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  1. illinoisredsox
    Okay folks, which is it?
  2. illinoisredsox
    Not hard to figure out. Holoday for Leon is the day game after a night game thing at catcher. Young is in for Benintendi; Holt was the only other choice and he's has been scuffling. Ortiz was a planned day off. The team has had 1 day off since July 18, that was the day after 11 games on the West Coast and they've spent 2 of the past 3 weeks on the road.. They all need some time off. What they really need is a couple of rain outs in a row.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Gamecast has it at 4 line drive outs for the Sox so far. Are these hard hit balls or humped back liners?
  4. illinoisredsox
    You understand it or you don't understand it?
  5. illinoisredsox
    Odorizzi pounding the strike zone: 37 pitches, 29 strikes. Need Wade Boggs to come out of retirement and foul off about 20 pitches to get the pitch count up.
  6. illinoisredsox
    If he's to continue as a starter, he'll have to learn to command the strike zone by dialing it back a bit, throw easy mid-90s where he wants to and be able to ramp up when he needs to. Obviously he'll need to add a couple pitches as well (change, breaking ball). If he ends up in the pen, the other pitches aren't quite as important. Either way, does anyone know if his pitches are straight or do they have movement? Major league hitters can handle 100 mph straight (ask Joe Kelly)
  7. illinoisredsox
    Yep. The guys that do get promoted.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Might be something to this; there are unconfirmed reports of worms at Fenway abandoning their homes for safer ground in the outfield.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Okay sportsfans, do you pitch to Kiermaier and walk Longoria or the other way around? I take my chances with Kiermaier and Miller.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Whether you agree or disagree with leaving Porcello in, one hting to consider. He had just come off of three straight stress free innings. Eck has often said you can throw all night if no one's on base. 80 pitches with guys constantly on is a lot more taxing than 110 with no one on. A loss will be on the offense tonight. Both last night and tonight they have failed to cash in on numerous golden opportunities.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Well the pen has done nothing so far to say it was a wrong decision. Walk and a hit (albeit the infield variety).
  13. illinoisredsox
    Yeah, cause it's not like Longoria has never hit a home run before. Who in the pen do you trust?
  14. illinoisredsox
    I've been to several major league stadiums, most are no longer in use: Fenway, the original Yankee Stadium (before remodeling), Shea, Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Comiskey Park (I and II), Wrigley, Royals Stadium, Busch Stadium (the one the Sox won the 2004 World Series in), the Astrodome, County Stadium in Milwaukee (saw Rice's 300th homer there).
  15. illinoisredsox
    Exactly, which is why it will probably be 3 years minimum before he sees a major league mound; Those guys were Hall of Famers and it took that long to harness their abilities. And he has to learn to deal with failure. Player who's hitting .220 in the low minors after a few weeks: "I don't understand. I hit .600 in high school. How come I can't hit now?" Manager: "Did you ever go 0-3 or 1-4 against anyone?" Player: "Sure, a few times" Manager: "Those are the guys we signed." No difference or even harder for pitchers, who are used to blowing away 98% of guys they faced as amateurs. The 2% who could hit them are the guys who signed pro contracts.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Bob Feller signed at 17 and went right to the Guardians; he was okay but didn't really show his Hall of Fame ability until he was 20-21 and had been around 3-4 years. Sandy Koufax went right to the Dodgers at age 19. He didn't become the pitcher we remember until he was 25.
  17. illinoisredsox
    The difference is Buchholz has a history of doing that. Does ERod? And while ERod said something to the effect of he wanted to be 100%, were those the words of a guy for whom English is a second language and for whom what he meant and the words he used didn't exactly jive. I don't know. There is a difference between playing hurt and playing injured. The former is something pro athletes have to learn to do. The latter is stupid. Pedroia tried to come back and play injured a few years ago and ended up missing the rest of the season. If that hammie affects ERod's delivery and he injures his arm, will people be glad "he toughed it out"?
  18. illinoisredsox
    Vazquez will be back up. One or both of Hernandez or Marerro. Probably a few of the pitchers who have graced the dugout this year: Kelly, N. Ramirez (no idea why), maybe Elias. They will reactivate Hanigan. The Sox seem to only bring up 4-5 guys for September call ups.
  19. illinoisredsox
    He's 18 as of yesterday. This is a very young kid.
  20. illinoisredsox
    I got that. There are those who advocate bringing him up now, though, and if they bring him up any time between now and the end of August (next Wednesday), somebody has to come off the 25 man roster to make room.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Odds are he went through whatever day before start running/routines he has and it tightened up during or right after he did them. Given that he's going to do those drills in the couple hours before game time, 5:30-5:45 is entirely plausible. I do love it when internet tough guys call players soft with no real knowledge whatsoever.
  22. illinoisredsox
    The issue is not the 40 man roster. That part of the equation is easy. If you call him up before September 1, somebody has to go off the 25 man roster.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Benintendi was called up with a month to go until roster expansion, the team scuffling and at a position that was exhibiting both offensive and defensive weakness. They also didn't really need to get rid of anyone with much value to bring him up. As I recall, Michel Martinez (a back-up infielder) was let go to make room for him. Now you have a week to go until expansion; to add Moncada to the roster probably means releasing Hill (who right now is superior to Shaw/Holt and probably Moncada defensively and can also play 2nd well). If it were 2 months ago or even 1 month, I have less issue with releasing Hill. With the team playing well right now, Moncada getting another 6-7 games experience at 3rd in Pawtucket isn't a bad thing. He'll be in Boston, probably iin 8 days.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Well played.
  25. illinoisredsox
    JH is just trying to give him some external motivation. If it works, great, the Sox maybe get a serviceable player out of. If not, it only cost some words.
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