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  1. moonslav59
    No. He should be 95%. Romy 5%.
  2. moonslav59
    Our bats have been so inconsistent and mostly quiet. My hopes of an O as good as last year's seems dashed. Although the whole league has seen a decline, ours is steeper. When it comes to timely hitting, we have been near the bottom, especially if you look at overall OPS - OPS in high leverage and late & close.
  3. moonslav59
    C: McGuire 75-80%/ Wong 20-25% 1B: Kavadas 80-85%/ Cooper 15-20% DH: Wong 65-70%/ Refsnyder 30-35% 2B: Grissom 90%/Romy 10% SS: Rafaela 70%/Romy 20%/DHam 10% LF: O'Neill 60%/Refsnyder 40% CF: Duran 90%/Rafaela 10% RF: Abreu 50-55%/O'Neill 35%/Refsnyder 10-15%
  4. moonslav59
    Agreed. Kavadas at 1B and DH. Play Ref, everyday at DH or LF, when Rafaela is at SS. Play Wong nearly everyday at C and DH. (Three way DH) Say good bye to Smith or Cooper. It looks like it's getting close to watching the minors more than the bigs. Sad but this is sadder,
  5. moonslav59
    Trainwreck is being kind.
  6. moonslav59
    Agree on Houck and Crawford. I'd kick the tires hard with Casas, too. I like the gamble on Rafaela. Bello seems like a decent bet.
  7. moonslav59
    Like every night for the next 5 months.
  8. moonslav59
    He has a lot of company.
  9. moonslav59
    Gotta stop this slide, or it will be too late, early, this year.
  10. moonslav59
    Woo rained out. POR won 2-1 Penrod 6IP, 1H, 1 ER, 3BB, 10K Anthony 1-2 w 2BB GRE lost 6-3 Mata pitched 2 innings (4H + 1BB + 0K) K Campbell 2-4
  11. moonslav59
    Back to square one. Full circle.
  12. moonslav59
    I'm all for riding the hot hands, in times like these. He's got speed, too. His D is worse than Rafaela and Romy at SS, though.
  13. moonslav59
    HRs by Devers in 2024 1 put the Sox ahead 2-0 (man on) v SEA in 6-4 win on opening day. Useless? No. 2 Sox ahead 1-0, he hit a solo homer in a 12-2 win v LAA. Useless? It did not seem so, at teh time. 3 Sox up 2-0 v CLE, he hits a solo HR in 8-0 win. Useless? Maybe? Probably? 4 Up 7-2 v, MIN Devers hits a nrea meaningless HR. Sox win 9-2. 4 in last 4 games... 5 Down 4-2 v TBR, he jacks a solo blast in the 6th to make it down 4-3, we lost. To me, not useless. 6 Down 1-0 to TBR, his solo homer tied it 1-1. We lost 7-5. Not really a useless homer, despite losing by 2. 7 Down 3-2, his solo homer tied it. We ended up losing 10-6. 8 Today's homer tied it. Sure, we wish he homered more often with men on base, but most of his homers were not useless or meaningless, when hit.
  14. moonslav59
    Another useless solo homer. It tied the game, but Devers really sucks when we need it.
  15. moonslav59
    Bring us some Thunder luck!!!
  16. moonslav59
    He is 1 run from being 3rd in runs scored on the team. Somebody has to be on base for others to get RBIs. No doubt, Devers is lagging on producing runs, so far this year. There is no denying it. I just don't buy into the idea that anyone should be defined by what they've done in a 34 game stretch, where he was playing hurt for part of it. (Again, not an excuse- he has sucked at producing runs.) RBI + Runs- HRs: 42 Duran (speed helps w runs scored) 37 Rafaela 32 O'Neill 31 Abreu (horrible in HL) 30 Devers 22 Wong 17 McGuire
  17. moonslav59
    A well thought out post. We also have to consider that Devers is doing this with very little support around him in the line-up. Teams are thinking, "Let anyone else beat us but Devers." I know that is not an excuse. He has sucked, when it counts, this year, and he's not being walked all that often in high leverage PAs. (2 BBs in 31 PAs) Also, only 31 PAs in HL is not a lot, nor a proper sample size to make definitive judgments about anyone. In 2023, he hit .941 in high leverage (21 BBs in 122 PAs) 6 HRs and 30 RBI. 30% of his RBI came in HL. Only 18.5% of his PAs were HL! How is this being a choke? (Not that anyone called him that.) The whole team is crappying out on O. Only 3 hitters are doing well in HL PAs. Devers is not one of them. (He is 4th best, but far behind them. Let's see how he does from PA # 32 to over 90 in HL situations, this year. I like having Devrs up in clutch situations, despite his poor 31 PAs, this year.
  18. moonslav59
    As of now, the ALE teams place like this: 1. NYY 2. BAL 7. TBR 10, BOS T11 TOR (BOS & TOR flirting with being in the bottom 5) Last year (nobody below #9): 1. BAL 2. TBR 5. TOR 8, NYY 9. BOS 2022 (Nobody below #9) 2. NYY 4. TOR 6. TBR 7. BAL 9. BOS 2021 (just 1 below #5) 1. TBR 4. BOS 4. NYY 5. TOR 15. BAL
  19. moonslav59
    I don't think losing the DH by having to move Wong from DH to C, late in a game, is such a big deal. If the RP'er comes to bat, we can PH Cooper or Smith then, and let them "get going" that way. Wong and Ref are hot: play them everyday.
  20. moonslav59
    Hindsight is making them look wrong, and not just with injuries. Look at performances in both roles: The sample sizes by IP is pretty close (133 as RP/109 as SP) 2.65 ERA RP (.763 OPS Against) 4.29 ERA SP (.632 OPS Against) To be fair, most pitchers have better numbers in relief, even some good starters. Crawford career: 3.35 RP (.592) 4.39 SP (.716) Nobody wants him in the pen, anymore. Same with Houck: 2.68 RP (.570) 3.72 SP (.649) Pivetta 4.19 RP (.707) 4.90 SP (.773)
  21. moonslav59
    When we acquired Smith and Cooper, did we really think they'd both be starting in nearly every game? With Wong and Ref hitting so well, why not DH them, when they are not playing catcher or LF? Ref is even reversing his splits, this year. 1.139 v R (.637 career) .747 v L (.756 career) He has DH'd twice, this year. Wong has a significant career reverse split: .775 v R .599 v L Wong in 2024 .904 v R 1.005 v L Wong has DH'd twice, this year. Cooper has started 4 games at DH. Smith has started 4 games at DH.
  22. moonslav59
    Certainly, the Rays, Sox and Jays don't instill much fear in their opponents, anymore. The ALE is more top heavy than solid from 1 to 4 or 5..
  23. moonslav59
    You don't have a .955 OPS in the playoffs by not being clutch. Devers has 8 playoff HRs in 102 PAs (89 ABs) That is like hitting 50 HRs in 650 PAs with over 160 RBIs. Very short memories for some.
  24. moonslav59
    Agreed, but this has nothing to do with how good Devers is. This guy has had some mammoth hits for the Sox, some as clutch as they get. He has not been clutch in his 34 games, this year, and it seems this is what defines him, to some.
  25. moonslav59
    Our rotation is starting to look human, just as the bats seem to be waking up in the last 2 days. The rotation still has a 2,76 ERA, despite allowing so many runs, recently. They are still being plagued by too many unearned runs, but that is what it is. ERAs as SP/Opener Only: 0.00 Bernardino (2GS/3IP) 1.69 Wink (3GS/10.2 IP) 1.96 Whitlock (4 GS/18.1 IP) 3.48 Pivetta (4/20.2) 27.00 Anderson (1/1.2) The more or less regulars: 2.17 Houck (9/58) 2.24 Crawford (9/52.1) 2.67 Criswell (6/27). 3.96 Bello (7/36.1)
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