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That was such a horrible pitch to JD. As good a hitter as he is, that was not even a high school pitch that got blooped into RF. Good Grief!

The AL can't pitch except for about 4 teams and the the NL can't hit except for about 2.

Sale is not likely to even try with X and Kinsler out of the infield. Just going to K himself out of jams.

Anybody know if the O's got any young pitching in their deadline trades? I just don't know what they are going to do without better pitching. Then again, all the starting pitching in this league is with about 4 teams and the rest of them can't pitch their way out of a hat.

1. Mookie Betts ® RF 2. Brock Holt (L) SS 3. Steve Pearce ® DH 4. J.D. Martinez ® LF 5. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B 6. Eduardo Nunez ® 2B 7. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 8. Sandy Leon (S) C 9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

Are they going to play a single game tomorrow on the scheduled day off? Aren't we still a game short with this team or no? Actually I think they are all in except for a three game series against the O's in Boston in Sept.

If you really want to see the greatest LH hitter of all time hit, you need to look at Ted Williams swing. You know what you will find? You will find that Ted had much more of a RH hitters swing only from the LH side of the plate. It was not "pretty" in the sense of pretty LH swings. His stride was short. His hands were quick and always inside the baseball and his swing was shorter than the usual LH hitter's and his bat stayed in the hitting zone longer when compared to the typical LH hitter. His real advantage was that he took a RH hitter's swing to the LH side of the plate where he would see mostly RH pitchers and he perfected that swing. If you see Ted's swing, you will see much more of Mookie than you will see of Beni who's stride is regularly too long, who's swing is regularly too big and who sometimes does not even keep his hands inside the baseball. Want to understand how much of a difference taking a RH hitter's swing and perfecting it from the LH side of the plate made in Ted's performance? Look at Ted's career splits. Not saying taking a RH hitter's swing to the left side of the plate is easy. In fact its darn near impossible. LH hitters struggle with keeping enough top hand in their swings, often realize it then overcompensate. So they are very often going from too little top hand to too much top hand. But the dominance of the bottom hand and the front shoulder is what leads to the LH hitter typically having a prettier swing than the RH hitter. It leads to a longer stride and the combination is generally what is defined as the "pretty" LH hitter swing. Most really good RH hitters do not take the long stride more common to the LH hitter and neither did Ted. The short stride also allowed Ted to generate tremendous power from the lower body which is much harder to do with a long stride. See how much taller Ted stands in the box from beginning to and of his swing than somebody like Beni who sometimes look like an old style drop and drive pitcher throwing because he takes such a long stride in the batter's box. Ted had none of the characteristics of the typical LH hitter other than his swing being just slightly bigger than the typical RH hitter.. But Ted had the advantage of using a great RH hitter's swing from the LH side of the plate. It was a tremendous advantage to Ted who was always going to see more RH pitchers than Left...true today as well assuming a hitter is not platooned. Look at video of Ted's swing and look at his splits. That is all it will take. Remember, the guy had three years hacked out of the middle of his career. It really does not effect the argument other than to imagine what his career totals would have been for hits, HR's and extra base hits had he played those three years.

So does anybody in the area know if playing two on Sunday is realistic as far as the projected weather is concerned?

Don't hate Beni. Tired of hearing about the pretty swing as if its the best swing on this club. It just isn't. Its often just too long, too big. Once Dever's swing gets a bit less violent and he actually learns how to work AB's, he will be a better hitter than Beni. But Beni's swing will still be ......prettier.

As much as the Sox booth talks about how sweet Beni's swing is, LH hitters swings have always looked impressive if they are good hitters. But I would take Mookie's swing over Beni's every day and twice on Sunday. Its short, its quick. He keeps his bat in the hitting zone longer than Beni does. Mookie has the best swing on this club. JD has the purest swing on this club. Devers has the most violent swing on this club. Beni's swing is....pretty.

Keeps going oppo through the end of the season might just save his salary potential.

If he keeps throwing the Change this way I don't know who will have success against him. Astros maybe. But the rest of the league is just going to uppercut swing themselves silly at air. He does not even have to throw more than a cutter with the Change and they still can't hit it. That said, as I have said before, MLB is heading in entirely the wrong direction with this nonsense and they are now beginning to pay for it.

Price does seem to do better with Sandy. But I would not really let a game against the O's lead to any real conclusions. The way hitters hit now has made the Change the single most critical pitch in baseball, more so than the split, more than the FB, more than any cutter or curve. Their bats typically don't stay in the hitting zone long enough to even get a bat on a Change even if it is up in the zone. That did not used to be the case. As long as the the pitcher throwing the Change stays out of the middle of the plate, guys like the typical O's hitter are not going to hit the thing even if its up. LH pitchers even throw it to LH hitters now...unheard of in the past. Price has thrown Changes and Cutters all day and they can't touch him. Did from the first inning on.

2022.....Oh my God. Does sort of make you wonder though. Davis is 32. Tulo is 33. Donaldson is 32. These are not that old to be just broken down shells of themselves. There is something behind this trend that we are not seeing. Either they are using and their bodies are breaking down through chemical abuse or the game is just killing them off at a faster rate. While I would expect these guys at that age to be making the turn or at the 11th hole. These guys are basically done. They are far from the only examples either. Not by a long shot.

You think thats bad! The Jays are on the hook for Tulo till after 2021. They get out from under broken down Donaldson I think next year. Stuck with Morales through 2019 also. I think this is it for Davis, this year.

Notice how often now we see hitters tap themselves on the chest indicating to the pitcher that "this time out is on me. I was not ready to hit". Well why weren't you ready to hit? Indicating to the world that you were not ready is no excuse for not being ready.

I will point out one issue this sox team has when Nobody is pitching for the other team. They go from an aggressive hitting team to ridiculous. Might help them to see if this guy can actually throw three strikes in a row without throwing a juicy pitch or walking somebody. Beni is particularly noteworthy in that regard against these guys named Nobody.

Price is legit picking these guys apart. I am not sure that Yuki is doing more than taking advantage of the sleepy early inning sox.

Moreland making sure his stuff is in all the right places after that stretch.

He's nobody. Unfortunately whenever you see the name Nobody emblazoned on the back of an opposing pitcher's jersey, watch out with the Sox.

They considered it but realized it would have torqued off all 5 fans sitting in the seats today.

They might be falling into Cora's strategy and figuring they are always going to score late and often That is fine for Cora to think that way. He's the manager. It's not a great idea if the players are thinking that way.

Not sure this O's team can do much with price if he keeps throwing like this

I know we want to blame all of these empty seats on localized Baltimore issues but MLB is headed for a disaster of a year in attendance. TV ratings holding to last year's numbers which makes some sense.

Lets see how long it takes for Yukibonehead to fall apart