It was bad enough that I believe even the broadcasters talked about him throwing to the wrong bag. He definitely is a guy that needs to be coached up on the finer points of the game.
Machado is one of the best players in the game whose contract runs out at the end of the year.
Swihart is the 25th man on a roster only because he's out of option years.
Not the same at all.
Guys in AAA that can help: Poyner (taxi squad), Walden (taxi squad), Scott, Workman and Martin. Maybe they could even catch lightning in a bottle with Buttrey?
He cut his hair, that's a con now. That baserunning is rough. He had trouble for a while throwing to the correct bag or cutoff man. I haven't noticed that recently tho.
There were some judgement calls in that list. Fortunately, some of the good names had several uni numbers. I don't know what it is about Stan Papi. Just rolls off the tongue better than Rothrock.
You're being too kind. He had a miserable OPS of 538 last year in AAA. The only reason he's on the team is because he is out of options. He's not deserving of a MLB roster spot right now.
He was a starting C all last year in Pawtucket. The results were fairly poor. I think the Sox saw the writing on the wall that his development at C was just not working out and they wanted to move on.
Well, he went 2 for 4 tonight so will probably do that the rest of the way.
.386/.490/.625 OPS of 1.115.
What better way to judge someone than by the most recent SSS!
Cora really pulled out a great win. Really got those batters to hit that ball good! Way to go Alex! Good game plan! He knew the pitchers wouldn’t have their “A game” so he dialed up the offense. Brilliant!