And Big Papi had the highest OBP on the 2016 team. He has always been a high OBP guy. He was replaced with a low career OBP guy in Moreland.
Edit: Any way you slice it, losing Ortiz will be a major hit to our run production.
I really don't care about the Kris Bryant Red Sox connection. I only care that we seem to have a knack for signing the wrong family member. Remember we signed Ken Brett and not his brother George Brett.
I am not in panic mode, but I don't expect this team to produce the same number of runs as it did last year with Big Papi. Losing 40 HRs, 115 RBI, the league leader in Xtra basehits will have an effect. He was also a pretty good OBP guy.
I love it when it blows up in the face of a manager who tries to be a smarty pants by making moves like Girardi did today. LOL!! Screw you, Girardi.
I liked watching smarty pants Showalter get ejected too.
I am still waiting for Moreland to flash that gold glove. I have seen balls clank off his glove, but no highlight reel worthy plays. I don't think we gain much if anything over Hanley at 1st.
None of those B's stands for Big Bopper. We don't have one. We don't have a guy with the possible exception of Hanley who can miss the sweet spot and still drive the ball out of the park. We also don't have the guy that the opposing pitcher needs to bear down to keep in the park. That takes something out of the pitcher. Those high leverage pitches take it out of a pitcher. The issue is pretty clear. 40 HRs and 115 RBI got subtracted and nothing got added.