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  1. a700hitter
    As for ERod, he is having a career year in that he is going deeper into games more often than in prior years.
  2. a700hitter
    The relevance is quite simply that the down April was directly attributable to a managerial/coaching decision to hold back the build up of arm strength for a month. After that the remainder of the season thus far looks normal. That’s why May 1st is more relevant than May 11th. Cora set back the pitching ramp up by a month, not 6 weeks.
  3. a700hitter
    I’m not sure of the relevance of May 11th. I think that at the end of the season that Sale, Price and ERod and hopefully Porcello will have numbers representative of their career norms when you disregard April. Cora’s April will mess up their season numbers.
  4. a700hitter
    Since there was the a change in the preparation of the pitchers delaying them from building their arm strength and stamina, it seems more reasonable to pull out the first month as an aberration. If you pull out April, the remaining 2 full months look quite normal from a performance standpoint for Price, Sale and ERod.
  5. a700hitter
    I think it is pretty fair to exclude the month of April since that was their Spring Training. When you exclude that, Sale, Price and ERod are doing just fine. There really is no justification for taking 3 game or other sample sizes unless you are making an apologist argument for Cora’s dumbass decision.
  6. a700hitter
    So, we will still need a bullpen arm and a starter.
  7. a700hitter
    ERod for the months of May and June is pitching slightly better than his career norms. In those 2 months he pitched 6 or more innings 7 times. He did that only 9 times in all of 2018. Twice he has pitched 7 innings. He did not do that in a single game in 2018. In the May and June, Sales ERA is under 2.8 which is better than his career norm, and I will take that from any pitcher at any juncture in his career. Their under-performance in April was an anomaly directly attributable to a really dumb decision by Cora and his coaching staff.
  8. a700hitter
    Last year, the team forced errors by the defense. This year, it is the Red Sox making the misplays.
  9. a700hitter
    Henry clearly acknowledges that the roster is talented enough. His remark is directed at effort and coaching. That is clear from the "If we play up to our capabilities" part of his statement.
  10. a700hitter
    I agree that Cora will probably not lose his job if they miss the playoffs. If he misses the playoffs or goes one game and out, Cora will not get fired, but he will be on a short leash in 2020. However, if this team falls apart in the second half, I think he could get fired. In any case, Cora will go before DD.
  11. a700hitter
    Some of the statement could be interpreted as being directed toward DD, but that portion of the statement is vague. The portion that is not vague about “easily making the playoffs is targeted directly at Cora and the roster.
  12. a700hitter
    Henry and DD go back a long way. Cora was DD’s hire. He will go first. The pressure is on Cora.
  13. a700hitter
    since DD has never played or coached, if it was his idea, Cora and his pitching coaches should have filled him in on why it would be a terrible idea. I think this type of decision is left to the infield coaches and managers as they are the ones with the expertise. And there is no other way to interpret the “easily make” the playoffs remark. Another interpretation of that remark is not plausible.
  14. a700hitter
    Only the pathetic Mets have more blown saves than the Red Sox. There is your deficiency. deGrom and Sale should form a support group.
  15. a700hitter
    Price has been fine. He's pitching to a lower ERA than last season. Sale has pitched to a 2.82 ERA in May and 2.73 ERA in June, since he pitched himself into shape. He should have won a bunch of games in those months but for terrible offensive support and a lousy pen. Since ERod pitched himself into shape he is pitching at better than his career standards for May and June. Porcello is the one starter who has been significantly worse than his career norms since the first month. Of course, the 5th spot has been a horror show, but that is due to injury and lack of depth, not underperformance. As a whole, I don't see our starters taking much blame when 3 of the 5 are performing to or better than career norms.
  16. a700hitter
    I think restgate didn't end after two weeks. It ruined the month of April. It takes more than 2 weeks of spring training to ramp up a pitcher, and they missed those 2 weeks entirely. Pitchers who are properly ramped up during ST continue to build arm strength for the first couple of weeks of the regular season. As for Henry's statement that this team has enough talent to "easily" make the playoffs, that is squarely on Cora and his players. There is no other way to interpret that. Maybe some of the other statements are subject to different interpretations, but that one is not.
  17. a700hitter
    Yup!
  18. a700hitter
    It could be a little shade thrown on DD, but it could be also a threat to the team that some changes might be made. Maybe he is spotting the same complacency that many of us have noticed. The bottom line is he is convinced that there is plenty of talent to "easily" make the playoffs clearly throwing the onus and responsibility on Cora and the players.
  19. a700hitter
    IDK how anyone can read that into it. If anything, his statement is an endorsement of DD by saying that the talent is there to easily make the playoffs.
  20. a700hitter
    Henry is putting the responsibility for not making the playoffs squarely on Cora.
  21. a700hitter
    Doing what other managers do doesn't mean that it is smart. Most managers are buffoons. Don't get me started on my opinion of them as a group. With this pen, if Cora finds a guy is getting outs on a particular night and he is commanding his stuff, he should probably stay with him a little longer than to reach into the cheap box of chocolates for another bad piece.
  22. a700hitter
    Sometimes you have to ride the hot hand, and Brewer looked good today. I would have had him on a short leash, but removing him after consecutive Ks where he made the batters look bad was dumb.
  23. a700hitter
    The deficiency on this team couldn't be more glaring.
  24. a700hitter
    Alex owns the April hole that the team dug. DD owns the rest.
  25. a700hitter
    Our bullpen is like a fireworks display. We should have had the London trip on the 4th of July.
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