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JBJ is good for one great month. 2015: 5/10 - 8/8 146 BABIP and 426 OPS 8/9 - 9/7 577 BABIP and 1441 OPS 9/8 - 10/4 173 BABIP and 510 OPS 2016: 4/5 - 5/4 348 BABIP and 792 OPS 5/5 - 5/30 400 BABIP and 1232 OPS 6/1 - 9/30 289 BABIP and 765 OPS 2017: April - May: BABIP 220 OPS 669 May 30th - July 4th: BABIP 412 OPS 1029 July 5th - Sept: BABIP 263 OPS 598

He's a former AS with great hair who can play 8 positions! That's totally worth $2M.

That doesn't sound like something I'd say!!!

@redsoxstats Interesting spring for Devers 42 PA, 3 HR, 3 2B, 3B, 0 BB, 4 K, 1.000 OPS

I'm not saying he hasn't, I'm just saying that there's a possibility of him making a fuss if the Sox do some f***ery with his ab's towards the end of the year.

If you could get out of Price's contract this year, you'd sit him, right? You wouldn't let him vest?

In 2010 he had an unsustainable LOB% and his FIP was much higher than his ERA. He was good, but people want to remember him as being lights out.

If you're making $20M to be s*****, why make a fuss? If you are going to get cheapened out of another $20M, you probably won't be all smiles about it.

Let's make sure we're not on the hook for him next year. That's a bad contract that could be used more wisely next year.

@JMastrodonato The AAA PawSox will change their name for virtually all of their Tuesday home games to Osos Polares de Pawtucket, “Polar Bears of Pawtucket” in English. @JMastrodonato 33 minor league teams participating in this intuitive "specifically designed to embrace the culture and values that resonate most with participating teams’ local U.S. Hispanic/Latino communities." PawSox will wear different uniforms on Tuesdays.

Because fans typically obsess over the opening day roster. Not sure this should be a surprise to anyone.

Probably not the best way to go about roster construction.

He's leading the team in HR's this spring. We'll see if the power continues in PAW.

He's certainly good, but sometimes posters make him out to be the greatest CFer ever to lace up cleats.

http://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/boston-red-sox-signal-theyll-keep-blake-swihart-may-trade-deven-marrero-or-brock-holt Blake Swihart’s strong spring seems to have the Red Sox more inclined to deal one of their natural utility infielders, such as Brock Holt or Deven Marrero, rather than Swihart, a converted catcher with high upside who's getting a look in other roles. "Sounds like they’re holding Swihart to open," a rival executive said. "More likely to move a utility guy." Also: There was a clear personal-catcher system for the Red Sox in 2017. Leon was Chris Sale’s guy, for example. Manager Alex Cora said he is not taking that approach. As an auxiliary effect, moving away from a personal-catcher system might make it easier for Swihart to receive more time behind the plate, if called on. "Whoever I feel comfortable with that day behind the plate, he'll catch," Cora told reporters in Florida. "Christian already caught him. Sandy's going to catch him today. And then the next turn, Christian's going to catch him. Everybody's going to work with everybody."

I was wondering how the "organizational philosophy" impacted strikeout looking stats (one of my bigger annoyances when watching a game) and how it may or may not relate to swinging at the first pitch. The league average 1st pitch swinging % was 28.1 last year. The Sox were at 20.9%. Pablo, Hanley and Nunez were the only guys above league average (100+ PA's). Betts, Bogaerts, Holt and Rutledge were all below 12%! If I was a pitcher, I'd certainly be throwing a lot of first pitch strikes. If the philosophy was to simply be passive, I think the Sox would generally be more likely to have guys that are above average on striking out looking. The guys with the highest backwards K %'s (above 100 PA's) were Hanley, Sandy, Chris Young, Brock Holt, Josh Rutledge and Nunez. Unless the philosophy is "take the first pitch at all costs." For the most part, that shows to me that guys like Xander, Betts and JBJ have decent pitch recognition and could probably alter their approach if told to do so. What this also says to me is that they have two guys currently on the roster who swing at the first pitch well above league average and strike out looking well above league average (Hanley and Nunez). To me, that's just poor pitch recognition and a poor approach overall. They also have a guy who is much too passive at the plate and is causing him to waste at bats (Holt). Hanley and Nunez are what they are (bench bats), DFA Holt.

https://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=7115&position=P&type=&gds=2011-09-01&gde=2011-09-28&season= In September 2011, Bard took 4 losses and had an ERA of 10.64. If he wasn't unravelling, the Sox would have made the postseason that year.

They didn't screw up Bard. Bard was becoming more inconsistent the year prior to being moved to the rotation. It was Bard's choice and his preference. He couldn't handle it.

Hard to really project anything for Blake since he hasn't been healthy in two years. He could suck, he could turn into Jason Kendall. Hard to really say.

Good for him, better for us.

They were just on cruise control.

Massive understatement? JBJ was the 9th rated dWAR CFer last year. He was 24th for UZR 150. His ARM was below replacement level. The only value where he is at the top is FSR (or Fan Scouting Report which can be highly biased). Honestly, he's not even the first or second best CFer in the AL East.

Nah.

Yeah, more often than not, the guy being subbed in doesn't get an AB. The real question is: will we see Mitch play any OF this year? I'm saying it's a 50/50.

Of if Hanley gets to 480 AB's and makes a fuss over a lack of playing time at year end.