Red Sox (Moran) vs Tigers (Valdez): 5/5/26, 6:40pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Who is following Moran? Has it been announced?

	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TOT
Zack Kelly	0	19	0	19	0	38
Tyler Samaniego	0	0	26	13	0	39
Ryan Watson	0	0	39	0	0	39
Jovani Morán	0	0	0	11	0	11
Greg Weissert	0	0	0	22	0	22
Garrett Whitlock	0	16	0	19	26	61
Aroldis Chapman	0	16	0	17	13	46

[mvp 78]

Moran is opening for Bello.

[vegasbob]

Interesting experiment, often alluded to last year.  Glad to see them try it

[mvp 78]

“If we do it, (the Tigers) tend to have some lefties up at the top (of the lineup),” said Tracy. “So they can change it around and get more righties into the lineup, possibly. But it also pushes him down to where when, third time through, maybe it’s in a section of the lineup we can push him through a little bit.

 

“I think he’s open right now to doing whatever to get himself on track,” said Tracy. “I think to doing whatever it takes to help our team win. He’s frustrated, too. But Brayan will be fine. If you watch and really look at the outing last time, there was 2.2 (inning) where it really looked like vintage Bello. It’s 96 mph and it’s sink. There’s a lot of quick outs and he’s looking good. A couple of guys get on and he lost the zone a little bit. So, I think I saw glimpses in that outing where he was very close to turning in a solid outing. But we have to get him over that hump.

“Seeing the velocity back up, the other day, that was encouraging to me. I was watching and there was a lot of 96 mph. If he’s got that sinker, he’s usually in good shape. But I still, again, think, there were glimpses where he takes down pockets of hitters fairly easily. We just have to get him over the hump. A lot of it the other day was maybe getting a little tentative with some people on base. If we can keep him on the attack, he’s still capable.”

[iortiz]

I don't think Bello is going to be starter again. I always was opposed to extend him at the time.

[moonslav59]

Facing a lefty, so I wonder if there will be a change to the line-up.

[mvp 78]

[Old Red]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Facing a lefty, so I wonder if there will be a change to the line-up.

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Same lineup Cora would have done.

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

5 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Same lineup Cora would have done.

Lineups are coming from inside the house (Brez).

[Nick]

It's insane to keep doing the same thing. Maybe changing up the routine will free him. 

[Nick]

I'm staying positive. Really encouraged by our three rookie starting pitchers.

I think you can buy position player with lesser risk than pitchers. Just draft all pitchers every year.

[moonslav59]

Story up 4th is idiocy. I realize none of the 5 through 9 batter look like good choices, but Story (4th) and Durbin (7th) are the worst batters on the team, next to IKF (9th tonight.)

[moonslav59]

40 minutes ago, Nick said:

 Really encouraged by our three rookie starting pitchers.

It is exciting seeing Early, Tolle and Bennett in the rotation.

Gray starts, tomorrow, so I hope Bello gets bumped (pen?) - not a kid.

[moonslav59]

58 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Same lineup Cora would have done.

Looks that way, although Cora was resisting Duran up first for a long while.

[vegasbob]

1 minute ago, moonslav59 said:

Looks that way, although Cora was resisting Duran up first for a long while.

Of all the head cases on this team, Duran is the one who may most benefit from a defined and consistent role such as LF-Leadoff.    I don't think he is real flexible between CF, DH, up/down the batting order.  Moving him around may seem like failure to Jarren .    OTOH, he needs to produce and for more than a week .

I think he imposes way too much mental pressure on him reminding me of Jimmy Piersall way back in the day.

[moonslav59]

10 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Of all the head cases on this team, Duran is the one who may most benefit from a defined and consistent role such as LF-Leadoff.    I don't think he is real flexible between CF, DH, up/down the batting order.  Moving him around may seem like failure to Jarren .    OTOH, he needs to produce and for more than a week .

I think he imposes way too much mental pressure on him reminding me of Jimmy Piersall way back in the day.

I totally agree. He worries me.

[Nick]

Only 3 games out in the wildcard chase. Plenty of time to leap frog multitude of teams.