4/26 Red Sox at Jays

[Bellhorn04]

Sale vs. Estrada

 

Let's win this and finish the road trip 6-3.

[Bellhorn04]

Betts CF

Benintendi LF

Ramirez DH

Martinez RF

Moreland 1B

Núñez 2B

Devers 3B

Vázquez C

Holt SS

[Spudboy]

JBJ. Betts to CF.

 

JD in RF.

 

God help us.

 

I do like that 3,4,5 punch, however.

[S5Dewey]

JBJ. Betts to CF.

 

JD in RF.

 

God help us.

 

 

I'm trying to find a way to defend Cora's defensive lineup and... it ain't easy.

 

The best thing I can say for it is that Rogers Centre is symmetrical, 328-375-400-375-328 so it doesn't matter much where the weakest link goes.

[Natick to NC]

Please release Swihart let this kid catch on anyplace but here ...I bet th kid would play in Japan at this point .what they did to this kids career is border line criminal .keep playing Vaz 204 and Leon 115 ....they are stellar .How freaking hard is it to catch for sale ???? Guy pitches what a slider and a FB the rare change ? a meh CB ? give this kid at bats !!!!!There is verrrrrry little to lose and Aton to gain . Edited April 26, 2018 by Natick to NC

[Natick to NC]

Benny still in the lineup ? Why not Swihart there ??? Huh ?? Freaking stupid....I'm already thinking Cora is a static manager .whatever

[oldtimer]

Benny still in the lineup ? Why not Swihart there ??? Huh ?? Freaking stupid....I'm already thinking Cora is a static manager .whatever

 

I disagree. We need Beni to be the best club we can be. He is slumping now but I doubt that will last. He didn't hit last night but he did walk twice.

[Maxbialystock]

Please release Swihart let this kid catch on anyplace but here ...I bet th kid would play in Japan at this point .what they did to this kids career is border line criminal .keep playing Vaz 204 and Leon 115 ....they are stellar .How freaking hard is it to catch for sale ???? Guy pitches what a slider and a FB the rare change ? a meh CB ? give this kid at bats !!!!!There is verrrrrry little to lose and Aton to gain .

 

The Sox currently have an ERA of 2.85, maybe the lowest in 40 years for all I know. Why jeopardize that with Swihart? He caught over half the games in 2015 when the Sox had the 25th best ERA of 4.31. Oh, and his OPS that year was .711. Vazquez OPS last year was .734.

[Natick to NC]

It's a waste Leon suuuuuuuucks ...whatever keep banging heads against the wall some day it will move .

[Natick to NC]

The Sox currently have an ERA of 2.85, maybe the lowest in 40 years for all I know. Why jeopardize that with Swihart? He caught over half the games in 2015 when the Sox had the 25th best ERA of 4.31. Oh, and his OPS that year was .711. Vazquez OPS last year was .734.

sample size max is kinda skewed there ???? It's 2018 and for two years we have had shhhhhit out of the position offensively....I'm done holding my tongue we suck behind the plate .

[Kimmi]

Let's take the series tonight!

 

Get it done boys!

 

Go Sox!

[Maxbialystock]

Benny still in the lineup ? Why not Swihart there ??? Huh ?? Freaking stupid....I'm already thinking Cora is a static manager .whatever

 

Give me Beni all day long and twice on Sundays. He will come around. His OPS is .706 and Swihart's is .458 and Beni is a much better fielder and baserunner.

[Maxbialystock]

sample size max is kinda skewed there ???? It's 2018 and for two years we have had shhhhhit out of the position offensively....I'm done holding my tongue we suck behind the plate .

 

If you mean the 23 games played this year, it's the only sample size we have. And if you don't think the great pitching is one of the keys to being 18-5, you haven't been paying attention.

 

I happen to like Swihart a lot, but I can also understand why Cora doesn't want to put him behind the plate.

[cp176]

Give me Beni all day long and twice on Sundays. He will come around. His OPS is .706 and Swihart's is .458 and Beni is a much better fielder and baserunner.

 

wait what - i caught that - Beni is a much better baserunner than Swihart ( or just about anybody else for that matter)? Sorry Max but what I see and have seen is an absolute numb nuts on the base paths.

[Maxbialystock]

sample size max is kinda skewed there ???? It's 2018 and for two years we have had shhhhhit out of the position offensively....I'm done holding my tongue we suck behind the plate .

 

If you were dragged into court before a judge and the charge was holding your tongue, the judge would throw the case out for lack of evidence.

[jung]

Geez somebody get Beni into a video room and then a batting cage

[Jasonbay44]

Catcher is one the least important offensive positions and most important defensive positions.

[d-money]

s***** start. Need a good pitching game from sale.

[jung]

Yup....nice play JD

[Jasonbay44]

What the hell was that, JD? Man is he bad out there

[S5Dewey]

Yup....nice play JD

 

Get used to it. Ugh.

[Station 13]

defense man. It's bad.

[Spudboy]

I missed it whatever it was.

[jung]

Get used to it. Ugh.

 

Your avatar is hurling in the nearest bathroom

[S5Dewey]

I'll say this: It makes JDM's -68 UZR in RF look accurate.

[Station 13]

And defense cost them a run.

[Jasonbay44]

That was a nice play by JD.. Mookie also covered some major ground there from center lol

[d-money]

Sale needs to settle the f*** down after that first inning.

[d-money]

This team has been playing some s***** baseball.

[S5Dewey]

JDM's catch is a good example of how a bad outfielder can make a routine catch look difficult. With our two regular OF'ers out there they'd have been circling around waiting for the ball to come down.