Watching Tigers vs. Yanks .....snowing, 36 degrees and dropping. Price has gotten rocked, 80 pitches through 2 innings, came out in 3rd, is clearly not having his stuff, lead off hit up the middle, and still in the game. Can't believe Ausmus has him out there....he has rarely hit 90, FB is mid 80's, and clearly does not have his A-game.
Makes you wonder if stressful games like this shows up later in the form of injury.
Perplexed to say the least.
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He just got pulled, after 2- 1/3 innings, 88 pitches. WOW!
He just got pulled, after 2- 1/3 innings, 88 pitches. WOW!
Guess Bob Barker and Drew Carey were wrong. The Price isn't right.
Good one Ripken Fan!
The Yankees seem to own Price.
I don't know a lot, but 88 pitches in a little over 2 innings seems pretty irresponsible. He is a valuable commodity, and if he obviously didn't have it on a cold day, I think they should have probably pulled him sooner.
No one mentioning Price's last outing, complete game in 106 pitches, 75 for strikes.
While everyone loves to to brag about their strikeouts, an important stat in baseball, Price says his goal was 80 pitches with no strikeouts. This is efficiency thats needed to keep a pitcher healthy. It also keeps the defense awake.
Your right TPM, while I appreciate when my son gets strike outs, It means he is going deep in counts and means more pitches. I much prefer him getting them to swing early and getting fly balls and ground outs. I would rather he pitch a complete game and save our bullpen for the second game of a dh.
Much better outing for sure....and what I noticed was that he did not throw many "waste / set-up" pitches when up in the count...went right after the hitters which contributed to the low pitch count.
