Sunday 6 September 2015

Revised and amended!

So,  the Blue Jays - clearly creeping my blog for an edge! - took my suggestion on Friday to heart and flipped  Marco Estrada to today's game and Mark Beuhrle to tomorrow's contest with Boston. In so doing, as has been widely reported now, they align Buehrle and Stroman's schedule and pretty much everyone assumes that if Stroman looks good tomorrow for Buffalo that he'll take that start and Buehrle will get extra rest again. They may skip papa altogether or may just push him back - but the former option makes the rotation for the rest of the year much more straight-forward and it only seems sensible to me that I do a "Part 2" follow up to Friday's post in light of the adjustment. Trust me though, I won't keep this bit running through the rest of the season every time they make an announcement. This one - like the last - is simply about how you make the best use of Stroman as a part of a modified 6 man rotation - not an effort to keep up with every move they make.

To review, I'll again post the first chart which reflects how the current five fall if Stroman were not coming back and they stayed on turn.


7at BostonBuehrle7
8at BostonDickey4
9at BostonHutchinson4
10at New YorkPrice4
11at New YorkEstrada4
12at New YorkBuehrle4
13at New YorkDickey4
14


15at AtlantaHutchinson5
16at AtlantaPrice5
17at AtlantaEstrada5
18BostonBuehrle5
19BostonDickey5
20BostonHutchinson4
21New YorkPrice4
22New YorkEstrada4
23New YorkBuehrle4
24


25Tampa BayDickey5
26Tampa BayHutchinson5
27Tampa BayPrice5
28at BaltimoreEstrada5
29at BaltimoreBuehrle5
30at BaltimoreDickey4
10 ' 1at BaltimoreHutchinson4
2at Tampa BayPrice4
3at Tampa BayEstrada4
4at Tampa BayBuehrle4

That is, of course, almost identical to the one which appeared in my post 2 days ago. The one simple switch the team made, then, makes it much easier to sort out how you integrate Stroman into the schedule:


7at BostonBuehrle7
8at BostonDickey4
9at BostonHutchinson4
10at New YorkPrice4
11at New YorkEstrada4
12at New YorkStroman4
13at New YorkDickey4
14

15at AtlantaPrice5
16at AtlantaEstrada5
17at AtlantaStroman5
18BostonBuehrle10
19BostonDickey5
20BostonHutchinson10
21New YorkPrice5
22New YorkEstrada5
23New YorkStroman5
24

25Tampa BayBuehrle6
26Tampa BayDickey6
27Tampa BayPrice5
28at BaltimoreEstrada5
29at BaltimoreStroman5
30at BaltimoreBuehrle4
10 ' 1at BaltimoreDickey4
2at Tampa BayPrice4
3at Tampa BayEstrada4
4at Tampa BayStroman4

There are alternate versions, primarily flowing off whether or not you try to push Buehrle back from the NY start or skip him altogether, but I think the latter produces a much more consistent result. Notice that after tomorrows game, which is going to be 7 days either way, you have two pitchers who skip a start, and otherwise everyone is on either 4 or 5 days' rest except for 2 games with 6 days, which go to the two older guys. Of course, to do this I dropped Hutchinson for the last two weeks. The alternative to this would be to take a start away from some other starter and in this, he draws the short straw not by luck but by his own doing.

I'll be watching to see how the Jays line them up after the next off day to see if we're thinking alike.


All the Minor league seasons are done after tomorrow, save Lansing's playoff games, and I'll be getting together my version of the season review and look back and the pre-season top 40 at my earliest convenience. 



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