5/19 VS Astros

[OH FOY]

1st period over Blues 1-0, back here.

[d-money]

Terrible game Cora. Sale shouldn't be pushed another inning.

 

The cora lovefest has come down this season.

[OH FOY]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[d-money]

Man that was huge. Get some offense going! Come on.

[jung]

Walden!!....Cora is going to have to have more confidence in him. Don't see how Cora can avoid it.

[vegasbob]

Walden saves Sale another loss. Come back, little Sandy, Chrissy needs you

[d-money]

They have to find a way and win this game.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Walden has been a very pleasant surprise. He's going for his 6th win.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Walden!!....Cora is going to have to have more confidence in him. Don't see how Cora can avoid it.

 

Walden is 5-0 with a 1.42 ERA. I believe Cora would like to use him in every game.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Our BP for all intents and purposes is Walden, Workman, and Barnes. All the others are passengers.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

They have to find a way and win this game.

 

More pop-ups behind the 2nd baseman.

[OH FOY]

Come on Pearce DO IT!!! Lefty Crank it.

[FredLynn]

Got eyes. Its what he does not get to that matters. He plays too deep for one thing. Usually when a CF plays too deep its because he is not confident he can get back to the wall. Then he really does not come in on balls at all well from CF. For the few times he has played CF this year he has already let 3 hits fall in right in front of him. Mookie does not get good reads in CF which happens to be the thing that actually defines a CFer. The play Marisnick made in this series....Mookie does not make in CF. He does not even try to make it.

 

Sorry. I am data driven and I don't depend on your eyes (or mine for that matter). You are not going to convince anyone that moving Betts to CF will somehow automatically make him a bad OF. He is a GG OF in RF; he will be at least acceptable in CF. We could also move Benni to CF, his natural position. One thing is for sure: we cannot afford Bradley and his bat in the lineup any more.

Just to refresh your memory, coming into this game he is batting .146/.430 with an awful OPS+ of 18. Thats 18!!!. He had his chance; he proved he cannot hit. He MUST sit.

[jung]

How does Correa make that look so easy. That was terrible technique on the Vaz ground ball and Correa just made it look like a walk in the park.

[vegasbob]

Come on Pearce DO IT!!! Lefty Crank it.

 

Holy Batman, Pearce got hot.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Trade Pearce while he's hot.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

How does Correa make that look so easy. That was terrible technique on the Vaz ground ball and Correa just made it look like a walk in the park.

 

Correa is an elite all-around SS.

[OH FOY]

That inning didn't scare me if I were the Astros, with those at bats.

[Station 13]

Nunez is untenable.

[a700hitter]

Nunez is untenable.

He should be cut when Holt returns.

[OH FOY]

Good play, X-Man.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nice play by Bogie and Pearce.

[TylerD]

One run! And maybe an insurance is all I ask.

[jung]

Sorry. I am data driven and I don't depend on your eyes (or mine for that matter). You are not going to convince anyone that moving Betts to CF will somehow automatically make him a bad OF. He is a GG OF in RF; he will be at least acceptable in CF. We could also move Benni to CF, his natural position. One thing is for sure: we cannot afford Bradley and his bat in the lineup any more.

Just to refresh your memory, coming into this game he is batting .146/.430 with an awful OPS+ of 18. Thats 18!!!. He had his chance; he proved he cannot hit. He MUST sit.

 

Beni is not a good CFer either. I don't care where he played in college or the minors but that one is actually a better option than moving Mookie to CF because Beni is a better CFer than JD is a RFer and you have not moved your GG RFer out of the hardest RF in baseball to play.

 

I would not play Pearce in Fenway RF either. But I would put him there before I would put JD there just to save JD from killing himself out there and taking his bat out of the lineup. I could give a rats behind about Pearce though taking the GG RFer out of the most difficult RF in baseball for guys like JD or Pearce makes just no sense at all. Holt can give you a few games out there....but not that many. Would rather see Holt sharing time at 2nd with Chavis and Chavis sharing time with Moreland at 1st with Pearce sharing time with the bench!

 

JD should only play OF away from Fenway and in the "safest" least taxing Corner OF's in MLB in order to keep from what we saw yesterday in RF and what we saw in LF today. You really want JD tripping over himself in the OF like that? Where would this offense be without JD if he hurts himself out there. Heck, so far, they are a .500 team WITH him this year.

[OH FOY]

That's close.

[FredLynn]

Beni is not a good CFer either. I don't care where he played in college or the minors but that one is actually a better option than moving Mookie to CF because Beni is a better CFer than JD is a RFer and you have not moved your GG RFer out of the hardest RF in baseball to play.

 

I would not play Pearce in Fenway RF either. But I would put him there before I would put JD there just to save JD from killing himself out there and taking his bat out of the lineup. I could give a rats behind about Pearce though taking the GG RFer out of the most difficult RF in baseball for guys like JD or Pearce makes just no sense at all. Holt can give you a few games out there....but not that many. Would rather see Holt sharing time at 2nd with Chavis and Chavis sharing time with Moreland at 1st with Pearce sharing time with the bench!

 

JD should only play OF away from Fenway and in the "safest" least taxing Corner OF's in MLB in order to keep from what we saw yesterday in RF and what we saw in LF today. You really want JD tripping over himself in the OF like that? Where would this offense be without JD if he hurts himself out there. Heck, so far, they are a .500 team WITH him this year.

 

The point is that there are options. Not great ones, but leaving Bradley in the lineup is simply no longer an option. He can come in as a defensive replacement in the late innings if he is still on the team....I would not mind seeing him on the phantom DL for a long long time.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Beni is not a good CFer either. I don't care where he played in college or the minors but that one is actually a better option than moving Mookie to CF because Beni is a better CFer than JD is a RFer and you have not moved your GG RFer out of the hardest RF in baseball to play.

 

I would not play Pearce in Fenway RF either. But I would put him there before I would put JD there just to save JD from killing himself out there and taking his bat out of the lineup. I could give a rats behind about Pearce though taking the GG RFer out of the most difficult RF in baseball for guys like JD or Pearce makes just no sense at all. Holt can give you a few games out there....but not that many. Would rather see Holt sharing time at 2nd with Chavis and Chavis sharing time with Moreland at 1st with Pearce sharing time with the bench!

 

JD should only play OF away from Fenway and in the "safest" least taxing Corner OF's in MLB in order to keep from what we saw yesterday in RF and what we saw in LF today. You really want JD tripping over himself in the OF like that? Where would this offense be without JD if he hurts himself out there. Heck, so far, they are a .500 team WITH him this year.

 

And they do all this nonsense so that Nunez can DH.

[Station 13]

Double play unless Joe Torre is on the phone.

[TylerD]

Over all Sale was decent. Wasn’t a great day but against the number 2 offense in the league he limited the damage and gave us a chance. Hope we can take this one.

[jung]

And they do all this nonsense so that Nunez can DH.

 

And there it is....what do they get for all this dancing around. They get more AB's for Nunez or Pearce. Be still my heart.