After the increase, that will rise to $6 (for the sake of brevity I won't describe in detail the North Beckley plaza at the Route 19 exit, which currently is 25 cents). There are three main plazas on the route, so the current price to travel the entire length one-way is $3.75 per car. My favorite is when he dials up the only 93 MPH heater up in the zone to get a helpless looking Alex Bregman.In a couple of weeks (on August 1), the tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike will go from $1.25 per car per plaza to $2.00 per car per plaza. This is what Biber looks like when he has all his pitches working. In this highlight he strikes out nine batters over seven innings allowing no runs, walking just one, and giving up just three hits. The Astros have one of the most fearsome lineups in baseball and Bieber, even with diminished stuff, is proving he can still dominate when he’s on. Here is Bieber on June 11 of this past season facing the Houston Astros at home. I still think the cost would be a prospect or two in the 8-15 range, however, and I’m not sure the Red Sox are currently in the best position to do that. This relatively high figure coupled with the uncertainty of his health and performance have really cratered his value. Bieber is expected to make $12.1 million in his final year of arbitration before reaching free agency. According to Jeff Ellis of the Locked On Guardians podcast, he is “almost a salary dump” at this point. It may not actually cost much at all to go get Bieber. This is where it gets mildly interesting. Ultimately, the Red Sox rotation currently has too many players with questionable ceilings and potential health issues and Bieber falls into both of those categories. Last year he threw the cutter career high 25.7% of the time. His curveball, which used to be a go-to pitch for him, is no longer an effective offering, and to offset this degradation and the loss of velocity on his fastball, he has begun throwing his cutter more often. His best pitch over the course of his career has been and continues to be his slider. While his fastball can survive at this velocity due to his advanced command of the pitch, he is more prone to being punished for his mistakes. His K-BB ratio last year was the worst of his career and his fastball velocity has dropped from 94.3 MPH in 2020 to just 91.6 MPH last year. I mentioned the shoulder issues in 2021, but last year he missed time with elbow issues as well. Honestly, as much as I love watching Bieber pitch, it is undeniable that his skills have been in decline. 250 BAA, 2.1 fWAR Would he be a good fit for the 2024 Red Sox? There have been few better than him over the last five seasons. Bieber has received Cy Young votes in three of the five full-seasons he has pitched. But he bounced back to throw 200 innings in the 2022 season with a 2.88 ERA. The following season he was excellent again before being shut down with shoulder issues. He won eight games losing only one while striking out 122 batters in 77 ⅓ innings with an ERA of 1.63. It’s easy to dismiss such a short season as meaningless, but the numbers really were eye popping. His best performance came during the Covid-shortened 2020 season, when he won the AL Cy Young as well as the pitching Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA. Is he any good?įrom the time of his full-season debut in 2019 until the end of the 2023 season, Bieber ranks 7th in fWAR among all qualified starting pitchers. While he had a lot of success at the collegiate level, he was not known for his overpowering stuff, but rather for his command of his fastball and feel for pitching. His calling card when he was drafted by the Cleveland Guardians was his advanced command profile. Shane Bieber was never expected to win a Cy Young award as a fourth round selection out of UC Santa Barbara in 2016.
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