mvp 78

Decent, but if he really mashes, he won't stay at #9 long. Also, if Duran is brought up, I bet he gets slotted there.

It took me way too long to figure out how to switch my timezone in yahoo from PST to EST.

No surprises.

@TomCaron Cora says his lineup for Opening Day for today would've been (and should still be for tomorrow): Kiké Hernández 2B Verdugo CF Martinez DH Bogaerts SS Devers 3B Renfroe RF Gonzalez LF Vázquez C Dalbec 1B

@SoxNotes Garrett Whitlock is the first pitcher in 26 years to make the Red Sox’ Opening Day roster after being selected by the club in the Rule 5 Draft the previous winter. The last to do it was Vaughn Eshelman in 1995.

@SoxNotes The Red Sox’ Opening Day roster features 14 players born in the United States, 3 in the Dominican Republic, 3 in Venezuela, 2 in Puerto Rico, 1 in Aruba, 1 in Canada, 1 in China, and 1 in Japan.

@alexspeier Red Sox Alternate Site roster includes Michael Chavis, Jarren Duran, and Jeter Downs in Worcester. Top prospect Triston Casas remains in Fort Myers to start the year.

If the COVID PPD's continue this year, will they actually use the taxi squads or just have teams not play a full season? MiLB doesn't start until May, so there's a few extra guys hanging around that could fill out a squad.

At least we aren't the only unhappy fanbase today. @Buster_ESPN The Mets-Nationals game tonight is being postponed, re COVID issues.

Getting some good Ted Sarandis retractable roof talk in the chat.

I've never been back that far. I don't mind the RCF bleachers.

I thought they fixed a portion of the RF seats a few years ago? I don't mind the seat size. I don't mind that it's a little more uncomfortable than every other park I've been too. I think the obstructed seats are a blight on Red Sox nation though.

It depends on how obstructed your seat is.

2004 wasn't all that long ago. I'm sure most of us could blow up a post about Jose Offerman so be glad we are speaking only of the good times.

No idea. I’m baffled as to what happened.

@alexspeier Kiké Hernández says he’s been looking at video of Orioles Opening Day starter for a couple weeks in anticipation of batting leadoff in Game 1. He said he went to the Home dugout today and was struck by ‘the magic of Fenway’ in a way that he said was different than when he’d been in Boston as a visitor.

@ChrisCotillo Hernández called this "mind-blowing" ... "I don't know how that happened."

@PeteAbe Xander Bogaerts has made 7 consecutive Opening Day starts at shortstop for the #RedSox (2014-20). With one more, he will match Everett Scott (1914-21) for the most consecutive Opening Day starts at shortstop in team history.

https://lawandcrime.com/sports/mlb-umpire-angel-hernandez-strikes-out-in-bias-lawsuit-as-judge-finds-no-foul-in-failure-to-promote-him/ Umpire Angel Hernandez struck out in his lawsuit alleging that his Cuban descent stood made the league pass him over several times for crew chief in favor of his white colleagues. Rattling off performance concerns that made the umpire the bane of ex-New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, a federal judge in the Empire State ruled on Wednesday that no reasonable jury could find racial discrimination at the heart of these snubs. “The court is mindful of the reality of unconscious bias and of the ‘built-in headwinds’ that can ‘freeze out protected groups from job opportunities and advancement,'” District Judge J. Paul Oetken wrote in a 26-page opinion. “With respect to Hernandez’s non-promotion claims in this case, however, there is insufficient evidence to show a triable issue on either a disparate treatment or disparate impact theory.” Widely described as the worst umpire in the game, Hernandez’s reputation was put to the test by Boston University, whose researchers found his colleague Joe West made more bad calls then he did. But Hernadez still had a “high error rate,” roughly “averaging 19 incorrect calls a game, or 2.2 per inning,” according to the university. In 2017, Hernandez sued Major League Baseball in a lawsuit alleging discrimination and a lack of diversity, citing a study from five years earlier finding that only seven-percent of his peers belonged to racial or ethnic minorities. Hernandez complained that the last time he was assigned to the World Series was 2005, four years after then-Yankees manager Torres publicly criticized one of his calls. Torre became the league’s baseball executive in 2011 and chief baseball officer in 2015, keeping the latter position until December 2019. Judge Oetken added that the evidence showed that Torre based his decisions on performance. “The evidence shows beyond genuine dispute that an umpire’s leadership and situation management carried the day in MLB’s promotion decisions,” Oetken wrote. “Torre testified that the candidates he appointed to crew chief instead of Hernandez ‘have not demonstrated the same pattern of issues and to the same extent that have manifested with Hernandez over the years.’ […] And indeed, the promoted umpires have evaluations with comments that lend support to Torre’s statement.”

@BillShaikin Most popular jerseys, based on sales in MLB's online store since end of 2020 World Series: 1. Mookie Betts 2. Cody Bellinger 3. Fernando Tatis Jr. 4. Bryce Harper 5. Clayton Kershaw 6. Aaron Judge 7. Ronald Acuña Jr. 8. Francisco Lindor 9. Kiké Hernández 10. Mike Trout

Marwin LF Verdugo CF Renfroe RF Kiké 2B is my guess

Mojo does not carry over. You can just do it if you want. Id est, non futuis.

Preview of next year's thread: @redsoxstats Rosenthal @TheAthletic: "The list of clubs that potentially will be in the market for a shortstop next offseason figures to be rather lengthy: Start with all of the teams that might lose a free agent... Then add the Red Sox, if they want to move Xander Bogaerts off of short."

Who ever wants to start it up.

Needs to show it in AAA.