This was not the day to take out Houck after 58 pitches. You never know what you are going to get from the pen these day. In a 7 inning game, the manager has the luxury of shortening his pen to 2 innings maybe even 1.
2 guys off the wrist. Hate to see that. Lopez was not intending to do it and helped Kie to get up. Not sure if I have seen that before. Still should Sale drill an Oriole?
i remember going to an afternoon game at Fenway. It was either 2017or 2018 and his second pitch of the game was 100. He was hitting 100 pretty regularly that game. I remember it because it surprised me that he started off like that with his second pitch. I remember texting my son about it while I was at the game.
Hate to see a hitter take one off his hand. When did trainers stop using that freeze spray stuff, and why did they stop using it? I haven’t seen that used in years.
Our last 3 GM’s had some things in common. Each won at least one division title (3 for Dave) and each won at least one World Championship (2 for Theo). Bloom has a long way to go to compare with any of them.
We have a faction of members who are Bloom Boys. Almost to a person, they were also Benny Boys. They have a very hard time dealing with criticism of those GMs. But they had no problem criticizing DD while he was building a three peat in the division and a wire to wire dominant World Champion. They have a different perspective from me.
And if Theo didn’t trade Hanley, we really can’t give him full credit for 2007, because Beckett and Lowell played a much bigger role on that team than Theo’s acquisitions of Drew, Lugo and Dice K.
It’s not my bar. LOL! It is the bar set by his career stats. His performance has exceeded my expectations. He was headed to palooka-ville when he was with the Phillies.
Theo built the team from scratch? He didn’t bring in Pedro or Manny or Trot Nixon or DLowe or Varitek. And he gave up a bigger prospect than DD ever did when he traded Hanley who had and excellent career.