6/12 @ Twins

[Station 13]

Kimbrel needed to be use this game with tomorrow off.

[TylerD]

Any major league pitcher has the ability to shut another team down. What separates the good ones from the bad ones is how often they can do it.

 

Good point . Just a frustrating day .

[User Name]

How DARE some of you criticize Farrell The Perfect? He knows more about this stuff than all of you do, and you can't complain about, discuss or dissect his moves in this forum dedicated to the Boston Red Sox!

[mvp 78]

How DARE some of you criticize Farrell The Perfect? He knows more about this stuff than all of you do, and you can't complain about, discuss or dissect his moves in this forum dedicated to the Boston Red Sox!

 

This point is lacking validity since the team lost. Opinions regarding the Red Sox and MLB are ONLY valid if your team has won its previous game.

[bosoxmal]

I'll wager that Bogaerts learned something today. Sometimes he's so smooth he seems to get a bit lackadaisical

[Maxbialystock]

Kimbrel needed to be use this game with tomorrow off.

 

Possibly. My guess is Farrell was saving him for the save once the Sox scored. If Farrell had used Kimbrel in the 10th and someone else in the 11th--let's say to save a 1 run lead--and that guy had blown the save, there would be an outcry that Kimbrell was wasted in the 10th.

 

The other day in San Francisco, Farrell used Ortiz to pinch-hit for Young, for which there was an outcry that he went in too soon. My guess, only that, at the time was he wanted to be sure to get Ortiz in the game when the score was close, it was late, and there were men on base. If he had waited and let Young bat and Young hit into a GIDP, the outcry would have been, "why in the world didn't he get Ortiz in there?"

 

I don't think Farrell is a genius or perfect, just that, like all managers, he almost certainly has good reasons for making the moves he does. I am simply inclined to give all managers the benefit of the doubt unless it's something egregious.

[Jasonbay44]

No, the move to pinch hit for Young, who was our hottest hitter and had already homered off Bumgarner was a bad move, regardless of the outcome. I criticized the move as soon as it happened, as did many others. If Young GIDP I wouldn't have criticized Farrell. Also how would Young GIDP with a runner on 2nd? With a runner on a 2nd and one out id much rather have Young and Ortiz hit, then Ortiz who was a lock to get walked, a struggling Shaw and Vazquez/Hernandez.

 

I don't really have much issue with yesterday's game, it was bad defense and bad hitting that lost the game, not Farrell. But that game against the Giants was bad in the way he handled when to use Ortiz.

[Spudboy]

Possibly. My guess is Farrell was saving him for the save once the Sox scored. If Farrell had used Kimbrel in the 10th and someone else in the 11th--let's say to save a 1 run lead--and that guy had blown the save, there would be an outcry that Kimbrell was wasted in the 10th.

 

The other day in San Francisco, Farrell used Ortiz to pinch-hit for Young, for which there was an outcry that he went in too soon. My guess, only that, at the time was he wanted to be sure to get Ortiz in the game when the score was close, it was late, and there were men on base. If he had waited and let Young bat and Young hit into a GIDP, the outcry would have been, "why in the world didn't he get Ortiz in there?"

I don't think Farrell is a genius or perfect, just that, like all managers, he almost certainly has good reasons for making the moves he does. I am simply inclined to give all managers the benefit of the doubt unless it's something egregious.

 

 

Yup.

[User Name]

No, the move to pinch hit for Young, who was our hottest hitter and had already homered off Bumgarner was a bad move, regardless of the outcome. I criticized the move as soon as it happened, as did many others. If Young GIDP I wouldn't have criticized Farrell. Also how would Young GIDP with a runner on 2nd? With a runner on a 2nd and one out id much rather have Young and Ortiz hit, then Ortiz who was a lock to get walked, a struggling Shaw and Vazquez/Hernandez.

 

I don't really have much issue with yesterday's game, it was bad defense and bad hitting that lost the game, not Farrell. But that game against the Giants was bad in the way he handled when to use Ortiz.

 

Because some people will never let facts get in the way of a good argument.

[Thunder]

I'll wager that Bogaerts learned something today. Sometimes he's so smooth he seems to get a bit lackadaisical

 

He's fine. I feel like you're trying to nitpick because he had one bad game at the plate and because we lost. Don't worry about it. Everyone has a bad day/off day, and you can't expect him to dominate every single game he plays.

[Maxbialystock]

Bogaerts is human and therefore subject to error, but he is anything but lackadaisacal. This is a guy who slides into 1B when he thinks it will help. A guy who, on a sure GIDP by Ortiz, overran 2b and took 3B because he realized the shift made the Twins vulnerable to that play.

 

You want lackadaiscal, go somewhere else.

[Kimmi]

Yup.

 

Second that.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Bogaerts is human and therefore subject to error, but he is anything but lackadaisacal. This is a guy who slides into 1B when he thinks it will help. A guy who, on a sure GIDP by Ortiz, overran 2b and took 3B because he realized the shift made the Twins vulnerable to that play.

 

You want lackadaiscal, go somewhere else.

 

I agree 100%. As far as his hustle is concerned, he has nothing to apologize for.

[User Name]

There's not an ounce of lackadaisical on this team right now.

[Youk Of The Nation]

There's not an ounce of lackadaisical on this team right now.

 

I don't know, the bullpen catcher is looking a little indolent. That could spell doom for a team's championship hopes.

[mvp 78]

Has Wally even tried to wave this year? Lazy. Riding out his contract.

[Thunder]

Has Wally even tried to wave this year? Lazy. Riding out his contract.

 

Tessie is too busy getting on his nerves. I like having two mascots.