New Resident Of The Pen’s Dark Side
May 26th, 2016
Welcome to the Trop, Tyler Sturdevant! You blew it!
Sturdevant’s feel-good FruitDome debut took a dark turn Wednesday when weak-swinging Cole Gillespie slapped an RBI single to right field off him in the eighth inning, scoring J.T. Realmuto and lifting the Marlins to a 4-3 victory over the Rays.
Sturdevant, 30, was promoted from Triple-A Durham to give Tampa Bay’s bullpen depth in light of Steve Geltz’s implosion. He made his major-league debut on Tuesday, allowing no hits in two-out performance at Marlins Park. You can’t judge a guy based on early impressions alone, but if this initial Trop outing is any sign, Sturdevant will have work to do to escape the dark side of Kevin Cash’s bullpen.
Joe thinks it’s good there’s a fresh arm to add to the cavalry, especially with Erasmo Ramirez working a heavy load of late. The Rays didn’t exactly field an All-Star group of arms yesterday after starter Matt Andriese left after six innings – Sturdevant, Xavier Cedeno, Dana Eveland and Ryan Webb – but Sturdevant’s hiccup was the lone bullpen blunder of the night.
Here’s hoping the mishap doesn’t shake Sturdevant’s confidence.
Your 2016 bullpen stats:
| Player | W | L | ERA▲ | G | GS | SV | SVO | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | AVG | WHIP |
| Colome | 1 | 1 | 1.29 | 19 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 21.0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 28 | .178 | 0.81 |
| Ramirez | 6 | 2 | 2.43 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 37.0 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 28 | .214 | 0.92 |
| Marinez | 0 | 0 | 2.45 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .154 | 0.55 |
| Webb | 0 | 0 | 2.87 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.2 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 9 | .317 | 1.40 |
| Farquhar | 0 | 0 | 3.38 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | .304 | 1.69 |
| Cedeno | 2 | 1 | 3.65 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12.1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 16 | .208 | 1.30 |
| Romero | 1 | 0 | 3.71 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17.0 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 12 | .169 | 1.00 |
| Geltz | 0 | 2 | 6.06 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16.1 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 12 | .226 | 1.22 |
| Eveland | 0 | 1 | 7.62 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 14 | .283 | 1.92 |
| Sturdevant | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .600 | 3.00 |
May 26th, 2016 at 1:42 pm
It’s so frustrating to finally have a decent offense and now our pitching staff can’t do there job. It would of been nice to add another arm to the bullpen in the offseason as well. You can’t depend on any one not named Ramirez, Colome or Cedeno. Romero is dominate at times but has been shaky of late.
Hopefully this team can click all at the same time or we can forget about a shot at the wild card. Everyone is starting to play well in our division. Even the skankees.
May 26th, 2016 at 1:44 pm
Stop moaning. –Joe
May 26th, 2016 at 3:31 pm
First of all, welcome to the blog “DembozsfromDaBay”. It seemed the only one’s who cared about the Rays were Big Miguel and me. Your handle sounds like you’re from Chicago. Are you from there ? Miguel Grande, I’m kind of ambivalent on pitch hitting for Desmond. While he already had a hit earlier, he’s one of the guys, long term, that has been given a pass based on potential. What’s not to like? At 6′ 3″ and built like a middle line backer with 4.6 speed projected to hit 25 home runs every year. He was Carl Crawford’s replacement. Unfortunately for Desmond, potential ran into reality. A lot of swing and miss, weak arm for center, the inability to steal a base with all that speed and constantly being on the DL. A real conundrum. As far as the Brad Boxberger’s return, I believe you can’t mess with Colome closing. With 12 saves in 12 Save Opportunities, he’s earned the job. Nothing wrong with Boxberger being the set up man. Plus Colume has better stuff. (see accurate 96 mph fastball).