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Vaz is like second in catcher innings on D. Plawecki is not a bad sub. Yes, rest Vaz more. As for what Bloom saw in Kike, we needed to cover our bases at 2B and CF. Kike can play both. That was one major factor. I think we felt the need at 2B was greater, and as it turned out, almost every free agent choice at 2B has sucked, bigtime. That's no excuse, but other choices cost more and did worse. Of course, there are some that cost less that are doing better, but not many can play CF, too. Kike was a very good player for the Dodgers, you know, the team that won it all. He was 6th on the team in innings played in 2019 and 2020 for the Dodgers. In 2018, the year they faced us in the WS, he was 4 innings away from being 4th on the team in innings played. You can't be a chump and play that much for 3 straight years on a team like LA. (He also has a .758 OPS in 142 playoff PAs.) It's not like the guy has been this bad his whole career. He had a .737 OPS in 4 years with LA and is just 29. We signed him to play 2B, CF and maybe hit between .700-.750. I'm fine with blaming Bloom for choosing Kike, but I'm not sure it was really that much of a head-scratcher. The $7M seemed higher than most expected, and he had shown some decline in OPS over the 2 previous seasons, but at his age, there was no reason to expect continued and steeper decline, and besides, he's not even 25% into his contract, so he may end up proving us all wrong by the end of 2022.

I haven't either. I'm not sure what level of urgency Bloom had for replacing Andriese, if any. We have 3 guys that could easily be replaced: Andriese Rios Workman (In no particular order)

Yankees

I think he meant "trumps everything" in terms of amazement.

135 players in the AL have 130+ PAs, this year (9 players x 15 teams). Here's how they break into these chose categories: Top 15 (.884 to 1.102) Sox have 3 in the top 15 (Bogey/JD/Devers) 16-30 (.827-.881) Sox have 0 31-45 (.778-.827) Sox have 1 (Verdugo) 46-60 (.745-.777) Sox have 2 (Renfroe/Arroyo) 61-75 (.684-.703) Sox have 0 76-90 (.632-.702) Sox have 0 (Vaz is #91) 91-105(.649-.676) Sox have 2 (Vaz & Kike) 106-120 (.610-.641) Sox have 0 121-135 (.533-.610) Sox have 1 (Marwin at #130) Pretty amazing how a third of the top 135 batters are under .676. We have exactly our share (3).

The Sox have 3 batters in the top 15 OPS Leaders. 10. Bogey .941 13. JD .914 14. Devers .908 No other team has even 2. (TOR has 1 & 17 and HOU has 15 & 16) Verdugo ranks 47th at .804, so we have 4 in the top 50. Mookie is 39th at .825 & Moncada is 48th at .811. Out of 142 qualified players on the list, JBJ ranks last at .501. Kike is 126th at .660. Vaz is 123rd at .664 Renfroe is 89th at .743 No other Sox player qualifies.

Dalbec is now sitting at .699. Others not doing as well, but seemingly catching less flack are... .678 Plawecki .664 Vaz .660 Kike .574 Marwin .478 Santana (actually went up by going 1 for 5, today!)

Great! What is he now? 2 for his last 60?

If Brasier and Bazardo are ready, they may get the call, first. Wecould also demote Rios and bring up 2.

Some good news, Nick. Add Houck to the list and maybe we can get a big infusion of talent without any big trades. Chavis for Santana Houck for Andriese Brasier for Rios Sale/Bazardo/Duran for Workman (and/or Chavis)

Perez pitched well, too. Bobby Dee is a BB away from the .700 mark. Kike even got on base 3 times!

I never worry about Devers' bat. He always bounces back.

He's been struggling of late. Glad to see he can help pull us out of this mini-funk.

He's shown serious signs of turning things around. 2 weeks is still a small sample size, but 2 weeks ago, just about nobody was saying he deserves to keep playing.

Booby Dee with like 2 triples in 10 days. JD with a big blast! NICE!

It's as fair as the official game scorer calling some plays hits and some errors. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

I don't see it as a penalty. The guy should have not reached base. It counts as an out in OBP and SLG, as it should.

In a way that makes OPS seem better, since sacrifices are awarded some value on half of the component, making it still have some value.

The simple fact is OPS tells us more than BA HR RBI- old school numbers. It does factor in BBs, 2B more than 1B, but yes, no SBs, which isn't part of batting. It's flawed and does count some things twice, ut since it counts singles twice but BA only once, it does weigh a single more.

Yanks just went up on the A's 5-4 in the 8th.

Worst OPS in last 7 days: .347 Santana .364 Kike .400 Plawecki .529 Arroyo .563 Marwin Maybe we should try Plawecki at lead off. We've tried all the other worst ones. OK, yes, 7 days is too small a sample size. Here's 14 days: .296 Santana .555 Marwin .586 Kike .646 JD .733 Plawecki .761 Renfroe .767 Dalbec .831 Arroyo Last 28 days: .429 Santana .469 Kike .519 Plawecki .579 Dalbec .577 Marwin (Arroyo at .820)

There literally is no worse choice, except maybe a pitcher. (Whitlock and Richards have as many hits as Santana does over the last week or so.)

That can't be the only reason.

Maybe the "biggest flaw" not "Major" might have been a better choice of wording. If you tinker with weighting BBs and HBPs, you change the meaning of the new stat. I brought up the HBP, because it seems like a stand alone occurrence. Sometimes, it does involve the "skill" of the batter, but usually, it is a mistake by the pitcher. I guess one could call a BB, 4 mistakes, or even a HR a pitching mistake.

There was a time when Martin Perez had numbers that made him look like our number one or two. That was as far back as June 7th! (4-2 3.09) Now, he looks like the same old Perez. (4-4 4.52) Last 2 starts combined: 3.1IP 12 hits 4 BB 2 K 11 ER 4 HRs 29.70 ERA 1.273 OPS Against .500 BAbip Could just 3 starts turn our #1 into a candidate for demotion to the pen (or worse)? He has no options remaining.