7/13 kc @ sox 4:10pm et

[Maxbialystock]

He’s got a nice swing.

 

If he could just learn to hit lefties, he’d be our FT RFer for a long time.

 

Meanwhile, however, these are the Sox OPS's vs righties

 

Devers 1.101

Duran .890

Abreu .857

Hamilton .807

Ref .801

Yoshida .779

Wong .774

O'Neill .761

Rafaela .670

Smith .642

McGuire (yes, lefty bat McGuire) .603

[Maxbialystock]

When SPLENDIDSPLINTER shows up to start today's (Sunday's) game thread, tell him this is the lineup--

 

Duran CF

Hamilton 2b

Yoshida DH

Devers 3b

O'Neill LF

Abreu RF

Smith 1b

McGuire C

Rafaela SS

 

7 lefty bats plus Rafaela and O'Neill.

[Old Red]

They have been amazing, but those who think wins and losses are the be all end all, they must think Bello is better.

 

Bello 9-5 (10-6 in his starts)

 

Houck 8-6 (team is 13-6 in his starts)

 

Crawford 5-7 (team is just 6-12 in his starts!)

 

Teams win and lose. Pitchers make a big difference, but their record is on the team

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As usual stretching out the truth as far as it can go. I don’t know of ANYONE who has said they think wins, and loses are the be all end all, it you keep spewing the same garbage that they do to fit your gotcha narrative. Now I have said I look at the W-L of a pitcher first, but then got through all the different categories. This is why ii keep saying pay NO attention to the man behind the curtain. It’s a phony.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Absolutely no one.

 

Don't forget when Giolito was lost for the season, some of us didn't go all doom and gloom.

 

1. He sucked the past two years, and the Red Sox not only bet they could fix him, but gave him an opt-out if he regained past glory (why was that a good idea, again, for a franchise bereft in pitching?)...

 

2. Some of us saw the Gio injury -- along with the Sale trade -- as an opportunity for the younger or more inexperienced arms on the roster to establish themselves as legitimate starting pitchers worthy of a regular turn in the rotation.

 

3... and yet, all of us saw the need for a veteran top-of-the-rotation presence to teach the back-to-back doormats how to win again asap -- even, as a scant few of us claimed, the future stud position players weren't quite ready to become big league All-Stars all at the same time!