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  1. moonslav59
    I'd keep Holt over Pearce, Nunez & Pedey, assuming he gets back to healthy. Maybe we can IL Pearce, when Pedey is ready. That would buy us more time. When Holt and Pedey are ready, a tough choice will be needed.
  2. moonslav59
    Ignore the clown. He also wanted Workman canned at the start of the year.
  3. moonslav59
    I wish we had a better pen this year, but we look super strong everywhere else. Here's a look at the two pens,so far this year: NYY: 4.29 ERA/ 1.315 WHIP/ 2.40 K/BB BOS: 4.36 ERA/ 1.294 WHIP/ 2.67 K/BB Individual Pitchers by IP as a RP'er only: ERA/WHIP (IP) BOS 1.65/0.765 Walden (16.1) 4.02/1.340 Hembree (15.2) 1.84/0.955 Workman (14.2) 7.98/1.432 Thornburg (14.2) 2.57/0.929 Brasier (14.0) 2.08/0.769 Barnes (13.0) 6.23/1.846 Brewer (13.0) NYY 4.00/1.056 Holder (18.0) 2.20/1.224 Ottavino (16.1) 3.60/1.333 L Cesa (15.0) 4.15/1.538 Britton (13.0) 1.42/0.789 Kahnle (12.2) 2.19/1.054 Chapman (12.1) If Brasier and Barnes can start pitching more than Thornburg and Brewer, maybe we can get even better pen results. It is likely that Walden and Workman will come back down to earth, but we do have some upside at other slots.
  4. moonslav59
    We will likely not re-sign Moreland and Pearce, so I see Chavis as our 1Bman next year. He may DH at times. I doubt we look to him to be a major factor at 2B.
  5. moonslav59
    I doubt we carry all 4 of these guys on the 25 all year long: Chavis, Pedey, Nunez & Holt. I suppose Chavis could take Pearce's slot, and we could keep all 4, but we are far away from trading or DFA'ing Pearce.
  6. moonslav59
    Big game, today! Even JBJ got on base two times and even scored two runs! Porcello looked good. Bogey with the big blast. Man, Pearce is really struggling.
  7. moonslav59
    It's also so low, it's almost impossible to decline.
  8. moonslav59
    ERod lead the team in IP this year, something I never thought I'd say. He's gotten past the 5th inning more than usual, too. He's gone 6 or more innings in 3 of his last 5 outings- something he only did twice last year. He was also only one out away from going 5+ IP in his last 5 starts. We are 26-8 in ERod's last 34 starts.
  9. moonslav59
    And, Mata is in single A ball right now.
  10. moonslav59
    ...and if we traded him for a pen arm, who would be our starter over ERod? With Eovaldi on the IL, we need ERod more than ever!
  11. moonslav59
    Well, Leon stays, for sure. I doubt we cut Pearce or Pedey loose, although I'd rather have Chavis playing right now than either of them. Lin is on the IL. It comes down to Chavis vs Nunez and Holt. I'd keep Chavis as things stand right now. Cutting Nunez loose may not seem like a good idea, but if we can't get creative with the IL, we may not have a choice. It may come down to Holt vs Nunez... both out of options.
  12. moonslav59
    As of right now, Pedey is out of a job. Chavis plays 2B everyday, unless we need to rest JD (Chavis to DH), and OF'er (JD to OF & Chavis to DH), Moreland or Pearce (Chavis to 1B) or Devers (Chavis to 3B). Basically, Chavis can play when we rest anyone from 7 positions not names SS or catcher, or he plays 2B the rest of the time.
  13. moonslav59
    So Leon's bat gets in the line-up instead of JBJ's?
  14. moonslav59
    One amazing thing about last year was that despite some unreal hot streaks, we really didn't have many down times, certainly nothing like our poor stretch out of the gates this year. Here are the worst stretches I could fine from 2018: Lost.. 6 out of 8 near the end of August (and yes, some doom & gloomers came out of hiding then, too, so our lead was cut from 9.5 to 6) 5 out of 8 in mid May 5 out of 8 to end the regular season. 4 out of 5 in mid June 3 out of 5 in mid July 4 out of 7 near the start of September Our longest losing stretch was going 9-11 from August 19 to September 8th. We ended the season going 20-18, then cruised through the playoffs.
  15. moonslav59
    We've done all this while JD hit just .729 in the last 14 days. Yes, there are ups and downs by every player. Jumping on the ones that are down seems futile to me. At least we should wait for a half season or so.
  16. moonslav59
    Maybe Chavis has a high trade stock value, now. Should we trade him, since Devers is the better 3B fielder?
  17. moonslav59
    The thing that gets me the most is how some people assume the team will continue doing (forever) what it has done over the most recent 2-3 weeks, however, once the team has done very well over the last 2-3 weeks, these same people want to now look at just the last 4-5 weeks not the last 2-3, not the last 365 days, not the last 3 years. It's like they seek the worst possible sample size to use to project doom & gloom, and they never seem surprised when the projections come out wrong many times. No way are we going to stay this hot (last 14 days), but our pitching was always better than the first 2-3 weeks showed. I know the expression, "A pitcher is only as good as his last start" has some merit, but sometimes I think we take things to an extreme.
  18. moonslav59
    OPS: 1. BOS .829 (.375 OBP!) 2. HOU .827 3. TEX .796 7. NYY .749 11. TB .682 Runs 77 BOS 74 TEX 73 HOU 65 NYY 45 TBR ERA 1. BOS 3.12 (67 ERA-) 2. TBR 3.28 (76) 3. MN 3.55 (79) 4. CLE 3.62 (78) 7. NYY 4.30 (96) xFIP 3.57 BOS 3.96 CLE 4.13 TBR 4.19 HOU 4.30 NYY K-BB% 1. BOS 19.8 2. CLE 15.8 3. TBR 15.6 4. HOU 15.2 8. NYY 13.9
  19. moonslav59
    Sox ERA Last 28 Days: 4.06 (9+ IP) 1.88 Walden 2.63 Price 2.79 Workman 3.04 Porcello 3.12 Barnes 3.45 ERod 4.00 Brasier 4.22 Velazquez 4.33 Sale 4.35 Hembree 8.32 Brewer 9.28 Thornburg Last 14 Days: 3.19 (5+ IP) 0.00 Walden 1.80 Hembree 1.93 Porcello 2.00 Sale 3.24 ERod 3.75 Price 5.40 Velazquez 6.75 Brewer 9.95 Thornburg Under 5 IP 0.00 Workman (4.1 IP) 0.00 Barnes (3.2) 0.00 DHern (2.1) 3.38 Lakins (2.2) 6.75 Brasier (2.2)
  20. moonslav59
    Sox OPS Last 28 Days (45+ PAs unless noted): 1.236 Chavis .931 Betts .892 Devers .888 JD .857 Vaz .855 Beni .849 Bogey .707 Moreland .602 Lin (21 PAs) .490 Nunez (21) .472 Leon (20) .414 JBJ .381 Pearce .243 Pedey (21) Sox OPS Last 14 Days (35+ PAs unless noted): 1.295 Chavis 1.082 Betts .975 Devers .878 Vaz .876 Bogey .842 Beni .839 Lin (13 PAs) .833 Nunez (6 PAs) .729 JD .593 Leon (14 PAs) .506 JBJ .473 Moreland .368 Pearce
  21. moonslav59
    The good thing is, the choice doesn't have to be Chavis or JBJ.
  22. moonslav59
    Where are all the bench or trade Devers posters, now?
  23. moonslav59
    Nobody has denied the hole we dug ourselves into, but to compare this team to others that started off this poorly in recent years is not telling me anything I didn't already know. This team is not those teams. None of those teams won 108 games and breezed through the playoffs the previous season with pretty much the same team. Besides, the hole we dug is not as big as it might have been. There are not that many great AL teams, and despite our poor start, we are just 5.5 behind the Rays for 1st place and 3.5 behind the Guardians (who just lost Kluber) for the last wild card slot. There were better AL teams in 2011 than there are in 2019. While the Twins and Rays look for real, the Guardians no longer scare me. The A's don't either. My guess is 2 AL east teams win the wild card slots, and I still love our chances at winning the division.
  24. moonslav59
    DFA ERod? lmao!
  25. moonslav59
    Damn straight!
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