moonslav59
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In all fairness, that was Bogey's first non-throwing error of the season.
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...and Vaz.
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We can afford to give him a longer look than we might want. It helps rest other starters, and if he can get to first half 2016 or all of 2017 form, he can be better than Johnson, Eovaldi and even ERod. I'd like to see him get 2-3 more starts at least. He could end up being a key pen arm by the end of the season.
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I think his very quick jumps in the exact right direction every time makes his range better than just "good/very good." He also takes very long strides which makes it look like he's making up less ground than a player who takes more steps to get to the same ball (or not get to it).
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Our pen has the second best WAR since 2017. Even the WAR doubters should understand that we have to do a lot of things right to get that ranking. Barnes gets no to little respect. Kelly has been awful at times, as has Kimbrel, butoverall, our pen keeps quietly getting the job done a heck of a lot more than 28 other teams. Sure, I'd like a lights out set-up man added, but our pen, as is, IS NOT A WEAKNESS!
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I don't think Chavis deserves the #1 ranking and I'd move him past Groome and Casas for now. To me, it might be between Mata and Dalbec with Houck close by. Once Groome comes back, things might change.
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The Alex Cora Managerial Decision Thread
moonslav59 replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He has been hitting a lot of hard outs since 5/12, so I'm counting the whole time afterwards as "turning it around." Just keep like you're doing since 5/12 and nobody will complain. -
Smart and smarter.
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Perhaps his greatest play this year or ever, the one where he did dive towards the LF wall, I heard was rated as 40% catchable. I think he's getting the short end of the stick on some of the defensive metric ratings. I used to think it was because of the way he makes tough plays look easy or that he's not one of the the fastest CF'er in MLB, but now, I'm not so sure. He is certainly, IMO, the best defensive Sox CF'er I've ever seen.
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...and Porcello & Sale.
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Yes, that was a huge play by JBJ, yet it was barely mentioned by the Yankee favorite announcers. On that key play, I noticed Bogey was real slow getting out of the batter's box. It looked like he was watching the ground ball, but maybe he was just a little off balance from his swing. Had he began running hard from the get-go, he might have beaten out the throw regardless of the dropped ball. (He also did not seem to be running full speed.) I'm not trying to be negative during such a joyous time. It was a great win that might have set up the psyche needed to believe you can win any game and will when it counts. Don't peak too early! Make this season special from start to finish!
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1Bman should have caught that throw, but yes, Andujar sucks on D. Would anyone trade Devers for Andujar?
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Fantastic win! WOW! I hate to say anything negative, but am I the only one who noticed Bogey not getting a good jump out of the box on that error by Andujar? Then, I'm not sure he ran all out and might have beat the throw had it been caught. Again, not raining on the parade,,,,
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Tough turn of events. It would be so sweet to pull this game out of our ass against this vaunted pen.
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Nope. He won't get a big raise, so he's worth another chance.
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Thanks for all the research. This is one way to look at it. Had the Sox stole bases at 70% this year, we'd have 73 SBs, instead of 87. So, we're basically talking about just 14 SBs over the break even point. While this is certainly a nice thing to see, it's not something that, in itself, has a major impact on our winning so much. Taking the extra base and messing with defender's positioning and focus helps make it a major impact.
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That is so true, but the immense satisfaction felt after getting that last out is such a joy. Maybe it's suffering through all those near misses for decades that gave me the mindset of being willing to sell my soul for a ring that made me the way I am. I do greatly appreciate the season struggle to just make the playoffs. Certainly suffering through a season where we're out of it my August or sooner sucks bigtime, especially when hopes were high at the start of those seasons, but I'll take one more ring this year, even if it means we finish in last place next year. I'm with you on not blaming the manager or players for coming up short in the playoffs. I know how much luck factors into it. I was never down on JF for our early playoff exits. I was never down on Price for struggling in a couple playoff games with the Sox.
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Well said, even though I really love those rings more...luck and all.
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Yankee Players Coming Off the Books: After 2018 $13M Happ $13M Robertson $12M Britton $12M Lynn $10M Sabathia $4M Walker $700K Robinson $12.5M option for Gardner (or $2M buyout) After 2019 Gregorius S Gray Betances Hicks Romine
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Some hitters, yes. Others, not so much. I'd say having the first baseman holding the runner on the bag and opening a hole in the IF outweighs the batter distraction factor... not to mention other IF'ers who are watching the runner to see if he's running while trying to focus on the pitch and defensive readiness for hit balls.
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That was one of the reasons I have always been a big advocate of getting Swihart to learn different positions. The other reason is that when we have two weak hitting starting catchers, it's nice to have a 3rd catcher, so we can PH for one (or both) late in the game and not have to worry about a catcher injury late in a game. (So far, it doesn't seem like we've done this very often, if at all, this year.)
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Then, there's the distraction factor it has on the pitcher and defense.
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Fair enough. Pretty bad- not terrible for 2 of the 4 years.
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Pearce is 1 HR away from the HR record in a Sox-Yankee series (5 by Babe Ruth). .167 JBJ vs Tanaka .333 Pearce vs Tanaka (2 HRs in 15 ABs)
