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  1. Maxbialystock
    Wong good behind the plate. Actually, Wong great behind the plate. Whoever called the 3 straight sliders, all out of the strike zone, is a genius.
  2. Maxbialystock
    A different Sale tonight.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Verdugo RF Yoshida DH Casas 1b Devers 3b Duran CF Tapia LF Kike Hernandez SS Valdez 2b Wong C
  4. Maxbialystock
    Sale vs Musgrove, lefty vs. righty. Hate to say it, but the pitching edge has to go to Sale and the Sox, so that means the Padres are going to win tonight. You read it here first. Sox looked really good last night--Paxton, Winck, the deeply flawed Devers who swings at way too many pitches but somehow hit two dingers and drove in 4 runs, Dugo with that terrific dive and grab of a liner hit to his left, Duran taking decent routes in the outfield despite his deeply flawed instincts, etc. I think the key factor in the win may have been having our very own Thunder at Petco Park. Our Thunder stole theirs. The Sox winning percentage is now .556. Over 162 games that would mean 90 wins, so the Sox are definitely in the hunt for a wild card. Plus I think their best baseball is ahead of them because the pitching is starting to look pretty decent despite a team ERA ranked 26th in MLB.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Sale is back, period. The issue might still be his durability, even with the new elbow. What makes me optimistic is something you've already mentioned. The Sox right now seem to have three pretty good starters in Sale, Paxton, and Bello (who has good stuff but not yet good command). Plus the bullpen. Plus some choices for the other two starter jobs: Houck, Kluber, Crawford, Whitlock, and even Pivetta. We'll see what happens--as always--but right now I'm impressed with the depth of the Sox pitching.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Could not agree more. Winck was pitching well and able to go 3 innings in relief--so use him to seal the deal on a great start by Paxton. Crawford is back and last pitched Tuesday, and he too can pitch 2 or more innings in relief.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Good reply
  8. Maxbialystock
    You and Nick are both right.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Great point--and I'd forgotten.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Really good win despite the fact that Devers needs to fix his hitting and not swing so much, Valdez should be starting against lefties even though his OPS against lefties is .111, and the seemingly good pitching by the Sox wasn't really that good because somebody walked a .200 hitter from the Padres.
  11. Maxbialystock
    No, he shouldn't have. The Padres starter Snell is a lefty and Valdez's OPS against lefties is .111.
  12. Maxbialystock
    You are far and away the most astute commentator on talksox. Our Sox are up 6-1 in the 9th, and you are griping about the lousy pitching.
  13. Maxbialystock
    But he had a very different from swing from Devers swing. Plus Pujols hit righty and Devers hits lefty. Ted Williams hit lefty and was a relentless student of hitting. And I don't want Devers to try to be Ted Williams either.
  14. Maxbialystock
    I don't want Devers to be Pujols or Ted Williams (a much better hitter than Pujols) or any of those guys. I want him to be what he is, a guy who hits balls outside the strike zone as well or better than balls inside it. When he gets in a slump, I'm fine with whatever adjustments he might make, but right now I do not understand your insistence he be perfect when he's already hugely effective. Don't mess with success.
  15. Maxbialystock
    You make it sound oh so simple. And that word discipline encourages us to believe that Devers is actually out of control and needs to be reined in. And I disagree. I do agree Devers is unorthodox and swings at pitches outside of the zone, but I also think that really works for him.
  16. Maxbialystock
    But we all knew that, didn't we? I really, really like Bogaerts, who was in on two of the Sox World Series wins. But the money was too much for a guy his age.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Good golly, miss molly!!! Two dingers by Devers, who very possibly came to play tonight. Check back to the first post, mine, in which I said the Padres will have a big edge in pitching tonight.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Great at bat by Refsnyder, including that double off a pretty good changeup on the outside of the plate.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Dumb Padres. All they needed to do was throw fastballs down the middle to Dugo, who wisely let them walk him. Wong got that double off a first pitch fastball down the middle--also smart.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Hah! All good points.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Devers--just unreal. That was an excellent pitch, especially lefty on lefty--and out it went. Now Yoshida singles to the opposite field. Then Kike comes to the plate and acts like he's blindfolded, righty vs lefty yet.
  22. Maxbialystock
    OK, out of the 1st, but needed 22 pitches.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Paxton throwing a whole lot of fastballs. 90%? Finally, against the 5th Padres batter, we see the knuckle curve.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Two batters, two hard hit balls by the Padres.
  25. Maxbialystock
    That was not a tough play for Refsnyder and therefore a dumb play by Tatis of the Padres.
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