mvp 78

EGod

JBJ gets that.

LOLsbury.

On cue... boom.

Your 2017 Red Sox offense!

Exactly. It's a lot of little league stuff too. Thanks, Amaro!

Maybe if he didn't run the bases like an idiot.

There. Is. No. Window.

@EvanDrellich Via @SoxNotes, Andrew Benintendi is hitting .500 with a .593 OBP in August. Eduardo Nunez is hitting .420 in 11 games since the trade

Tomorrow's game seems a little harder imo. We'll see though.

If you trade him now, you can get better value than just a comp pick.

They are 3 - 6 against them so far. There are more than enough games against them over the next few weeks to blow that out of the water.

Not sure how hard swings or frequency of swings contribute to BABIP.

@PeteAbe David Price did some long toss and is now throwing from 60 feet with pretty good intensity. @PeteAbe That was Price’s most involved workout since he went on the DL. Would not seem too far from getting back on the mound. How soon until the quote from Farrell that his arm didn't respond they way he hoped?

Maybe we'll see a retroactive DL stint in a few days, but I hope we don't miss not having Lin up here this weekend. Also, DON'T BE MAD AT MACHADO!

@alexspeier Pedroia - after two straight days off - still out of the lineup on Friday vs Yankees. Nunez at 2B. A lot of radio silence over this one.

Nuñez 2B, Betts RF, Benintendi LF, Ramirez 1B, Young DH, Bogaerts SS, Devers 3B, Vazquez C, Bradley Jr. CF, and Rodriguez LHP

@PawSox Since May 23, Bryce Brentz has hit 22 HR. Entire list of players in pro baseball w/ more in that time… » Giancarlo Stanton » Cody Bellinger

Garcia was "rusty" last time out and couldn't locate his FB according to his manager. It's just a shame that he didn't get traded again and put on his 4th jersey in 4 starts. Oh well... Let's take this series and bury the Yanks over the next 10 games against them.

My pleasure, Sir Juggernaut!

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-hot-hand-is-real/ Hot hand exists for pitching, not hitting.

http://www.csnne.com/boston-red-sox/drellich-how-real-window-red-sox-or-any-mlb-team It’s easier to back away from a window these days, if it’s started to close — or perceived to.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-home-run-derby-curse/ https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2017/7/5/15919218/home-run-derby-curse-2017 First thing is first: the players that are selected to the Home Run Derby are always those who have hit a lot of homers in the first half of the season. That number is backed up by the fact that just one (let’s bold and italicize that) of the 80 data points posted a first half HR/FB rate of below the 10.1 percent median. That was 2014 Yoenis Cespedes, who fell just 0.1 percentage points shy with a 10.0 percent HR/FB rate after hitting 14 home runs in the first half. That makes 79 of 80 — or 98.8 percent — of Derby participants over the last 10 years already “lucky” from their first half numbers by what would be considered an inflation fly balls to home run rate. What’s more is that these players weren’t just lucky in the first half; they were extremely lucky. An outrageous 41 of the 80 participants — just over half — posted first half HR/FB rates of above 20 (!!!) percent. For an outrageous comparison, in 2014, just six of 146 qualified hitters (4.1 percent) kept their HR/FB rate above 20 percent for the entire season. In a normal year, we see between 10-15 hitters do this. Regardless, it shows how rare it is to have this high of a HR/FB rate. That’s why it all has to come crashing back down to Earth.

I hope he's locked and loaded.

If he repeats his 2017 performance for the rest of his contract, I don't think there's much reason to be upset about the $$$ he gets. I just don't think it's really a "hometown discount."