Is anyone else surprised that Osuna was not given a chance to compete for the 5th spot this Spring? I know he's been nails and still young but we blew a year of service time for him to be a reliever last year, I figured they'd start the transition this year.
FYI - That only works in theory, you'd always want a K over a ground ball for 2 reasons:
1) You can't control where a hit ball is going to go
2) That's how opposing teams manufacture runs.
It's also why he's not as effective as a reliever as most think because he can't be relied on to come in with a runner on base with less than 2 outs. All too often that runner scores but you'll never see it reflected in his stats. He's good for 1 situation only, a clean inning with 3 righties in a row.
Why? That just means owners can reap bigger profits and care less about the on field product. What they need is a better way to help fund low budget teams but capping everyone to $150MM or $20MM contracts isn't going to do that. If they lowered the luxury tax a bit more and used some of the new money from it to support the bottom feeders of the league I think it could help. Regardless, at the end of the day MLB has a lot of parity in the sport right now and stars should be paid accordingly.
What the MLB should do is limit the amount of years a contract can be guaranteed but not the money of said contract. 10+ years is just absurd.
I'm not a fan of the replay system either except for homerun calls (which they can't even get right). If teams didn't get to review it themselves first I'd be more for it.
Who are their best options? Cecil is too valuable to waste on 1 batter, I think he'll be setting up if Osuna doesn't. Delabar has reverse splits with L/R, if he doesn't walk them he strikes them out lol.
No, Hutch pitched fine against a full Yankees line up. No walks, a few Ks, 2 runs in 4.2 IP. He's not going to be perfect, that's pretty much what you can expect from him I think.