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  1. Maxbialystock
    I think there can be no question Cora was a genius last year. Practically everything he tried worked, and it was maybe the best season in Sox history if you skip over 2004 which ended the 86 year curse. Nevertheless, I have always believed that managers are judged on team wins and losses and whether those comport with what the front office expected or can live with. While I like most others am mad at the whole team, the rotation is clearly the biggest problem. Those five players and their salaries are easily the biggest investment DD and John Henry have made in a year when the Sox again lead MLB in payroll. It's quite possible Cora gets the blame for the easy ST for the rotation, which clearly has resulted in a bunch of starters who were/are demonstrably not ready.
  2. Maxbialystock
    This from the most upbeat fan of all of us.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Well said.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Here’s the good news if that is possible. This game thread was started by, you know, one of those guys. Seriously.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Mookie, compared to 2018 Mookie, does too.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Like a baby on a nipple.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Agreed.
  8. Maxbialystock
    It’s pretty close to the lineup that won 11 of 14 in the postseason last year. Only Beni is missing.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Meh. Yawkey wasn’t much worse than the very racist city in which his team played. With Bill Russell starring, the Celtics had an incredible run of championships, but never could fill up Boston Garden. Ever wonder why Russell loved his coach and teammates but despised Boston for literally decades? I am not exonerating or defending Yawkey, but am saying he had lots of company.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Can there be any doubt at all that the Sox stink in basically every aspect of the game?
  11. Maxbialystock
    The Dodgers and Walter O’Malley integrated MLB a year before President Truman integrated the armed services. So it was historically significant even though MLB itself normally isn’t. Jackie Robinson himself was an officer in that segregated Army and was court-martialed (but acquitted) because he refused to sit at the back of a bus on Fort Hood, TX.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Sale is fast running out of excuses. With his favorite catcher he still stinks. Come to think of it, maybe Cora and especially DD are running out of excuses. John Henry is shelling out big bucks and not getting much ROI.
  13. Maxbialystock
    No command.
  14. Maxbialystock
    We have 1 hit in 4 innings. Only Bogaerts doesn’t stink.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Guess who loves Sales fastball more than you? The Yankees.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Leon and Sale both forgot that the point is to get guys out, not show the fastball is back. One very stupid inning, mostly on Leon.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Why this love affair with the fastball? 2 runs in from hittable fastballs.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Lousy pitch calling by Leon. That fastball was in the right place and fast enough—but also very hittable. For a run.
  19. Maxbialystock
    That's not completely true. Swihart started about 84 games in 2015 because of injuries, and I think that experience is why he caught so few games after 2015. Last season he was on the active roster the entire season and didn't get to catch a game until Leon or Vazquez (I forget which one) went on the DL. I honestly wouldn't know a good defensive catcher if he bit me in the ankle, but the indicators from a managerial/coaching point of view suggest they doubted his ability as a catcher after 2015 and still feel that way. FWIW, last year his catching DWAR was -0.4, which is the same DWAR he had as a catcher in 2015 (when the Sox team ERA was 4.31, 25th in MLB).
  20. Maxbialystock
    Absolutely fascinating thread because we are reacting to a recent DD move having to do with pitching and catching. All pertinent topics. I am not a big Swihart fan, but I also don’t think he is to blame for the rotation’s horrible start. The Sox have pitched 2 shutouts this season, Swihart caught one of them. Nevertheless, we know the rotation is the problem and that Leon is more likely to bring them back than Swihart.
  21. Maxbialystock
    It's a cartoon, probably from the New Yorker, showing two Brits with tropical helmets, one of whom is saying, "Quicksand or not, Barclay, I've half a mind to struggle."
  22. Maxbialystock
    It sure looks as thought the complaints about the brutal road trip out West were ill-founded. So far at home the Sox are 3-3, which is an improvement, but against the dregs of the AL East, the Jay and the Orioles. The latter came to town with an 0-4 road record and split with the Sox. Something happened over the winter or in spring training, which at this point I think is undeniable. I happen to think the hitting can turn around any day and be pretty darn good as it was last year. But the pitching more and more seems to be an intractable problem. Yesterday Price and bullpen pitched a shutout, but today's 8 run debacle will ensure the Sox will continue to have the 28th best ERA in MLB. Today was actually a repeat of a game the Sox had a week or so ago when Velazquez started in Arizona and the Sox won 1-0 without using the rotation. Only today the all-bullpen juggernaut got trampled with those 8 runs. So now the bullpen is as suspect as the rotation and just maybe because of the rotation.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Cora is blameworthy, but I hesitate to base that on the lineup. The telling truths are-- 1. He has the same high-priced rotation he had last year but without Pom, who bombed. So far they are pretty awful. 2. He also has pretty much the same lineup less Kinsler, who didn't hit much, and plus Pedey, who still might be able to hit (and field). They are about half as good as last year. 3. He has most of the same bullpen less Kelly, who looks awful so far in LA, and Kimbrel, who can't help this bullpen because he only pitches the 9th, preferably with no one on and a 3 run lead. The bullpen is less and less effective, but I blame some of that on how much Cora has to use them when his starters can't go 5 innings, let alone 6 or 7. 4. He has the same defense minus gold glover Kinsler at 2B. 5. He also still has the highest payroll in MLB.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Looks like the Sox may now have a full house of issues--rotation, hitting, defense, and bullpen. Blaming all of the above on Pedroia is kind of silly. Much as I like Cora--and I do--I do have to repeat what I have said about every manager. Each must be evaluated on wins and losses vs. the expectations of the GM and/or owner. Nothing else counts. In this case the wins and losses look pretty awful, but we are still in April and only halfway through at that.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Sox have 0 hits in 3 innings, but do have an error. And Velazquez had 4 walks in 3 innings, but miraculously only 1 run. Sox have 7 righty bats vs. righty starter Straily.
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