jad
-
Posts
4,474 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by jad
-
Belt high fastballs with a two-strike count are not good put-away pitches.
-
When you're struggling for hitting, I'm not sure the best move is to take a guy who just came up, hit nearly .300 with the 2nd best OBP on the team, and send him down to make room for a .150 hitting utility player.
-
07/16- Sox vs. Yankees game 2
jad replied to Spudboy's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I'm not sure the Avatar gives you a lot of standing for lecturing others on racism. -
Maybe. But I don't think one HR every 45 innings is going to change much.
-
Any of the guys they have already. No .210 hitters needed at this point.
-
Well, you know. I mean, Lin doesn't ... you know ... "fit in". Like, I mean, this IS Boston, after all ...
-
Just saw him play in AA last week. His swing looks odd to me (although 4-4 ain't bad!), but his defense was spectacular. Sadly, Lin is probably not going to get a fair shot.
-
Now let's not get carried away! It's not as if Gary Geiger and Sammy White, or perhaps Gene Stephens (in there for defense, of course), or Don Buddin himself could have come in and saved the day!
-
Ah yes. Those big, dumb, right-handed .210 hitters -- something the RedSox have never been able to resist. (Let's see: Jack CLark, even Ray Boone, and who can forget Johnny Gomes? I'd add Dick Stuart, but that guy actually hit pretty well for them. And Mike Cameron didn't have the distinguishing features of most of the others, i.e., being white.)
-
Terrible at-bats in extra innings. Wild hacking. No discipline. The guy who seemed to have the best at-bats was Lin, who came close to winning it on the line drive to right.
-
Oh oh.
-
A-gon did not "suck" with the RS. He did exactly what he did elsewhere, hitting around .300. And until this year, he has done exactly that with LAD. The reasons he did not "fit in" acc. to many Boston fans had nothing to do with his production.
-
Exactly. He joins that elite group of players vilified by Boston fans: among those who come immediately to mind-- Manny, Boggs, Clemens, Jim Rice, Buckner (of course), Ortiz (when he had a bad year), Price (17-game winner), A. Gonzales, Dice-K (18 game winner), and of course Williams himself. Not a bad line-up.
-
Yup. I agree. This is the Pomeranz I was expecting to see.
-
Not a Pablo fan, but refusing an assignment to Pawtucket has nothing to do with character-- it's simply a function of the CBA, which does not allow teams to 'humiliate' a veteran into retirement (eg, the A-rod case), and thus gives players the option Pablo now has. Pablo doesn't do the RS any favors by accepting the 'assignment' (no one expected him to), since he would only be taking up space that could be occupied by players RS want to develop (Devers). Even if he burned it up in AAA, there is no way he comes back to the team. Thus, the only chance he has of getting back in the bigs is by becoming a FA.
-
Not sure Hanley is in the same boat: he had a decent year last year. What I don't understand is why they DH'd him, as he demonstrated pretty clearly that when he wasn't involved defensively (i.e., stuck in left field), his hitting suffered as well.
-
Just watched Devers play last night. Holy crap that guy is good in the field. Lots of tough plays. His swing looks wonky, even by the standards of AA-ball, but he seems to be doing ok statistically. Incidentally BRING THE 20 SECOND CLOCK to MLB!!! What a joy to watch a game that moves right along without having pitchers take 30-40 seconds between every pitch. (Of course, all that was enhanced by the 30 hits, and the fact that the SeaDogs won 8-7 on the only HR of the night-- a walk-off grand slam on an 0-2 pitch -- don't think I've ever seen that!)
-
Freakin' top of the order! One hit??? What a bunch of bums. Time to clean house and go into full rebuild mode. Start by getting rid of all the pitchers and position players. ...
-
Wow. Just saw the recap. I was looking here for that thread TRADE THAT BUM PEDROIA WHILE HIS VALUE IS INFLATED ...
-
Can't really blame JF if no one in the bullpen can throw strikes. I'm sure in a game like that, that's the first thing a reliever is told or how he is trained: whatever you do, DO NOT WALK ANYONE.
-
Wow. Just freaking wow. But at least we now know why no one was willing to throw a strike.
-
The first sports figure I idolized. By the time I watched him, his truly crazed days were behind him (he was playing with Williams and Jensen-- see Dustcover above). He gained a lot of notoriety and fame through Fear Strikes Out, which we all read. (I just realized that book and movie was contemporary with Rebel Without a Cause--both partaking in the cheap Freudianism of the day--"it's all dad's fault"-- probably why Piersall himself didn't like it.) It was hard to follow a non-local team then, and after he left the RS, it was as if he didn't exist. (Too bad--I would have loved to see him kick the butt of those fans in NY who presumably had been harassing Vic Power.)
-
All stats matter.
-
Well, all stats "work." Everything "works." It just depends on how you define what such things are supposed to do.
-
It is always amusing to hear internet posters referring to professional athletes as soft or wusses or whatever words distinguish them from the bad-ass posters themselves.
