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  1. Maxbialystock
    A very solid win. The Mets have excellent pitching, which showed, and the Sox outpitched them. Tyler D gets a pat on the back for 2 straight. Plus the 2021 Sox give every appearance of being road warriors.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Wow. 7 solid innings!!!
  3. Maxbialystock
    Great catch by JDM for the final out in the 6th. I had no idea he had that much range. Will Richards come out for the 7th?
  4. Maxbialystock
    Richards has vastly exceeded what I thought he was capable of.
  5. Maxbialystock
    6-4 it is.
  6. Maxbialystock
    If the Sox are shifting anything with respect to left field, their defensive gooses are cooked because to date their shifts have been awful. They brought Cordero in to 252 feet at Fenway, and a tying 2 run double went right where he should have been at 287 feet. On another more recent play, a single between Bogaerts and Devers on the left side went to the wall for a double because they positioned the left fielder almost in centerfield. Someone neglected to tell Cora about this basic tenet of computers: GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
  7. Maxbialystock
    Completely agree an effective long reliever is invaluable. As for Whitlock, do not mess with success. On the other hand, I think Taylor's job is to encourage opposing hitters who might be getting down in the dumps. He and Garrett Richards are a 2-man demolition team whose job is to blow up the Sox pitching staff. I do not think they should be sent down, released, or traded. They should be taken out and shot for wearing the Red Sox uniform while committing acts of sabotage.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Mets are 6-2 at home and the Sox are 6-1 on the road. Both teams lead their divisions.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Ah, yes. The estimable Garrett Richards is on the mound tonight for the Sox. If you are one of the 9 relievers whenever the Sox are carrying 14 pitchers and folks like some of those on talksox argue that 13 pitchers is more than enough, your mantra is: but what about Garrett? Indeed, the Sox currently rank 29th in MLB in quality starts. moonslav59 has argued that 6 innings should not be a requirement for a quality start and that he would be fine with 3 or 4 scoreless innings or maybe just 1 run in 3 or 4 innings. If so, then Cora is going to want his 9 man bullpen even though moonslav would much prefer 8 and an extra position player for pinch-hitting, defensive purposes, cherchez la femme, whatever. As it turns out, despite being ranked 29th in quality starts, the Sox ERA is 3.94 and ranked 12th in MLB. Ian Browne, the Sox writer on the mlb app, says that Garrett's strengths are his size and motion, which make his pitches hard to hit--but also hard to command.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Yes he does, and he has a pretty decent arm, but does not have much range. Were it not for the DH, he would be a fixture in LF, buty has played RF. Nice prediction, even if I do say so.
  11. Maxbialystock
    A decent hitter would already be in the lineup. Too many defensive weak spots to fix with one or two defensive replacements. My impression of the current team is the only real criterion for being in the lineup is a presumed or actual ability to hit. I can think of no one who is the lineup for his defense. Indeed, my suspicion is that the best defensive player is the computer program that determines player placements on defense. Other than the computer program, my guess is that pitching is the key to the Sox defense.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Dalbec has three errors, a lot for a first baseman in April. I'm fine with giving him more time, but 1B is a position where errors should be infrequent and good hitting is not (infrequent). So far he seems to have the two reversed. I too like 14 pitchers even though that leaves a 2 man bench, one of whom must be a catcher, for the position players. That seems too few except that in the past the Sox bench wasn't used all that much.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Funny you should say that because the Sox never tried to pitch around Seager.
  14. Maxbialystock
    A’s have won 12 straight, and the Sox are 1/2 games behind them for best record in AL.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Looks like a nice win.
  16. Maxbialystock
    This is now a whine thread. No way did the home plate umpire cost us a game, not when a Sox hitter swung on a pitch that hit him well inside the batters box. Plus Pivetta got several calls. Plus almost every “bad” call was close. Meanwhile the biggest miscue was by Cora and his guys when they grossly malpositioned their left fielder.
  17. Maxbialystock
    When Cordero let that drive go over his head, the talksox cognoscenti condemned him. Looks to me as though the finger-pointing was misdirected. I love Cora, but 252 ft was asinine.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Ian Browne write-up of the games says Cordero was positioned 252 feet from home plate on the double over his head but which hit grass before hitting the wall. Browne adds that in prior years the average position was 277 feet from home plate, but that this year so far the average has been 287 feet. Cora says he will not second guess the positioning. I love it!!! This is one more glaring example of how computers are trusted far more than human eyesight and experience.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Time to go back to those pretty yellow and blue uniforms.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Sox seem to be coming apart--and not just tonight.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Hence my concern.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Pivetta had several out of the zone pitches called strikes. This ump is a little inconsistent.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Seattle has 3 runs on 1 hit. Of the five guys who walked, 3 scored, and the Sox needed that GIDP to prevent a 4th BB scoring.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Is this team beginning to disintegrate? Did I just see a Sox batter swing and miss at a pitch that hit him the knee for strike three?
  25. Maxbialystock
    A long time ago I developed a theory that the team whose pitching had the best K to BB ratio would win the game. Tonight the Sox pitchers have 4 K's and 5 BB's. and the Mariners pitchers have 8 K's and 2 BB's.
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