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  1. illinoisredsox
    Not surprised; Farrell has said he thinks a lot of the errors are due to Devers being tired. With the off day tomorrow, he should get 2 days off, which might just be enough to recharge for the final 10 games. For those wondering how a 20 year old could be tired, he's played in 134 games over 3 leagues this year. It's the most he's ever played in in a season (128 least year) and he's played most of his major league games in the stress of a pennant race; there's been no easing into things.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Yep. Remember the difference between the "good" .300 hitter and the "mediocre" .250 hitter amounts to a little more than 1 hit a week over the course of the season for a full-time player (with due respect to Bull Durham, but it's right).
  3. illinoisredsox
    It probably should have, and Moreland would be the first one to say so. That doesn't change the fact that Devers had another bad throw. Can we at least admit Devers is not helping the team defensively at 3B? He also had the mental error last night of failing to cover 3rd when they had Jones picked off (MVP, who thinks Devers walks on water, tried to blame Vazquez for a dumb throw).
  4. illinoisredsox
    Magic Numbers: Division - 9 Wild Card - 2
  5. illinoisredsox
    Travis Shaw was that important last season? If anyone will go, it might be Chili Davis. Even allowing last season being career years for some, the drop off has been stunning. There's an old stat called runs produced,; it's runs scored + runs driven in - home runs (no double dipping); it's not perfect but in this case it is illustrative: 2016 2017 Difference Betts 204 165 -39 Bradley Jr. 155 101 -45 Bogaerts 183 132 -51 Pedroia 164 97 -67 Ramirez 162 79 -83 Pedroia has missed a lot of time this year, so that explains some of that large number but I was surprised how few runs Hanley produced last year; this year has been a cliff dive.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Magic Numbers: Division - 10 Wild Card - 4 With tonight's win, the Orioles and Rays have been eliminated, meaning the division has to go to either the Sox or the Evil Empire. So clinching the wild card now officially moves from beating out the Twins to eliminating the Angels.
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    This isn't going to end well; sooner or later one of the Oriole bats is going to run into one.
  8. illinoisredsox
    just remember Showalter is a failed ex-Yankee farmhand. Makes it easier to hate equally.
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    Hey so long as it's not a DP ...
  10. illinoisredsox
    At least the Twins made them work for it. More than can be said for the Birds Thursday through Saturday.
  11. illinoisredsox
    MVP, you can wax poetic all day about Devers but right now the kid is a serious liability in the field.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Well, if it's Houston, the two teams will have anywhere from a 7 to a 9 game series.
  13. illinoisredsox
    This. The Twins actually have something to play for. The O's basically bent over for the Yankees this past weekend. Showalter did everything he could to lose all 4. He bumped Bundy from his start yesterday (which would have been on normal rest) to today and started Jimenez instead. He intentionally walked Judge yesterday in the 9th, putting the tying run on base and bringing the winning run to the plate in the person of Sanchez. Unfortunately for his plans, Jimenez and Britton didn't cooperate. Wonder how much his playoff share from the Yanks will be. Of course, he will manage the next 3 like it's game 7 of the World Series.
  14. illinoisredsox
    No. They changed that rule when they added the second wild card. They would have a one-game playoff to determine the division champion and the loser goes to the wild card game. This is because the outcomes are so different (moving on to a series vs. a one game scenario). Now, the only time a tie would be broken without a tie breaking game being played are when two teams tie for the 2 wild card slots. Then the use head to head to determine home field for the play in game. Edit- they would use the latter to determine seeding for the 1-2 and 2-3 seeds in the division series as well.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Magic Numbers: Division - 11 Wild Card - 7
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    Magic Numbers: Division - 12 Wild Card - 7
  17. illinoisredsox
    Magic Numbers: Division - 13 Wild Card - 9
  18. illinoisredsox
    Magic Numbers: Division - 14 Wild Card - 11
  19. illinoisredsox
    Kimbrel's got to be rusty; he's only pitched 3 innings this month. Too many days between appearances.
  20. illinoisredsox
    A's came in playing well; they just swept a 4 game series with the Astros. They are the type of team that's dangerous this time of year, bunch of kids no one knows anything about who have no pressure on them. That being said, Sox need to win this afternoon. Taking 2/3 every series (or splitting a 4 gamer) from here on in will be just fine. What they can't be doing is losing series.
  21. illinoisredsox
    So with the bases loaded and 1 out, the runner on third is supposed to stay at 3rd on an infield grounder? And even if Pedey holds, that means somehow Benintendi has to get back to second and Betts to first. There were going to be 2 outs on that play no matter what. Cmon, SoxHop you're better than this.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Magic Numbers: Division - 15 Wild Card - 12
  23. illinoisredsox
    Probably because Young is 4-4 against Manaea with a double while Davis is 0-3 with 2 Ks. SSS I know, but those are the numbers that exist.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Well, now that Price isn't around much, I see you have your new target of disdain.
  25. illinoisredsox
    HRam is making more blunders because he's not 25 anymore. His body knows it but his brain doesn't. Pedey was making some of those same mistakes early in the year, but he hasn't made them lately. How much of that is injury and how much of it is him realizing he's not as fast as he once was is hard to say, but either way, his brain is listening to his body.
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