6/21 vS The Blue Jays

[bosoxmal]

VASQUEZ HAS GOT TO BE IN THE LINEUP EVERY DAY. I DON'T GIVE A s*** WHO IS PITCHING!

 

nOW i CAN GET TO BED!!!

[Maxbialystock]

Credit where credit's due. Cora pinch hitting with Devers and replacing Leon with VAZ. Note to Cora: Enough with the personal catcher ********.

 

Vazquez can’t catch every game, and Leon is a better defensive catcher. But I don’t think Leon helped much tonight.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Vazquez can’t catch every game, and Leon is a better defensive catcher. But I don’t think Leon helped much tonight.

 

True. But VAZ should catch at least 80% of the time.

[moonslav59]

Fantastic win!

 

We finally had Sale's back.

 

Marco with the huge HBP.

 

Vaz, of all people, with the BIG HR!

 

Chalk this win up as more to the pen than to the SP'er.

 

Updated game by game running tally by my analysis:

 

Starters 16-22 (Net: -6)

Relievers 26-13 (Net: +13)

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Fantastic win!

 

We finally had Sale's back.

 

Marco with the huge HBP.

 

Vaz, of all people, with the BIG HR!

 

Chalk this win up as more to the pen than to the SP'er.

 

Updated game by game running tally by my analysis:

 

Starters 16-22 (Net: -6)

Relievers 26-13 (Net: +13)

 

 

Hey, MOON. I've created two captains on this thread; Captain Obvious and Captain Hindsight. Is it alright if I promote you to Major Stats?

[moonslav59]

VASQUEZ HAS GOT TO BE IN THE LINEUP EVERY DAY. I DON'T GIVE A s*** WHO IS PITCHING!

 

nOW i CAN GET TO BED!!!

 

Based on just tonight?

 

Team record:

 

26-26 w Vaz

 

14-11 w Leon

 

(Not that this is the best way to judge value, but when you look at how much better Sale and Price do with Leon, I'm fine with letting letting Leon catch Sale every game. PH for him, if needed, especially since Vaz does very well with our pen.

 

I'd even let Leon catch Price every other start. That gives Vaz 7 starts out of 10. That gives him the rest he needs.

[moonslav59]

Man, the Astros are in free fall.

 

The Yanks are hot.

 

[d-money]

Man, the Astros are in free fall.

 

The Yanks are hot.

 

 

They look like the team to beat right now. They’re on a roll. Hopefully they’re peaking very early.

[moonslav59]

They look like the team to beat right now. They’re on a roll. Hopefully they’re peaking very early.

 

They will hit a lull at some point, and we will need to pounce.

 

Maybe London will be the start of their fall.

[illinoisredsox]

Roughly 14 weeks left in the season. 7 games out means they have to make up a game every 2 weeks. That doesn’t sound impossible.

 

And there’s what, 13-14 left againt the Evil Empire? If they don’t beat them head to head they don’t deserve the division anyway.

[Jasonbay44]

Where the hell did this power from Vaz come from? He may just f*** around and make an all star team.

[moonslav59]

Where the hell did this power from Vaz come from? He may just f*** around and make an all star team.

 

This is reminding me of Gedman's outlier season.

[a700hitter]

Where the hell did this power from Vaz come from? He may just f*** around and make an all star team.

A juiced ball?

[oldtimer]

When can Devers get back into the llineup?

[OH FOY]

A juiced ball?

 

Agree. Your getting many balls hit close to the 500 ft. mark this year. Maybe 1 a year, is about right. I think last 2 Sanchez hit were 480 and 481. He's got tremendous power, but come on.

When I see balls hit to Center, that are not hit good, but keep carrying, something is not right. Many look like they have not gotten it fully. Carrying over Center Field. Vazquez has pull power, that one was slugger like. Over Right Center BP. Opposite Field HR's really tell what real Power a batter has.

Games move so slow, they have to make it exciting.

Take the win, it would have been worse losing, with the Yanks winning. Cant do that while they play the Astros, and we play a bad team.

Edited June 22, 2019 by OH FOY!

[Bellhorn04]

A juiced ball?

 

Agree. Your getting many balls hit close to the 500 ft. mark this year. Maybe 1 a year, is about right. I think last 2 Sanchez hit were 480 and 481. He's got tremendous power, but come on.

When I see balls hit to Center, that are not hit good, but keep carrying, something is not right. Many look like they have not gotten it fully. Carrying over Center Field. Vazquez has pull power, that one was slugger like. Over Right Center BP. Opposite Field HR's really tell what real Power a batter has.

Games move so slow, they have to make it exciting.

Take the win, it would have been worse losing, with the Yanks winning. Cant do that while they play the Astros, and we play a bad team.

 

Yeah, the juiced ball and the distance it's flying is ridiculous.

 

Evidently it's what MLB wants - Launch that thing or Swish!

[OH FOY]

Just hope a Pitcher don't gets killed.

[notin]

Yeah, the juiced ball and the distance it's flying is ridiculous.

 

Evidently it's what MLB wants - Launch that thing or Swish!

 

 

Ketel Marte has 20 home runs. He’s like 5’9 160 lbs, and on his career, had only 22 home runs in the majors and minors combined!!

 

 

So yeah, ball is juiced...

[Bellhorn04]

Ketel Marte has 20 home runs. He’s like 5’9 160 lbs, and on his career, had only 22 home runs in the majors and minors combined!!

 

So yeah, ball is juiced...

 

To me the hilarious part is that MLB decided to PROVE the ball is juiced this year by introducing it in AAA ball, where the homer rate has increased by 50%.

[Maxbialystock]

A front apparently just went through Boston, so this game will likely be played. Even with Sale on the mound, a win tonight is not assured, but the Sox are playing very well right now and no doubt want this to be the second win of another longish streak.

 

With Devers presumably resting his hammie, I think Cora will move Bogie up to 4th, Holt up to 5th, Chavis 6th, Bradley 7th, Nunez 8th and Leon 9th. First three will remain Betts, Benintendi, and Martinez.

 

Sox have lost both games in which Devers did not play this year--extremely small sample size. Remember those recent great grabs Devers made going back for pop flies? Nunez doesn't do those. He's pretty good at getting his glove on ground balls hit to the right or left, just not good at actually fielding them. His OPS is .571--lower than Leon's .582. Devers has the 3d best WAR on the team, 2.6. Nunez has the worst, -.8.

 

Chavis now has a 9 game hitting streak, 12 for 41, .292. He had 6 hits in the 12 games before that.

 

This proved to be surprisingly prophetic, especially about Nunez and Devers because, in the end, Devers did get into the game and moreover tied it with a pinch hit single. Nunez remains dog doodoo.

 

However, even though I said the Sox could lose with Sale starting, I did not at all expect him to give up 4 runs (3 earned). He did however go 5 and did very well getting the last two outs with men on 1st and 2d.

 

A broken record, but I continue to believe the rotation overall is overpaid and under-performing and the bullpen is underpaid and over-performing. Thus everyone, even Cora, went completely ape when ERod went 7 innings (giving up 4 runs) in the 3d game at Minnesota.

[OH FOY]

Toronto is tied in all of the Majors with the lowest BA. .224 with SF. Sale should be dominating against these guys. Just hope it was an off day. Twins are leading the Majors in BA, with a .272 BA as a team. ERod did alright. Especially on the road. Edited June 22, 2019 by OH FOY!

[Bellhorn04]

A broken record, but I continue to believe the rotation overall is overpaid and under-performing and the bullpen is underpaid and over-performing. Thus everyone, even Cora, went completely ape when ERod went 7 innings (giving up 4 runs) in the 3d game at Minnesota.

 

That may be a fair point. Of course what starters are asked to do, go 6-7 quality innings, is much different from what relievers are asked to do, so it's a bit of apples-oranges.

[Bellhorn04]

Toronto is tied in all of the Majors with the lowest BA. .224 with SF. Sale should be dominating against these guys. Just hope it was an off day. Twins are leading the Majors in BA, with a .272 BA as a team. ERod did alright.

 

There is a pile of randomness in baseball.

 

It's time for me to recite what Mike Mussina said again. Mussina said that out of 32 starts, he would have 8 where everything was working, 8 where nothing was working, and 16 where something was working.

[Station 13]

A juiced ball?

 

Balls don't carry like they do now 5 years ago. The juiced ball is something else, especially seeing them at Coors Field. Holy man it's majestic as how deep and open Coors is and seeing how far and HIGH it really travels. You can't help but marveled how MLB is engineering it.

[TylerD]

Toronto is tied in all of the Majors with the lowest BA. .224 with SF. Sale should be dominating against these guys. Just hope it was an off day. Twins are leading the Majors in BA, with a .272 BA as a team. ERod did alright. Especially on the road.

 

Off days happen. Even to the best. Chalk it up to that. Hopefully he rebounds.

[dgalehouse]

I never doubted that the Sox would inevitably win the game . And I say again that they will sweep this series against this pathetic excuse for a major league club .

[Swiharts Ghost]

The ball is a freaking superball now .this is helps the Yankees the most .High time someone who catches a suspicious HR over 440 feet should cut it open and compare and report .