8/31 @ Chicago White Sox

[Thunder]

RHP Nathan Eovaldi (5-6, 4.15) vs Michael Kopech (1-0, 1.13)

 

I'm looking forward to watching this kid pitch, but at the end of the day, we gotta keep our priorities straight. Win. Dance. Repeat. x4

 

It's the first Friday night of the school year and it's sorority recruiting season. Extra blowjo tonight.

[Spudboy]

Pedro flew into Boston to work with Evoldi on some things he had noticed about him.

 

I wonder if anything good will come out of these coaching sessions.

 

Evoldi is a f***ing hot mess.

 

Still, I see the Sox eventually pounding Kopech.

[moonslav59]

The big question is, will we go into the 7th or 8th with just a handful of hits and no runs again, then explode, or will we explode early and often?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Talking heads on MLB using analytics to rank JD 6th in MVP voting. There really is a good place for analytics; it's where the sun don't shine. A bunch of nerds who never played the game provide numbers that are supposed to replace what your lying eyes are actually seeing. One thing these *******s have on their bucket list is to give Trout a BJ. Edited August 31, 2018 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[Spudboy]

Talking heads on MLB using analytics to rank JD 6th in MVP voting. There really is a good place for analytics; it's where the sun don't shine. A bunch of nerds who never played the game provide numbers that are supposed to replace what your lying eyes are actually seeing. One thing these *******s have on their bucket list is to give Trout a BJ.

 

Lol.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I wonder what WAR number these nerds would have given Ted Williams because he wasn't a great defensive outfielder and he didn't steal bases?

Note to numbers guys: Hitting a baseball is still the most difficult part of the game.

[TylerD]

4 in a row! Coming up!!

[jung]

1. Mookie Betts ® RF

2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF

3. J.D. Martinez ® DH

4. Xander Bogaerts ® SS

5. Eduardo Nunez ® 3B

6. Blake Swihart (S) 1B

7. Ian Kinsler ® 2B

8. Sandy Leon (S) C

9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

[vegasbob]

Talking heads on MLB using analytics to rank JD 6th in MVP voting. There really is a good place for analytics; it's where the sun don't shine. A bunch of nerds who never played the game provide numbers that are supposed to replace what your lying eyes are actually seeing. One thing these *******s have on their bucket list is to give Trout a BJ.

 

You are right. Trout has not played under pressure on the field to win nor in a rabid fan/media market. Nice guy by all measures , but not an MVP for a losing team.

[vegasbob]

The big question is, will we go into the 7th or 8th with just a handful of hits and no runs again, then explode, or will we explode early and often?

 

Looking back over a few weeks, the team certainly struggles early and can't beat the starting pitchers but devour the bullpens. Our opponents score early on our starters and sometimes devour our BP and sometimes not at all. The LH'ers and soft throwers still cause problems with change ups and slow curves, while the hard throwers get us out on sliders. But put the FB over the plate and every Red Sox can get to it .

[vegasbob]

I wonder what WAR number these nerds would have given Ted Williams because he wasn't a great defensive outfielder and he didn't steal bases?

Note to numbers guys: Hitting a baseball is still the most difficult part of the game.

 

The Splinter's lifetime FAwas .974 , only 30 DP's in 19 seasons but he did catch 3796 fly balls while in the field. Played 169 games in RF with notably less success than LF (.948 FA, 20 of his 93 errors in only 8% of his total games. But I think they kept him around for his bat.

[Kimmi]

Talking heads on MLB using analytics to rank JD 6th in MVP voting. There really is a good place for analytics; it's where the sun don't shine. A bunch of nerds who never played the game provide numbers that are supposed to replace what your lying eyes are actually seeing. One thing these *******s have on their bucket list is to give Trout a BJ.

 

Don't listen to the talking heads on MLB.

 

Listen to the actual stat geeks.

[Kimmi]

Interesting pitching match up tonight. I don't know what to expect from either pitcher.

 

Keep the good times rolling!

 

WIN!!!

[jung]

I wonder what WAR number these nerds would have given Ted Williams because he wasn't a great defensive outfielder and he didn't steal bases?

Note to numbers guys: Hitting a baseball is still the most difficult part of the game.

 

I went back to look at this as mostly when I look at The God of Hitting's stats I am just going back to remind myself of his outrageous splits. But for example for the years before his military service, Ted was posting up oWAR numbers at 10+. Then he came back from military service and immediately posted up 10+ oWAR numbers again. Just crazy numbers....CRAZY. If you look at today's great hitters, good luck finding somebody posting up oWAR north of 7 just as an example. I imagine that if Ted had not gone off to military service he would have been posting 10+ oWAR for all those years as well which would have just been ridiculous!

 

Again, just to repeat something from a previous post on the topic of Ted, he basically took a great RH hitters swing and implemented it from the LH side of the plate. That allowed him to use a great swing against RH pitchers which is mostly what you see for pitchers even today. Go look at Ted's outrageous splits.

 

All that crap that people consider the "pretty" LH hitters swing really does not help the hitter all that much. In fact, you would like to get rid of most of it if your real interest is in producing outrageous hitting stats. Ted didn't have any of that crap in his swing. He did have a bit more length to his swing than the typical RH hitter. But his swing was so much a great RH hitters swing implemented from the LH side of the plate.

 

I should also add that I do not think Ted just stumbled onto taking a great RH hitter's swing and using it from the Left side because it is just too darned hard to do. Anybody who has switch hit will tell you that swinging from the Left side is not hitting from the Right. IMO, Ted had to break himself of the standard LH hitter tendencies and train himself to hit like a RH hitter from the Left side in order to do what he did. A task I would think impossible to the degree that Ted pulled it off....just super-human. If there is proof of aliens living on Earth, its Ted Williams.

Edited August 31, 2018 by jung

[redsoxrules]

Yankees trying to get Donaldson now

[jacksonianmarch]

Yankees trying to get Donaldson now

 

Yes they are. They can only take on half the remaining money without going over, so they'll need to top the other offers with talent. Either way, it is an indictment on our 1B situation. Bird has sucked. Voit isn't reliable defensively and isn't a given offensively. I think Donaldson could be picked up, moved to 1b and slot into the middle of the order until Judge returns. I also think it could be an audition for next season. I think the chances are high he signs with us as a 1b.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I went back to look at this as mostly when I look at The God of Hitting's stats I am just going back to remind myself of his outrageous splits. But for example for the years before his military service, Ted was posting up oWAR numbers at 10+. Then he came back from military service and immediately posted up 10+ oWAR numbers again. Just crazy numbers....CRAZY. If you look at today's great hitters, good luck finding somebody posting up oWAR north of 7 just as an example. I imagine that if Ted had not gone off to military service he would have been posting 10+ oWAR for all those years as well which would have just been ridiculous!

 

Again, just to repeat something from a previous post on the topic of Ted, he basically took a great RH hitters swing and implemented it from the LH side of the plate. That allowed him to use a great swing against RH pitchers which is mostly what you see for pitchers even today. Go look at Ted's outrageous splits.

 

All that crap that people consider the "pretty" LH hitters swing really does not help the hitter all that much. In fact, you would like to get rid of most of it if your real interest is in producing outrageous hitting stats. Ted didn't have any of that crap in his swing. He did have a bit more length to his swing than the typical RH hitter. But his swing was so much a great RH hitters swing implemented from the LH side of the plate.

 

I should also add that I do not think Ted just stumbled onto taking a great RH hitter's swing and using it from the Left side because it is just too darned hard to do. Anybody who has switch hit will tell you that swinging from the Left side is not hitting from the Right. IMO, Ted had to break himself of the standard LH hitter tendencies and train himself to hit like a RH hitter from the Left side in order to do what he did. A task I would think impossible to the degree that Ted pulled it off....just super-human. If there is proof of aliens living on Earth, its Ted Williams.

 

Well said.

[jacksonianmarch]

Ted was just a silly hitter. Had the hand eye of Gwynn, the power of Aaron and the eye of Ruth. Speaking of Hank, Aaron had 10 more games a season than Ted and never hit more than 47HR in a season. Ted's career high was 43. But Ted hit lots of homers every year, just like Hank did.

[redsoxrules]

Yeah I doubt that was an accident

[Tedballgame]

Nice control Kopech. Idiot. Have an idea where its going.

[Tedballgame]

Make this hurt.

[a700hitter]

Kopech is sweating like a big and is scary wild right now. Our guys should put on some body armor.

[redsoxrules]

Got to take advantage here

[Tedballgame]

That was stupid base running. what was he thinking.

[redsoxrules]

Ffs mookie. 2 nights in row

[Tedballgame]

Dumb. Let Kopech off the hook.

[a700hitter]

That was incredibly dumb with JD at the plate.

[redsoxrules]

Have a guy on the ropes and get picked off. Ffs

[Tedballgame]

that is inexcusable.

[a700hitter]

It should be 1st and 3rd with 1 out.