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  1. illinoisredsox
    The league average is 23%. Both Sox catchers are below that; Vaz at 20% and Plawecki at 10%. Most bases are stolen on the pitcher, not the catcher. The Sox have a lot of guys who take a long time to deliver the ball. Heck, Judge was practically sliding into second last night off of Ottavino by the time Vaz even caught the ball, hence no throw.
  2. illinoisredsox
    He's the moron? So you would rather he say "Yeah, we're terrible. We're just going to tank the rest of the season"? Even if the team members are thinking that, they aren't going to say it for public consumption. They're trained to try and put a positive spin on things no matter what.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Good point. Of course, that would mean Nolan Ryan may have struck out 10,000 batters.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Complete with that massive $6000 minimum salary (which I'm guessing a lot of players made)?
  5. illinoisredsox
    He's used them a few times. I know Verdugo has gone in for JD a couple times when Martinez has been in the outfield. Marwin was used that way some as well, especially when Chavis was playing 2B. With a four man bench, one of whom is the back-up catcher, it's not like there are a lot of options. They are just a bad defensive club overall.
  6. illinoisredsox
    To each his own; it's just not something that bugs me all that much. The bat thing bothers me much more, but it's the current generation is all sports. You beat your opponent on the play but you have to make sure you let him know you beat him.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Probably the lefty righty thing, and Plawecki is hitting something like .350 over his last 14 or 15 games. And he did have one of the only hits the Sox got last night. I would have PH Schwarber for him in the 9th though, even with the lefty on the mound; the Sox needed a long ball there, something Plawecki was very unlikely to provide.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Really? That's what causes fans to change the channel? Players have been doing that since I was a kid and I've following MLB since 1966. This isn't Little League. Major League players virtually never mess up routine chances in such a manner that it would make any difference in the outcome whether a player busts it down the line or jogs. How often would it make a difference, maybe one time in 500? Out by 30 feet or out by 2 feet is still out. These guys have played enough to know when they've got a shot and when they don't, and when they've got a shot, they do go all out. This is down around page 18 of the issues with MLB.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Have to have a lead to use a defensive replacement.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Anyone else on the team running there beats that out; when a team is going bad, it’s your back up catcher who hits that. I was a little surprised that Schwarber wasn’t used there, even if it would have been lefty on lefty. He’s at least a threat to hit one out.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Not a save situation for him; he came in with a 4 run lead.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Depends on the team. A very young team learning to win is decently served by making the postseason, even if they don’t advance. A veteran team (and this years Sox are very much a veteran team) is not. What the Sox are is not extremely talented. They overachieved early but there’s a reason 162 games separates the contenders from the pretenders, and August is usually when that separation starts to occur.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Ripped one in his 2nd AB that LaMahieu used every bit of his 6’4” to nab.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Juuust a bit outside.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Note that the hardest hit balls were by Bogie and Dalbec taking it the other way.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Yanks have had their share of those this series.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Why lift him here? Asking before we know how the next guy does.
  18. illinoisredsox
    Like I said earlier, they are all trying to hit 5 run homers.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Why are you swinging at that Renfroe?
  20. illinoisredsox
    In looking at Heaney’s game log this year, it looks like he’s either been pretty good or absolutely horrible. Not a lot of 3 runs in 6 innings type games this year.
  21. illinoisredsox
    He’s not throwing a lot of meatballs tonight but the Sox approach again is awful; most look like they are trying to hit 5 run homers.
  22. illinoisredsox
    When it’s not going your way. That’s two bullets by Dalbec in two days that have gone for outs.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Don’t forget a 3-0 count on Kike as well.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Shaw hits the ball reasonably well; it’s caught. Voit hits his just a little harder and Renfroe can get to it; he hits it softer and Kike gets it. Baseball
  25. illinoisredsox
    I sit corrected. You have to admit there is a lot of 20-20 hindsight here though.
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