The last time Criswell faced the O's: 4IP, 7 ER.
This is his first start in almost a month.
Burnes vs the Sox this year: 14 IP, 1 ER, 11 K, 5 BB, 5 H, 0.714 WHIP.
Sox on Friday Nights in 2024: 6-14.
Brock, we do need a new Game Thread today and they lost last night. If you'd like to make one today it's all yours! If they win, you'd just have to keep making them until the lose.
That sounds great. I know there's been TalkSox meetups in ST in the past. Maybe we'll be able to get a group down there again this year. Looking forward to all the changes.
The best way to add them is to develop them and that's what they are trying to do. Juan Valera is pitching his ass off in Salem right now. Monegro hasn't given up a run in 29 innings.
The popular podcasts are:
Section 10 (not analytical, but most popular and are having their own Fenway Night coming up)
The Pesky Report (some prospect, some MLB)
Pod by the River (mostly MLB, good if you want Sox version of Frank the Tank)
Play Tessie (Red Sox jouralist nepobaby podcast)
Not Another Sox Podcast
Pod on Landsdowne
Beyond the Monster
Even if you don't listen to them all (I don't), the hosts are good follows on Twitter.
A lot of inexperienced guys that have been asked to pitch differently than they have ever had to before. If the emphasis is "throw strikes," there is more of a tendency to leave a pitch over the middle than if a guy is nibbling and is tired IMO.
@ChrisCotillo
Sources: Barring something unforeseen before first pitch, Triston Casas is expected to be activated for the Red Sox in Baltimore tonight.
The wait is over.
They had the number 1 pick, all the guys they wanted to sign just wanted to pull an Eli Manning. It's why you don't fire your CBO/GM/Pres of Baseball Ops every few years when you get a wild hair up your ass even though you are never around the team.
73 k's in 6 games against these teams:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/2019.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/COL/2019.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/2019.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCR/2019.shtml
BAL and KC were minor league teams that year too.
97th percentile hard hit in 2018
52nd percentile hard hit in 2019
Fastball velo 78th percentile 2018
Fastball velo 47th percentile 2019
I can do this all day.
He was clearly not 100% at the end of the year. Prior to the injury, he averaged 6.1 per start. The longest he went after was 5.1 in 7 tries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was clearly injured.