Yankees (Fried) vs Red Sox (Suarez): 4/22/26, 6:45pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Lot of indifference in this game, starting with Sox ownership.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Numbers are in. Durbin killed 203 worms tonight.

[iortiz]

They need to eat more meat. My grandma hit way harder man. Geez! 

[Old Red]

Cora only said we got to do better 3 times in the postgame tonight.👏

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, iortiz said:

IMO all these everyday rotations in the OF, IF and DH are taxing the team. We don’t have an everyday lineup. This platoon obsession by Cora and Breslow is hurting this team. Your titular team has to see lefties and righties. Period. Explain how Mayer is going to grow as a hitter putting IKF, who btw is a bum, when we face lefties. I simply don’t get it. 

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

[iortiz]

If this gets 10 games behind 500 heads must role, and it won’t matter if it’s still April. 

[JoeBrady]

On the bright side, we aren't being subject to long-term torture.  These are pretty quick affairs.  And we aren't suffering the pain of a 5-4 loss in the 9th inning.

[Old Red]

1 minute ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

Last year they had Ref Man, and Romy to platoon. This year it’s IKF, and Mon Man.🤭

[notin]

14 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

Agreed, but the Sox manager thinks it’s criminally negligent to allow left-handed hitters to face left-handed pitchers…

[Randy Red Sox]

12 minutes ago, iortiz said:

If this gets 10 games behind 500 heads must role, and it won’t matter if it’s still April. 

at this point let's just tank for the draft pick.

[notin]

1 hour ago, a700hitter said:

He is nothing more than a late inning defensive replacement.  He is a zero offensively.  It would have been nice to have IKF as Devers' defensive replacement,but we know how that went.

The thing with IKF, you get the glove.  Hes not a viable platoon option if you’re trying to get right-handed hitting.  You hit him 9th and accept the defense as his contribution for the day.
 

But Monasterio?  He has made 5 starts this year, batting 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, all vs LHP.   Does anyone think Cora is even aware he is giving top batting order spots and a DH role vs lefties to a guy WITH A .298 OPS VS LHP?!?

[Randy Red Sox]

14 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

IKF was a terrible addition but hey he came cheap {sorta}

[vjcsmoke]

Embarrassed by the Yankees in back to back games.

This Red Sox Front office should be ASHAMED of itself!

[iortiz]

26 minutes ago, notin said:

The thing with IKF, you get the glove.  Hes not a viable platoon option if you’re trying to get right-handed hitting.  You hit him 9th and accept the defense as his contribution for the day.
 

But Monasterio?  He has made 5 starts this year, batting 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, all vs LHP.   Does anyone think Cora is even aware he is giving top batting order spots and a DH role vs lefties to a guy WITH A .298 OPS VS LHP?!?

He should be playing more than a half of the actual lineup.  

[FredLynn]

42 minutes ago, iortiz said:

If this gets 10 games behind 500 heads must role, and it won’t matter if it’s still April. 

Why wait? It’s inevitable. Heads should have already rolled. 

[FredLynn]

22 minutes ago, vjcsmoke said:

Embarrassed by the Yankees in back to back games.

This Red Sox Front office should be ASHAMED of itself!

Like I said, Henry owes us an apology 

[moonslav59]

Hard to imagine it being any worse than this.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Watching the Dodgers/ Giants game and one of the guys in the Giants' booth mentioned how well Devers has been playing 1st base. The other guy in the Giants' booth responded that we shouldn't be surprised because Devers won a gold glove playing with Boston.

[moonslav59]

6 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Watching the Dodgers/ Giants game and one of the guys in the Giants' booth mentioned how well Devers has been playing 1st base. The other guy in the Giants' booth responded that we shouldn't be surprised because Devers won a gold glove playing with Boston.

 

6 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

 

He did: in his own mind.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

26 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Hard to imagine it being any worse than this.

Keeping Cora as manager and it just may be worse.

[vjcsmoke]

1 hour ago, FredLynn said:

Like I said, Henry owes us an apology 

I've never heard them apologize.

I have heard them LIE to our faces.

[notin]

6 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Watching the Dodgers/ Giants game and one of the guys in the Giants' booth mentioned how well Devers has been playing 1st base. The other guy in the Giants' booth responded that we shouldn't be surprised because Devers won a gold glove playing with Boston.

They meant “he fielded like his glove was made of solid gold”…

[notin]

5 hours ago, vjcsmoke said:

I've never heard them apologize.

I have heard them LIE to our faces.

Tom Werner’s explanation for the full throttle comment was even stupider and somehow less honest…

[TedYazPapiMookie]

11 hours ago, Tedballgame said:

 

If Henry cared about winning, he would fire Breslow and the whole front office tonight. This roster is a joke. The season is over before May 1st. Pathetic.

Red Sox teams under Cora are not successful.  Cora is there because of the ownership.  The root cause of the problems isn't Breslow it's the Ownership and Cora.  Breslow is no Dombrowski but he's also no Bloom.  He's a league average GM working under a weak ownership team and with the worst manager in baseball.  That's a lot of problems to fix for Boston to be great again.  Clearly when Dombrowski worked for these same owners he was successful, so a GM upgrade is needed but Cora has absolutely no managerial skills he simply speaks two languages.  That's not enough to win unless you have a monster roster like in 2018.  Breslow can NOT produce that stellar roster, so a better manager is desperately needed and an upgrade at GM is desperately needed.  We have lost enough years now that ownership should have motivation to hire the right people to win again but that's yet to be seen.

[moonslav59]

8 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Keeping Cora as manager and it just may be worse.

I've been a huge Cora supporter for a long time. I'm not sure firing him is a good idea, but this team looks listless and rudderless.

I always hesitate to blame the manager, when the players underperform, and maybe these guys were just not as good as some of us felt they were/are, but it looks like something needs shaking up, and Cora is not the guy to make major moves that involve sitting vets or moving them off positions they no longer belong.

OPS 2025>2026

.786>.783 Abreu

.708>.712 Rafaela

.696>806 Yoshida

.500>789 Wong

___________________

The killers...

.859>.686 Anthony

.774> .571 Duran

.741> .529 Story

.726>.549 Narvaez

.674>.603 Mayer

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.905 Devers>.000 Mr. Cricketts

.821 Bregman> 829 Contreras

.790 Lowe, .838 Ref & .826 Romy and ,664 KC, .661 Sogard, .659 Toro, .590 DHam, .580 Casas > .451 Durbin, .412 IKF & .544 Monasterio

[mvp 78]

10 hours ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

IKF has also been kinda bad historically against LHP. 

And this year he's been laughably bad: 143 OPS!

[mvp 78]

10 hours ago, notin said:

The thing with IKF, you get the glove.  Hes not a viable platoon option if you’re trying to get right-handed hitting.  You hit him 9th and accept the defense as his contribution for the day.
 

But Monasterio?  He has made 5 starts this year, batting 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, all vs LHP.   Does anyone think Cora is even aware he is giving top batting order spots and a DH role vs lefties to a guy WITH A .298 OPS VS LHP?!?

He sees a RHB and a LHP, he platoons. It's what he does numbers be damned. 

Done with him. 

[mvp 78]

10 hours ago, vjcsmoke said:

Embarrassed by the Yankees in back to back games.

This Red Sox Front office should be ASHAMED of itself!

You think these people know shame?!?!? After all the things they've done since 2019! 

[mvp 78]

9 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Watching the Dodgers/ Giants game and one of the guys in the Giants' booth mentioned how well Devers has been playing 1st base. The other guy in the Giants' booth responded that we shouldn't be surprised because Devers won a gold glove playing with Boston.

The reason his WAR numbers are so good in 2019 is because he had a good defensive season. He led AL 3B's in OAA and FRV. He didn't win a GG and wasn't one of the two runners up either. 

[Duran Is The Man]

10 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

He sees a RHB and a LHP, he platoons. It's what he does numbers be damned. 

Done with him. 

and he's a cheater. he should have never been allowed to come back after 2020.