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  1. moonslav59
    Horrible loss. Now, go kick the Nats ass, and put this behind us.
  2. moonslav59
    He has been unproductive through the halfway point of the season. It's a big concern. I fully expect he won't end up below or even near .200, but at this point, who knows. I'm still glad he's our FT CF'er, but I know he may not be there until his contract expires.
  3. moonslav59
    That's for sure. Hitting was always my downfall in baseball.
  4. moonslav59
    It is frustrating as hell, even to those who really like JBJ. The long slumps hurt him and the team. While his defense keeps him in the line-up, I agree, he may be dealt if his struggles continue this year. The shift really kills him, and that's part of the reason he can hit the ball so hard and still make more outs than it appears he should be making. Not learning to go the other way or to bunt down the 3rd base line is hard to understand, but maybe JBJ is just too rigid to change. I'd love to see him stay in a Sox uniform, even if he stays around .700 every year, but I'm not sure DD sees it that way. The problem is, who knows if he can give us even .700 every year.
  5. moonslav59
    He's got one arb year left, so maybe the option comes in handy, but if he's doing so poorly, we're thinking about sending him back and forth to AAA, I'm not sure what good it does us other than giving us flexible depth in the pen. Hembree, Wright & Pom are out of options.
  6. moonslav59
    Last 30 days by position: .900 LF .883 RF .826 DH .815 3B .814 C .784 SS .750 CF .744 1B .666 2B MLB Catchers in June: .844 TEX .837 CWS .814 BOS .812 CIN .810 ATL .805 SFG #15 .703 #20 .628 #25 .522 #30 .381
  7. moonslav59
    Add Leon to Vaz and our catchers, all of a sudden, are looking like a top 10 offensive catcher tandem. Leon the last 28 days: .258 2 8 (just 31 ABs) .810 OPS
  8. moonslav59
    We all hope JBJ could do some things differently. K less. Go the other way more. Choke up at times. Make more adjustments. Watch some film. Be more consistent. Sometimes I think it seems much easier to say than to do, and asking a player to try an make a major adjustment to his mechanics or approach is a risky thing to do. If a guy is doing so poorly, you think what harm can it do, that's one thing, and JBj has certainly had long enough stretches of deep struggles. I guess what I'm saying is that maybe he is what he is and trying to mess with him could unravel the good in his offense. (Maybe not as well.) Here's a look at JBJs OPS and K rate by month since August 2015: 1.163 26% .739 27% .807 24% 1.175 13% .805 11% .839 18% .651 33% .731 23% .596 25% .808 19% 1.009 18% .596 28% .770 27% .517 23% .600 19% .599 36% .653 23% There is certainly a relationship between his K% and OPS, but there are lots of head-scratching flip-flops.
  9. moonslav59
    I've lost a lot of my hopes for Thornburg but not all of it.
  10. moonslav59
    I'm just glad he's not in AAA, as you suggested he needed.
  11. moonslav59
    I never even hinted at "headliner" value. My beef was over your comment that he had "no value at all." You still have not really disavowed that claim. Some included him as part of a package for headliners, but I never said he was a key value to any big deal. We got Pearce for Espinal. Are you saying Groome doesn't even have that value? I'd say we could get someone better than Pearce for Groome, despite the injury.
  12. moonslav59
    It's time to knock Sevy out of the top leaders in the Cy Young race this year.
  13. moonslav59
    Sox numbers pro-rated to 162 games; .341 50 103 Betts .327 50 135 JDM .285 26 107 Beni .278 29 107 Bogey .285 26 98 Moreland .251 28 92 Devers .255 18 74 Leon .200 13 50 JBJ .250 11 43 Nunez .221 8 34 Vaz
  14. moonslav59
    This might fall under the "don't ask- don't tell" policy.
  15. moonslav59
    Groome was rated pretty highly before the injury, despite not putting up great numbers when he was healthy. You claimed he has NO VALUE now, so I can only assume it was because of the injury. Look, I never said Groome had high value, especially after the injury, but you and I both know,every team would take him into their system for free, which is basically what value you assigned to him. Yes, it was a veiled dig at you. Even when I called you out for your "no value" statement, you never clarified it. Are you still saying he has absolutely no value at all? BTW, Groome reaches rule 5 in December of 2020, so there is ample time for him to return to strength and earn his way on the roster, or not. http://soxprospects.com/rule5.htm
  16. moonslav59
    So, Groome had no value before the injury? I'm getting confused by all the goalpost moving.
  17. moonslav59
    Sox OPS since last 14 days: 1.349 Leon 1.250 Pearce 1.094 JD 1.057 Betts 1.015 Devers .889 Moreland .851 JBJ .804 Holt .748 Bogey .739 Vaz .733 Nunez .591 Beni .400 Swihart Small samples size but very impressive. We have 8 players over 1.091 over the last 7 days: Leon, Devers, Pearce, Betts, Vaz, Holt, JD & JBJ. Bogey is at .812.
  18. moonslav59
    What's the OPS of JBJ, Vaz & Leon, since Natick called for their demotion or DFA?
  19. moonslav59
    Then , according to some, he has no value (like Groome).
  20. moonslav59
    Maybe, instead of signing pitchers until the cows come home, we should just steal the ray's pitcher development people away from their organization by paying them what we pay Castillo. Money better spent.
  21. moonslav59
    2018 AL Leaders in Base Running 4.5 J Ramirez 3.8 Merrifield 3.7 Rosario 3.6 gardner 3.6 Beni 3.5 Gordon 3.3 DeShields 3.2 Devers 3.1 Pillar 3.1 JBJ 2.8 Trout 2.8 Altuve 2.8 Betts 4 in the top 12 is pretty awesome.
  22. moonslav59
    No, you can't. Here's how fangraphs values base running by Sox players this year: +3.6 Beni +3.2 Devers +3.1 JBJ +2.8 Betts +0.9 Bogey -0.3 Leon -1.1 Vaz -1.5 JD -1.5 Holt -2.5 Moreland -5.0 Nunez Since 2016 (More games played for the Sox adds to the total.) 22.7 Betts 15.1 Bogey 13.2 JBJ 5.9 beni 3.4 Devers -0.7 Holt -1.5 JD -4.5 Vaz -5.0Moreland -5.2 Leon -5.4 Nunez -9.0 Pedey
  23. moonslav59
    I don't think taking away 40 hits over "the average" CF'er is a stretch. True, many CF'ers "take some hits away every year. Some take more away than they give up.
  24. moonslav59
    The Rays and A's have largely "over performed" over the years. Managers have come and gone, and the Rays even has a shake-up at the GM position, but they just keep surprising.
  25. moonslav59
    I showed up outside the stadium opening day, the year we started the year with the closer by committee plan. I got great seats for super cheap. I enjoyed the atmosphere. I was driving to my sisters in Chapel Hill, NC after the game, so I left in the middle of the ninth inning- to beat traffic! I got seriously depressed listening to the pen meltdown on the radio heading out of TB. Some memories would be better forgotten, or as Lowell George would sing, "So I light another cigarette and try to remember to forget."
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