jacksonianmarch

You don’t win it in April usually, but a team like the 84 Tigers essentially had it won in May. They went 35-5. You don’t face us again til late May and after playing the Angels (who I think end up around the 85-86 win mark) you get the A’s before coming home to the Jays and then get the easy Rays after that. If you guys can split with the Angels going forward, take 2 of 3 from the Jays at home and sweep the A’s and Rays, you’ll have a lead on us up to 8 or 9 games. If your pitching stays healthy, that will be insurmountable as your rotation will keep you from long losing streaks. We get the Jays for 4, the Twins for 4, then go off to the west coast to face the Angels for 3, the Stros for 4 then come home to the Guardians. We are gonna be tested and you guys might have a seriously huge lead by then

Harold Reynolds was too busy chatting up the ladies to think straight. If Judge and Didi can murder balls there, Stanton can too. Boone is showing his moron side btw. You cannot keep Stanton after the OBP machines at the top and before Didi who is hitting like Babe Ruth. If Stanton doesn't mercifully K, he is chopping a ball to SS for an easy DP. I'd move Stanton down to #7 and tell him to get his s*** straight and not worry about it. It isn't like the bottom of the order is killing it right now

The sox big story is that outside of what was known going into the season (Hanley coming off surgery, ERod coming off surgery, and Pedroia coming off surgery), you’ve had a pretty healthy squad. Cora managed to navigate a weak early season schedule while hiding his two replacement starters from good offenses outside of one Johnson vs Orioles start. There was a fortuitous rain out on Monday which allowed you to now run out there your usual starting 5. Having known about the surgeries prior to the offseason, it allowed DD to re-sign Nunez and sign Moreland as depth while the guys got healthy. Hanley didn’t need it. Nunez definitely helped with Pedey sidelined. DD gets an A++ up to now. I said from the beginning that a healthy Price was your wild card. So far, minus a scare vs. NY, he’s been healthy and is 3-1 with 3 dominant performances vs one lost game due to the cold. Porcello has also come out smoking and ERod shook off the rust in his last start. With your pitching rounding into form and getting healthy and your offense turning it on, you might run away and hide with the division by the time we get our s*** together

One can only hope

Tanaka didn't have it, for sure. He should have been able to navigate through 5 with minimal damage. Our defense gave them 4 outs.

It's not really on Tanaka. Granted, he wasn't on, but he got served by his defense today. Didi and Austin made big errors, but Andujar misplayed a ball, Sanchez screwed up on a routine pitch and catch and Walker misplayed a ball that would have cut a runner down at home (once again scored a hit). All in all, 2 errors on the books, but it should be 4 and 1 big passed ball. Tanaka has 6ER in 5IP, but if scored correctly, should be 2ER in 5IP

Castro got a hit on a play Andujar has to make. That leads to the 3 run bomb. Inning would have been over. Tanaka getting let down big time. Really should be at 2ER through 5IP

Now the defense is f***ing us

They aren't dynamic. They are dinamic, big difference

I am wondering if the "stiffness" will lead him to the Bronx. He has to stay down til tomorrow

Logan Morrison is also 4 years younger than Hanley and Hanley is coming off a down year and a shoulder surgery

Beeks is not the prospect Adams is as they are completely different pitchers. Beeks is a small statured lefty with velocity that doesn't hold in his starts. In short stints, he can top out at 95, but as a starter, he sits right around 90mph and his velo will drop into the 87-88 range later in games. Both Adams and Beeks have a deep arsenal, yet Adams actually has the hammer breaking balls and the command to control all of his pitches. Adams will top out at 100mph and can sit in the 95-96mph range deep into games. Even the most pink hatted prospect website run by jsinger has Beeks a reliever in the majors.

A Sox team up against the top penalty bracket has to worry about the cash

Would you guys be happy if he hit .250 with an .870 OPS and dropped 38 HR? Because that 1b on the FA market last year got a 1 yr $4 mil deal (Logan Morrison). Allowing his option to vest will cost you $18 mil in 2019 as the FA value has been established at $4 mil.

Torres hitting .389 with a .995 OPS through 9 games with 10 RBI. He’s killing it down there. If he stays in the minors through Wednesday, we will earn another year of control.

Good win last night, although Boone nearly blew it again. He’s doesn’t understand how to use Betances. When he’s off, you have to pull him quick and he’s either off when he can’t find the plate or when he cannot stay out of the middle of the zone. When he gave up the HR, I wouldn’t have pulled him, but the single, K, double was enough in my mind after that. You don’t allow him to give up 2 more runs and put the eventual winning run on base when he entered with a 5 run lead. Boone is clueless

We just spit the bit in that series. Our starters are going to be strong all year. They just didn’t locate against a good sox lineup. We got shut down by Sale and Porcello was inducing ground balls and soft contact. Kudos to your team. We are good enough as currently constructed to beat the sox. The talent on the field right now isn’t playing well enough. They will. It is early. This week was unseasonably cold and wet, and it clearly impacted some pitchers more than others. When we meet again in NY, the weather will be warmer and both teams should be at full strength. By then Xander and Pedroia should be back. For us Hicks is already back and CC, Drury, Frazier, Ellsbury and Bird should return. It’s gonna be a wild one. Also, Chapman’s dominance isn’t just in the velocity. Any big league hitter can hit 100. It’s his motion. The ball is hidden until the very end, making his 100 look like 110. As long as he’s staying out of the middle of the zone, he’s unhittable. He just doesn’t have the consistent command, especially against the Sox. Plus, the sox have been fouling off his pitches more often, forcing him to locate more. This is how you beat him. He’s the antithesis of Mariano. You could foul off a million pitches with Mo, but he was coming into the zone and he was locating. You had to beat him at his own game. Chap doesn’t have that location to be able to have long at bats. The good thing the Yanks are working with him on is the slider. Last year it was a throwaway pitch. This year, it’s actually good. If he can be a two pitch mix pitcher and see his heat at its usual velocity, he’ll be unhittable again

None of ourbstarts could locate this series

He’s real tight tonight

How does Cora leave Nunez in with his history?

Look on the bright side. If it’s broken, then you’ll likely avoid the option?

Tight zone today.

I’m sure he’ll appeal. I assume they’re going off the fact that he was the aggressor and then gestured for him to continue.

Judge may have headlocked him, but he saved Kelly from getting his ass kicked.

Ball game!