, as the righty had a 5.78 ERA over 62 1/3 innings in 2022. With the lack of results stretching into a second season, the Sox have opted to part ways with a reliever who has had his share of ups and downs over six years in Boston, but for the most part was a solid hurler prior to the start of the 2022 season.
After pitching with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 2017, Brasier returned from Japan to sign a minor league deal with the Red Sox, and ended up unexpectedly emerging as an ace reliever for the eventual World Series champions. Brasier posted a 1.60 ERA over 33 2/3 regular-season innings and then a 1.04 ERA in 8 1/3 postseason innings to help the Sox win the title.
Brasier’s 2019 season was a lot shakier, but he posted better results in 2020-21, with a 3.16 ERA albeit over only 37 innings. Brasier’s workload was limited by the shortened 2020 regular season, and then a 2021 campaign that saw him miss most of the year due to a calf strain and then a concussion after he was struck in the head by a line drive during a simulated game.
The 35-year-old is in his final year of arbitration eligibility, and is still owed roughly $1.5MM of his $2MM salary for the 2023 season. It doesn’t seem all that likely that another team will claim Brasier off DFA waivers, so the Red Sox will likely end up eating the salary if they end up releasing the righty, or they could simply outright him down to Triple-A. If Brasier is signed by a new team after being released, the new club will only owe the prorated portion of the Major League minimum salary, with Boston covering the remainder of the $1.5MM.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on May 15, 2023 2:21:23 GMT -5
Where do Brasier, Kluber, Jansen and Sox go from here? 1:50 AM GMT-3 Ian Browne Ian Browne
@ianmbrowne
BOSTON -- Heading home to face the Cardinals, the team with the worst record in the National League, the Red Sox looked to have a big weekend at Fenway Park.
Instead, they endured a three-game sweep to the 16-25 Cards, capped by a disappointing 9-1 defeat on Sunday Night Baseball.
Here are three takeaways from a lost weekend for the 22-19 Red Sox, who have lost five out of six on the heels of an eight-game winning streak ending.
Brasier DFA’d As Sunday night’s loss slipped away, it was hard not to notice Ryan Brasier being asked to record a career-high of seven outs in a mop-up role. Brasier also threw 42 pitches, the most in his career.
The righty was tagged for four hits and three runs as his season ERA swelled to 7.29.
It didn’t get any better for Brasier after the game. He told The Boston Globe and MassLive he had been designated for assignment, thus signaling the end of an association with the Red Sox that started in 2018. A source told MLB.com that the removal of Brasier from the roster was made with the intention of activating lefty Joley Rodríguez from the injured list prior to Monday’s game against the Mariners. The roster moves involving Brasier and Rodriguez will both be made official on Monday.
The Red Sox gave Brasier many chances to get back on track over the past couple of seasons, but it just never happened. The 35-year-old has been scored on in seven of his 20 appearances this season. He’s given up three earned runs on four different occasions.
It should not be forgotten that Brasier was a force in Boston’s World Series championship bullpen of 2018, posting a 1.60 ERA in 34 appearances in the regular season.
Kluber’s fastball command off the mark Veteran righty starter Corey Kluber looked like he was starting to build momentum. After losing his first four starts with the Red Sox, Kluber posted a 3.86 ERA in his ensuing three starts, with Boston winning all three games.
But Sunday was another setback, as Kluber was tagged for seven hits, three walks and four runs -- including two homers -- over five innings.
“I think it just boils down to poor fastball command and made things a lot more difficult for myself than I needed to,” Kluber said.
Kluber has given up 11 homers in just 39 1/3 innings after giving up 20 in 164 innings for the Rays last season.
“I don’t think it’s anything overly complicated,” Kluber said. “I think I’m making too many mistakes in the heart of the plate, and good hitters up here, they don’t miss those too often when they get chances with those types of pitches.”
Sweep not as bad it looked Oftentimes when a team gets swept, they get outplayed in numerous facets of the game throughout the series.
That wasn’t the case this weekend, as the Red Sox held leads in the ninth inning on Friday and Saturday, only to have closer Kenley Jansen suffer back-to-back, blown saves.
Coming into this series, Jansen had converted nine of his first 10 save opportunities, capped by No. 400 in Atlanta on Wednesday.
Jansen admitted he had an adrenaline letdown after hitting such a big milestone and vowed to regain his momentum next time he pitches.
The Red Sox are confident they will get back on track for the final three games of this homestand against the Mariners before hitting the West Coast for a nine-game trip against the Padres, Angels and Diamondbacks.
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Post by Kimmi on May 16, 2023 14:48:06 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 38m Win 8 straight and immediately puke all over ourselves losing 5 of 6. Starting tomorrow we actually have to face some tough starting pitching. No kidding. Baseball is such a gut wrenching and heart breaking game. At the same time, it's the most beautiful and exciting sport to watch, IMO.
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