Happy Birthday to Sox legends:
David Wells
Joe Harris
Pete Appleton
Wilcy Moore
Harry Taylor
Jake Thielman
Carlos Rivero
Paul Howard
Wayne Howsie
Joe Wood (the other one)
Vazquez is the Bench Coach. He's the next guy up if Cora is tossed out of the game. Why would the "Game Planning and Run Prevention Coach" get precedence?
He's a pitch to contact guy that goes deep in every count. He should be looking for weak contact out of the hitter early in every count so he could go late into the game. Why is he constantly nibbling? IDK! It certainly is annoying.
I'm not worried about a 3 per 9 bb rate. That's like 2 bb's a start. Bello's is ROUGH.
5.74 k/9
5.46 bb/9
1.05 k/bb 🤢 (2nd worst in MLB for a starter)
Old friend Quinn Priester is 4th worst in k/bb, FYI.
Oh, the list is A LOT longer than just Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer...
Duran is good, but I think the following guys have more trade value:
Crochet
Campbell
Abreu
Bregman
Maybe:
Devers
Fitts
Dobbins
Rafaela
Bello
Dom Smith has a higher May OPS than Mayer and Anthony. They need to trade for him and bring him back to play 1b. It's the only way to fix the vibes. He can pitch too.
They won't do that.
1. He's never played the IF before.
2. It would destroy his value as an OFer (ARB, trade, other).
3. Since he's going year to year, he wouldn't agree to it.
Why rock the cart on the #1 prospect in baseball?
That doesn't mean call up Mayer when he's still working on his game. He'd get eaten alive by MLB. Look how Campbell is playing right now. Anthony's bat is ready, Marcelo's is a little bit behind.