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  1. bosoxmal
    So you are implying that it's unlikely that a catcher cannot be both a switch hitter and a good defensive catcher? I don't see why not.
  2. bosoxmal
    Varitek was here for ten years.
  3. bosoxmal
    Wanna guess when our two pitching coaches decide to go to a 6-man rotation? Including Buchholz? Seems inevitable to me. Especially if Toronto's works for them. It's only a question "when" that Buchholz gets a start.
  4. bosoxmal
    It has been mentioned once or twice during this game: Betts is hitting close to .500 with two outs and a man in scoring position. And these idiots still have him leading off. I rest my case. Someone else can start a similar "home stand" thread on Tuesday when the Yankees come in and, I hope, JF goes out.
  5. bosoxmal
    I don't how many more times I can put up with the games of Pattycake, Pattcake that JF plays with his pitchers. If there's ghost of a chance for the guy to get out of the inning and MAYBE not be the losing pitcher, Farrell sits on his ass, and prays (I suppose). Price was done in the 4th inning. He had 30 pitches that inning, and even more in the 5th. Is he blind? Price has had nothing from the start of the game! Yes, it is time to say good-bye!
  6. bosoxmal
    Anybody else listening (and watching) Vin Scully? He is 88. And does far better job thab aby three-some in baseball media.
  7. bosoxmal
    For 6 straight years Mickey Mantle had double digit numbers in stolen bases. I have serious doubts that he ever led off!
  8. bosoxmal
    "Trout was hitting 1st a few years ago". Yeh, and now he isn't. Henderson was known much more his pwoess on the base paths than he was as a hitter. Ellsbury had that great year and hit leas off. Agreed. I don't agree that he SHOULD have been leading off. He was a long way from having the power numbers that Betts has, and will have when he has his best years. There are exceptions going all the back, but that's what they are, exceptions. Does that make it Gospel? Can't the manager think of what might be best? Betts had been labeled for lead off back three years ago. Not many projected what he's turned out to be. Noi a big surprise considering he's, what, 5-9 and 175 lbs? But, he is what he is, and not what he was projected to be.
  9. bosoxmal
    Wasn't Altuve leading off earlier in the year? He hits third these days. Someone wised up.
  10. bosoxmal
    I don't remember any great hitter leading off. Makes no sense. If Bradley or Pedroia is not capable of getting on base, then they don't belong on the team. Mookie's forte is hitting not taking walks. Mookie's OBP is .350!!!! Lower than most everyone else. Lower than Bogaerts, Pedroia, hell even lowere than Leone! Fact: leadoff men should be those who get on base more often than most. Mookie doesn't walk a lot. He's hitting .310 now with 23 home runs because he's become aggresive. My God, you people would have had Williams and Musial leading off!
  11. bosoxmal
    Oyher examples that help to tell the story: Following are the 7, 15 and 30 dy batting average of the three "Key" offensive players (alphabeticallY) Betts: 7 day( .419,----.367 and--- .373 Nogaerts: .167------- 297----------217 Ortiz----------.107--------217----------252 Bogaerts needs about 3 days off, and Papi about a week. The RbI numbers are even more revealing: Betts: 5, 13 and 19 Nogaerts: 1, 6, and 16 Ortiz: 0, 2 and 7 Now tell me who should be hitting in the 3 or 4 spot!
  12. bosoxmal
    The Good News: The other guys all lost (are close to it) The Bad News: We did too! Price on for the last of the 11 games. I can't wait to see the day, JF figures it out, and plugs Betts someway in the order where he won't come up with no one on base all day. Hitting behind the pitcher! /sure good spot for your best hitter!
  13. bosoxmal
    Good point.
  14. bosoxmal
    I'm not sure which has been the most pleasurable tonihgt' watching Betts, Leone and Wright, Inc. hammer the Dodgers, or listening to Vin Scully talk bout the game, stories about former players from the 2 reams and not miss a beat. He even mentioned Ortiz taking Shaw's hat after the HR! Never a second of stupid escessive praise for some guy hitting .250. Just calls the game and keeps you interested. Best of all time; no doubt about it.
  15. bosoxmal
    Well, all that's expected and hoped for right now, i to tread water. If they come back to Fenway no more than 2 or 3 games back of Baltimore and/or Toronto, they ccan then look forwr to making that up in a very short time. The time to panic will come if they get swept in one ohe many upcoming series with the Orioles and Toronto. Hope I can stay awake longer than I did last night. Conked out end of the ninth, and woke up right after Holt's winning hit. Then managed to crawl out bed about 10, and accompany a buddy to Publix. My advice: Try and call it quits after the big nine O. Not really worth it!
  16. bosoxmal
    4 and 4 is not all bad considering the travel, the injuries (although every team has those), and JF's weird lineups. Pedroia has no business in the 4 hole. Consider, he ahd a guy with 22 HRs and 70 RBI leading off and a guy with 12 HR and 46 RBI hitting cleanup. That would be a little bi like, the old Sox having Foxx leading off and Cramer hitting clean up! Yep, going 4 and 4 is not bad. And Papi will get back to his ridiculous normal self when this west coast good bye tour is over.
  17. bosoxmal
    That's probably pretty close. Nintendo apparently a contact hitter. But I think Pedroia finds himself doen in the 8 hole next year, I expect (but don't wany to see it) that both Pedroia and Papi start fading as the season goes along. Maybe Big Papi already has, and I hope it's because of the retirement fanfare.
  18. bosoxmal
    Well, if I were a Padre's fan and paid little attention the Redd Sox lineups, but decided I'd catch a game tonight, I;d be shaking my head wondering who was calling the shots there. JF has a guy with 22 HR and 70 RBI leading off, and a guy with 12 Hr and 46 RBI hitting clean-up. AND HE'S A MAJOR LEAGUE MANAGER?
  19. bosoxmal
    Only one team loses when two opposing pitchers are pitching well. We ar losing thise close games!
  20. bosoxmal
    And he was the AL Player of the Month for July.
  21. bosoxmal
    2-2 so far (going into Wed nite game). Bad Day Tues, Blew good lead, and both Toronto and Baltimore won. 2 games behind the top spot. I wish JF would show his rookies when games are out of hand. Is Holt hurting? Last night was a strange time to throw the shaky Italian Kid in there. He must have been petrified.
  22. bosoxmal
    From the little I've seen, one is too many. Has anyone checked his SO numbers? I can see him on the bench and getting acquainted. I can see him in L in a 10-2 game. In th late innings of a close game? Hardly.
  23. bosoxmal
    The combination of 1) not having a ready bullpen, 2) throwing the Italian Kid under the bus just after he got off one, and 3) throwing a guy who doesn't yet know who he's playing for into a spot like that is "Farrellesque." It's not the idea of not playing them; it's the fact he does not recognize a game that has extra important written all over it.
  24. bosoxmal
    All true. And I see more than that in this young man. What happened last night was nothing short of a disaster, but I think it will only make him more determined than ever. If I had to use one word I would say, "energizer." As an aside, I think he and Shaw have gotten to be VG friends. Interesting in that Shaw looks cool, calm and collected while Mookie can't wait to yell, "let's play two". Yep, come to think of it, he reminds me a lot of Ernie Banks!
  25. bosoxmal
    Plus he gets the experience getting his critiqus from Papi. I hope, later in the year Mocada does also.
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