4/28 SOX @ Jays 3:07PM ET

[illinoisredsox]

The main job of a manager is to give his team the best chance of winning. Apparently, Cora is above that. And calling him 'inflexible' is being too kind.

 

No, the main job of a manager is to give his team the best chance of winning over the course of 162 games.

 

Personally, I’ll take the opinion of a guy who played 14 years and 1400+ games at the major league level(and was a regular for several years early in his career).

[Tedballgame]

Whitlock not sharp today.

[Tedballgame]

Very slow turn on that.

[Tedballgame]

Should have been a double play.

[Maxbialystock]

Slowest double play combo in the history of MLB. That one was tailor made.

[Maxbialystock]

The best part of today's Sox lineup? Our DH is hitless for the season.

[moonslav59]

The best part of today's Sox lineup? Our DH is hitless for the season.

 

Earlier, I locked him in for a 1 for 4 day. He's busting out in a big way!

 

Book it.

[Tedballgame]

This ump is horrible.

[Tedballgame]

Terrible hitter gets an RBI. Why can't Sox terrible hitters do that?

[d-money]

This pitiful offense once again.

[Tedballgame]

Red Sox claim Jaylin Davis off waivers from SF. Career .159 hitter with Giants. He would be one of the Sox top hitters.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Manoah is a very good pitcher. The SOX only hope is the Jays' BP.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Red Sox claim Jaylin Davis off waivers from SF. Career .159 hitter with Giants. He would be one of the Sox top hitters.

 

Go small or go home.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

This ump is horrible.

 

As compared to most of the rest, who are only terrible.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Everyone on the SOX gets a rest except the BP.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Cora knows exactly what he is doing with today's line-up; he's playing his "key" bench guys to show Bloom how bad it is so there'll be roster changes before it's too late.

 

There is no excuse for Arroyo to wait back on a grounder and try to backhand it, when he could've just moved one more step and fielded it in front of his body (basic fundamentals, at any level). And this may be Shaw's last game. It should surprise no one if he doesn't accompany the club to Baltimore.

[Old Red]

Everyone on the SOX gets a rest except the BP.

 

And they are the ones who need it most.

[redsoxrules]

I think the hitters are trying to see who can get the lowest OPS on the team

[illinoisredsox]

Cora knows exactly what he is doing with today's line-up; he's playing his "key" bench guys to show Bloom how bad it is so there'll be roster changes before it's too late.

 

There is no excuse for Arroyo to wait back on a grounder and try to backhand it, when he could've just moved one more step and fielded it in front of his body (basic fundamentals, at any level). And this may be Shaw's last game. It should surprise no one if he doesn't accompany the club to Baltimore.

 

Shaw will be here until they deem Casas ready. He’s not taking PT away from anybody; he’s not platooning. Today is his 7th game, and most of his games have been when JD has been hurt.

 

He is way down the list of offensive issues right now.

[illinoisredsox]

This Manoah has some serious stuff; he is good.

[jung]

I'm rethinking my massive support of Cora.

 

At this point I think its time to realize that on occasion Cora lets his inner Belichick eat. You just have to know that Cora knows his days off thing for players just drives us right up the wall.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Based on what's going on in the SOX organization at this point, I believe the following is a serious question to ask. Will the SOX be better than the O's next season?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

At this point I think its time to realize that on occasion Cora lets his inner Belichick eat. You just have to know that Cora knows his days off thing for players just drives us right up the wall.

 

Well, both Cora and Belichick are arrogant as hell, but Belichick has earned that arrogance much more than Cora has.

[illinoisredsox]

Based on what's going on in the SOX organization at this point, I believe the following is a serious question to ask. Will the SOX be better than the O's next season?

 

A serious question should not be asked in the Gamethread

[jung]

Eck discussing this year's abortion of a ML baseball.

 

I have been critical of this whole messing with the baseballs thing since 2015. I actually think MSB literally does not know what it is doing. Has changed the baseball so many times over such a short time span that they simply have lost track of where they were, where they are and where they are going.

[Tedballgame]

No luck at all.

[jung]

There is little question now that it was Venable who messed this team up. AC comes back and in one game all is well in the Nation. Hitters hit, pitchers pitch and Bogaerts gets a day off.

 

Well Venables in game stuff is flat awful IMO. I was tempted to post up "please take out Robles" instead of letting him pitch to Kiermaier the other night. Leaving Robles in seemed such an obvious bad decision. But paying attention to my own self imposed rule, which I am breaking today, I was not posting in game threads when I had not been able to commit to watching the entire game.

[Tedballgame]

The last guy I want up with a man on third, two outs and one run down is Bobby D.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The dreaded runner on 2nd with no outs. Pathetic.

[redsoxrules]

This Manoah has some serious stuff; he is good.

 

He is, he's also pitching to a team with half their lienup hitting on a minor league level