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  1. FredLynn
    Replacing Taylor with this bum is just another Taylor clone.
  2. FredLynn
    Get this bum out of there!
  3. FredLynn
    This lead isn’t safe with this bum out there
  4. FredLynn
    He’s about to walk in and run. Get someone up in the bullpen.
  5. FredLynn
    He’s going to walk the bases loaded.
  6. FredLynn
    It’s 11-0
  7. FredLynn
    Back to back walks with an 11-0 lead. More dumpster fodder
  8. FredLynn
    Faria has an era of about 6.5. Is this all we got?
  9. FredLynn
    There’s the two runs we needed to lock this up
  10. FredLynn
    Out of it Good job by Bello Not quite as sharp as usual but acceptable
  11. FredLynn
    We’re going to need another run or two to win this
  12. FredLynn
    Come on guys-gotta communicate. Verdugo has to call Turner off there
  13. FredLynn
    Hendricks isn’t fooling anyone
  14. FredLynn
    Crushed
  15. FredLynn
    Nice start to the second half. Bello is 10th in the league in ERA. If he can stay healthy he’s going to be quite an asset.
  16. FredLynn
    I don't see this here. They drafted Kyle Teel, a highly regarded catcher at #14. Apparently he was the best catcher on the board. https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2023/07/09/red-sox-kyle-teel-2023-mlb-draft-scouting-report-catcher/
  17. FredLynn
    I don’t see the Bruins season like that at all. They had an incredibly entertaining season. Watching them every night you just knew they were going to win.
  18. FredLynn
    I got the As feed to watch it-recorded. The announcers said that Arroyo has only had two errors ever playing 2B. If true that’s pretty amazing.
  19. FredLynn
    We aren’t (or at least I am not) talking about difficult plays that require great range. I am referring to plays that clearly should be made and aren’t getting made. Our 29th in baseball ranking in fielding percentage isn’t made up, nor is it insignificant. It’s going to have to get better if the team wants to be relevant this year, next year-any year.
  20. FredLynn
    The bottom line is that we are not competitive in the division and defense is one major reason why that is so. I would guess that most WS winners are at least decent defensively and we are now 29th in baseball in that category. Its an area that the team has to greatly improve if we are going to compete with the other good teams in the ALE. We are dead last in fielding percentage in the AL. Guess where the Rays and O's are. They are 1 and 2. Fortunately the Yankees are having a similar bad year in the field and are 12th in the league. You can't keep giving other teams extra outs and expect to win consistently.
  21. FredLynn
    Fielding percentage is definitely of limited usefulness as a defensive metric, but to say its useless is incorrect. When a player can get to a ball fairly easily and there is an out to be made then its expected that the play will be completed competently the vast majority of the time. When that doesn't happen your fielding percentage goes down and you have given the other team another out. For example, when Devers last night easily got to a ball hit just about right to him and threw wide of Casas he gave the As another out. When Duran ran right past the ball hit to LF he gave them another out. That play was more difficult, but he did get there in time and its a play that has to be made. This is a pattern that repeats itself nearly every game and is one reason why we are in last place.
  22. FredLynn
    Perhaps so, but then you totally missed my point. Are you happy with the defense this version of the Red Sox are playing? Now I understand that making errors is part of the game, but this team has made making errors into an art form. And as far as the lack of plate discipline goes, I watch the games and know what I see. It was much different when Schwarber was here. That guy led by example. Great eye for the plate and it rubbed off. As I said, good teams don't look like clowns in the field nearly every game. They all make errors. Did you realize that this team is TWENTY NINTH in fielding percentage in MLB? Only the Giants are worse. My eyes are not deceiving me. The statistics bear it out. And while we won the game last night you need to be at least DECENT in the field to be relevant in the playoffs. Isn't that the goal? The goal isn't beating awful teams like the As and sometimes beating good ones. Its MAKING THE PLAYOFFS! https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/view/fielding
  23. FredLynn
    I couldn’t care less what the Yankees fans complain about. Right now we are in LAST PLACE, are swinging at too many balls that aren’t close to the strike zone, and look like clowns on defense. You just aren’t going to win with any consistency like that. The goal isn’t to win against crap teams and have a roughly.500 record-it’s to get into the playoffs and take it from there.
  24. FredLynn
    You can’t win consistently and be relevant in terms of contending with no plate discipline and playing like clowns in the field. Sure, you’ll win some games anyway-especially against horrible teams. But that’s not the goal, is it.
  25. FredLynn
    You do realize that they have no plate discipline and look like clowns on defense, right?
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