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Hanley with no errors thus far.

I am enjoying listening to Rocket break down Price's mechanics. It is amazing how much everything has to be in sync for a player to be successful. The difference between dominance and failure is really pretty small.

We are beating the A's like a drum.

Goodness gracious! Wow!

Ground out to the SS for the last out.

It is fun to watch.

Doug, I hope they have some runs left for Friday when you are at Fenway.

The A's have put on some show this series with the Parade of Pigs from their bullpen.

Shaw can do it all.

He cuts hard most of the time. A lot of analysts criticized him for that when he first came up. They thought it was too big a swing for a little guy.

Chris Young not stinking tonight.

Who are these guys on the A's pitching staff. They have a lot of no-name kids and journeymen. What a pile of junk! LOL!

No doubt, but my at the game mojo has lit a fire under the offense this year. In addition to the last 2 games, I was at April 20th 7-3 win against the Rays. In 3 games, the Sox have tallied 34 runs. Edit: I should be the Hitting Coach.

Bradley's bat is red hot right now. In 2014, he was helpless in 500 Plate Appearances with 1 HR. What a transformation!

When Young does hit the ball, it does explode off his bat.

Do you think that I don't realize that?

I am not at the game tonight, so double digit runs will be difficult without my at the game mojo. Hopefully, Porcello has a good game.

If Shaw has bad numbers against LHP at the beginning of June, he might sit some times against LHP. I don't think it will happen, because he has a very good approach in his ABs against LHP. Also, I do not think that he will be platooned if he continues to be ours second best offensive player.

I disagree. IMO, Swihart will have to be vastly better offensively than CV in order to win the starting job from CV, because imo, CV will be vastly better defensively than Swihart's defensive ceiling.

J Not a bad idea.

No. Just 2 games this trip. I will be back for the Saturday and Sunday games against the Guardians on 5/21 and 5/22.

The phrase "fit your narrative" always sounds ridiculous to me in the context of a sports message board. This isn't politics. There is no narrative. You are cobbling together his minor league numbers with an extremely small sample size of 25 ABs in 2016 as proof of something that I don't think it proves. I think his minor league numbers are probably useless at this point as he has a evidently matured as a hitter and taken his game to a different level. He was in that process last season when his lefty splits were excellent and that sample size was more than 3 1/2 times the size of the 2016 sample size. I am not choosing to believe one small sample over another because one supports me. Neither sample means anything to me. What means something to me is the way he approaches his ABs against LHP. He has an approach that I believe will succeed. I doubt that over the long haul that he will hit lefties as well as he will hit RHP, but I don't think his LHP splits will be significantly bad to warrant sitting our second most potent bat.

it is rare, but not unheard of. One Red Sox player that performed better at the major league level than the minor league level was Carlton Fisk. Some guys mature and take their game to a new level in the majors.

None of his minor league stats indicate that he would perform this well at the MLB level, so they are as a whole worthless as indicators of anything with regard to his performance. He has obviously taken his game to a new level and his minor league numbers can be thrown out the window. He was excellent against LHP last year in a larger sample size than his 2016 LHP splits. He is the better hitter against LHP than Holt. He just doesn't give an inch at the plate. he hangs in better than Holt and takes pitches the other way very well. He has the superior approach which I believe will yield the superior results. Another thing to be considered is that only David Ortiz has been a more productive hitter than Shaw in this early 2016, and I don't see the wisdom in platooning your second best hitter. If he cools off and if he really struggles against LHP, he might sit against LHP from time to time, but right now, Holt will lose most of the ABs that Young gets.

He is not going to get platooned. Holt will lose ABs to Young, not Shaw. His minor league stats are meaningless. He has far outperformed his minor league stats in every regard.