re: The Japanese Fade affecting Yu?

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• 10th in AL in W (7)
• 6th in AL in IP (106.2)
• 1st in AL in SO (143)
• 10th in AL in ERA (2.95)
• 4th in AL in WHIP (1.00)
• 7th in AL in W% (.700)

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Shoot him into the sun, he's awful.

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Beltre/AJ/Kinsler/Cruz are all on wrong side of 30

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Cruz may be gone courtesy of MLB.

Kinsler is having a great year since he no longer has to babysit Josh.

Beltre and AJ are doing well.

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since it would take Profar to acquire Stanton

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Almost certainly. With uncertainty surrounding Cruz and Murphy slumping this year (and Gentry is practically out of the picture--Leonys has been starting against nearly everyone) it might be a deal the Rangers need to do.

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The Japanese Fade affecting Yu?

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Who...me or Yu?

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Its not worse. He is a better pitcher this year

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Up through the 130-pitch Detroit game I'm in agreement. Since then, and especially in the last two games, we have a problem.

I'll go through each of the games:

May 21 (Oakland)--Yu gives up the one home run but that's enough to lose 1-0. This is a classic hard luck loss. The concern here is that right after the 130-pitch game he can only go 6.0 innings and still had to throw 101 pitches.

May 27 (at Arizona)--Yu gives up 4 runs in 7.2 including a game-tying HR to the noted power hitter Didi Gregorius (4 HR's on the season). He also throws 116 pitches in the effort. It should be noted that this is the longest he has gone since the Detroit game.

June 2 (Kansas City)--Yu's best outing in well over a month, pitches a shutout through 7.0 innings and throws only 99 pitches. Sadly he didn't get the win since the Rangers didn't take the lead until the 8th courtesy of Profar.

June 8 (at Toronto)--Toronto has been a disaster for the Rangers in many ways this season (taking six out of seven games). Yu had a decent performance here giving up 3 runs (only 2 earned) over 7.0 but the pitch count bumped up to 111.

June 13 (Toronto)--A better performance here (only one run) and in terms of pitch count about the same as the prior game (110 through 7.0).

June 18 (Oakland)--The Oakland bug hits once again, Yu gives up 5 runs (4 earned) and throws 109 pitches through 6.0. And he gives up two home runs; the last time he did that was the Detroit game.

June 25 (at New York Yankees)--Yu's second worst showing of the year, throws 110 pitches through only 5.1 innings, plus the three home runs to lead off three consecutive innings.

Personally I think the high pitch counts are hurting him. I would skip his next start (which is tentatively scheduled for a 2:05 home game on June 30--tired arm, heat, and RBIA could make for a disaster) and hold him out until the July 6 home game (6:15 start against the Astros).

Pardon my ignorance but how exactly is he worse than last year?

In June as I pointed out he still has a 2.33 ERA and more strikeouts than innings and all of his numbers are better than last year. He is a young guy and EVENTUALLY you may be right as the high pitch counts/innings add up, but he is more dominating than last year at this point. His last 2 outings have still been better than most of the starts from Rangers pitchers as well.

Look at the games you posted, out of the 7 only 2 were bad. You are trying WAY too hard. If you had said Yu has had a bad two games I would agree with you but to say he is fading with such a small sample size is just retarded.



May 21 (Oakland)--Yu gives up the one home run but that's enough to lose 1-0. This is a classic hard luck loss. The concern here is that right after the 130-pitch game he can only go 6.0 innings and still had to throw 101 pitches. - Great game

May 27 (at Arizona)--Yu gives up 4 runs in 7.2 including a game-tying HR to the noted power hitter Didi Gregorius (4 HR's on the season). He also throws 116 pitches in the effort. It should be noted that this is the longest he has gone since the Detroit game. - Meh

June 2 (Kansas City)--Yu's best outing in well over a month, pitches a shutout through 7.0 innings and throws only 99 pitches. Sadly he didn't get the win since the Rangers didn't take the lead until the 8th courtesy of Profar. - Great game

June 8 (at Toronto)--Toronto has been a disaster for the Rangers in many ways this season (taking six out of seven games). Yu had a decent performance here giving up 3 runs (only 2 earned) over 7.0 but the pitch count bumped up to 111. - Good game

June 13 (Toronto)--A better performance here (only one run) and in terms of pitch count about the same as the prior game (110 through 7.0). - Great game

June 18 (Oakland)--The Oakland bug hits once again, Yu gives up 5 runs (4 earned) and throws 109 pitches through 6.0. And he gives up two home runs; the last time he did that was the Detroit game.- Bad game

June 25 (at New York Yankees)--Yu's second worst showing of the year, throws 110 pitches through only 5.1 innings, plus the three home runs to lead off three consecutive innings. - Bad Game

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May 27 (at Arizona)--Yu gives up 4 runs in 7.2 including a game-tying HR to the noted power hitter Didi Gregorius (4 HR's on the season). He also throws 116 pitches in the effort. It should be noted that this is the longest he has gone since the Detroit game. - Meh

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It should be noted that he gave up a single, triple, SAC fly if I recall correctly, to open the game. He was flat out DOMINATING in this game from the 2nd-7th innings. In the eighth he gave up a single and a dong to tie the game up.

He was nasty in this game. But per the usual in his last seven starts he's gotten shite for run support.

The OP doesn't know shite about baseball, the Rangers or Yu. I once again can't justify posting in one of his threads. He is terrible.

All 3 home runs were on off speed pitchers, going into the game Tu had only given up 2 home runs all year on off speed stuff

He's a heavy strikeout pitcher. He's going to have relatively high pitch counts. It goes with the territory when you're getting Ks for more than 1/3 of your outs. As usual, you are unfathomably stupid.

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He's a heavy strikeout pitcher. He's going to have relatively high pitch counts. It goes with the territory when you're getting Ks for more than 1/3 of your outs.

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Yu has had 10 strikeouts only twice since the Detroit game and yet he still has high pitch counts (and in both of those games he gave up four earned runs each time). His best showing since Detroit was the KC game when he had only six strikeouts, but no runs given up and 99 pitches through seven innings.