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  1. illinoisredsox
    ERod being his usual efficient self.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Wow. TV guys just relayed an incredible story about the Rangers’ OF Pozo. With the minors shut down he was homeless a year ago. For those who want to read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/sports/rangers/2021/08/18/through-the-cracks-how-yohel-pozo-went-from-homelessness-to-hitting-home-runs-with-the-rangers/%3FoutputType%3Damp
  3. illinoisredsox
    ERod pretends to cover first which led to an infield hit. Been that way since that knee injury a few years ago. At first, he didn’t bother trying at all; now he jogs over sort of covering the bag.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Jung has opened a thread for the 8/21 game; move over to that one for discussion.
  5. illinoisredsox
    I recall the Sox moving a Sunday game up a day and playing a doubleheader on a Saturday against the A's about 10 years ago. I'm pretty sure it was 2011, because for some reason I always remember it occurring right before the September collapse that year.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Sale’s velocity is a concern; down this inning to about 90.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Not sure I’ve ever seen interference like that in a major league game.
  8. illinoisredsox
    We’ll just have to agree to disagree on this topic.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Optics aside, it would not have mattered.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Except it wasn’t a hard single to right, it was a ball that looked like a possible catch off the bat. Edit - went back and checked; the ball was hit harder than I thought but hit the ground about 6 feet in front of the fielder. Off the bat it looked catchable.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Yeah, it would have been interesting to see how that would have gone with Verdugo in left. But you did get to see Bogie demonstrate his soccer skills.
  12. illinoisredsox
    I’d put that on the metrics. Given how far Rafi was off the line, I assume they had JD way towards left center. Bogie would be sprinting that way anyway in case the ball hit the wall.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Good point. Of course, that would mean Nolan Ryan may have struck out 10,000 batters.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Complete with that massive $6000 minimum salary (which I'm guessing a lot of players made)?
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Have to have a lead to use a defensive replacement.
  22. 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.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Not a save situation for him; he came in with a 4 run lead.
  24. 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.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Ripped one in his 2nd AB that LaMahieu used every bit of his 6’4” to nab.
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