mvp 78
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For the Dodgers, he usually hit 2nd, 6th or 7th (about 30 games each). He only had 60 AB's after June and was pretty bad in September (553 OPS).
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Kimmi... if you like randomness... you can increase my strike zone variability... Also... I will allow fans to vote on my called third strike reactions... Beep Boop Beep... - Robot Ump
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Beep beep boop... I will not opt out... Boop beep beep... I am also 100% sanitary and can disinfect every ball... Beep Berrp... - Robot Ump
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Seems like Beni/Devers will definitely be one/two punch. Xander and JD may flip flop 3/4. 1B will be 5th. The bottom of the lineup may depend upon if Pillar or Verdugo is playing. Seems like Peraza is automatically 9th. JBJ has almost always hit directly behind Vaz. Seems that Pillar/Verdugo will either be 6th or 8th coming before or after the Vaz/JBJ combo.
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What the Sox were doing towards the end of ST was: Beni Devers Xander JD Chavis/Mitch Vaz JBJ Pillar Peraza We'll have to see if they move Verdugo up from 8, or let him stay down there until he heats up. He did miss substantial time at the end of last season.
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The data is fine, it's his personality that's a problem.
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A700 will be happy that there will be no Speier.
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Unless the player is Big Papi, I think it's more valuable for a guy like JBJ to just try to push one down the line every AB for a week straight until the shift stops.
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He's going to be solid and has a tendency to get really hot for short stretches every year.
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Does Remy stay away due to health concerns? Have him on a Teams meeting from his house? I believe Eck lives in the Bay Area, so I bet they put more of a focus on bringing in local talent (why DiNardo is on all the time).
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Beni did quite a bit of leading off in Spring Training. On the games I found that Beni sat, Pillar was leading off.
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@TheAthleticBOS It'll be 3 guys sitting in a studio calling a game on TV that's being played nowhere near them. Here's how NESN plans to make Red Sox games feel like normal this year https://theathletic.com/1927201/2020/07/13/nesn-red-sox-bruins-tv-plans/ Couldn't be any worse than a normal NESN broadcast.
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@byJulianMack Benintendi has really been locked in during this summer camp. Leads off with a double up against the green monster against Workman.
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@IanCundall With the reported additions of Downs, Mata, Houck, Duran and Groome the Red Sox player pool will be at 55. Save for Groome, who is a unique case, all of the prospects who are going to be added played in the high minors last year. Most notable omission, thus far, is Triston Casas. Groome is being added because he must be put on the 40 man roster at the end of the season if they want to keep him. Due to his injury issues, he really needs to get reps so that the Sox can figure out if he's worth the 40 man spot next season.
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Cotillo says there may be some surprises as to who is omitted from the player pool. Including the 5 above, that would be 55 reported players in the pool.
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@alexspeier Per sources, Jeter Downs, Jay Groome, and Jarren Duran have been invited to be part of the group of prospects at McCoy at the alternate site training. (@ChrisCotillo reported Downs.) More from sources: RHPs Tanner Houck and Bryan Mata are also expected to be added to the player pool.
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Godley was a high K guy when he was on my CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING TS FANTASY TEAM. We'll see if he can get it back. I'd be more interested in Godley starting than Johnson.
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@jcmccaffrey After being taken off the 40-man last year, Brian Johnson is now competing for one of the many open spots in the Red Sox rotation. Ron Roenicke also suggested the club looking at considering outside starting pitching help, too. So Clay Buchholz then?
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@TomCaron The "no fielders" plan worked out well for JD Martinez, who hit the first pitch he saw from Matt Barnes for a HR.
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Yesterday, JBJ was working on bunting down the line to beat the shift. We'll have to see if Roenicke has his hitters do that more often.
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Today's intrasquad game is featuring zero fielders.
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From Rotoworld: Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that the Diamondbacks are among multiple teams who have used outside labs for COVID-19 testing. It appears that some of this has been about the well-documented testing delays with MLB. Rosenthal has learned about two occasions where the Diamondbacks sent a player to a testing site in the Phoenix area in order to secure a second negative test to clear the way for him to return. The D-Backs say they have used a third-party lab roughly 20 times, which works out to less than one percent of their overall tests. Meanwhile, the team also says that every lab they have used said they are not taking tests away from the general public. It's true that we are talking about a small number of tests on the whole, but the fact is that testing is still hard to access for many people around the country. It's just a bad look for MLB more than anything else and it doesn't inspire confidence in their plan for the season.
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I think it's totally fine for this thread to be about MLB and its response to COVID (regular season games, testing, sick players, etc.). Anything outside that scope should be discussed elsewhere.
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MLB is an anachronism. Those black out rules are just the tip of the iceberg for things that need to be modernized. Unfortunately, those tv contracts are king.
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Because he has an MiLB deal, I wonder if they keep Arauz on the roster and have Munoz in the pool in case of injury.
