Red Sox (Crochet) vs Astros (Burrows): 4/1/26, 2:10pm

[Nick]

Moon, Whitlock gave up a hit, walked two, threw 37 pitches. I don't care what the stats say, he is not elite. 

[vegasbob]

Anthony's late HR is  sign that anything is possible.   But a 1-5 start  including a Crochet loss does not warm the heart. 

Story is becoming a real issue as are today's 13 K's.   This team is a 40%++ K machine

[drewski6]

12 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Anthony's late HR is  sign that anything is possible.   But a 1-5 start  including a Crochet loss does not warm the heart. 

Story is becoming a real issue as are today's 13 K's.   This team is a 40%++ K machine

Sorry 5GG, I was wrong and you were right, the K's are killing us.

[drewski6]

I bet we are a different team at home.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

1 minute ago, drewski6 said:

I bet we are a different team at home.

Guaranteed: they'll wear green one day and yellow another.

[moonslav59]

We all have to pitch in and pay Thunder to go to the next six games.

I went today, and I think my losing streak is over 6 games, now.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

During which series will Durbin get his first hit? 

World Series?

 

Of course, I jest.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

54 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Anthony's late HR is  sign that anything is possible.   But a 1-5 start  including a Crochet loss does not warm the heart. 

Story is becoming a real issue as are today's 13 K's.   This team is a 40%++ K machine

This team is 100% terrible.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

41 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

I bet we are a different team at home.

Why?

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

Moon, Whitlock gave up a hit, walked two, threw 37 pitches. I don't care what the stats say, he is not elite. 

Based on this tiny sample size?

Whitlock is a top 5 set up man in MLB.

He's a top 30 RP'er since 2021 (3rd in ERA-, 6th in FIP, 21st in fWAR as a RP)

He's elite as elite can be.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 hour ago, illinoisredsox said:

I’d drill Alvarez again here.

Alvarez is the real OWNER of the Sox.

[Duran Is The Man]

1 hour ago, illinoisredsox said:

So if the Sox pitchers faced the Sox hitters in “real” intersquad game, what happens?

It’s like Schrodinger’s cat, but with baseballs. 

[FredLynn]

1 hour ago, vegasbob said:

Anthony's late HR is  sign that anything is possible.   But a 1-5 start  including a Crochet loss does not warm the heart. 

Story is becoming a real issue as are today's 13 K's.   This team is a 40%++ K machine

Same crap as last year. These bums can’t even make contact….still.

Last place. Maybe I overestimated their chances this year.

[FredLynn]

50 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Why?

Because the uniforms will be of a different color

[a700hitter]

Not fun to watch.  They can’t be this bad.

[notin]

2 hours ago, vegasbob said:

Anthony's late HR is  sign that anything is possible.   But a 1-5 start  including a Crochet loss does not warm the heart. 

Story is becoming a real issue as are today's 13 K's.   This team is a 40%++ K machine

That Story is still batting second despite having fewer hits than Rednex while Abreu - with 60% of the Sox home runs - still isn’t in the top three is making me strongly consider the possibility that Cora is a f***ing moron…

[notin]

55 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

It’s like Schrodinger’s cat, but with baseballs. 

Schrodinger’s Bat?

[Duran Is The Man]

2 hours ago, notin said:

Schrodinger’s Bat?

nice.

[mvp 78]

13 hours ago, a700hitter said:

Not fun to watch.  They can’t be this bad.

They'll be better. We just don't know how much better. The ceiling could be lower than we had initially hoped. 

[mvp 78]

13 hours ago, notin said:

That Story is still batting second despite having fewer hits than Rednex while Abreu - with 60% of the Sox home runs - still isn’t in the top three is making me strongly consider the possibility that Cora is a f***ing moron…

Cora started the season by tying his shoes together. Not sure why he trusted Story to be the starting SS batting 2nd. Yuck. 

[notin]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Cora started the season by tying his shoes together. Not sure why he trusted Story to be the starting SS batting 2nd. Yuck. 

I get why he kept Story at SS; Cora isn’t very confrontational and the last time he had a player change positions, it didn’t work out so well.  But batting him second and batting Abreu 5-6 is all on him..,

[mvp 78]

11 minutes ago, notin said:

I get why he kept Story at SS; Cora isn’t very confrontational and the last time he had a player change positions, it didn’t work out so well.  But batting him second and batting Abreu 5-6 is all on him..,

Cora putting players where the can succeed is 100% on Cora, a failing manager. 👎

[mvp 78]

[notin]

It seems like Cora is drifting from his analytics background.  Not that they would be 5-1 if he used it more, but his batting order using them properly would be:

Anthony LF

Duran DH

Contreras 1b

Abreu RF

Story SS

Mayer 3b

Durbin 2b

Narvaez C

Rafaela CF

 
As pointed out earlier, putting Anthony/Duran 1-2 invites opposing managers to counter with a LHRP.  What needs to be acknowledged is this can be good thing.  Forcing managers to use relievers is effectively managing both teams at once.  This is playing chess, not checkers…

[king koji]

This is all due to the soul-crushing loss, due to modern Baseball stupidity, Sunday in Cincinnati. Early pitch count ********, Weissert walk, home run. Win=Loss.

[notin]

16 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Alvarez is the real OWNER of the Sox.

So he’s the cheapskate?

[notin]

6 minutes ago, king koji said:

This is all due to the soul-crushing loss, due to modern Baseball stupidity, Sunday in Cincinnati. Early pitch count ********, Weissert walk, home run. Win=Loss.

96 pitches in a March game was already crazy.  I’ll gladly take a singular loss over pushing Early until his tendon snaps and he’s  out for 18 months…

[king koji]

31 minutes ago, notin said:

96 pitches in a March game was already crazy.  I’ll gladly take a singular loss over pushing Early until his tendon snaps and he’s  out for 18 months…

So use an opener and let stud starter pitch 3 thru 9 then. 

This is why baseball sucks s*** now, LOL

The equivalent of Patrick Mahomes being taken out of a close game after 3 Quarters. Baseball is broken folks, and it probably ain't coming back..

[mvp 78]

16 minutes ago, king koji said:

So use an opener and let stud starter pitch 3 thru 9 then. 

This is why baseball sucks s*** now, LOL

The equivalent of Patrick Mahomes being taken out of a close game after 3 Quarters. Baseball is broken folks, and it probably ain't coming back..

How is that going to fix the amount of pitches that Early threw? He only went 5.1 in his first start. If he came in for the 3rd, he wouldn't have finished the game without going over 100 pitches (he's never thrown that many in a single game professionally). It was wrong for them to have him throw that much in his first start of the season. They need to manage his innings and having him coming in after an opener doesn't fix that. Openers are typically LHP anyway. 

[king koji]

20 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

How is that going to fix the amount of pitches that Early threw? He only went 5.1 in his first start. If he came in for the 3rd, he wouldn't have finished the game without going over 100 pitches (he's never thrown that many in a single game professionally). It was wrong for them to have him throw that much in his first start of the season. They need to manage his innings and having him coming in after an opener doesn't fix that. Openers are typically LHP anyway. 

He can at least get close enough that you go straight to Chapman, if not Whitlock. I'm 60 years old, I'm used to starters going close to the full nine or at least trying to. This s*** really sucks. Anyone who says it's better doesn't know what the hell they are talking about.