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  1. illinoisredsox
    He should be here any second now that the Sox are down.
  2. illinoisredsox
    First, the bull pen pretty much has done the job this year. So I'm not real sure why one would choose to go that route. But for the sake of discussion, who are you taking off the major league roster to make room to cycle through these PawSox? Right now, your choices would be Barnes, Hembree, Scott, Abad, and Boyer (I'm assuming that Kimbrel and Kelly are safe under this cycle program). Abad and Boyer are expendable, but is changing the #6 and #7 relievers going to do much? Hembree is out of options, so you would have to release him. Scott is your lefty specialist; yeah he's had a rough last couple of outings but for the most part he has done the job this year. Barnes has been inconsistent, but are any of these guys going to better than him? The starters have been far more of an issue.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Why is it that lefties are able to throw those balls that start a foot behind the batters rear and end up with it hitting the catchers glove in the other batter's box, but right handers don't seem to have that same movement? You know the type of pitch I'm trying to describe.
  4. illinoisredsox
    I understand looking for a particular pitch in a particular spot on the first strike. No sense going after a pitch perfectly placed down and way on the outside corner. I might even buy it on the second strike. But protecting the plate is a lost art. Very few seem to do it anymore. I remember reading that the old Oriole first baseman Eddie Murray would spend a couple of rounds of batting practice practicing his emergency swings; the type you use when you have 2 strikes and you are fooled on a pitch. It didn't always work for him in a game, sometimes the pitcher gets you. But he was at least thinking about protecting the plate and worked at it. Closer to home, Fisk's homer in Game 6 never takes place if Carbo doesn't hit his in the 8th, and Carbo never hits his if he doesn't foul off a nasty 2 strike pitch with, as Sports Illustrated said. "all the grace of a suburbanite raking leaves". It was a horrible swing, but it led to 2 moments for the ages.
  5. illinoisredsox
    It's an interesting stat to a point, but how does it compare with other teams? I'd imagine most teams have pretty good records when they score 4+ runs and pretty bad ones when they don't.
  6. illinoisredsox
    I have to wonder if this is actually true. A few years ago, we had the same story about a girl in a neighboring town here in Illinois.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Especially since Boras is the agent for 2 of them.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Exactly. The guys whose job it is to know such things see some thing(s) he needs to work on. There have been references on these boards about some issues with breaking balls. I have no idea if that's what it is or not, but let's suppose it is. If he's having some trouble with them against AA pitchers, major league pitchers are going to eat him alive with them. While Devers may be destroying fastballs, we have to remember that AA pitchers are every bit in the same development mode that Devers is, so their organizations may be having them work on commanding fastballs rather than tossing breaking pitch after breaking pitch just to get a certain hitter out. Big league pitchers are not going to be under any such requirements. As you point out, he's had 250 or so ABs above A ball. Benintendi at that same age was still in high A ball. So was Betts. JBJ was still in college. Xander got to Boston, but his first full season (2014 when he was 21) was a struggle.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Using Hembree in that situation begs the question, is Kelly unavailable or have they moved Barnes from the 8th inning role?
  10. illinoisredsox
    By definition, good pitchers are tough to hit. That's why they are ... The problem isn't the good pitchers, it's they haven't been hitting average and back end types.
  11. illinoisredsox
    You do realize that Berrios has a better record, a lower ERA and a lower WHIP than Sale, right? Offense didn't figure to be a big feature on either side tonight. Not every mistake is a hit and not every hit is off a mistake.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Yeah, but Buckley from the Herald is doing his best to start that (I assume somebody at the Globe is doing the same, but since they are behind a paywall ...). I don't think there's been a column he's written since the incident in New York that hasn't had some snide remark about Price in it.
  13. illinoisredsox
    One plus on Hanley the past few games is he appears to be starting to go the other way a little. He's a far better hitter when he does that.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Very true. But like you, I will trust the professionals in the Sox organization to judge when Devers is ready. Accountants, engineers, doctors and lawyers on a Red Sox forum looking only at minor league offensive numbers do not qualify, despite how much they think they are experts.
  15. illinoisredsox
    And the prorated portion at that. So roughly $275K (around half the MLB minimum of $535K and going down every day).
  16. illinoisredsox
    Possibly. But if you do that and Leon extends the game without touching them all, you are stuck trying to score Sandy, who may be the slowest guy on the team, with the tie run. You can't run for him. In any event, Young was going to hit for Marrero no matter what, and unfortunately, he didn't get the job done.
  17. illinoisredsox
    He had Kimbrel, but he did not have the Kimbrel we have seen this year.
  18. illinoisredsox
    A whole lot harder than the other way around. George "Boomer" Scott was a gold glove first baseman with the Sox and Brewers; he also played over 200 games at 3rd and was decidedly below average.Yaz was a great left fielder and a decent first basemen. He was a disaster when he tried to play 3rd in 1973. Travis has enough to figure out without worrying about changing to a much harder position.
  19. illinoisredsox
    When he kicked the bat or helmet (couldn't tell which) it's going to be automatic.
  20. illinoisredsox
    As bad as Porcello was, offensively 3 runs in 3 games ain't going to get you very many wins. They are fortunate to have gotten 1.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Nah, you don't want that. At least they are using Maddox, whoever the hell that is. That's an okay use of the pen.
  22. illinoisredsox
    The way this one is going, that might not be a bad thing. Fox has had trouble today. I turned on the U.S. Open around lunch time and they were off the air for a while, and then had no announcers for a spell (that was interesting as all you could hear was the talk between the golfers and their caddies).
  23. illinoisredsox
    I wouldn't use pitches, I would use innings. Tell him he's going 7, no matter how many he throws.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Now I leave him in to take the pounding. No sense wasting any bullpen in this one.
  25. illinoisredsox
    At this point, there really is no rotation as we think of it. And after Sale right now, it's all question marks. I mean, you've got Sale then Price/Porcello/Pomeranz in some sort of order for 2-4 and Velazquez #5.
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