Bigemu23

It could be worse, the Braves have only hit 3 home runs AS A TEAM. Like over 90 individual players have hit as many or more home runs than the Braves

Being able to go first to third on a single and taking an extra base from a lazy outfielder are part of baserunning as well.

Apparently Miller wants to try and pitch through his injury

Apparently Miller could be out for a while now. He got hit in the wrist by a liner and it is described Cashman said Miller has "at least a bruised right wrist." Tests will tell the entire story.

I believe there is a Spring Training competition index that tells you what type of competition players have been facing during the course of ST. I think it is on Baseball Reference under the spring training stats for any particular ball club. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2016.shtml So Shaw has an OppQual of 8.1, meaning that he has been facing generally competition that is of AAA quality. Out of all your starters Kelly has faced the weakest opponents besides Owens, at 8.4. So he is right around the AAA quality competition as well, but then again so is Price at 8.6 I know this doesn't take into account players working on different things like bunting or throwing a certain pitch, but it does help to quantify who a person is playing against.

He really does need to do something about left field. I know HanRam was going to viewed as an average to below average fielder, but I don't think anyone thought he would be negative WAR bad. He has a -1.9 dWAR, and his offense has only been good enough to get him to -0.7 total WAR. He should be paying the Red Sox at this point.

I don't this warranted a new thread at all. But apparently the Rays High-A club had a A-Rod Juice Box night that got cancelled. the first 500 fans would get a juice box that had a list of side effects on it. Some included: tainted records and omission from the hall of fame. I found it pretty funny.

Ellsbury to the 15 day DL. Jacko, did you see what happened?

And to think the Royals were thought of to not really be in the race for the AL central. Lots of surprises this season so far. Especially with the AL west playing so badly, the Guardians/White Sox playing badly, Toronto and Baltimore at the bottom of the AL east, and Boston's offense scoring in the bottom half of the league.

Inconsistent umpire in the early going, should make for an agonizing game.

My bad, one word mistake. Does not change the content of my post.

You're defense should be a whole lot better without Hanley in the outfield. I think his DRS is something like -6, which I think is one of the worst in the league. I really don't know why they signed Panda to be honest. You could have had Xander/HanRam playing a combo of third and shortstop. With Castillo in the outfield (forgetting the DL stint of course). Then used the money saved from Panda to sign a pitcher.

Its either down the middle or horribly off plate

Certainly not for Clay's ERA.

They switched it to a double apparently.