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  1. illinoisredsox
    You do realize Estrada was selected to the All-Star team only a year ago, right? No, that guy hasn't been pitching this season, but it's not like it isn't in him to do so. He changed speeds effectively. If you throw everything the same speed, major league hitters will catch up to it (Joe Kelly is a good example of this). Take a pitcher who can change speeds (i.e., can upset timing), facing a team that doesn't hit off-speed stuff all that well to begin with and is in a overall teamwide slump, and you've got the ingredients for a 3 hitter. 40 years ago, Randy Jones won a Cy Young and had a couple 20 win seasons throwing pitches as slow as 72 mph (and topping out at 85). There are many ways to get hitters out.
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    Machado is a borderline dirty player (I saw he tried something similar on Gregorius on Monday), but it can at least be argued his dirtiness happens in the course of game action. Players can police that with by not diving into third but going in with the spikes a little high; I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already. Sanchez has no such defense.
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    Magic Numbers: Division - 21 Wild Card - 18
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    I think there was a little bit of this on Mookie's part as well. On the postgame radio show, Betts admitted he was so tired he didn't even look to see where the CF was playing. He basically just took off. If Pillar is playing a normal CF (and with anyone except Hanley, he probably would have been shallower), he catches it, doubles Mookie off and we are having a bunch more pages about boneheaded baserunning. But it worked out.
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    To be fair, at least 2 of them were infield hits.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Sooner or later one of the Jays is going to run into a pitch and hit it out. Can't blame the pitching tonight (again).
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    The what?
  8. illinoisredsox
    What was wrong with Schilling as an analyst?
  9. illinoisredsox
    He was being roasted for that here. As I posted the other day, Sale's worst month historically (by far) is September and his second worst is August.
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    Juiced ball is out (this assumes everyone is hitting the same balls) IMO, the overall approach has to change. The bit about taking automatically taking strike one has to be altered. If the pitch is on the outside corner at the knees, fine. But how many times have we watched get me over fastballs in the middle of the plate let go. Most of the time they don't even follow the pitch. And even when they swing at them, I'm not convinced they are fully committed to doing so. Another thing these guys have to learn to do is foul off tough 2 strike pitches. Yeah,sometimes the pitcher is going to get you. The Yankees did this to perfection against both Sale and Pomeranz. There is no reason most of these guys can't do the same thing. Finally, if they are going to pitch you outside, go the other way.
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    Exactly. And to emphaasize, after, not in the middle of that September collapse.
  12. illinoisredsox
    2 weeks? Try 4 days.
  13. illinoisredsox
    I would say 1988 was hardly change for change sake: 1) It was July. 2) With John McNamara at the helm, the Sox had gone from an out away from a World Series title in 1986 to a 78-84 record and a 5th place finish in 1987. 3) They were 43-42 at the All-Star break in 1988, in 4th place and 9 games back. The current situation meets all but 3 of those. Oh, and despite Morgan Magic getting them the division title, they got swept by the A's in the ALCS.
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    Magic Numbers: Division - 23 Wild Card - 20
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    The thing is, this isn't that far below his career norms: Starting from his rookie year in 2009 - ERA 3.96, 4.92, 4.75, 4.59, 4.32, 3.43, 4.92, 3.15, 4.67 WHIP 1.336, 1.389, 1.407, 1.531, 1.282, 1.231, 1.360, 1.009, 1.401 HR/9 1.2, 1.0, 0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 0.8, 1.3, 0.9, 1.7 The W-L and HR/9 are way out of norm, but a lot of his stats are fairly average for him. He's a low #3, #4 type pitcher. Last year was the outlier.
  16. illinoisredsox
    You said good pitchers don't lose 20 games. I listed several good (and in a few cases great) pitchers who did. Porcello has not been good this year, there is no disputing that point. His record is where it should be. He's lost a few where he pitched well but got no run support; he's also won a couple where he didn't pitch too well but got good run support that day.
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    Actually, there are a lot of good pitchers who have lost 20 games, including several Hall of Famers. Note I am not comparing Porcello to any of them: Phil Niekro (twice) Wilbur Wood (twice)(to be fair, he also WON 20 one of those years) Steve Carlton (a year after he won 27) Luis Tiant Mel Stottlemyre Heck, go way back and Walter Johnson is on the list twice. Repeat, I am not comparing Porcello to any of them.
  18. illinoisredsox
    Betts is getting nothing to pull. First pitch fastball, which he takes 95+% of the time (I agree he needs to get a little more aggressive with those, he is letting hittable pitches go by a lot), followed by sliders and sinkers away and down. Until he starts going the other way with those, he isn't going to hit. Beni is doing just fine, not sure I'd have him doing much different than he has been at at he plate.
  19. illinoisredsox
    It's especially suspicious when they made a big deal about the league office's being closed for the Labor day weekend, yet the Tigers involved began serving their suspensions Saturday. Prediction: they will be announced tomorow. Romine's will be reduced to one game, he will sit out tomorrow's game. Sanchez's will also be reduced a game and he will miss 1 Oriole game and 2 Rangers games. Torre always takes care of his boys.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Reason to be concerned about Sale: Historically, he wears down as the season progresses. September is by far his worst month careerwise. Fewest IP, highest ERA (by more than half a run), highest WHIP (by .18), only month with a losing record (9-15). August is his second worst month in those regards. Perhaps those who were complaining when Farrell tried to get the rotation extra days rest here and there back in July and early August should maybe consider JF knew what he was trying to do. (Okay, that's probably asking too much). I'm pretty sure he had these types of stats available when all they saw was his last start.
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    Magic Numbers: Division - 23 Wild Card - 21
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    Won't be Owens; they are sending him to the Arizona Fall League. They aren't doing that with the intent of releasing him, at least as of now. Might be his last shot, though. If he shows nothing in the AFL, he's be gone by spring. Johnson is going to the AFL as well, along with Chavis. My guess would be Martin. Lin and Marrero will be up Tuesday, as will Smith.
  23. illinoisredsox
    OH, I agree Farrell sent him, and I had no issue with him doing so The onus was on Betts to at least attempt to put the ball in play. It's not like it was one of those 3 inches outside called strikes Sabathia got a few times last night.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Neither you nor I have a clue as to what coaching Beni is or is not getting. All we know is he's been up a little more than a year and continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. Whether it's lack of coaching, unwillingness to learn or inability to learn is the question. Could be any combination of the three. If we know nothing else about Farrell, it's that he doesn't say anything bad about his players in public. Tell me how coaching would have prevented the play at second last night? You can preach theory on that one all day and night, but that's a situation that you have to experience to learn from. In this sense, Farrell is right, the game has to teach you. It was a dumb play and despite that, he still was a questionable replay reversal away from pulling it off. That smacks of a guy who's been able to outrun mistakes since he started playing. The only thing coaching would have done there is coach aggressiveness out of him, and we don't want that either.
  25. illinoisredsox
    3-2 I doubt it was a hit and run, but Betts, as the great Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell used to put it, "stood there like a house at the side of the road". It was a pitch you have to at least offer at.
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