They put him in the 9 hole yesterday. If he's there hitting 225 and 35+ bombs, I don't think we can complain. I'm not sure he's a long term option and do hope that Casas forces their hand at AA this season.
Chapman: "No, I said IN THE GARAGE, not in front of the team again you silly goose!"
The rest of the team: "I understand that German shot that girl at a charity gala, but everyone is deserving of third and fourth chances and he's been pitching really well for us. We can tell you that he's on the thinnest of thin ice!"
John Henry could have kept riding his bicycle as long as he wanted. He chose to ghost ride it. It was a choice. It was always a choice.
They could have kept Mookie and reset later on.
@jcmccaffrey
Bogaerts’ first game at short. This could be your opening day lineup:
Red Sox vs Twins:
Hernández 2B,
Verdugo CF,
Martinez DH,
Bogaerts SS,
Devers 3B,
Renfroe RF,
Gonzalez LF,
Vázquez C,
Dalbec 1B,
Rodriguez P
I really didn't want to fall down this rabbit hole.
Hazing by senpai (upperclassmen), who often act as surrogate disciplinarians of their kohai (lower classmen) is also systemic and involves a variety of tortures.
Ichiro Suzuki, as a 10th-grader on his high school club, was forced to kneel on the rim of a lidless garbage can for an extended period of time as punishment for overcooking the rice in the team dormitory.
On other occasions he had to kneel with a bat between his calves and buttocks. He described these sessions as unbearably painful.
Such practices may continue into the pros. In last year's Japan Series, we were treated to the sight of Giants catcher and captain Shinnosuke Abe striding out to the mound and slapping second-year pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura in the head to scold him for a lapse in control.
"Snap out of it!" he yelled. It was all on nationwide TV.
Sawamura's reaction?
An embarrassed smile.
@geoffgagnon
As a rookie, Mookie Betts wasn't exactly thrilled with the hazing in Boston -- which included getting sassed out for not fetching beers for bus rides. “My motivation was I'm going to be so good that I'm not going to get you any more f***ing beer.”
Thank you, unnamed Red Sox players!