No one knew Casas would get injured. Revisionist history.Originally Posted by ****THEYANKEES
No one knew Casas would get injured. Revisionist history.
WAR is good for something.
It started early and often where they had runners on and nothing happened.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Duran, Ja; O'Neill 2; Cooper; Devers 2; Grissom.
Braves only left 1 in scoring position with 2 out.
Well, except that some of us called for that months ago
As I pointed out earlier in during the 5th inning, Devers was a disaster last night. Duran led the game off with a double, and Devers popped out to 1b on the first pitch. In the 5th with 1 out Duran tripled, and Devers K'd by swinging at the same exact slider in the dirt he had not swung at on the previous pitch. And in the 6th with the bases loaded Devers repeated his 5th inning folly by again swing at a below the zone breaking ball (a sweeper this time) he had not swung on the previous pitch.
In Devers' defense, he has a very respectable OPS of .906, so I honestly have to give a ton of credit to the Braves pitching staff who gave up exactly 1 ER in 9 innings. The so-called big rally in the 6th inning was the result of 3 freaking walks and an error--and a ground single, mishandled by the Braves pitcher, by Rafaela, the Sox Mr. RBI. The next two batters, Duran and Devers, both struck out.
The Sox scored 17 runs in one game vs the Cubs--and still are ranked just 13th in runs scored. Get rid of 12 of those runs, and the Sox would rank 19th in MLB in runs scored. Thus does the #9 hitter, Rafaela, he of the .611 OPS, have 20 rbi's, 5 more than 2d most Duran's and 6 more than Wong's 14 (in just 23 games played). O'Neill has a paltry 13 rbi's and Devers 12.
In other words, the hitting stinks. It's just that simple.
The only thing this team does well is pitch, and the pitching has been hit hard by injuries. It's a freaking miracle the Sox still lead MLB in ERA, now 2.65.
That Casas would get injured? Also, Chapman sucks (offensively)
WAR is good for something.
Most importantly Brez didn’t.
I'm actively losing brain cells over here.
WAR is good for something.
That is a very comprehensive recap. I believe the " Express written consent " of MLB to required to post that.
Old school is good school.
Not looking like his best move, is it?
Just called for Chapman to aid the weak infield defense. Devers and Casas were the worst pair of corner infielders in MLB.
We’ve gone over this a 100 times. The Red Sox already had a $18M DH. They already had a $300M 3B, and a young 1B who most likely will be there for a long time. There was no room for Chapman, and more importantly no room in the Budget for Chapman. It was NEVER going to happen. The Red Sox are playing the cards they have dealt themselves. Injuries happen, and have happened, but Chapman was Never coming to Boston.🤭🙈
Vehemently disagree. I don't disagree both are lousy on defense because they certainly are.
But everyone of the 9 lineup players is expected to hit first and field second. Thus, for example, the creation of the DH because pitchers were easy outs. Indeed, pitchers are far and away the most important defensive players on any team and way, way, way, way more important than any other defensive player. That's why almost every MLB team has 13 pitchers and 13 non-pitchers on their active rosters. Those 13 non-pitchers do all the hitting and 90% of the fielding.
The minors are chock full of good field no hit players. In fact, isn't Marcelo Mayer, who at age 21 is already a polished and skilled SS, currently stuck in Portland because he can't yet hit AA pitching?
So right now I personally am fine with Casas at 1b and Devers at 3b as long as they keep hitting better than most of the rest of the Sox lineup. Casas' problem ain't his fielding, it's being on the IL until at least June and probably later.
The current Sox have exactly 2 players with positive DWAR's--Duran +1.0; Abreu + 0.4.
Well, the idea was Casas would DH, and with Yoshida MIA, it's not really a revision.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
notin was talking about D not overall sucktitude.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
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