6/2 Red Sox v Baltimore Bitches

[SoxHop]

Hanley pisses me off..

[Maxbialystock]

HanRam, however, is indeed a putz.

[Maxbialystock]

Meat of the order--Rutledge, Sandoval, and Leon--coming up in the 8th.

[Station 13]

Hanley pisses everyone off..

 

FTFY

 

when was the last time he had a hit?

[d-money]

Anemic offense

[illinoisredsox]

That must have been an absolutely horrible jump by JBJ. Givens is slow to the plate and Bradley was out by 10 feet. It was a perfect throw so he probably would have been out anyway.

[d-money]

Here comes hembree who has stunk recently

[SoxHop]

FTFY

 

when was the last time he had a hit?

 

I think it was a month ago when he hit a couple home runs in a row and started bragging about how he was just heating up and how we haven't seen anything yet......

[Station 13]

Fire Farrell

[SoxHop]

Fire Farrell

 

Give Mookie a raise...

[Station 13]

JBJ been hot though, get it to him.

 

Why is Benni hitting 2nd?

[SoxHop]

Pretty cool Oday chant there in Balt..... hadn't heard that before..... I think they were saying Oday instead of Olay...

[a700hitter]

Remdawg:: What is becoming obvious is the absence of David Ortiz.

[Station 13]

This is such a trying team on top of the dipshit skipper.

[mvp 78]

Sandoval had as many total bases last night as the rest of the team combined.

 

He should be swapped in the order with Beni.

[Maxbialystock]

This is such a trying team on top of the dipshit skipper.

 

Ultimately, the manager bears the overall responsibility for wins and losses.

 

That said, I am more and more convinced that the biggest problem with this team is the departure of Ortiz, over which Farrell had no control. The simple fact is that last year the hitting was terrific and this year it's so-so which experience says is simply not going to hack it for a Red Sox team. Ortiz was possibly the best hitter--certainly as measured by OPS--in MLB last year. That's significant, but it now appears that his bat in lineup lifted others' hitting and without his bat HanRam, Betts, Pedroia, JBJ, et al have lower OPS's than last year. Moreland, whose bat replaces Ortiz's in the lineup, is actually having a good year for him, but his OPS is 200 points lower than Ortiz's was. On top of all that, Benintendi, the very promising rookie who skipped AAA last year and seemed to be comfortable hitting (OPS .835) for Boston, has so far disappointed (OPS .711) this year as a regular in LF. We were all disappointed with the 3b situation last year, but this year Farrell has been forced to start Marrero, whose OPS of .562 has to be competitive for the lowest OPS for a regular in MLB, simply because he is a reliable fielding thirdbaseman.

 

I'm not so much defending Farrell because I believe he bears some responsibility for overall team performance, but am asking the obvious question, what should he have done to fix the hitting which is the real problem with this team?