D-backs (Kelly) vs Red Sox (Suarez): 08/18/26, 7:10 PM

[moonslav59]

14 minutes ago, Maxbialystock said:

Perhaps the acid test will come with Anthony's return.  He could DH, leaving Duran in LF, or he could play LF, which is a good fit for him.  i'm pretty sure neither last season's injury nor this year's were caused by playing LF.  

Anthony's defense did not look all that good, and they may want to limit his exposure to injury by DH'ing him. With Yoshida on the IL, I think Anthony will mainly DH, but maybe polay LF vs LHPs. (Duran sits.)

[drewski6]

11 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Anthony's defense did not look all that good, and they may want to limit his exposure to injury by DH'ing him. With Yoshida on the IL, I think Anthony will mainly DH, but maybe polay LF vs LHPs. (Duran sits.)

I would start him at DH (Anthony) and go from there.

[notin]

21 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Anthony's defense did not look all that good, and they may want to limit his exposure to injury by DH'ing him. With Yoshida on the IL, I think Anthony will mainly DH, but maybe polay LF vs LHPs. (Duran sits.)

They could put Anthony in LF, but that frees up DH for who? Gasper? Seigler?  Both are capable of good games but is either a solution for the rest of the year or potential games in the postseason?

[mvp 78]

30 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Anthony's defense did not look all that good, and they may want to limit his exposure to injury by DH'ing him. With Yoshida on the IL, I think Anthony will mainly DH, but maybe polay LF vs LHPs. (Duran sits.)

His metrics were good. IDK. 

[mvp 78]

8 minutes ago, notin said:

They could put Anthony in LF, but that frees up DH for who? Gasper? Seigler?  Both are capable of good games but is either a solution for the rest of the year or potential games in the postseason?

Jones vs LHP. Duran vs RHP???

[notin]

4 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Jones vs LHP. Duran vs RHP???

Possible.  I think Jones has carved out a role for himself swinging vs LHP. 
 

That could be a LF platoon with Anthony at DH full time as well…

[moonslav59]

2 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

His metrics were good. IDK. 

He looked shaky to me, but SSS.

OAA had him at -1, but DRS +4, this year alone.

[mvp 78]

4 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

He looked shaky to me, but SSS.

OAA had him at -1, but DRS +4, this year alone.

Sounds like a good question for the next podcast. 

[moonslav59]

16 hours ago, Maxbialystock said:

Great stuff--a lot of specifics leading to your conclusion which makes me ask yet again, if Duran is as awful as you and almost everyone else says he is, why didn't Tracy or Cora use that amazing bench to keep Duran from dragging this team down (as he clearly must have done according to all the boo birds).  He played in all 15 games of one winning streak and all 9 of the other, which means he's a rotten saboteur.  

His OPS is .514 in our losses.

i'm not so sure his .688 OPS in our wins is all that helpful, but he has gotten more RBIs than his numbers project.

[moonslav59]

If Anthony and Story both are called up and the plan is to play them both FT or very near FT, I'd prefer this...

vR/vL

LF: Anthony (Maybe Duran v some R)

DH: Story (Maybe Anthony v some R)

SS: Monasterio

2B: Sogard/Seigler (Romy?)

[JoeBrady]

7 hours ago, Yaz Fan Since 67 said:

Newport, RI to be exact.  What a strange place that is, the money those people who built those mansions had is just sick.

It's pretty interesting.  At least in Newport, it's a nice beach town, and the mansions have held up.  In NYC, they built some of those joints and tore them them down before they were even fully depreciated.  I calculated that the Vanderbilts spent well in excess of $100M on mansions, at a time when $100M was real money.