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  1. mvp 78
    On Rafaela, it's not even him knowing the strike zone. He has a pretty bad whiff rate in and out of the zone. He's never been a guy to take a pitch, just a guy who has punished pitches that he can handle. He'll always be up there hacking. If he can reduce the in zone whiffs, he'd be better off. The chase rate is impacting his overall exit velo and barrel rate, but I don't think that's going to get better. Just don't let pitchers beat you middle/middle!
  2. mvp 78
    Well, we mostly thought Houck and Crawford were inevitable relievers...
  3. mvp 78
    That dang Hang 'Em Chaim!!!!!!
  4. mvp 78
    I mean, you're basically TalkSox's Wavy Gravy, so yeah.
  5. mvp 78
    I think there is value in some of the new stats. The percentile stuff on Statcast is great IMO. My Roman Empire is that it's badWAR and fabulousWAR.
  6. mvp 78
    @SportingGreenSF The San Francisco Giants have yet to name a starter for Wednesday’s middle game of the three-game series in Boston, but Daulton Jefferies is among the options for manager Bob Melvin.
  7. mvp 78
    Having a power lefty like Penrod would be an absolute weapon for one inning. He could fly through the system IMO.
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    Also, there was a time when the NHL didn't have standard sized rinks. The Boston Garden's rink was smaller than regulation when it was demolished.
  9. mvp 78
    The first step would probably be conversion to the pen.
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    I mean, the Sox have done a TERRIBLE job drafting and developing pitchers for a long time. Aside from ERod (who spent much more time being developed by the Orioles TBF), the last successful starter that came up was Clay Buchholz was 2008. The Sox have finally found someone (Bailey) that can maximize the tweeners that they have drafted and traded for. I think there has been solid short term improvement, but we need to see this success over longer than one month and maybe less time spent on the IL too. The pitching looked pretty good in Mid March, so I don't think my opinion has changed since then. I think we believed there'd be some sort of Bailey bump. I was expecting more out of Bello TBH.
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    4 seamers are typically straight and easier to barrel. It's a good emphasis IMO.
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    Dalton Rogers has not been a very good draft pick so far. He was really a reliever in college, so I'm unsure why they keep trying to have him start when he's been really bad at it.
  13. mvp 78
    Beyond the Monster is basically just us posting in long form.
  14. mvp 78
    Would have been nice to see on a normal sized screen though!
  15. mvp 78
    I'm not sure how they'd retrofit older stadiums to specific dimensions.
  16. mvp 78
    Watched a little bit of the Penrod start. He throws straight gas, but loses his control very quickly. Reminded me of Red Sox era Andrew Miller.
  17. mvp 78
    TC talks through Criswell k’ing the side. Classic NESN.
  18. mvp 78
    Ump sucks
  19. mvp 78
    Kyle BODDY
  20. mvp 78
    Duran CF, Devers 3B, O’Neill DH, Abreu RF, Refsnyder LF, Valdez 2B, Cooper 1B, McGuire C, Rafaela SS
  21. mvp 78
    Only if the Sox had taken him after HS. He was a drafted after his junior year at Missouri.
  22. mvp 78
    @BOSSportsGordo Garrett Cooper is starting for the Red Sox tonight. Vaughn Grissom is not, because he has the flu. No word yet as to when he could see the field.
  23. mvp 78
    IDK, the defensive metrics can be a bit much for me TBH. Mercurial and inscrutable at times.
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    I've heard this draft is very top heavy with talent (first 18 picks or so) and then falls off. They should take best available and then just grab a couple high octane HS arms. Sox have a good track record of taking HS arms: Groome, Ball, Owens, Scherff, Kopech, Buttrey.
  25. mvp 78
    It's hard for me to single out which defensive metric I prefer because I never know which one I need for the current argument. However, I've read a lot of arguments against OAA for IFers and that small samples of DRS are extremely skewed. I really don't look at UZR/150 much anymore. I can say quite certainly that any OF that included both Manny and Wily Mo was going to be s***. That the Sox put Wily Mo in the OF for 154 games is wild in retrospect. The original argument of "well they had good fielding SS's in 06, but got worse" ignores what happened with the rest of the ballclub at the time.
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