Yankees (Warren) vs Red Sox (Crochet): 9/14/25, 7:10pm

[FredLynn]

At least he made contact. He still sucks. 
OPS now under .690. 
JBJ reincarnated 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Before you ask, Illinois, Chase is Rafaela.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

At least he made contact. He still sucks. 

If a player blows, can he still suck?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

C'mon, Story. Don't need drama.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Extend Romy.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Spoiler Alert:

The Sox win tonight's game 6-4. 

That's All Folks!

Called it Fred.

[FredLynn]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

If a player blows, can he still suck?

In theory, yes. One would have to be a hermaphrodite

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Big WIN!

[moonslav59]

Wow, 16 Ks.

Big win.

Guts,

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I believe the Sox are one Roy Hobbs away from winning the whole thing .

[moonslav59]

15 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

At least he made contact. He still sucks. 
OPS now under .690. 
JBJ reincarnated 

You stopped bashing Narvaez.

I wonder why?

[Sox 42]

Well we have improved from last year by being at least 2 games over 500.  If we are to get in the playoffs it will be our pitching that gets us there.  Let's see how the youngsters do in the next 2 games.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, Sox 42 said:

Well we have improved from last year by being at least 2 games over 500.  If we are to get in the playoffs it will be our pitching that gets us there.  Let's see how the youngsters do in the next 2 games.

The A's like the Yankems can make Fenway small.

[FredLynn]

4 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

You stopped bashing Narvaez.

I wonder why?

Because bashing Rafaela takes up all my bashing points. 
Resdy to see him BENCHED now that his OPS is at or below .690?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I wouldn't mind moving Duran to CF and inserting Eaton in LF. Chase is completely lost at the plate.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Romy right now is my pick for 10th player award.

[FredLynn]

11 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Romy right now is my pick for 10th player award.

10th player? He’s definitely in our top 5.

[moonslav59]

36 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Because bashing Rafaela takes up all my bashing points. 
Resdy to see him BENCHED now that his OPS is at or below .690?

Not even close. Maybe when Abreu returns, give him a bretaher.

[moonslav59]

38 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Because bashing Rafaela takes up all my bashing points. 
 

You choose to do that.

You could spend some time talking about Narvaez, too.

If you choose to.

[moonslav59]

On Rafaela, nobody will claim his plate discipline has been fixed. He still has a long way to go, and we know they've been trying to help him improve in this area for many years.

2023-2024 to 2025

K%: 27.1%>20.0%

BB%: 2.9%> 4.7%

HR%: 2.6%> 3.0%

OPS: .664>.695

We need to see continued improvement in these areas. It would help if he'd not decline sharply near the ends of most seasons.

I think we all like consistency over streakiness, but I'll take a rerun of JBJ's first 8 seasons in MLB.

Near GG defense.

.732 OPS, but .769 after his first 2 seasons (101 OPS+)

I'm not sure why JBJ has gotten such a bad name. He started slowly and dropped off badly after age 31, but so what?

[FredLynn]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

You choose to do that.

You could spend some time talking about Narvaez, too.

If you choose to.

I only bash those who deserve it. Narvaez is performing reasonably well. Rafaela stinks-and I don’t care how great a defensive player he is. JBJ was a great defender too. Neither could hit the baseball after a while. 

[FredLynn]

31 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

On Rafaela, nobody will claim his plate discipline has been fixed. He still has a long way to go, and we know they've been trying to help him improve in this area for many years.

2023-2024 to 2025

K%: 27.1%>20.0%

BB%: 2.9%> 4.7%

HR%: 2.6%> 3.0%

OPS: .664>.695

We need to see continued improvement in these areas. It would help if he'd not decline sharply near the ends of most seasons.

I think we all like consistency over streakiness, but I'll take a rerun of JBJ's first 8 seasons in MLB.

Near GG defense.

.732 OPS, but .769 after his first 2 seasons (101 OPS+)

I'm not sure why JBJ has gotten such a bad name. He started slowly and dropped off badly after age 31, but so what?

JBJ was fine for a long time. But like Rafaela he ended up stinking.

[Oscars]

Much needed win, but the Sox have to get rolling, with the teams chasing us in the WC playing great baseball 

[mvp 78]

11 hours ago, FredLynn said:

Gonna blow this

Good call with this one. 👍

[Bellhorn04]

18 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Good call with this one. 👍

And only the thousandth time he's done it.

[moonslav59]

9 hours ago, FredLynn said:

I only bash those who deserve it. Narvaez is performing reasonably well. Rafaela stinks-and I don’t care how great a defensive player he is. JBJ was a great defender too. Neither could hit the baseball after a while. 

After 8 years. Like JBJ, that's what Ceddanne is signed for.

I guess every site needs a Mr. Negative.

[moonslav59]

9 hours ago, FredLynn said:

JBJ was fine for a long time. But like Rafaela he ended up stinking.

If Ceddanne stinks in 8 years, fine.

[moonslav59]

7 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

And only the thousandth time he's done it.

When you go three years in a row getting it mostly right, it's hard to break out of the paradigm.

 

[mvp 78]

10 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

And only the thousandth time he's done it.

I've heard that the choke job is on! 

Sox were 4 up on the Rays in '11 at this point. They had to go 3-9 to miss the playoffs. 

If the Sox go 6-6, the Rangers would have to go 9-3 to catch them. 

HOU's next 6 games is TEX/SEA, which could help the Sox if those teams just beat up on each other. 

[mvp 78]

17 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

If Ceddanne stinks in 8 years, fine.

The 690 OPS isn't great, but it's playable if he's in CF because of the defense. People on here definitely got too excited talking about Mookie Betts when Rafaela's OPS was in the 790's for a week or two. That wasn't meant to last. We saw molten hot stretches from JBJ too.