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  1. Maxbialystock
    Thorough as always.
  2. Maxbialystock
    I'm getting it on my ipad, but am in complete agreement with you. It's infuriating.
  3. Maxbialystock
    I never disagreed about making Gil pay. But I did point out something that surprised me, which is the Sox may be lousy with RISP, but 80% of MLB teams are worse than the Sox.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Good stuff on Lowe. At the start of the season, Casas, Campbell, and Wong were in the lineup. Narvaez quickly replaced Wong as the starter. Campbell and his -1.0 WAR are back in Worcester. Casas WAR for 29 games was -0.9. Oh, and the Sox have used 13 starters (including Crawford who never started but not including Bernardino who started 3 games for 1 IP each). Right now the Sox scoring/hitting are struggling because Anthony and Abreu are on the IL, Bregman and especially Rafaela are in slumps, and Devers .905 OPS is gone.
  5. Maxbialystock
    You left out that the Sox stayed with Ref as the others did not. Ref has 53 total chances to Yoshida's 4, so I suspect Cora agrees with me. Ref even has 2 outfield assists. His RF is 2.10 to Yoshida's 1.50.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Sox are going with their 3 best starters against the Yankees--Giolito, Bello, and Crochet. When the Sox took 3 of 4 at Yankee Stadium 3 weeks ago, Gil and Fried pitched well for the Yankees and Warren did not. Bello and Crochet pitched well and Giolito gave up 3 ER in 4.2 IP.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Season to date, most MLB team batting averages with RISP are below .250. The Sox BA is .254. Brewers are highest with .261. Sox RISP OPS is .749, 4th highest in MLB. I say that knowing I have steadily pinned the Sox with the "RISP disease" rap.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Yeah. I was comparing 56 to 128, not 184. He still has the highest OPS, .873, on the team and his OPS vs righties, .632, is only a tad below Yoshida's .655. Plus he's a better fielder with a better arm. In his 4 seasons with the Sox Ref's 4 OPS's have been .881, .681, .830, and .873 this year.
  9. Maxbialystock
    All I'm saying is that anyone who can hit MLB pitching is going to play. Agree Ref is a lot better against lefties than righties, but he still has filled an important niche. Are you unaware that half of his at bats have been against righties and that his overall OPS, .873, is highest on the Sox? Also that he did not DH until Devers left on June 15, When he started before then, it was in the outfield. The rest of the time he was a pinch hitter. Good point about Ozzie Smith, an absolutely dazzling SS whose lifetime OPS was .666. I hear you on DH as a "regular position," but would point out that every DH loses points in their overall WAR because they don't field a position. Ted Williams had a negative DWAR in all 17 of his regular seasons. So did Manny Ramirez. So has Rafael Devers.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Agree!!! Anthony's June OPS was .668, but his July and August OPS's were .946 and .909. And it was in those 2 months plus Anthony's last 2 games on Sep 1 and 2, that the Sox went from 42-44 to 78-62. I believe most of the credit should go to the Sox pitching, but you can't win if you can't score, and Anthony sure helped in the hitting department. The Sox are 3-4 since Sep 2. Your other four examples simply exacerbate the loss of Anthony. And to me the big worry is that, while Anthony is out, Bregman and Duran could continue to be subpar, we have no idea what Abreu can do whenever he returns, etc.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Well said. I would hasten to add that right now 2 of the Sox best hitters, Anthony and Abreu, are on the IL and Bregman with his ever-diminishing OPS of .836 is in a slump.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Devers was even more of a "situational role player" this season for the Sox. He was the DH every day and all day long, and his OPS was .905. Big Papi was a "situational role player" for the Sox and is in the HOF. Manny Ramirez was a liability in LF, always with a negative DWAR, but a huge asset at bat. In 1958 Ted Williams DWAR in LF was a whopping -2.4, but he came in 7th in MVP voting because his OPS was 1.042. Hitting isn't everything. It's the only thing--and don't you forget it.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Meh. I'm looking at the espn Sox stats chart and it shows that Campbell's WAR for 67 games was -1.0, Casas's for 29 games was -0.9, Toro's for 77 games was -0.4, and Yoshida's for 41 games is -0.3. Of the four you cited, Hamilton's WAR for 84 games is +1.0 and Ref's for 62 games is +1.2. I completely agree the Sox hitting is suspect, but find it hard to blame that on the bottom of the order guys--and you left out Wong with his -0.6 WAR in 56 games. The real problem is the absence of Anthony and Abreu (and maybe Mayer) combined with the slumps of Bregman and Rafaela. Yesterday Cora batted Lowe, a reject from the Nationals a month ago, 3d in the lineup. He was hitless. Like you, I'm not much of an Eaton fan, but he had 2 hits with an rbi and a run scored. It is what it is. The real strength of this team is the pitching.
  14. Maxbialystock
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  15. Maxbialystock
    Bullpen doing well so far. But 5 innings to go. Need more timely hitting.
  16. Maxbialystock
    As you should.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Interesting how quickly Cora pulled the plug on Tolle. Completely justified, of course, but shows how much Cora wants to win this game. Plus tomorrow is an off day for entire pitching staff. Tolle has been hit hard by two hard-hitting teams. He doesn't have good breaking stuff and his control isn't very good.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Sox are 2/14 with RISP.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Here's a chance for Tedballgame to jump in and say that Wong should never have gone home on that Bregman grounder. Tedballgame always gets it right because he has 20-20 hindsight.
  20. Maxbialystock
    That was a very short throw from LF. A good throw beats Duran.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Haven't you both said Breslow failed to get a good starter on or before July 31?
  22. Maxbialystock
    COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA. You have just said Breslow is a failure for not producing the only dominant Sox pitching staff ever in his 2d year as CBO.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Indeed.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Based on the comments, I'd say the OP is right on target. DH is wrong for an athlete like Campbell, but his fielding apparently stinks wherever he goes. Plus there is not yet convincing evidence his hitting has improved. This might not even be worth discussing were it not for Campbell's 8 year $60M contract.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Not much of a lineup-- Duran LF Bregman 3B Lowe 1B Story SS Yoshida DH Sogard RF Hamilton 2B Eaton CF Wong C
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