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Hopefully it is not s***** starting pitching cause I doubt they will see that comfort zone too often. But the Sox generally crush middle relief.

 

Someday you're gonna have to show me your numbers on that. Generally speaking you only get to crush middle relief after you're knocked the starter out. Crushing middle relief is usually garbage time stuff like this.

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Shane has far exceeded my expectations for this season. I was predicting solid d, but like a 270 avergae with 8 dingers. Great season vic.
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The Sox have a beautiful thing going offensively. They get to middle relief earlier and more often than any team in baseball because with the exception of Ells who is swinging as he leaves the locker room, they all take tons of pitches, foul off tons of pitches and leave starters very often at 90-100 pitches by the 5th inning. They very often force the opponent to his bullpen in the 6th. Notice what happens to us when an opponent gets to our bullpen in the 6th. It just take too long to get to Taz and more importantly Ueh.

 

We do what we just saw recently happen to us to opponents more than just about anybody. We don't have the wall mashers that Detroit has got, but we do have guys that get the other guys starter out of the game.

 

The problem with that is I don't think this offense can sustain itself without being able to do what they do so well and I am not convinced that it will be as easy to get to middle relief in the post season as it is in the regular season. It is a great regular season offense and it is really a well constructed regular season team. Not sure that will be as useful in the post season. If they can get the Buch back that they had before June 8th....now your talkin'

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The Sox have a beautiful thing going offensively. They get to middle relief earlier and more often than any team in baseball because with the exception of Ells who is swinging as he leaves the locker room, they all take tons of pitches, foul off tons of pitches and leave starters very often at 90-100 pitches by the 5th inning. They very often force the opponent to his bullpen in the 6th. Notice what happens to us when an opponent gets to our bullpen in the 6th. It just take too long to get to Taz and more importantly Ueh.

 

We do what we just saw recently happen to us to opponents more than just about anybody. We don't have the wall mashers that Detroit has got, but we do have guys that get the other guys starter out of the game.

 

The problem with that is I don't think this offense can sustain itself without being able to do what they do so well and I am not convinced that it will be as easy to get to middle relief in the post season as it is in the regular season. It is a great regular season offense and it is really a well constructed regular season team. Not sure that will be as useful in the post season. If they can get the Buch back that they had before June 8th....now your talkin'

 

Not sure I follow. If they are good at getting starters out of the game with high pitch counts in the regular season why wouldn't that continue in the postseason.

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Not sure I follow. If they are good at getting starters out of the game with high pitch counts in the regular season why wouldn't that continue in the postseason.

 

Better pitchers? No pitch counts? Idk.

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The Sox have a beautiful thing going offensively. They get to middle relief earlier and more often than any team in baseball because with the exception of Ells who is swinging as he leaves the locker room, they all take tons of pitches, foul off tons of pitches and leave starters very often at 90-100 pitches by the 5th inning. They very often force the opponent to his bullpen in the 6th. Notice what happens to us when an opponent gets to our bullpen in the 6th. It just take too long to get to Taz and more importantly Ueh.

 

We do what we just saw recently happen to us to opponents more than just about anybody. We don't have the wall mashers that Detroit has got, but we do have guys that get the other guys starter out of the game.

 

The problem with that is I don't think this offense can sustain itself without being able to do what they do so well and I am not convinced that it will be as easy to get to middle relief in the post season as it is in the regular season. It is a great regular season offense and it is really a well constructed regular season team. Not sure that will be as useful in the post season. If they can get the Buch back that they had before June 8th....now your talkin'

 

Seriously man, can't you just watch the game and be happy that the Sox are beating up Baltimore 11-2? The Orioles have been a bitch to play the last couple seasons, this is awesome. Just sit with the rest of us and talk about how awesome this game is. I understand you have your concerns about things, but sometimes you just have to live in the moment. Baseball, more than any other sport, is so driven by statistics and breakdowns and analysis, I think we sometimes forget to just say "f*** yeah, a home run" and "alright, Sox are killing tonight". Just enjoy the game. Talk about this stuff in the Red Sox forum. Leave the GTs for those of us who treat it like we're sitting in Fenway screaming our heads off and drinking.

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Red headed stepchildren get treated better than the O's are getting tonight. The Jays just stopped biting the pillow for the yanks long enough to tell the O's to have some respect for themselves.
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Seriously man, can't you just watch the game and be happy that the Sox are beating up Baltimore 11-2? The Orioles have been a bitch to play the last couple seasons, this is awesome. Just sit with the rest of us and talk about how awesome this game is. I understand you have your concerns about things, but sometimes you just have to live in the moment. Baseball, more than any other sport, is so driven by statistics and breakdowns and analysis, I think we sometimes forget to just say "f*** yeah, a home run" and "alright, Sox are killing tonight". Just enjoy the game. Talk about this stuff in the Red Sox forum. Leave the GTs for those of us who treat it like we're sitting in Fenway screaming our heads off and drinking.

 

All of my love (no homo)

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Not sure I follow. If they are good at getting starters out of the game with high pitch counts in the regular season why wouldn't that continue in the postseason.

 

Because the Sox will invariably face more and better starting pitching as a percentage of total games played in the post season than they face in the regular season and it won't even be close to comparable. Teams don't get to the post season because they mash. Some teams get there cause they pitch AND mash but teams that just mash are dead and too stupid to fall over.

 

They will face more starting pitchers that control the game and take the ball to the 8th or 9th innings. In a seven game series, individual games count for a lot. Lets say you face starting pitchers that take the ball through the 7th inning in two games out of seven. Well that could be a team with one dominant pitcher and I don't think the Sox would stand much chance of winning even one of those games especially without Buch or I should say without the Buch we had. That would leave them having to win four out of the remaining five. Those are tough odds. That is also why a big stud at the top of the rotation is more meaningful post season than regular season.

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