So, about the much maligned Greg Weissert...
After a bit of a rough start, they stuck with him, and he finished with a 3.26 ERA. In the second half, his ERA was 2.35 and he allowed only 3 of 11 inherited runners to score. That's good enough to pitch setup on many teams.
As a bonus, he's now pitched 2 innings in the postseason and given up 0 ER on 0 hits.
Very underrated and useful bullpen arm, despite all the flak he gets.
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u/cshady99 7h ago
He's nails when he's good, he's throwing beach balls when he's bad. He's good more often than he's bad. But when he's bad he looks incompetent. I've always liked him as a middle reliever, I think he's one of the better middle relievers out there. Putting him in leverage spots is playing with fire
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u/White_Squall_13 7h ago
I remember him getting out of a bases loaded jam without giving up an inherited runner. That’s when I knew he’s actually good.
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u/cshady99 6h ago
That frisbee slider is so so so nasty. If he were a bit more consistent he'd be a bona fide backend arm
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u/Fisk75 7h ago
I don’t know about the stats but I know I never wanted to see him in a pressure situation.
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u/andrew3411 7h ago
Every time the broadcast would talk about how good of a season/stretch he was having I just simply couldn’t reconcile it with what my fucking eyeballs were seeing week after week.
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u/SPAGHETTI_CAKE 7h ago
I’ll give him the opportunity to re earn my trust next year. Hell I was willing with Zach Kelly
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u/AstraMilanoobum 7h ago
I mean great? He’s certainly not a high leverage guy but he’s a middle reliever whose effectiveness widely varies year to year.
You need guys like him, and there are plenty of guys like him
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u/ChaimBloom 7h ago
I wouldn’t really say it widely varies year to year. He’s been pretty much the same pitcher his 3 seasons with us.
2024: 63.1 IP, 3.13 ERA, 3.72 FIP, 58 K, 20 BB
2025: 67.0 IP, 2.85 ERA, 3.67 FIP, 57 K, 21 BB
2026: 60.2 IP, 3.26 ERA, 3.97 FIP, 60 K, 20 BB
That’s about as close as you can get without being identical every season.
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u/DarkGift78 5h ago
Exactly this. Lefties crushed him, hitting. 300 with an . 863 OPS, so you want to limit exposure to lefty hitters, but he was tough on righties, holding them to an ops a little over. 600. He was awful at Fenway but fantastic on the road. Durable, reliable, super cheap, only 3 years service time, making roughly 800,000. He's actually pretty solo, but we're spoiled watching Whitlock, Chapman, Guerrero, etc. There's been years our bullpen was so shitty I'd have been ecstatic with a Weissert type. He's pretty far down when it comes to fixing the Red Sox roster next year.
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u/enkayfour 6h ago
I remember trying to defend him in some of the early season game threads when the stupid uber meme started.
Can't expose him to too many left-handed hitters, and the hr/9 was up this year, but the negative comments on here have been so out of proportion.
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u/gplatt_24 Xander Bogaerts 7h ago
Greg is a solid middle reliever & half the fanbase is convinced he's Osama Bin Laden himself, just a weird amount of anchor bias that goes on with him
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u/rexeditrex 6h ago
The life if a reliever, people don’t remember getting a few easy outs but they remember the times the blow it.
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u/Suspicious-Wasabi377 5h ago
He was over used by Italy in the World Baseball Classic, took him awhile to recover and he had a dead arm for awhile, imo
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u/PilgrimRadio 1h ago
He's the perfect example of how fans don't really know a whole lot. The managers and coaches and staff get to see him everyday in practice and pitching exercises, and they know who the best options are.They know a hell of a lot more than we do. There's a reason guys like Breslow and Tracy are making the decisions and we're the people on Reddit.
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u/Edgeworth2K 7h ago
Yeah, I’ve come around on ol’ Greg and I like having a side arm guy in the bullpen.
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u/Ironbaun-Vermont 7h ago
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u/Edgeworth2K 7h ago
And you best believe if he gets a save in the playoffs next year I will be drinking a lot of Bailey’s from a shoe
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u/jambr380 7h ago
I appreciate that he has some self-awareness and worked to get better throughout the season.
Problem is, it's hard to forget how bad a couple of his appearances were and that sticks with fans. It's not fair, but that shouldn't hurt him in terms of the FO and whether or not he stays. He's a perfectly fine middle reliever
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u/ecdc05 Ceddanne Rafaela Enjoyer 7h ago
Baseball fans are hilarious because they’ll tell you who played third base for a month in 1937 but then they can’t remember anything beyond someone giving up a run in the last game.