Red Sox (Crochet) vs Royals (Ragans): 5/10/25, 7:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Alex Bregman has a .967 OPS against Cole Ragans. Do with that what you will.

[Nick]

Only reliever not to appear last night was Hendriks.

No doubt that reinforcement is arriving today.

WRONG.

[Nick]

Royals and the Tigers have given up the fewest runs in AL. Ugh.

[Jasonbay44]

Maybe they can actually get Crotchet a win today! 

[Nick]

"Sogard has hit just .188 with six doubles, 10 RBIs and a .562 OSP in 28 games for the WooSox this year but provides versatility (he has played all four infield positions and right field) and a switch-hitting bat."

Brez/Cora is okay with this call up (albeit injury to Gonzalez), but just can't find a way to promote Anthony/Mayer. And Cora says Refsnyder is also banged up. Unreal.

Brez/Cora are digging their own hole. 

[d-money]

40 games in and this team is 20-20. So disappointing. Meanwhile Yankees keep winning despite looking their best pitcher for the year 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

25 minutes ago, d-money said:

40 games in and this team is 20-20. So disappointing. Meanwhile Yankees keep winning despite looking their best pitcher for the year 

The main thing I find disappointing is that Cora is still the manager.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

"Sogard has hit just .188 with six doubles, 10 RBIs and a .562 OSP in 28 games for the WooSox this year but provides versatility (he has played all four infield positions and right field) and a switch-hitting bat."

Anthony and Mayer provide versatility in the outfield and infield, and also provide versatility in the batter's box: single, double, triple, home run, run scored, run batted in, fricking base on balls, nervous pitchers straining to contain them and making mistakes to the rest of the batting order, four times through the line-up... every night.... all night long...

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Interesting to see where Crochet's fastball tops today.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If you're a fan of K's, this may be the game for you.

[jad]

Yeah, Devers sucks as DH.  Time to teach him a lesson.  Keep him on the bench.

[Nick]

Duran 6  for his last 36 (Sox really need for him to get on base)

Story 7 for his last 63, all singles

Wong 6 for 38 this year, all singles

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Bobby Witt, Jr, who is a big fan of Pedroia, is the best all around everyday player in MLB 

[Nick]

Campbell should have used basket catch there, awkward. 

[Nick]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Bobby Witt, Jr, who is a big fan of Pedroia, is the best all around everyday player in MLB 

Watching him play , then watching Story hit.....ugly.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

6 minutes ago, Nick said:

Watching him play , then watching Story hit.....ugly.

Story hits better when he's 5280 feet above sea level.

[illinoisredsox]

Lefties are making better contact against Ragans than the righties tonight.

Have to admit, this kid’s got stuff; need to somehow get his pitch count up and hope for the best against a good KC pen.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Lefties are making better contact against Ragans than the righties tonight.

Have to admit, this kid’s got stuff; need to somehow get his pitch count up and hope for the best against a good KC pen.

 

Crochet is 2 years younger than Ragans.

Ragans got good stuff, but at 27 he's really not a kid .

[illinoisredsox]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Story hits better when he's 10,000 feet above sea level.

Doubt he’d be doing that now; he had 2 huge years in Colorado, the last in 2019, but otherwise wasn’t anything that special with the Rockies.  He always struck out a ton.

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Crochet is 2 years younger than Ragans.

At my age, they’re all kids.  My dream ended when Julio Franco retired.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Doubt he’d be doing that now; he had 2 huge years in Colorado, the last in 2019, but otherwise wasn’t anything that special with the Rockies.  He always struck out a ton.

I corrected that it should be 5280 feet.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, illinoisredsox said:

At my age, they’re all kids.  My dream ended when Julio Franco retired.

At my age they're babies.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

At my age, they’re all kids.  My dream ended when Julio Franco retired.

...

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

So far this season the Sox offense has been bipolar.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Funny how a pitcher can appear unhittable and then become very hittable.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Story appears to have an 0-2 count before he steps in the box.

[Nick]

23 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Story hits better when he's 5280 feet above sea level.

3 up, 3 strike outs.....how can you be a leader when you suck?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Story appears to have an 0-2 count before he steps in the box.

I'm guessing that Mayer could bat RH and do better than Story at the plate 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, Nick said:

3 up, 3 strike outs.....how can you be a leader when you suck?

The one season where Story is healthy when the Sox have a very capable replacement.

[Jasonbay44]

If Story is not going to hit, he could at least field…