moonslav59

Are you implying that if we had a stronger farm, they wouldn't be slumping?

The career Nunez is .732.

Moreland is beginning to fall back to his mid to high .700's norm.

Updated Sox OPS Leaders: 1.173 Betts (Clearly, the man.) 1.104 Bogey (Keep it going, XB) .941 JMart (Doing what it takes) .920 Holt (bad time to get hurt) .867 HRam (Hanging tough) .812 Moreland (Sinking like a lead balloon) .771 Beni (Bring it up!) .767 Devers (Same as Beni) ,658 Nunez (Gotaa wonder about the injury) .613 JBJ (Big sac fly today) .579 Lin (Back to earth) .486 Vaz (Hmmm.....) .390 Swihart (Not getting many chances) .285 Leon (Yes, his OPS not his OBP)

When a player is returning from a serious injury, I'm fine with breaking him in slowly. Hopefully, both will be back next game.

"...Hembree and Barnes don't have a solid history. Both throw hard but their command is an issue...." Hembree's going in the right direction at a steady pace: BB/9 4.5 in 2014 3.2 in 2015 3.0 in 2016 2.6 in 2017 2.0 in 2018 Barnes is another story: 3.1 in 2015 4.2 in 2016 3.6 in 2017 7.0 in 2018

Nice to see Porcello step up and be the "stopper" with help from Kimbrel. Nice to see JD as a hitter and not just a power gut. Nice to see the negative nannies takinga seat, if only just temporarily. I'm still worries about Devers' learning curve falling within "the window," and now that he's not hitting really well, it becomes more noticable. Hey, we were outhit and still won. I remember when that was almost unheard of. Keep it going guys!

It's not just about numbers. Bogey is just a plainly a better hitter than Beni, and his profile fits the 1 or 2 slot near perfectly.

Loved the girlee hairdoo, too.

Hosmer has 2 HRs and 4 RBI in 103 PAs (.757 OPS). Travis Shaw is on pace for 30 HRs and 84 RBI (.849 OPS). Moustakas on pace for 48 HRs and 114 RBI (.958 OPS).

Interesting observation. It sounds like you are on to something. I never liked wearing cleats, and always wondered why nobody had invented anything better.

We'll have some more hot stretches and some more cold stretches. When it's all done, we'll be around 98-100 wins.

Cool Hand Luke was an alltime great movie.

soxprospects reports... The PawSox blasted three home runs and Rusney Castillo had his best game of the season as Pawtucket came out on top in a slugfest. Steven Wright was cruising through five innings in his second rehab start, but he hit a wall in the sixth as he allowed the first four batters to reach base without recording an out before he was pulled. All four eventually came in to score, and he ended the day with five runs allowed over five innings, with a walk and four strikeouts. Marcus Walden allowed the inherited runners to score in his first appearance since being optioned on April 20. A great outing from Roniel Raudes led Salem past the Pelicans. Raudes tossed six shutout innings and allowed only two hits while walking one and striking out three. He has allowed one earned run or less in four of his five starts on the season. Alex Scherff's rough start to the year continued as he surrendered four runs over five innings, walking three.

My kingdom for a crooked number!

Well said, S5.

Maybe they misjudged his readiness and felt he was near 100%. It does look, in hindsight, like he should have gotten another 2-3 rehab starts in AAA before being called up. It's not always easy judging these things. Maybe he looked sharp in his rehab, and they felt he was ready. Maybe, he regressed a little from his last rehab start. There's a lot we don't know.

Vaz is really struggling at the plate. He kept the AB going with all those foul balls, but then, sadly the ole GIDP.

I'm hopeful Pom gets back to the form he had the first half of 2016 and all of 2017. Despite pitching while injured for half of 2016, Pom still ranks here from 2016-2017: 11th in ERA- at 77 26th in xFIP at 3.94 27th in Starter WAR (5.9) I understand the frustration over not getting to the 7th inning enough. It bugs me, too. But numbers like these deserve more than a 2 game chance after returning from an injury. I'm thrilled with Velazquez, and I don't disagree on him "deserving" a shot, but his time will come. If he keeps pitching like he is, he'll pitch more and more, and eventually, he'll find a a way to being a starter.

Best Away OPS 1.148 Holt 1.124 Betts 1.000 Bogey .860 JMart .799 HRam .788 Devers .761 Moreland .686 JBJ .632 Nunez .539 Vaz .533 Beni .237 Swihart .154 Lin .133 Leon

Our team OPS vs LHPs is a frightening .549! I know it's a small sample size, but we have several players who have struggled vs lefties for years. Here are our splits: vs RHPs (.865 team OPS) 1.261 Bogaerts 1.249 Betts 1.060 Lin .987 JMart .901 Moreland .884 HRam .862 Holt .838 Beni .810 Nunez .796 Devers .749 JBJ .479 Vaz .445 Swihart .375 Leon vs LHPs 1.292 Holt .909 Bogey .892 Betts .733 JMart .711 HRam .690 Moreland .625 Vaz .561 Devers .400 Swihart .316 Beni .310 JBJ .282 Nunez .000 Leon .000 Lin

Good point. The extent of the hatred and anger by the few is what is shocking. These are our own players! Saying these things about a Yankee might be udnerstandable.

I've never cared much for the whole lefty-righty line-up construction thing. I was okay with Moreland in the line-up, although he much worse vs lefties, but why bat him 4th? I don't think batting a notoriously weak hitter vs LHPs 4th just so we don't have 4 righties in a row is a good idea.

I get your point, but what if Velazquez had started the season with 2 bad starts. We'd never have known he was this good. Pom has pitched near great baseball, despite his inability to get past 5 or 6 innings, for almost two full seasons. The only time he was mediocre or bad was when he was battling or retunring from an injury. Couldn't one feel he "deserves a chance" as well- a chance longer than 2 innings? 3 bad pitches. If he had just 1 or 2, we'd probably have won. So basically, we should bench him over 1 too many bad pitches? IMO, Pom deserves at least 3-4 starts, unless he looks like he's lost it. Velazquez is doing great in the long relief role, and he'll probably get another chance to show he's better than Pom or ERod. Time will tell. If Velazquez turns out to be a stud, he'll be fresh for the playoffs.

If losing 4 out of 6, none by more than 3 runs and two by 1 run, bring this out in our fans, despite the 19-6 record, wait until we have a stretch where we're 15-17 or even 17-15. I get the heat-of-the-moment frustration and anger, although I tend to not let any single game or moment get my emotions going, but we're seening hatred and spite hours later. Deep personal attacks on players' characters and extreme attacks on players' skill levels. A one or two game win streak is the only thing that will stop it. No way the JBJ thread gets moved up, if he walks. One freakin' AB and he's crucified. To be honest, I don't know how some people can't realize how unhealthy it is to have so much anger over such a trivial things, or worse yet, they realize it's a bad thing, but have little self-control. I'm not trying to say this in a mean or spiteful way; I'm hoping some posters can begin to enjoy baseball and life, even when some things don't go right. I actually enjoyed last night's game. We fought back after falling behind early. We got some big hits and nice defensive plays (some by JBJ), and we ended up having a good chance at winning late in the game. We fell one big hit short. Why should one less hit make or break my evening? (Note" I'm not trying to imply I'm better than anyone else, or that I don't get very frustrated at times watching the Sox, but we play 162 games for a reason. This isn't football. It's a misstep in a long marathon.)