Maxbialystock
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Miserable bottom of the first. Lots of fastballs, popped up.
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Here's hoping the Fenway fans make a difference.
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2-2-1 is bad enough, but 2-2-1-1-1 is absurd.
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You bet.
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My mistake. “What if” can be fun.
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I went back and read/reread some of the early pages and comments. This has been a really good thread.
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Neat!
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You have been the leading proponent for never playing Kike at 2b because he plays centerfield so well. Now you want to screw up the outfield so that Dalbec, who is hitless in October, can hit instead of Arroyo, who has--wait for it--7 hits in October and 2 hits in the ALCS vs. the Astros. To do this you also have to ignore that Dalbec has a DWAR of -1.1 at first base whereas Schwarber has demonstrated in 7 postseason games he's not half-bad at 1b. He sure as heck seems more adaptable than Dalbec, who needed almost an entire season to figure out 1b even though he only had to shift from 3b to 1b, which should have been duck soup, as indeed it was for Youk. As for ERod, I'm nervous. Yes, absolutely, he looked great vs. the Rays, but the Astros OPS vs. lefties in the postseason has been .957.
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A Realistic View at 2021: Part III
Maxbialystock replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
"A Realistic View at 2021" might need some tinkering as a thread title. How about, "An Attempt at a Realistic View of 2021?" Forget the topsy-turvy season the Sox have had. I've been watching the 88 wins Braves take the first two games from the 106 wins Dodgers, who had to win the wild card game before whipping the 107 win Giants by taking game 5 at Candlestick Park. -
Just the Bruins, Pats, and Sox? No Celtics? I starting watching them and the NBA when they had Sharman and Cousy but not yet Russell, KC, and Sam. The Celtics and Lakers are tied with 17 championships apiece.
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Interesting. The Dodgers are supposed to have better pitching and better hitting.
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So true. When you round off, all ten of the postseason teams won slightly less than 6 out of 10 games or slightly more than 6 out of 10 games.
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The slowpoke Sox stole 40 bases this year, and the speed demon Braves 59--so they stole 19 more bases in 162 games or 1 more every 8 games. That said, I agree both teams will be hard to beat in the WS because both have good pitching and hitting. With the DH, the Sox scored 829 runs in the regular season. Without the DH, the Dodgers scored 830 and the Braves 790.
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I was being facetious in the remark about Scherzer. The Braves won just 88 games in the regular season to the Dodgers 106 and Giants 107, but they are playing good ball and have an insane postseason ERA of 2.04.
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Wrong!!!! Scherzer the Magnificent held the Braves incredible lineup to 2 measly runs in 4.1 innings, and his manager will be putting him in for some pretty important citations when this is over with.
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The Braves centerfield looked slow and sloppy on the soft liner that went by him for a double and 2 Dodger runs in the 7th.
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Astros team OPS vs. lefties in the postseason is .957. but I'm sure ERod will be fine. Sale was--for 2.2 innings and 1 run.
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Pretty fair overall assessment.
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Good reminder. I was pissed every time Arroyo bounced one, but delighted when Schwarber caught it because doing so screws up all those negative nellies who claim Schwarber is borderline useless in the field. No excuse for Arroyo's bad throws.
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Knowing more than me. Your laydowns are always excellent, but, as I say, above my competency. I can't do payrolls, trades, etc, but occasionally don't mind reading about them.
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I read that too. Very cool. We gotta get him back.
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Meh. Trust ain't the right word for this pitching staff because without exception they have all bombed. What makes Cora so great as a manager is that he trusts his pitchers--but also verifies. Thus Sale started game 1 of the ALCS and actually pitched better (1 run in 2.2 innings) than Houck, Robles, and Sawamura in that same game against that same Astros lineup. Oh, and guess who bailed out Sawamura and got the final two outs in the 8th inning of game 1? Perez!! You know, the same guy who has disappointed us time and time again this year. Sale, by the way, did his level best to destroy the Sox in the ALDS by starting game 2 and giving up 5 runs in the 1st. But then Houck, the same guy who gave up two killing runs in game 1 of the ALCS, came in and pitched five superb innings, giving up 1 run, and enabled the Sox to come back to win 14-8. Our ace is Eovaldi, who was going great guns yesterday until he got hammered for 3 runs in the 4th freaking inning.
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And I disagree wholeheartedly. It's not just that I think Cora needs as many pitching options as possible, especially when his bullpen has pitched 39 of the 63 innings the Sox have thus far played in the postseason, it's that the Sox don't have a bunch of talented position players not already on the postseason roster. What they do have, however, is the best hitting lineup the Sox have ever had in the freaking postseason! Arroyo ain't hitting at 2b, but no way do we want Kike back there. The one guy who clearly would have helped is Iglesias, who's ineligible. People complain about Santana being there, but he has two real virtues: speed on the bases and versatility in the field. Shaw and Dalbec are acceptable pinch-hitters, plus Dalbec can play 1b or even 3b. Plawecki is OK as the #2 catcher. Who or what else does Cora freaking need?
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Of course you know why. You think Cora is stupid and incompetent.
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Oh, stop it. I understand all of the above, but it's still above my paygrade. I think keeping both Sale, which the Sox have no choice in, and ERod is spending too much on long shots. So, even though I kind of agree with you that ERod ain't as bad as people claim, no way would I give him a QO over $10M. So I think Bloom goes with Eovaldi, Sale, Pivetta, Houck, and a player to be named later, and gets some more arms for the bullpen. He will always have the opportunity to trade Schwarber, JDM, Dalbec, whoever if the pitching needs gets urgent enough.