Comments on: Can Rusney Castillo Handle the Heat? http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/03/14/can-rusney-castillo-handle-the-heat/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Jim http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/03/14/can-rusney-castillo-handle-the-heat/#comment-6225 Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:47:25 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=3811#comment-6225 yes Walt – I was figuring 11 pitchers, and five on the bench. One catcher – Hanigan. Holt – who can play OF and IF. Shaw – who can sub at 1b and 3b. Young – need the right hand platoon for JBJ who is terrible against lefties. So – agree that Murphy could be last man out especially with Holt able to be LH outfielder. Sam Travis – another option but he is just too similar to Shaw (particularly confusing given their names). I had 11 in bullpen – 5 starters + 6 in relief. Kimbrel, Uehara, Smith, Tazawa, Layne (or Ross) and Elias. But have to agree – early in year, will likely go with 12 until starters get stretched out. Probably Hembree or Wright in last spot?

]]> By: Walt in Maryland http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/03/14/can-rusney-castillo-handle-the-heat/#comment-6190 Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:08:27 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=3811#comment-6190 Excellent point, Jim.

But your scenario suggests the Red Sox will have room to carry Young, Murphy, Holt AND Shaw on their bench. They won’t.

Assuming they carry 12 pitchers, the Red Sox will have FOUR bench spots available, one of which will go to the backup catcher.

Unless there’s an injury, Murphy strikes me as the odd man out, especially now that the Sox are going to give Shaw ABs in LF.

]]> By: Jim http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/03/14/can-rusney-castillo-handle-the-heat/#comment-6189 Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:48:05 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=3811#comment-6189 Good news for the Red Sox is they have a much better bench in 2016 than 2015. You have to believe with the addition of Young (R) and Murphy (L) – that Farrell is going to sit Castillo against a lot of righties. Betts is a guy you can run out there every day against anyone – but I think there will be a lot of platooning between Bradley, Castillo, Young and Murphy on match-ups and relative hotness. Same in the infield as it relates to Travis Shaw and Brock Holt – see them getting plenty of starts – with Sandoval sitting against lefties, and Shaw subbing for Ramirez against tough righties. I suspect if it were not for the big contract – Travis Shaw would be the every day first baseman.

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