It very rarely happens. I think it's called the "brief and ineffective" exception and it's fairly new.
I've seen it just a couple of times but the reliever needs to come in and just completely s*** the bed and cough up the lead for the scorer to take the win from him and give it to another reliever.
Here's one example: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/36173995/oakland-chad-smith-gets-win-scorer-applies-obscure-rule
The Yankees ace FRIED his elbow yesterday (see what I did there?)
Volpe is back in the lineup and booting the ball around
The Jays season was saved with a walk off grand slam
How's everyone feeling today?
Yep, the Yankees are cooked.
Step 1: The team ace gets hurt
Step 2: The Yankees do a whole song and dance to delay inevitable surgery, thus putting his whole 2027 season in doubt <----we are currently here
Step 3: Anthony Volpe makes an error in his season debut and the entire fanbase has a meltdown
Step 4: Yanks back into a WC spot but Aaron Judge underperforms and the Yanks are bounced early
Step 5: Yankees have a modest offseason and bring back Aaron Boone
Step 6: Rinse and repeat in 2027
This bullpen is nuts:
Late innings: Varland, Hoffman, Rogers
Middle Relief: Fisher, Yariel, Fluharty
Garbage Time: Nance, Mantiply
Long Relief: Miles
IL/AAA: Yimi, Little, Lee
Yeah idk why they dialed him back from starting, especially with this new splitter.
He probably just doesn't have the command and can't chew up the innings. Hopefully he can at least be a late-inning option or a multi-inning guy.
Can I say something positive?
Yariel was electric yesterday.
Overall Stuff+ = 123
4-seamer = 87
Splitter = 150
Sinker = 140
Slider = 107
Location+ = 103
Pitching+ = 119
It's only 1 inning but if he can get anywhere close to that the rest of the year he will be a very solid late inning option.
I read all of this on Twitter. Trust me.
Barger's injury doesn't sound too bad. No bone chips, no ligament damage.
Lauer Hour is over and the team is considering Miles, Dallas, Van Eyk, and outside options for the 5th starter role.
Scherzer also got a cortisone shot in his thumb.
Lukes will go on a rehab stint soon.
Yimi Garcia was extra sore after his last rehab outing and will take a couple days off. Hoping he can throw in a game later this week.
Kirk is hitting and throwing but not catching.
Yariel will throw 1-2 inning outings.
Bieber will face live hitters for the first time on Tuesday.
Really feel for the Lauer Fanboys....seems like it was only yesterday that they were certain that a DFA wasn't possible. Now their boy is in DFA limbo, waiting to sign with the Colorado Rockies.
Wow I didn't know that he can just flat out be optioned after 90 days of service time. I thought he had to be active for 90 but the rest could be IL time. That's good to know.
In that case, just keep him until he hits 90 and then option him at which point you could probably consider shutting him down. He's barely pitched the past few years so I'm not sure they want to put any more than 80 innings on his arm max.
That would give us 6 more years of control with 2 option years.
After the year we've got him for 5 more seasons of control with 3 option years. Rule 5 picks don't get any better than this.
I do worry about his workload. He's up to 21 innings this year which is already a career high in pro ball.
We only need to have him on the active roster for 90 days in order to avoid any carryover restrictions next year and we are about half way at 45ish days so far.
Maybe he can take Lauer's spot as the bulk starter? Then when Bieber is ready, he can replace Miles who goes to the IL with a phantom injury*?
*assuming the Dodgers aren't the only team allowed to do that
Logging in to see if there is any talk on Yariel being called up and the speculation on who might be sent down (sorry Lauer fanboys but it ain’t looking good for your boy)
Instead I see a dozen posts from Whifflenuts whining about god knows what