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  1. Maxbialystock
    Right. Blame it all on Beni. Had you watched the game, you would know this one was entirely on Pomeranz. That was a great fastball on the outside corner. Too bad Pomeranz's great fastballs are nonexistent.
  2. Maxbialystock
    You're wrong, simple as that. In 2015 he was the starting catcher for over half the games and was terrible. 16 passed balls. Lousy at throwing guys out at 2b. OPS .711. That's why they've used someone else ever since. That's why they keep using him as a DH or LF or 3B this year. Good athlete. Maybe a good hitter, but sure hasn't shown it yet. But the Sox have better players at the positions he can play, especially catcher.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Who gives a s*** whether he gets an at bat? He's got no position for which he is better qualified than the guy already playing it.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Swihart is definitely the man. Great hitter. Well, he didn't K, anyway. He's our man when we need a very weak fly to right field.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Vazquez lined out. Nobody in the lineup has a hit, and 5 of the 9 have K'd. And you want to pick on Vazquez?
  6. Maxbialystock
    The contrast between Pom and Snell, both lefties, is stark. Pom is lucky to have held the Rays to 3, and Snell so far looks unhittable. Plus he is throwing a lot of strike and not needing a lot of pitches.
  7. Maxbialystock
    Absolutely true. But this thread has 54 pages and moonslav's "A Realistic View of 2018," which is an invitation to discuss all manner of things about this team this year, only has 74 pages. This thread started March 29, that one March 25. Then again, to confirm your point, the thread on trading JBJ has 63 pages. \ The game thread for April 11--Sox lost to Yankees, 10-7, Holt got spiked, the perp got hit, etc--is 50 pages. What do we find boring and not worth discussing? An easy win. Ho hum.
  8. Maxbialystock
    54 pages and going strong--this thread definitely has legs, and it was begun largely to show up FNG Cora, the rookie manager who makes rookie mistakes and isn't nearly as smart or as knowledgeable as we fans are. You would think things would slow down with the 9 game winning streak followed quickly by the 8 game winning streak, but no sireee. This is beantown, and we don't cut any slack for managers who lose games, which Cora has already done 5 times. He has a lot to answer for: Kelly/Smith in game 1, entirely Cora's fault; ditto Nunez trying to score from 2b on that single in Toronto; ditto Beni any time he is on the basepaths; ditto Vazquez/Leon who ain't hitting; ditto any starter who stays in too long or is pulled when he is going well; ditto any time JD plays the outfield; ditto bad lineups which happen about half the time judging by the game threads. Yes, there are some who like that 19-5 record and think Cora is actually a plus. I'm one of them. But 54 pages say the won-lost record will only get you so far around here. When the Sox lose one, someone has to be answerable.
  9. Maxbialystock
    I am the original anti-Holt, and I would not send him down right now because his hitting is amazingly good. You gotta keep a hot bat.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Tough win. That huge 3 run dinger by JD started with the 2 out single by Beni, who also drove in a run earlier. JD also made a nice grab in right center. This team continues to surprise. Including Carson Smith, sadly.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Well, goodie for you. I'll take Beni as is, thank you very much.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Sale's problem is obvious. he has a changeup, but doesn't trust it. Plus tonight he is also making mistakes--fat pitches--and the Jays are capitalizing.
  13. Maxbialystock
    If you were dragged into court before a judge and the charge was holding your tongue, the judge would throw the case out for lack of evidence.
  14. Maxbialystock
    If you mean the 23 games played this year, it's the only sample size we have. And if you don't think the great pitching is one of the keys to being 18-5, you haven't been paying attention. I happen to like Swihart a lot, but I can also understand why Cora doesn't want to put him behind the plate.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Give me Beni all day long and twice on Sundays. He will come around. His OPS is .706 and Swihart's is .458 and Beni is a much better fielder and baserunner.
  16. Maxbialystock
    The Sox currently have an ERA of 2.85, maybe the lowest in 40 years for all I know. Why jeopardize that with Swihart? He caught over half the games in 2015 when the Sox had the 25th best ERA of 4.31. Oh, and his OPS that year was .711. Vazquez OPS last year was .734.
  17. Maxbialystock
    No. Farrell did a decent job and the Sox won the WS in 2013 and 93 games two years in a row, 2016-17. But I also feel the FO gets to decide on whether the team under performed. I defended his in game decisions and, near the end of the season, the fact that the Sox had a relatively low run differential--lower than the Yankees, for example--but still won the AL East. When he was let go, I was fine with that. Ditto Francona in 2011. Managers are hired to be fired. Now we have a new manager, and so far, so good. Plus I'm normally inclined to support any manager.
  18. Maxbialystock
    Actually, the team's record is the measuring stick for all MLB managers. You win, you stay. You lose, you're gone. You can also be gone when you win if the FO thinks the team under performed. Managers are hired to be fired, and I frankly think that's fair. As for Cora, he has been quite different from Farrell, so it's hard not to give him credit because almost all the same guys are back this year. JD is the one real addition, and one guy can't do it all, nor has he. Plus, as moonslav reminds us, the players aren't playing hurt this year. Bogie and Pedey are on the DL and that hasn't seemed to hurt. The Sox have the best record and the the best run differential in MLB. The players did that, but Cora sure as heck hasn't hurt and probably has helped.
  19. Maxbialystock
    You da man!
  20. Maxbialystock
    Bring back Saltalamacchia.
  21. Maxbialystock
    A700hitter is right that it was it was not a great play/throw by Granderson, but it was a good play: he did come in on the single and fielded it cleanly and released it fairly quickly. His forward momentum helped make it a strong throw, but the throw was actually off-line, but on the 3B side, which worked well. I like SoxnCycles saying it makes sense to gamble late in a road game. While Mookie's OBP is humoungous this season, it wasn't last night, so no guarantee he gets Nunez home even though a walk would do it.
  22. Maxbialystock
    S5dewey and moonslav make some good points. I was mad on the game thread because that's the right place to get mad plus Nunez was out by a mile plus holding Nunez at 3b would have kept the bases loaded and put even more pressure on the Jays pitcher(s), especially with Betts (who had a bad night at the plate) coming to bat. I do think Cora has done a good job.
  23. Maxbialystock
    It seemed very logical to me. It would have been criminal not to use Kimbrel at all, which you seem to favor if the Sox don't get the go ahead run in the top of an extra inning.
  24. Maxbialystock
    You betcha. And I beat him up early in the game but later retracted. He is looking really good and it ain't no fluke.
  25. Maxbialystock
    I agree Cora is blameless. The fault lay with the lineup despite the semi-miraculous 2 runs to tie in the 9th. And our invincible closer gave up the game-winning dinger in the 10th. The players lost this game. Plus I don't like the 3B coach.
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