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  1. illinoisredsox
    Time to give it up. In MVPs world, EVERY boneheaded play by a Red Sox player is a Red Sox coaching issue.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Unfortunately, the scoring rules say it has to be awarded to somebody. Years ago, they were a decent stat for starting pitchers. But those were the days when team actually expected their starting pitchers to go 9 innings (or more). Nowadays, it's pretty worthless stat overall.
  3. illinoisredsox
    How do you know the staff hasn't tried to make that clear to them multiple times? But in the moment, instinct will almost always win out.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Lets see, Sox scored 12 last night, Porcello on the mound today, sounds ripe for another shutout. At least no one can say they should have saved some runs from last night, they needed just about every one of them.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Don't know if they had it on the NESN broadcast, but ESPN on Monday night and MLB last night both noted that Devers on Monday became the 4th player in Red Sox history to record a 4 hit game before his 21st birthday. Tony Congliaro did it twice, once in 1964 (at age 19) and once in 1965 (age 20), and Ted Williams 3 times in 1939. The first Sox player to do it was in 1915, some pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Devers did it in his 6th career game. Not to be outdone, Williams did it in his 4th
  6. illinoisredsox
    A coach at the junior high level shouldn't have to do that, much less at the big league level. That screw up was on JBJ, pure and simple (okay, the real screwup was on the umps for not calling the infield fly in the first place). Just like Betts forgetting how many outs there were the other night.
  7. illinoisredsox
    You may be thinking of Dick Tidrow, who was at least a serviceable reliever for the Evil Empire in the mid-70s. But those deals have nothing on the incestuous relationship between the Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics in the late 50s. Notables who went from KC to NY: Ralph Terry, Hector Lopez, Roger Maris, Art Ditmer, Clete Boyer, Bob Cerv and Harry Simpson, most acquired for castoffs. Cerv and Terry were originally signed by the Yankees, dealt to KC for a couple of years and then reacquired. The attached article has a more complete list, but the bottom line was that the KC Athletics of those years were serving as a virtual farm club for the Yankees. It notes that of the players on the 1961 Yankees (one of the best teams of all time) 10 had played with the Athletics. http://scout.com/mlb/athletics/Article/Athletics-History-KC-As-Yankees-Pipeline-104402240
  8. illinoisredsox
    Maybe, but if Benintendi is pressed into playing 3rd base, this team is in real trouble.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Or what?
  10. illinoisredsox
    You mean like last night?
  11. illinoisredsox
    Bogaerts was the killer out in that inning.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Both Hanley and Moreland got good pitches to hit. You can't just stand their and take hittable pitches all the time; hittng 0-2 or 1-2 is a sure recipe for disaster. Got to do somethimg with them though.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Actually, they've gotten several tomight. Unfortunately, the defense and pitching didn't show up.
  14. illinoisredsox
    I don't know which way he would take a benching. Could spur him to get his head out of his rear or it could cause him to check out even further.
  15. illinoisredsox
    What a shock. Bogaerts swings and misses on a down and away breaking ball.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Defense has not helped this inning. One decent hit ball.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Can't see the game and I caught the gist of the first mistake; what happened in the second time?
  18. illinoisredsox
    The Royals are white hot right now. That's not an excuse for stupid baseball though. I'm not one to fire a manager easily but it might be time to fire Farrell. It's not just this stretch but the overall poor play over much of a the season.
  19. illinoisredsox
    The A's used to be the Yankees major league farm team. If NY had a kid they wanted to get some seasoning, they would trade him to the KC Athletics for a veteran who could help NY out now. After a couple of years, if the kid proved himself, he would be traded back to the Yanks for either another kid or a spare part.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Yuck!
  21. illinoisredsox
    He hasn't stunk, but more like decidedly mediocre. Runs allowed: 1 2 times 2 2 times 3 7 times 4 5 times 5+ 6 times He should have around a .500 record with those types of numbers (or rather the Sox should be around .500 in those games, they are 8-14 in Porcello starts).. You give up 5+ runs you are going to lose most of the time and 4 runs you should split at best. Games you give up 3 or less you should win a decent percentage. Yet the Sox are 3-8 in games where he has allowed 3 or less runs. And one can disparage run support all they want, the Sox have been shut out 5 times in Porcello starts, meaning 0% chance of winning no matter how well he pitched. They have scored 2 runs or less 12 times n his 22 starts. OTOH, it hasn't been a total famine; they have scored 5 or more runs 9 times in games he's pitched, so it just seems like they never score for him.
  22. illinoisredsox
    They don't ask how, they ask how many. As in how many outs did you get and how many runs did you allow. That "junk" has a 12-4 record with an ERA around 3.00; he's been doing something right this year.
  23. illinoisredsox
    I hope you are correct.
  24. illinoisredsox
    OTOH, when they write crap like this, I'm not sure I blame the players: http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/2017/07/borges_let_the_boos_rain_down_on_phony_david_price_tonight?utm_campaign=bostonherald_trending_stories&utm_source=bostonherald&utm_medium=trending_stories Yes, Eck was wronged. There is no defending what Price did. But if it was such a big story, why did it take a month to surface? And who is feeding the flames now? Both sides need to grow up. BTW, I loved the comment after article citing Borges being fired from the Globe for plagiarism a decade ago. (Edit - comment appears to have been removed. Too bad, it was a link to an article about the firing).
  25. illinoisredsox
    Ugh; not a good pitching match-up. Vargas, who was at least in the conversation for the start in the all-star game, against Porcello, for whom the Sox seemingly last scored a run some time in May.
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