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Video: Is Alex Cora On the Hot Seat? Should He Be?
Bellhorn04 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Talk Sox Front Page News
Well, I think we're overstating JH's loyalty to Cora bit. JH is still a businessman first and foremost. -
I'll go with the common sense test, myself. Crochet pitched great, Giolito pitched like crap, pitching wins and losses mean jack, because it's a team game. And you can figure that out just by looking at box scores.
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Great song by Rory Gallagher.
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That's easy to say but not so easy to put into practice, mainly because it's such a team game. Last night Giolito pitched horribly but the team got him off the hook for the loss. So his horrible pitching didn't actually lead to an L. Whereas Crochet's excellent performance in the previous game did lead to an L. So there you have 2 games in a row where the performance and the result didn't match up. And those are just the last 2 games played by our team.
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About six feet under.
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Errors are very reviewable after the fact. The scoring can be changed up to 24 hours after the game is over.
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The first number is the only one that matters. Leading to runs is a product of randomness just like everything else that advances baserunners.
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I'd like to see some data on that. 😀
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All I'm really saying is, errors may be overrated, as has been discussed at length here, but the Red Sox leading in baseball in errors this year, and a close second last year, is still a bad thing.
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So you believe the main reason the Red Sox lead baseball in errors is because of range?
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Base running errors are also a matter of opinion. Most of those are obvious too.
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Or maybe the bullpen pitching is bad and the fielding is bad too. I tend to think both can easily be true. I'm not into reductionism, personally.
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Some day we'll have robot scorers too. The fact is, a very high pct. of errors are not disputed by anyone.
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Advanced defensive metrics are measured against the average too. Should we toss them too?
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The 2024-2025 Red Sox aren't leading the planet in errors because of their superior range, that's for sure.
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This is a dumb argument. Making errors on basic plays is still bad, always has been and always will be. Range is a totally separate thing. And getting charged with an error on a really tough play is a mistake by the scorer. This is all Captain Obvious material.
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Sure, but if there are fewer errors charged now, it just means making errors is even worse now.
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So what? Balls and strikes and out and safe are opinions too.
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To say that errors are just opinion is oversimplifying IMO. Most of them are obvious, and the bad calls should even out. And they do review the calls and change some of them.
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Video: Is Alex Cora On the Hot Seat? Should He Be?
Bellhorn04 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Talk Sox Front Page News
Yes and yes. But I think it's extremely unlikely he gets fired in-season. And it's way too early. -
I'd like to see some data on that.
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But the Red Sox having the most errors and worst fielding pct. in MLB is probably not a good thing. Range metrics are obviously very important, but the impact of muffing simple plays (for a major leaguer) shouldn't be dismissed either, IMHO .
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Could be. One thing we know for sure: Grissom wasn't much of a get!
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You do have to wonder if the Driveline hitting philosophy even acknowledges there's such a thing as "situational hitting" or if they think every at-bat should be treated the same.
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Not that it matters at this point, but if Sale hadn't been traded and if he pitched as well for the Sox as he did for the Braves, he'd be with us this year because of the vesting option in his contract.
