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  1. Maxbialystock
    Indeed. The key to the pitching game, in fact. However, Bello was good after that disastrous 1st inning--3 runs and 29 pitches.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Our esteemed pitching coach and manager gave Bello the honor of opening the season. You know, what Chris Sale used to do when he was good.
  3. Maxbialystock
    I am (and have been) focused on the results. Simply stated, the rotation has been the best thing on a team that has no business being @ .500 1/3 into the season with its lack luster lineup, weak defense, and a so-so bullpen whose closer, Jansen, is overpaid. Story and Yoshida have been awful (and expensive) acquisitions while the Sox pay Chris Sale $17M to be the Braves best starter with, so far, 8 wins, 64 IP, an ERA of 2.12, and 78 K's. Oh, and we can't forget the genius move of paying Giolito $18M not to pitch for the Sox. These Sox are watchable because Cora and his pitching coach are working a small miracle--with almost no help from the FO.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Neither do I, but Bello isn't being paid anywhere near what an ace gets.
  5. Maxbialystock
    What about the Sox fielding? Could the grounder to Devers have been a GIDP? Could the grounder to Grissom have been an out?
  6. Maxbialystock
    3-2 Orioles.
  7. Maxbialystock
    With an 0-2 count, Bello hits the batter on a very WP. Bases loaded with a run in and 1 out.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Grounder to Grissom, no out. 1 run in.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Another unseen play, ground out, Devers throwing to 2b. Was a GIDP missed?
  10. Maxbialystock
    After 10 pitches by Bello, Orioles have 2 on and no one out. And pitch #11 is still another pitch in the dirt.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Was the double by Henderson hard hit?
  12. Maxbialystock
    Grissom lines out. This lineup looks promising.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Now that was different. Granted, Duran and Wong K'd, but the dinger, double, single, and 2 runs weren't chopped liver. Here's hoping Bello has his good stuff and especially good command tonight.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Great stuff, but right now I'm hung up on the collective lineup, way more than individual slots, and that's because the collective lineup this season is so inexperienced. Except for Devers. To me that 8th inning 3-run "rally" by the Sox last night at Camden Yards was no such thing. Up by 11-0 in the 8th, the Orioles reliever walked the first 3 Sox batters, after which his 2d pitch to Gonzalez was a fastball right down the middle, which turned into a triple. Out goes Vieira and in comes Perez, who gets Smith to fly out in short LF, Rafaela to K, and Duran to K--all while Gonzalez sat on 3b waiting to come home. In other words, those 3 runs were a gift from Viera.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Amen. Game starts @ 6:35.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Plus Cora doing all he can to expose the weaknesses of Smith and Cooper--by playing them.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Here's what Sox Prospects says about Kavadas: "Potential emergency bench bat. Ceiling of platoon bench bat. Does not project to add much value defensively or on the bases. . . Considerable swing-and-miss in his game, which as been exposed to a more singificant degree in the upper minors . . . holes in his swing."
  18. Maxbialystock
    Thanks for starting the game thread. Decent lineup. O'Neill out another game, but Ref this year hits righties better. And Abreu, Rafaela, and Duran are the best outfield. Hamilton and Grissom both hit righties better than Gonzalez.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Agree they are "consistent" as in consistently bad. As I've said before, I think the main reason is then inexperience of most of the lineup. Duran, Rafaela, Abreu, Wong, Casas, Hamilton, and Grissom are all in their first or second seasons in MLB. McGuire and Gonzalez have more seasons than 2, but neither has been a regular. And the same applies to Refsnyder as an outfielder. O'Neill played 6 seasons for the Cardinals, but most of them were as a backup. He was fantastic 3 years ago with 141 games, OPS .912, and 34 dingers, but has tapered off since then. So the one bonafide regular in this lineup is Rafael Devers, who is in his 7th straight season as the Sox starting third baseman.
  20. Maxbialystock
    And that's the real point. Why this endless discussion of 1b when it's one of 9 positions, not including pitchers, of which every MLB team has 13?
  21. Maxbialystock
    Very fitting. A brilliant basketball player and, more than that, a stutterer who overcame it at age 28. An anti-Vietnam protester when he was a star for UCLA, whose coach, John Wooden, didn't appreciate protests. Yet Walton learned much from Wooden and was a lifelong friend after he graduated. Long after UCLA, Walton backed up Robert Parish with the Celtics, which brought still another NBA title in 1986. Later, Parish asked Walton to be his inductee when he was admitted to the HOF. I must confess I was never a fan of the Grateful Dead and still less a fan of Bill Walton's announcing.
  22. Maxbialystock
    ok, ok.
  23. Maxbialystock
    I almost like Dalbec right now, but I can't disagree with anything you've said.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Thanks for saying that about Dalbec. But I really like your theoretical roster for next year.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Since you posted this twice, a response is due. Sox payroll is $182M, 11th biggest. But then you have to subtract $17M they are paying Sale to pitch for Atlanta, $7M to Turner, who's also gone, $22.5M for Story who's missed the season, ditto $18M for Giolito, $19M for Yoshida who is out for an indeterminate period and who couldn't hit before then, and $3.5M for Whitlock, who's missing 5/6 of the season. Subtract that $87M, and you have a $95M payroll, of which $29M goes to Devers, and $16M. Both are having good seasons, but that leaves just $50M to pay for 12 of the Sox 13 pitches and 12 of the Sox 13 position players. By my reckoning, they should have a losing record.
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