(07-18-2017 10:51 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(07-18-2017 08:34 AM)stever20 Wrote:  1 thing that's kind of interesting, looks like Sale is now projected to start a day later than originally projected this week. Extrapolating that out means that he's only got 13 starts left including this week. Meanwhile, Kluber is scheduled for 14. (now, it probably would have still been like this, as originally Sale was scheduled to start on last day of regular season).

Part of it is that there's going to be a period in August where the Red Sox schedule will have it where Sale will pitch on August 6, August 13, and August 20. They have 2 straight weeks where they play Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Unless they do some skipping of the rotation(which I consider unlikely)- Sale will lose a start there.

1 bad thing with this- Sale and Kluber won't face each other in a game now as scheduled.

I'm not really that concerned. At this rate I don't see Kluber winning. Sure, Sale could slump and Kluber could continue to dominate. But you're the one who always gave Kluber sh*t for turning in the occasional clunker and I don't see why that can't still happen.

Yeah, Kluber could turn in the clunker. But Sale is JUST as likely to do so. That's the thing about both of them- don't know that we've seen 2 higher level guys who when they are awful, they are really awful. Not to this level.

Now, the one advantage for innings- if both have a same bad start, it'll impact the ERA for Kluber much more than it would Sale.