There is not one sliver of good in Pablo's numbers. He has a bWAR of minus .9 in only 32 games. That extrapolates to a bWAR of minus 4.5 in 160 games, which I'm guessing might be a contender for the worst bWAR in history.
You were advocating trading Pedroia at the start of the 2016 season, when he was 32 years, 8 months.
At the start of the 2008 season Ortiz was 32 years, 5 months.
3 months difference.
And how many times have you written him off in the past? Last year you had Trade Pedroia in your sig line and he ended up with a 5.7 WAR.
You'll be right eventually, of course.
Their starter has a bit more of a major league pedigree than Velazquez.
It was a debatable move, but I don't blame Farrell for not having a world of confidence in Velazquez.
Farrell pulled Velazquez for Abad with Hosmer and Moustakas coming up. Hosmer had already homered. Abad didn't do his job but it seemed like the right move.
This is a little surprising but it makes sense when you consider that it's not a home run park and home run rates have been soaring, probably because of a juiced ball mandated by Manfred.
It's all relative to what other teams are doing. We're at 4.65 runs per game, which is major league average, but since we play in a hitter's park we're actually below average. That's reflected in our OPS+ of 95.
I'd say we're underperforming by .5 runs per game below expectations.
Our offense has been mediocre and our pitching has been excellent. Does that mean the offense has been doing its job? It was expected to be better than mediocre.