Red Sox (Early) vs Royals (Wacha): 5/20/26, 7:40pm

[Larry Cook]

8 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Should not be a HR. Should be a 1B and an E. Official scorers are horrible now. 

I agree 100 percent that the official scorers are horrible. I think they are all retired Yankee scouts! 

[a700hitter]

19 hours ago, Tedballgame said:

Kyle Harrison tonight: 7 innings, 2 hits, no runs, 11 K's. 1.77 ERA. What a terrible trade sending him to Milwaukee for non-hitting 3B Caleb Durbin. 

Great move by Breslow.  

[a700hitter]

What is the time table for Story?

[JoeBrady]

4 hours ago, drewski6 said:

y r u especially passive aggressive today?  did you not sleep well?

No RS game today.  Gotta play around.

[JoeBrady]

3 hours ago, drewski6 said:

"Im going to create a giant range (Duran 2024 season to Duran 2026 chopping off before his 2 game hot streak)

3+ years is a giant range?  I was going to suggest it was a bit smallish to draw a conclusion.  But I'd love to hear your analysis.  Do you disagree that Duran should be the lead-off hitter?  And why?

[vegasbob]

54 minutes ago, a700hitter said:

What is the time table for Story?

The rest of 2026 and 2027

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, vegasbob said:

The rest of 2026 and 2027

Kinda wish he changed genres to short story.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

11 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Kinda wish he changed genres to short story.

Historical friction

[mvp 78]

12 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Historical friction

Speculative eviction? 

[drewski6]

15 hours ago, JoeBrady said:

3+ years is a giant range?  I was going to suggest it was a bit smallish to draw a conclusion.  But I'd love to hear your analysis.  Do you disagree that Duran should be the lead-off hitter?  And why?

"Let's start with something more basic like, he is unlikely to be as good as 2024, but unlikely to be as bad as 2026 start was."

Did not mean range as in time.  Im saying that saying Duran production going forward is likely to be between his MVP consideration 2024 season and his DFA consideration start to 2026.....Thats a lot of middle ground and 95% of MLB are somwhere between 2024 Duran (MVP caliber) and 2026 awful start (below replacement level).

[drewski6]

16 hours ago, JoeBrady said:

No RS game today.  Gotta play around.

Usually go a few hours between crapping on RS fans and yesterday I noticed that this was shrunk to minutes, so just wanted to make sure ur okay.

[drewski6]

16 hours ago, a700hitter said:

What is the time table for Story?

almost feels irrelevant.  Not to crap on u for asking or anything like that......I guess he was starting to turn it around and is probably a good bet to be better than an inhouse solution (not talking about infield alignment, because i dont care about it)....But I guess yeah, Story prob a better bet to be better than like whomever would get bumped when he returns (whether thats a cooled off Gasper or Monty Starro)....not trying to imply that hes better ss defensively than mayer.

[drewski6]

19 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Connelly Early HR/9 2025: 1.5

Kutter Crawford HR/9 Career: 1.5

Is there an implication here that he channeled the spirit like Nightwolf helped Liu Kang do in MK II annihilation.  

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Historical friction

Fantasy

[mvp 78]

15 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Is there an implication here that he channeled the spirit like Nightwolf helped Liu Kang do in MK II annihilation.  

The implication is that he needs to stop giving up the longball. A soft tossing lefty who gets barreled doesn't have a very high ceiling. 

 

[drewski6]

5 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

The implication is that he needs to stop giving up the longball. A soft tossing lefty who gets barreled doesn't have a very high ceiling. 

 

Certainly doesnt have much room for error, 

[drewski6]

I like singing that early 90s pop-soul song by the lady who is not Chaka Kahn but kind of has a similar vibe.

"Finally, it has happened to me"

but changing it to:

"Connelly, it has happened to me."  

[notin]

10 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

I like singing that early 90s pop-soul song by the lady who is not Chaka Kahn but kind of has a similar vibe.

"Finally, it has happened to me"

but changing it to:

"Connelly, it has happened to me."  

CeCe Peniston.  
 

Successfully repressed until now…
 

 

[drewski6]

6 minutes ago, notin said:

CeCe Peniston.  
 

Successfully repressed until now…
 

 

Not a bad song! Maybe a little "paint-by-numbers"/formulaic with the 90s soul vocals in front of the jazzy/funky beat.

[JoeBrady]

2 hours ago, drewski6 said:

Did not mean range as in time.  Im saying that saying Duran production going forward is likely to be between his MVP consideration 2024 season and his DFA consideration start to 2026...

That's makes more sense. but I am trying to get more focus.  Maybe a little bit more science or math to the situation.  I think most people will accept that Duran to duplicate 2024.  So then there is no reason to expect him to duplicate his DFA-equivalent 2026 start.  Is it not reasonable then, to default to using either his 2025 stats, or his career stats to develop a range of expectations for what his numbers will look like if he continues to lead off for us?

[JoeBrady]

4 hours ago, drewski6 said:

Usually go a few hours between crapping on RS fans and yesterday I noticed that this was shrunk to minutes, so just wanted to make sure ur okay.

I thought it best to get it out of the way earlier in the day.  And there was an abundance of low-hanging fruit on which I could focus.

[JoeBrady]

4 hours ago, drewski6 said:

almost feels irrelevant.  Not to crap on u for asking or anything like that......I guess he was starting to turn it around and is probably a good bet to be better than an inhouse solution (not talking about infield alignment, because i dont care about it)....But I guess yeah, Story prob a better bet to be better than like whomever would get bumped when he returns (whether thats a cooled off Gasper or Monty Starro)....not trying to imply that hes better ss defensively than mayer.

The relevancy might be that his injury gives us a window to bring in new talent, and/or replace him.  Or perhaps start the transition of Mayer to SS, since it easier to find offense at 2B than SS.

[drewski6]

1 hour ago, JoeBrady said:

That's makes more sense. but I am trying to get more focus.  Maybe a little bit more science or math to the situation.  I think most people will accept that Duran to duplicate 2024.  So then there is no reason to expect him to duplicate his DFA-equivalent 2026 start.  Is it not reasonable then, to default to using either his 2025 stats, or his career stats to develop a range of expectations for what his numbers will look like if he continues to lead off for us?

I think Durans 2025 season was underrated.  I think projecting 2025 WAR/game from here through the rest of 2026, and 2027 is fair.  I think thats ample trade value too.  But I dont think we should be looking to move him right now.

[drewski6]

Just now, drewski6 said:

I think Durans 2025 season was underrated.  I think projecting 2025 WAR/game from here through the rest of 2026, and 2027 is fair.  I think thats ample trade value too.  But I dont think we should be looking to move him right now.

I was only trying to make a joke that saying that Duran is going to win up somewhere between his 2024 and his 2026 start (so we chop off lest say the last week).....Thats kind of like saying I think Duran will be somewhere between unplayable and mvp caliber...And I was trying to giggle at that