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  1. sk7326
    Whitlock saved the night - and Tampa of all teams lost on some shaky fundamentals late. Somehow or another this team has made the Final Four. This was a four game series - but boy was it hard. The top of the lineup were the heroes - but a hat tip to Christian Vasquez who has been clutch the last two games. There is something to be said about him just being a hard guy to punch out.
  2. sk7326
    Thing with Jimenez is that there is just not a lot of power ... .306/.346/.405 ... but there is a lot of contact and of course as an 80 runner, you're going to pop. I really have no idea how he handles Portland - the real "is he a guy or not" level for these dudes.
  3. sk7326
    Honorable mention in Keith Law's Prospect of the Year column https://theathletic.com/2840781/2021/09/22/2021-prospect-of-the-year-royals-bobby-witt-jr-tops-keith-laws-award-list/
  4. sk7326
    Where the defensive non performance has been underlined is if you look at Eovaldi's season - he has really had some Cy Young caliber fundamentals this year.
  5. sk7326
    Fans - and orgs to be fair. It's just hard to save enough runs at any position to make up for a .270 OBP or something. But Bradley's production was enough for the other stuff to play.
  6. sk7326
    Defense is important - but we're also in an era where fewer balls are put in play than ever. But you can sort of see the defensive issues in the spread between the team's FIP and ERA which is the worst in the AL.
  7. sk7326
    Yeah - the Sox are in pretty good shape. If the depth continues to be tested, we'll see what happens. Brock Holt is not available - so the next ghost of Red Sox utility infielder past to sign might have to be Alex Cora himself.
  8. sk7326
    Well ... one possibility. Let's say you simulate the stretch run 10,000 times. 3300 times the Red Sox and Yankees make it 3300 times the Red Sox and Blue Jays make it 3400 times the Yankees and Blue Jays make it. In this scenario the Red Sox make the playoffs in 66% of the scenarios while the Yankees and Blue Jays make it in 67% of them.
  9. sk7326
    The Red Sox will make the play-in game then lose 7 players to COVID protocols and beat the Yankees with Kevin Plawecki getting the save.
  10. sk7326
    A season crushing outbreak is a very 2021 way for the season to limp to the finish line.
  11. sk7326
    I'd be stunned if they did not give him a mitt.
  12. sk7326
    Some teams have better chances than others ... but if the bet is "Any specific team vs the field" the field is always the favorite.
  13. sk7326
    tricky thing about Rizzo is that he is a rental ... Now, he has been down in 2020-21, but has also been a 4-win player as recently as 2019. His Statcast batted ball stats have not actually changed. He is still hitting it hard and squaring the ball as ever. His BABIP numbers have been silly outliers for his career that do not really square with his actual contact. Dalbec's issue entirely about hitting the baseball on offense at least. Rizzo is a costly deal and I'm not saying we should do it. But he's a good player and would be a huge upgrade at the position we are league worst at.
  14. sk7326
    With Houck the big issue is whether he can keep lefties off of him in general. Now his splits have been encouraging but the samples have not been huge. But with multiple looks and a delivery that gives lefties a pretty good look at him, there is risk. He has the arm slot and delivery to be very uncomfortable for right handers. Once he - whether it be splitter or whatever - has some real confidence and results against lefties something can happen.
  15. sk7326
    This is baseball - you gave a good chance to win it by being in the tournament. Improvement on the margins can make a big difference. I'm not advocating "selling the farm" (not that there is a ton to sell) ... but chances to win it all should not be taken lightly either.
  16. sk7326
    Long term matters for sure. That said, every chance for a pennant is special - and these dudes and Cora deserve the front office giving them the best opportunity to do so.
  17. sk7326
    Yeah for them it is always about "can they find enough offense". They've always built to their ballpark - where flyballs often go to die, and focus on run prevention accordingly.
  18. sk7326
    Of course they got Nelson Cruz. If you have the prospects, making a flags fly forever deal is not terrible. Now it helps to have depth like the Dodgers who were not going to miss Jeter Downs par exemple.
  19. sk7326
    I think Dalbec's struggled have manifested everywhere. Just the nature of things. Fielding has struggled - his approach has gone to seed at the plate.
  20. sk7326
    Yes - there has been definite good fortune. I mean, if we're handicapping the likely playoff field, I'd put the Sox behind the Rays and Astros - but of course the MLB playoffs are a crapshoot - it has ever been thus. the nice thing is the areas of improvement the team needs are not super costly ones.
  21. sk7326
    maybe - but he has always been a dude who had trouble hitting the baseball ... no reason to believe that massive strikeout rate is going anywhere. I think he is an interesting player, but he's way up in his head right now.
  22. sk7326
    Entirely possible. I'd just counter that the Sox have been running out the worst 1B position in the bigs this season - so upgrading that position to even average would have an outsized impact. There might just be too many holes in his swing for Dalbec to be a reliable regular.
  23. sk7326
    The cost for a starter could be prohibitive relative to getting a Raisel Iglesias or something. Carlos Santana for 1B makes sense and he wouldn't be a rental iirc.
  24. sk7326
    Anyway, to me the trade deadline is pretty simple for the Sox. The priorities are simple, and probably can be met without big headline acquisitions 1. Pitching depth 2. Raising the floor at 1B Getting a corner bat should not be difficult. Even if it is a Steve Pearce sort, that could have an outsized impact given what the position is giving the Sox right now. Garrett Cooper seems like he'd be right in the wheelhouse there, especially with some significant team control left.
  25. sk7326
    Until Houck has a consistent approach to get lefties out, he's a pretty strict 2 times through the order guy - that's how the Sox have gotten mileage out of him. Now, it would be nice to be able to land - say, Kyle Gibson ... but I doubt that Bloom is going to pay the price there.
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