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Everything posted by Bellhorn04

  1. Bellhorn04
    It's classic.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I think Vegas's over/under of 86.5 wins was eminently fair.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Duran starting to produce would be a big boost to the offense.
  4. Bellhorn04
    I'll take your word on the first one but the second one might not stand up to scrutiny.
  5. Bellhorn04
    But he's no Papi.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It's certainly a valid argument. To me Casas makes a good test case because he's a young hitter who seemed to have a great approach when he came up but now seems to have badly regressed.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I think it's all part of the same issue - a lousy approach.
  8. Bellhorn04
    In Game 10 the Sox scored 18 runs. In the 8 games since they've scored 15 - 2 of them in extra innings.
  9. Bellhorn04
    He has a career OPS+ of 120. But his fielding has been terrible and now he also looks terrible at the plate. Yuck.
  10. Bellhorn04
    The sample size for team K's-2024 + the first 18 games of 2025-is already legit to be deeply concerned about IMHO.
  11. Bellhorn04
    The Sox offense fell off a cliff in mid-August last year. A lot of this was attributed to Devers playing hurt. But maybe it also had something to do with "the book" that opposing pitchers have on our hitting approach being refined. And that would be why it seems to have carried forward into 2025.
  12. Bellhorn04
    And like I've pointed out, Casas's approach seems to have deteriorated badly since his first season. Maybe they've ruined him.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Rather than start a new thread I'll just resurrect this one.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Somehow the data-driven approach has also poisoned the fielding! Kidding but maybe not.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Maybe so, but it's only in 2024 and 2025 that the Sox have ascended to the top in the K department. I'm not so much blaming Lawson as I am blaming an approach that Lawson obviously fit into perfectly as far as the Sox were concerned. I can't remember seeing so many brutal box scores like last night's 14 K 0 BB debacle. They're becoming a regular occurrence. Maybe we have to start looking at you, Mr. Breslow...
  16. Bellhorn04
    I believe the day the Sox hired Dillon Lawson, who was fired mid-season by the Yankees (which rarely happens with hitting coaches), will go down as a dark dark day in the history of the Sox offense.
  17. Bellhorn04
    We are the Sultans of Swish.
  18. Bellhorn04
    This is exactly what I'm afraid of. They've gone all in on some sort of "data-driven" philosophy. As of now the philosophy is looking scary bad, with last night's 14 K/0 BB fiasco adding to the growing pile of horrible numbers. Kind of laughed off the Rice incident at the time, but maybe it wasn't so funny.
  19. Bellhorn04
    He's just more patient than us, and that's usually a good thing.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, there's a lot of over-reaction. Maybe I'm guilty as well with my questioning of Fatse and Lawson, but the problems I'm pointing out didn't just start in these 16 games. As always, the good news is the team pays no attention to any of us!
  21. Bellhorn04
    2019 also came after 3 straight division titles and 1 World Series championship. And I don't think the 2019 disappointment in itself was the reason DD was let go. It was "new direction" time.
  22. Bellhorn04
    What I always look at is the "standings". 2021 Red Sox were #20 in Ks - so better than average. 2022 #17 2023 #18 2024 #3 2025 #1 (Colorado has a higher rate per game)
  23. Bellhorn04
    Obviously this year's sample is still small, but what I notice is the ratio getting worse each year. When I bring up the trend in the Sox strikeout numbers, one of the responses has been that it's more about the roster construction than anything to do with 'organizational philosophy'. But Casas is supposed to be one of the guys with a good patient plate approach. Also, if we're constructing a team with a lot of guys with high swish rates, that kind of reflects a philosophy, doesn't it?
  24. Bellhorn04
    Have to win today just to square our 2024-2025 record against the mighty pale hose.
  25. Bellhorn04
    And the Sox only have 11 homers, with the MLB average being 15.
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