June 5: BOS (ERod) @ NYY (Taillon)

[moonslav59]

You're not totally immune to the negativity on game threads either, moon.

 

No, I'm not, and being critical is not a bad thing. Bashing & hating is another thing.

 

BTW, was there a reason JD got another day off?

[moonslav59]

Poop

 

He's pitched twice for the Sox, this year, and already we know he never can and never could pitch a clean inning.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

No, I'm not, and being critical is not a bad thing. Bashing & hating is another thing.

 

BTW, was there a reason JD got another day off?

 

Sore wrist.

[Thunder]

Sore wrist.

 

He was in the original starting lineup

[Bellhorn04]

No, I'm not, and being critical is not a bad thing. Bashing & hating is another thing.

 

BTW, was there a reason JD got another day off?

 

Yes. It takes 5 seconds to look it up. Type in JD Martinez, News, and bingo.

 

There was a reason the last time, too.

[Bellhorn04]

Also, moon, I don't mean to pick on you. Usually you're one of the fairest and most reasonable. It just disappointed me to see you post something like that.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Dalbec's 453 foot HR last night was the 2nd longest for a SOX batter this season. Cordero's 474 foot blast back in May is the longest. Also, the exit velocity of Cordero's bomb was 118 MPH, the highest in MLB, so far.

[Thunder]

Yes. It takes 5 seconds to look it up. Type in JD Martinez, News, and bingo.

 

There was a reason the last time, too.

 

My generation calls that GTS. Google (or Googling) that s***

[moonslav59]

Also, moon, I don't mean to pick on you. Usually you're one of the fairest and most reasonable. It just disappointed me to see you post something like that.

 

Fair point. BTW, I just asked a question. True the tone was harsh, but I didn't know why he was on the bench after having several days off the last 2 weeks.

 

I may not notice how some of my critical posts come off, but I do think I try not to make it so biting or personal.

 

Everyone knows I am a huge Cora and Bloom fan, so when I ask about JD's 2 days off a week plan, I think some context is needed.

 

I have also been known to start a statement with, "I've never been a big fans of ____," so being overly critical of posters seemingly hating on one of our players can be seen as hypocritical.

 

I get how, in the heat of the moment, some fans like to severely berate a Sox player for coming up short of making a key blunder, but the level and frequency it happens on game threads often becomes too much for me to handle. Maybe, I'm being hyper sensitive of have a warped sense of what a true fan should act like. I get mad, too- sometimes boiling mad when, for example, we load the bases with no outs and come up empty, but the level of vitriol has been overwhelming, of late.

 

Even after we pull out win after win, and we hear some mea culpas and kind words after the game, the next game it's right back to square one. It does get slightly better after 3 wins in a row, but it doesn't take much to go extreme bashing again.

 

This team is wildly exceeding expectations, but you'd never know it reading a lot of the posts in the game threads. Cora and Bloom are both bumbling idiots, yet we are 35-23 instead of 28-30. Just about every player has been singled out to be benched, demoted, traded or outright cut loose. For some posters, we'd have nobody left on our roster. How can a real Sox fan want nearly every player gone?

[moonslav59]

My generation calls that GTS. Google (or Googling) that s***

 

Not living near Boston leaves me out of the loop, and I'm very slow to the Google everything mentality. My wife often laughs at how often I forget so much information is just a few key strokes away.

[Bellhorn04]

Dalbec's 453 foot HR last night was the 2nd longest for a SOX batter this season. Cordero's 474 foot blast back in May is the longest. Also, the exit velocity of Cordero's bomb was 118 MPH, the highest in MLB, so far.

 

Dalbec is one of those guys that as soon as he hits it, you know it's gone, just a question of how far back it goes.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Dalbec is one of those guys that as soon as he hits it, you know it's gone, just a question of how far back it goes.

 

Reminds me of the old joke that the only park that could keep his well-hit ball in play would be Yellowstone.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I love how last night with 2 strikes Ki'ke committed himself fully to a high fastball. Great piece of timely hitting.

[moonslav59]

Dalbec is one of those guys that as soon as he hits it, you know it's gone, just a question of how far back it goes.

 

I've been high on Dalbec for a long time, maybe too high.

 

I've never been overly bothered by high K rates, as long as the hits and walks come often enough.

 

Dalbec's high OBP at nearly every level is what got me excited. His power was never in doubt.

 

He's not really a "kid" anymore. He's older than Devers, but he only has 253 career MLB PAs, and those are spread over 2 seasons.

 

14 career HRs projects to over 35 in 650 PAs. That's a great start to anyone's career. What is lacking is the BBs and a handful more singles.

 

His career minor league numbers were .263 BA and .362 OBP.

 

If you project those numbers over his 252 PA sample size in the bigs, he's...

 

8 BBs short

 

15 hits short

 

That's a very significant drop off, but the sample size is still rather small, and many good to great MLB players struggled out of the gate. That's not to say Dalbec will ever get near .260/.360, but if he can get to.240/.330 and hit 35+ HRs a year, he'll be a keeper.

 

Big "ifs," I know. For a team in the thick of a playoff race, how long can you stick with a struggling player?

 

That and who do we have to replace him?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Btw, last night's come from behind victory was the SOX 20th of the season, which leads all of MLB.

IOW, more than half their wins.

IOW, based on the above, the SOX have a better chance of winning when they're behind some point in the game.

Edited June 6, 2021 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[moonslav59]

Btw, last night's come from behind victory was the SOX 20th of the season, which leads all of MLB.

IOW, more than half their wins.

IOW, based on the above, the SOX have a better chance of winning when they're behind some point in the game.

 

Wow, 20 of our 58 games player have been come from behind wins.

 

20 of our 35 wins!

 

Yet, so many fans give up on the team in the game threads.