7/12 Dodgers @ Boston

[Swiharts Ghost]

Aweful

[Swiharts Ghost]

JDM is not an Allstar he's an average joe .

[Station 13]

What is all the s*** swing he have had?

[Swiharts Ghost]

Benny is soooooo awesome

[d-money]

They cannot do anything against this guy. Our pitching has to hold up.

[FredLynn]

JDM is not an Allstar he's an average joe .

 

Martinez's OPS is .918, above his career average of .889. Neither he nor Betts are the reason this team has been mediocre this year, though obviously neither is having the kind of year they had last year.

 

Its the pitching.

[Swiharts Ghost]

They have no freaking life .NONE the only players who give a s*** is Devers and Vaz and Erod .Total lifeless team that's on your leaders and Cora .

[oldtimer]

Sliders to Bogaerts and JDM, changeups to Beni. Maeda is got a plan to work our hitters and they need to adjust.

[Oscars]

His OPS is .859, just .026 below his career average. He can certainly do better, but to say that he has sucked is incorrect.

 

True but he is .219 down on his OPS from last season

[Tedballgame]

that should have been caught.

[FredLynn]

Gotta make that play....just lack of focus.

[d-money]

Here we go again.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Beni's career peaked early.

[Tedballgame]

Its the failure to make a play like that, that can lead to big innings. I hope that doesn't happen.

[FredLynn]

True but he is .219 down on his OPS from last season

 

You can't expect anyone to repeat a career year. Last year everything went right. Its not going to happen again in your lifetime.

[Tedballgame]

A DP here would be nice.

[Swiharts Ghost]

Martinez's OPS is .918, above his career average of .889. Neither he nor Betts are the reason this team has been mediocre this year, though obviously neither is having the kind of year they had last year.

 

Its the pitching.

 

i don't see any fire in those two .Devers and Bogarts are all stars not those guys .

[Tedballgame]

Good job by E-Rod to not let Benny's miscue lead to anything.

[Swiharts Ghost]

Erod has given another damn good start .Time to start a fire under this snore fest .wonder why there are so many Dodger fans ? Boston fans are checking out .

[d-money]

Nice job by Rodriguez. Can’t believe i am saying that. This offense has to do something .

[FredLynn]

i don't see any fire in those two .Devers and Bogarts are all stars not those guys .

 

I agree that they are not all star caliber this year. And I think both are lacking focus. So are a lot of guys on this team. Benintendi. ERod. Others. But the fact of the matter is that both of those guys are having good years. They are not the problem. Its the pitching. Everyone knows it.

[jung]

So here is what I don't get about this generation of rocket ship baseball hitters:

Why even struggle with breaking balls and off speed stuff that starts below your knees? Yes pitch recognition is hard. But the dif between anything breaking or off speed and a FB is simply not rocket science. So you can recognize FB without much trouble...especially these guys who are downright other worldly at it. If its not FB and it starts below your knees, who cares if its the split, or the curve, or the Slider or the Change up. Why even bother to try to distinguish the pitch farther than FB or NOT FB. If its NOT FB and it starts below your knee ITS NOT FINISHING IN THE STRIKE ZONE. Its a ball that will not be a called strike and you are not likely to hit it if you swing at it.

 

This is also why I think the Curve will come on AGAIN. It is already enjoying its second MLB life. It breaks big enough to start well up in the strike zone and finish below the strike zone whereas these s*** sliders the pitchers are throwing are either meatballs in the middle of the plate or bouncing up to home plate outside.

Edited July 13, 2019 by jung

[Swiharts Ghost]

Salty hit 25 out ?? Dang

[Oscars]

You can't expect anyone to repeat a career year. Last year everything went right. Its not going to happen again in your lifetime.

 

My biggest frustration with Mookie’s ABs is that he consistently takes very hittable pitches early in the count, then has to flail at a pitchers pitch when he has 2 strikes on him.

[Swiharts Ghost]

We need brockstar

[TylerD]

This may end 2-1.

[jung]

Maeda just showed us what a Change thrown with conviction looks like. He started Brock with a FB just at the knees in the middle of the plate and dotted it with the Change in exactly the same spot next. THAT is Pitching. We see about two or three examples of it a game these days....but THAT is pitching.

[TylerD]

So here is what I don't get about this generation of rocket ship baseball hitters:

Why even struggle with breaking balls and off speed stuff that starts below your knees? Yes pitch recognition is hard. But the dif between anything breaking or off speed and a FB is simply not rocket science. So you can recognize FB without much trouble...especially these guys who are downright other worldly at it. If its not FB and it starts below your knees, who cares if its the split, or the curve, or the Slider or the Change up. Why even bother to try to distinguish the pitch farther than FB or NOT FB. If its NOT FB and it starts below your knee ITS NOT FINISHING IN THE STRIKE ZONE. Its a ball that will not be a called strike and you are not likely to hit it if you swing at it.

 

This is also why I think the Curve will come on AGAIN. It is already enjoying its second MLB life. It breaks big enough to start well up in the strike zone and finish below the strike zone whereas these s*** sliders the pitchers are throwing are either meatballs in the middle of the plate or bouncing up to home plate outside.

 

Maybe they’re so focused on a rockstar power swing they just swing at everything ?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If you were starting a new team, which one of these 3 players would you choose? Betts, Bellinger, or Devers?

[d-money]

This offense is brutal.