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  1. moonslav59
    Crappy loss, after it looked pretty bright for a while- mid game.
  2. moonslav59
    I would debate the "3 good seasons" comment, but signing Price was needed at the time and did help bring us a win and 3 division championships. Price had an ERA+ of 127 in the previous 5 seasons before the signing and 118 with BOS (ages 30-32.) That was very helpful but in one of those "3 years" he only started 11 games. Lackey did so-so year one (99 ERA+) and was at 117 in 2013 (ring year.) He was at 111 in 2014, when we traded him- not his fault. He started 28 or more games, every year with us, but 2012. He was still worth the money, which was much less than Price's. Either way, both signings pale against the trades for Sale, Beckett, Schilling and Pedro. Even the Nate and Peavy signings look better.
  3. moonslav59
    We should walk Whitt every AB, even if the bases are loaded.
  4. moonslav59
    Wow! POR scored 7 runs in the 8th! Anthony 4-5 (Marrero, too.) Campbell 2-4 w BB Teel 0-4 w SF Woo won 9-6 Westbrook 4-5 Gasper 2-4 w 2BB Casas 2-6 w 2 2Bs Grissom 1-5 w BB GRE scored 9 runs in the 10th! Jh Garcia 4-6 w 2B Castro 3-5 w BB- a homer short of the cycle! Turner 1-5 w BB & 3B SAL won 5-3 with a nice pitched start by Kirwin (4 IP, 1H, 0ER, 0BB, 5K) Encarnacion 2-4 w 4 rbi
  5. moonslav59
    Agreed. There is no excuse for not trying to find a few more Criswell types. Sure, we might end up with 1 Criswell and 5 Chase Andersons, but we signed just the two.
  6. moonslav59
    At least the others have been showing glimmers for 3-4 IP, here and there.
  7. moonslav59
    Seriously?
  8. moonslav59
    I was thinking the same thing. This KCR team is tough.
  9. moonslav59
    Crawford needs to be shut down- for how long, who knows? He is toast, right now.
  10. moonslav59
    They could work on improving in those areas at AAA, too. I will say, we may have one hell of a AAA club to start 2025: C: Teel, Gasper 1B: Jordan, Dalbec 2B: Valdez SS: Mayer 3B: Meidroth LF: Westbrook, Rosier (maybe Campbell mid season) CF: Anthony RF: Sogard, Sikes DH: Hickey/Valdez/Dalbec SP: Fitts, Priester, Penrod, Gambrell, Dobbins RP: I Campbell, Weissert, Horn, Mills, Guerrer
  11. moonslav59
    He is the kind of guy I expected Bloom to find 10 of.
  12. moonslav59
    How many middle infielders did we put out there before Romy, this year? Story & Grissom Short & Reyes Rafaela & Valdez DHam & Westbrook Sogard has played since the Romy call-up. (We even played Wong at 2B in 4 games.) Our bench has carried us.
  13. moonslav59
    Romy has been a beast! He hit two wicked hard shots, Monday.
  14. moonslav59
    Booser has been one of our most reliable pitchers, but the other options might have been Bernardino or Wink. OPS Against last 28 days (PAs) .508 Booser (36) .700 Paxton (44) .706 Wink (36) .742 Pivetta (113) .752 Weissert (35) AAA .754 Criswell (81) .793 Houck (103) .809 Bello (121) .916 Kelly (43) .917 Garcia (12) .925 Anderson (32) DFA .940 Jansen (38) .980 Bernardino (35) .990 Horn (28) AAA .991 Crawford (94) Whole Season (160+ PAs) .569 Slaten .607 Houck .611 Kelly .614 Jansen .615 Booser .678 Bernardino .713 Crawford .720 Criswell .727 Pivetta .740 Wink .797 Bello
  15. moonslav59
    I guess I'm not really "surprised," but I would also have not been surprised had all 3 been promoted after the trade deadline. Mayer got hurt, recently, so that might have held him back. Here is soxprospects.com ETAs: Early 2025: 2. Mayer 3. Teel 11. Meidroth Mid 2025: 1. Anthony 15. Fitts Late 2025: 5. Campbell 20. Dobbins, 22. Penrod We could see 5-6 significant additions during the 2025 season! 2026: 10. Sandlin 12. Castro 18. Romero 21. Wikelman, 24. Early, 25. Monegro 2027: 4. Montgomery 6. Bleis 13. Zanetello 14. Tolle 16. E Rod 19. Jh Garcia 2028: 8. Arias 9. Cespedes 17. Jo Garcia 23. Cason, 27. Valera
  16. moonslav59
    Here are the SP'er Rankings of SP'ers with 100+ IP since June 3rd of 2023. That was when Crawford joined the rotation. 141 SP'ers with 100+ IP SIERA 2.70 Crochet 2.86 Skubal 2.97 Glasnow 2.99 Sale 3.06 Pivetta 12. Imanaga 3.45 13. Flaherty 3.47 15. Cease 3.48 16. S Gray 3.48 17. Kikuchi 3.48 22. Garrett 3.55 23. G Cole 3.55 26. Eflin 3.60 33. Burnes 3.71 38. gausman 3.81 44. Houck 3.87 48. Luzardo 3.90 53. S Lugo 3.97 54. Eovaldi 3.97 55. Crawford 3.98 67. Bello 4.13 76. Giolito 4.21 81. Taillon 4.26 96. Wacha 4.40 103. Montgomery 4.53 118. Stroman 4.76 123. T Rogers 4.83 125. Paxton 4.87 133. Lorenzen 5.02 136. Flexen 5.15
  17. moonslav59
    Cubs beat MIN, today, and the Yanks won game one vs LAA. We need to take care of business, tonight, so we don't have to scoreboard watch- hoping other teams lose.
  18. moonslav59
    It is pretty hard to support a low BB like his. Here is a look at the lowest BB% of all Red Sox players since 1972 with 500+ PAs and their OPS w Sox: 3.1% Nunez .694 3.2% Andre Dawson .738 3.3% Hillenbrand .749 3.3% Rafaela .698 3.6% Gutierrez .572 3.7% Benjamin .661 3.9% Carl Crawford .711 Best of the lowest BB%? 4.8% Tony Armas .768 5.2% Victorino .756 5.2% Dante Bichette .801 6.2% A Beltre .919 6.3% R Jefferson .868 6.4% Nomar .923 All of MLB: 3.2 Shawon Dunston .712 (lowest BB rate over .700 w 2,000+ career PAs) 3.5% Ricky Jordan .732 3.7% Hillenbrand .760 3.8% Sa Perez .763 4.5% Adam Jones .771 (Nobody is over .771 w a lower BB %) You have to go up to 5% to find a player over .778 (Steve Garvey at .779) .798 Ivan Rodriguez 5% .835 Dante Bichette 5.2%
  19. moonslav59
    Yes, but teams face a RH SP'er about 30% of the games, so it is still important to have batters than can hit all pitching or capable platoon players: we have both. What I like most is that we have no real "black holes." Sure, we've had slumping players, like DHam is now, but most seem to bounce back just as we start to notice. The team has hit .842 since May 31st. That's a 55 game sample size The team has hit .862 since the start of July. 29 games and 178 runs (6.1 runs per game) 48 HRs 87 2B+3B 30 SBs Since May 31 (75+ PAs): 1.042 Devers .973 Valdez (sent to AAA) .963 Duran .957 O'Neill .865 Abreu .858 Romy .849 Refsnyder .835 Smith .814 Rafaela .789 Wong (Jansen is at 1.083 in 12 PAs) .771 Yoshida .692 DHam (Sogard is at .701 in 18 PAs) 11 batters over .770!
  20. moonslav59
    Rafaela in 2024: .586 first 203 PAs (53 Ks- 7BB) .252 BAbip .814 last 216 PAs (52 Ks- 6BB) .377 BAbip It does not look like he changed his approach, in terms of K'ing less or walking more, but look at the OPS differential! Some might look at the BAbip and say he's been luckier, but I think he has been hitting the ball harder and more often. .205 BA first 56 games (16 XBH) .306 BA last 54 games (17 XBH)
  21. moonslav59
    Agreed. I also think a successful line-up has batters with various batting approaches that keep the opposing pitcher from finding a cookie-cutter groove.
  22. moonslav59
    It's not easy, but I think some batters seem to pull it off... Here are a few players with 1000+ career PAs, a BB/K of less than .21 and their career OPS: 0.16 .718 Tim Anderson 0.17 .730 Javier Baez 0.18 .735 S Dunston 0.19 .721 Schoop .717 Chris Johnson 0.20 .762 Salvador Perez Alonso Soriano had a BB/K of 0.28 and an OPS of .819. Andres Galarraga 0.29/ .861 Matt Kemp 0.32/.821 D Bichette 0.33/.843 Jose Abreu 0.35/.833 JD Martinez 0.35/.869
  23. moonslav59
    What is he, now? Do we go by the career or season stats? Could he possibly keep these numbers up, without a major shift in approach? .758 Since May 2nd (305 PAs) .824 Since June 6th (197 PAs) Somewhere in between? Like say, .775? Personally, I think it will be hard to maintain anything over .750 with his approach, but we have seen some "undisciplined" players do okay to fine on O. I'm hoping he can stay near .700-.725 and would be thrilled if he can do better.
  24. moonslav59
    We certainly have one of the best rookie classes in MLB. The "suspects" are now delivering and making a big impact. Abreu Rafaela DHam Slaten Criswell Booser Horn, Sogard & Westbrook FYI, last year, we "graduated Casas, Kelly, Bernardino, Murphy & Valdez. 2022: Duran, Bello, Crawford, Wong & Wink 2021: Houck, Whitlock & Dalbec
  25. moonslav59
    I'm not sure we keep Smith much longer, after Casas returns, unless they want to give him days off. Romy can play 1B. The way DHam is struggling, maybe he gets sent down, but we also have Grissom close to ready, if we think he's worth a shot, right now.
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