Comments on: South Side Morning 5: From boring to scary to good http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/08/01/south-side-morning-5-from-boring-to-scary-to-good/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Nick Schaefer http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/08/01/south-side-morning-5-from-boring-to-scary-to-good/#comment-5264 Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:37:02 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6739#comment-5264 Sal Perez is an abysmal catcher at framing.

]]> By: Russ http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/08/01/south-side-morning-5-from-boring-to-scary-to-good/#comment-5254 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:02:46 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6739#comment-5254 Three solo shots isn’t good, but I didn’t think Shields pitched bad last night. He threw strikes, only walked two, and three of the earned runs came on the collision play which would not have scored if not for the collision.

There really is no point in taking him out of the rotation and they’re still paying him. If Lopez AND Giolito are in the rotation to begin 2018, their pitches will be limited so the bullpen will get heavy use. They will need the luxury of throwing someone out there they can burn out; who better than someone in the last year of probably his last contract.

One last thing about Shields: his best years came when his catcher was Sal Perez. The Sox have been going with scrap-heap catchers the last couple years which they thought they could get away with having veteran pitchers, but maybe Shields needed a better catcher all this time.

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