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  1. Maxbialystock
    To me the stunner with the rotation is that we are almost at the midway point (3 weeks ahead), and Cora has been able to stick with 5 starters who average a tad over 5 innings per start. I see absolutely no ace on this team, but also no rotten egg, ERod's current ERA notwithstanding. He had a good April, a lousy May, and so far an almost hopeful June. If there are aces, their names are Whitlock and Barnes, and one can argue the most recent trend in MLB is to build a lockdown bullpen, which the Sox don't have.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Nothing more sacred on talksox than your right to your opinion. And I sure hope we never see the day when we agree on most things. Boring.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Quelle difference, which sarcastically means ERA + and plain old ordinary ERA both say the two staffs are evenly matched.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Publicly shaming for the Sox, who were "saved" in part because their sign stealing sure didn't help them in the postseason, plus I think John Henry was sincere when he said he would not tolerate it. Houston's penalties were more definite because their sign-stealing helped them win the WS plus it looks as though management was involved.
  5. Maxbialystock
    "boring and pointless" ????!!!! quantity has a quality of its own, and moonslav provides us with a cornucopia of stats that I consider to be helpful and insightful.
  6. Maxbialystock
    You didn't pick "winning," teams but rather WS-winning teams, which leaves out a whole bunch. Plus right now the talksox consensus seems to be these Sox are not WS-bound. However, your stats do show that Cora has basically been able to stick with 5 starters, which is pretty amazing by itself, given the Sox are about 3 weeks from reaching the 81 game (1/2 season) mark. At the same time, the average Sox starter goes just a tad over 5 innings, which leaves on average 3+ innings for the bullpen to cover. So leaving Whitlock there just might make sense for now. Also interesting are the top six WAR's for the Sox pitching staff: Perez 1.4; Eovaldi 1.3; Pivetta 1.3; Whitlock 1.1; Barnes 1.0; and Richards .9. The six next best are all bullpen: Ottavino .4; Hernandez .3; Sawamura .2; Taylor .2; Valdez .2. Starter ERod is still at -.1. I would argue that those 12 pitchers--5 starters and 7 relievers--are essentially the Sox pitching staff so far, or at least the somewhat reliable pitching staff (which is way better than I expected).
  7. Maxbialystock
    Last time out, Perez went 7.2 in Houston, giving up 0 runs. Valdez did something very similar 6 days ago: 7 innings, 1 run. I think Perez was a little lucky, whereas Valdez impressed me with what he threw, which seemed to have our guys mesmerized. Tonight it's lefty vs. lefty at Fenway and the green monster which loves to gobble up lefty pitchers facing righty-heavy lineups. The Astros and Dodgers lead MLB in runs scored with 313 each, and the Sox are 4th with 299. And the Sox have played 1 more game. Neither team is way up in dingers, but the Sox are #1 in doubles, 136, and the Astros are #2, 112. Astros have the higher team OPS, .766. Sox are .755. Houston's ERA is 10th best, 3.79. Boston's is 11th best, 3.81. Astros are 13-13 on the road, and the Sox are 15-13 at Fenway. 4 of the 5 wins in the streak were on the road. In the past 10 years, both teams have been hammered by MLB for stealing signs.
  8. Maxbialystock
    I like his defense, but agree you gotta hit to play. And he ain't.
  9. Maxbialystock
    5 straight makes the Sox the hottest team in MLB, which is pretty neat for early June. I think these five wins also underscore the surprising depth of this Sox team. They are far from perfect, but the good plays/hits/pitches come through just in time to overcome the not so good plays/hits/pitches. JDM missed 3 of the 5 games and had no rbi's in the other 2.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Dalbec is also no great shakes at 1B. He has the worst WAR, -1.1, on the team, and most of that is from his DWAR, -.9. Statistically, the next worst is Santana whose WAR is -.1 and OPS .530. However, he is versatile.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Slider finally got an out.
  12. Maxbialystock
    2 outs, but the tying run at the plate. Miami seems to like Ottavino's slider.
  13. Maxbialystock
    I thought the Sox two best postseason--not just WS--pitchers were Eovaldi with 22.1 innings and an ERA of 1.61 and kelly with 11.1 innings and an ERA of .79. Price threw the most innings, 26.2, but his ERA was 3.46.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Glad to see the bullpen is deeper than I thought. Ottavino for the save? Better is to get a run or more and not need a save.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Plus the last he pitched was Friday.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Good point. The fact remains: 3 pitchers for 4 outs--with 9 outs to go.
  17. Maxbialystock
    We are in the 6th inning of a game being played on a day when 14 MLB teams, including the Astros, are resting. So Cora decides to rotate as much of his bullpen as possible thru this one game. So far he's used 3 relievers to get 4 outs. This is also the 8th game in 8 days for the Sox.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Absolutely. The theory was Whitlock would be a long reliever, but he brings him in for 1 out, then pulls Hernandez after he gets 2 outs. It's like Cora keeps bringing in new pitchers to find one that can give up a big hit.
  19. Maxbialystock
    So far the bottom five Six hitters have no hits.
  20. Maxbialystock
    We got the Charles, which is the river, and we got trouble, right here in river city.
  21. Maxbialystock
    2d shot at leading off, and Arroyo blasts a double.
  22. Maxbialystock
    I'm shocked, even dismayed, that our leadoff guy didn't get on base.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Pretty impressive, giving up 2 singles and then setting down the next three with an easy pop-up and 2 K's. Now the only issue would seem to be pitch count.
  24. Maxbialystock
    The AL East has the best won-lost record of the six MLB divisions, so there is only one bad team in the AL East. The Yankees' hitting sucks--ARod could be right about their lineup not suiting Yankee Stadium--but their pitching is pretty good.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Right now the Rays have the best winning percentage in the AL and the Sox are tied with the other Sox for the 2d best winning percentage. And Chaim Bloom is the one of the architects of both the Rays and the Sox. From what I've read he literally wrote the book the Rays use, tweaked I'm sure by their current GM. No book yet for the Sox, but some pretty good moves. One of the things the movie Moneyball got right was in implying that John Henry knows how to pick executives for the Sox even though he didn't get Billy Beane.
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