Anthony Bass is a 35-year-old, right-handed reliever. He’s played 11 seasons in the MLB, playing for the Padres, Astros, Rangers, Cubs, Mariners, Blue Jays, Marlins, and now the Blue Jays again. He...
is a 35-year-old, right-handed reliever. He’s played 11 seasons in the MLB, playing for the Padres, Astros, Rangers, Cubs, Mariners, Blue Jays, Marlins, and now the Blue Jays again. He was a Jay in 2020 after being picked up on waivers from the Mariners.
He wasn’t great , and we let him leave as a free agent after the season. Until 2021 he was a fairly average reliever. Then the Marlins helped him figure things out. Most of which seems to have been to get him throwing his slider most. In 2018 he threw the slider 28.7% of the time. Last year it was 55.7% of the time. He threw sliders and sinkers most of the time last year. . Baseball Savant tells us that batters hit his slider for a .180 average and .324 slugging average. They did no better against the sinker .He was very consistent last year, allowing more than one earned run just once all year . Hugo used to rate relievers on how many blowouts they allowed, which he counted as more than 2 earned in an outing. Bass was very good by that count. Of course, this ignores his part in the awful loss in the playoffs. A rule to live by is: If you only have one bad game in a year, don’t do it in a playoff game. You have one bad game in May, and no one remembers. You have one bad one in October, and everyone forgets the rest of the season.I want to think so but:And relievers are notoriously inconsistent. That last one can drive a person who plays OOTP Baseball crazy. You think you’ve finally built a good bullpen, and the next year you have to start over again.Rafael Dolis is terrific one season and unusable the next. Trevor Richards, Aaron Loup, the list is endless. A lot of it is the small sample sizes relievers get. 50 innings isn’t enough to balance things out. And that they don't get enough innings to tinker with the release point on their pitches.If you had a lot of time, it would be interesting to check out how many pitchers have a ‘career year’ at 34 and then see how many repeat it at age 35. Or come somewhat close to repeating it. I’m sure it would be a very low percentage. Anyway, counting against Anthony is that his FIP was double his ERA . He left a career-high 89.5% of runners on base. His home runs rate and walk rate were below his career norms. But then he’s been building towards this for the last few years. Streamer figures he’ll have a 3.84 ERA in 62 games, with his strikeout rate falling a bit , walk rate going up a bit and more home runs . How many Jays have had ‘fish’ names? Robbie Ray. I can’t think of anyone else off the top of my head. Derek Fisher?
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