Red Sox (Early) vs Twins (Woods Richardson): 4/15/26, 1:40pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

13 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Early may actually get to finish the 6th inning finally. 

It's a plus for the BP that he wasn't taken out too early.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

35 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Except winning.

You of little faith.

[mvp 78]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

It's a plus for the BP that he wasn't taken out too early.

That's why they've lost all of his starts, he's killed the bullpen. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

6 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Will have to remember that play for next year! 

Alex will remind us.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

4 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

That's why they've lost all of his starts, he's killed the bullpen. 

Well today he had an exceptionally good start. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Looks like the Sox will be 7-Eleven when this one's ovah 

[mvp 78]

18 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Well today he had an exceptionally good start. 

It's the longest he's ever gone in a game. His previous "best" start was probably his first: 5 IP, 5 H, 1 B, 11 K, 0 ER. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

22 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

It's the longest he's ever gone in a game. His previous "best" start was probably his first: 5 IP, 5 H, 1 B, 11 K, 0 ER. 

Baby steps. I believe his future with the Sox looks good.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

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[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If a team is destined to only winning one game in a three game series, I guess winning the last game is the preferable one.

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

You of little faith.

That 9th inning was a breeze!

[moonslav59]

How bad do you need to be doing, this early in the season, to homer, double and walk, but just get your OPS up to .565?

(Answer: .471 after 17 games by Story.)

[JoeBrady]

41 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

How bad do you need to be doing, this early in the season, to homer, double and walk, but just get your OPS up to .565?

(Answer: .471 after 17 games by Story.)

I've seen guys from .450 to .750 in two games, frequently, this early in the season.  Muncy went from .623 to .946 in one game.  Soler was at .613 after 48 PAs, to .849 only 31 PAs later.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

That 9th inning was a breeze!

Elementary my dear Watson.

[notin]

16 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Elementary my dear Watson.

Thats the issue with the Sox bullpen - too many arms best suited for mop up duty…

[notin]

28 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I've seen guys from .450 to .750 in two games, frequently, this early in the season.  Muncy went from .623 to .946 in one game.  Soler was at .613 after 48 PAs, to .849 only 31 PAs later.

I saw Pablo Sandoval go from 295 to 340 on one road trip…

[moonslav59]

35 minutes ago, notin said:

I saw Pablo Sandoval go from 295 to 340 on one road trip…

LOL.

[Deja Doh]

Nice game again by Early, he gave up his first homer in his short career (33 innings).  

[moonslav59]

13 minutes ago, Deja Doh said:

Nice game again by Early, he gave up his first homer in his short career (33 innings).  

He's had a knack for run prevention.

[FredLynn]

Finally a convincing win. Hopefully it’s not a one and done. Couldn’t join the game thread today because I was flying to Palm Springs where I’ll be for a few days. 
I know some of you missed me; others not so much 😉

[Deja Doh]

He looks like a young Clayton Kershaw.

39 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

He's had a knack for run prevention.

 

[illinoisredsox]

1 hour ago, Deja Doh said:

Nice game again by Early, he gave up his first homer in his short career (33 innings).  

Let's hope he's around long enough to give up 400 homers in his career.  That would put him in some pretty good company, including guys like Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton and Warren Spahn.  Not holding my breath, but ...

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

10 hours ago, notin said:

I saw Pablo Sandoval go from 295 to 340 on one road trip…

How many Playa Bowls were consumed for that gain?

[mvp 78]

15 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Baby steps. I believe his future with the Sox looks good.

Oh sure. I've been a fan for a few years now. People just need to be reasonable with their expectations. 

[mvp 78]

9 hours ago, Deja Doh said:

He looks like a young Clayton Kershaw.

 

As someone who saw young Kershaw at Dodgers stadium a few times, no. 

[notin]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

As someone who saw young Kershaw at Dodgers stadium a few times, no. 

Especially when you consider by the time Kershaw was Connelly’s age, he was 61-37, with a 2.79 ERA across 944 IP, along with a Cy Young award and 25.0 bWAR on his resume…

[notin]

2 hours ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

How many Playa Bowls were consumed for that gain?

0.   Those are health food.  Might as well ask about his granola consumption……

[mvp 78]

7 minutes ago, notin said:

Especially when you consider by the time Kershaw was Connelly’s age, he was 61-37, with a 2.79 ERA across 944 IP, along with a Cy Young award and 25.0 bWAR on his resume…

Kershaw had one of the greatest pitches of all time in his repertoire. Early just has a lot decent pitches. They are both tall, white lefties. Hard to really compare the two otherwise. Eary's stuff moves in and out. Kershaw's was really up and down. 

[drewski6]

21 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

The Sox are 22nd in runs, but just 4-5 runs from the mean.

16th in OBP at .316

23rd in OPSat .662 (#15 is .698)

26th in SLG at .346

29th in ISO at .113 (We knew we had a power shortage) Last place is .112

11th in K% 24% (actually 19th place)

Our pitching is at a 0.0 fWAR (27th)

I think this closes the book on the great OBP vs SLG debate.  Our OBP perspective, we are like 16....From a slg perspective we are 26th.....From an overall runs scoring perspective.....hey look, smack dab in the middle.

Maybe there is something to this OPS thing.

[moonslav59]

2 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Maybe there is something to this OPS thing.

It is one stat that seems to jive closely to runs scored- better than BA, SLG, HRs, ISO...