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Two on one out....Gotta at least get a run out of this

I will have to watch the play again. Still does not absolve Salty from blocking the plate which would have been an automatic out. Expecting the ump to bail you out of plays like that is like arguing about the phantom tag at second base..."but his foot missed the bag" tell it to somebody who cares. The ump doesn't.

Wrong again...Remy just said he got tagged on his back..meaning that Salty's swipe tag at the front of Rasmus jersey missed him but that Salty did get him on the back. By then Rasmus hand was already in.

Youk working on 0 for the season

Doesn't matter where Doubront should have thrown the ball. What base was Salty covering?....no base that is what base.

Catcher,SS, Center field are the classic up the middle plus defensive positions Catcher...see last play at home...see any throw Salty makes SS, Aviles is Mr Hands of Stone with limited range...showed both in Detroit Center, Ells has a weak arm as does the entire outfield frankly. Ells showed the weak arm in Detroit as well Pedey is great second baseman but second is not included in the classic up the middle plus defender positions

a) he was safe ump would only have called him out if he "clearly" missed the bag and salty clearly tagged him. All Salty had to do was block the plate and hold onto the ball and the call goes the other way. Salty is is usual s*** behind the plate

A count of the runs this defense is going to cost the Sox is going to be staggering by the end of the season.

All Salty would have had to do to have that called an out was be in position. Ump would have awarded him an out as long as he hung onto the ball. Hate the Sox defense. They need to be strong up the middle and with little exception they are weak up the middle

Salty has no f***in' idea what he is doing back there ever!!!

Salty strikes again

Froze him!!! Way to go Felix

Good think the guy flied out. Seemed to be way over in Agons land for Salty there.

Oh I wanted that curve ball to be a strike. He would have had this guy so set up

Hit a good pitch there. Good hitting. I can take that.

Atta' boy Felix....go get these guys

Felix is trying to be to fine. To many full counts. These guys are OK but they aren't the Tigers. Go after them.

Ortiz hit through the shift 3 times in Detroit and now hit around it in Toronto. I really don't believe in shifting defenders completely out of position.

Based on how Beckett pitched and since he is already talking about injury, I would put "a bad day" at the bottom of the list of possibilities. Still possibly but less likely than injury or continued issues with his conversion from a fireballer to a pitcher.

There is no evidence that Aceves cannot successfully go back to last year's role. There is however some evidence that he might well be spitting the bit as a closer. In my view the difference is that Padilla just does not give a s***. He will not in my view spit the bit as a closer. If he is sound I believe he will make his pitches whereas Aceves is not pitching...he is just throwing.

Just talkin' about the way Beckett is pitching. Want do you want to argue that it was a quality start. It did not come out of thin air. Leland does not have a Beckett voodoo doll in his manager's office that he stuck before his start. We will know more after his next start. However to ignore how bad that was or to suggest that it just came out of thin air does not make much sense particularly since Josh is already discussing one element, the injury possibility. Where in my post did I recommend an action....like taking Beckett out of the rotation or something like that. Hummmm....guess I didn't.

Perhaps you folks should consider the fact that Bard was being groomed to close but is not closing more seriously. So just because...just for the fun of it...the Sox move a cost controlled player out of the position he was being groomed for and bring in a FA. Maybe you should think about that one!

Regardless of whether or not the idea of having a closer is flawed I doubt we will see that flip flop the other way. Hence, if I were a betting man I would bet the Sox will have a named closer.

Bard is starting because the FO thinks there is a good possibility that they have a starter in the making and want to vet that decision. Do you honestly think that a pitcher walks into any FO saying he wants to start and has the FO just roll over for him? He is starting because that is what the FO wants.

Beckett was hitting 94 in ST. Beckett has not been throwing the kind of heat he had as a young fireballer for awhile now. I am really not sure, but I actually think on a regular basis he will top out at 93 this year. He occasionally hit 94 last year but he was mostly 92-93. This looks more like injury to me because he location AND his velocity were off by a good deal. By the same token, you could see him even last year struggling with getting enough of a velocity difference between his FB and his secondary pitches. It is almost to me like he is fighting this thing which I can understand. Once he falls to 92-93, if there is not enough velocity difference between his other pitches and his FB the good hitters get right on his FB. Last year that usually resulted in single inning blowups. I am leaning toward injury in this case but there is also the chance that he is one year older having even more difficulty keeping the FB above 93 and hasn't yet gotten to the point where he is getting enough velocity difference between his FB and his other pitches.