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  1. illinoisredsox
    This is starting to get ridiculous. JBJ's ball woulf have been a triple play had there been no one out.
  2. illinoisredsox
    True but more hitters need to do stuff like that to make overshifts go away.
  3. illinoisredsox
    What's the record for DPs in a game? I think that's 5 total so far.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Back to no run support for Price. Man is it feast or famine for him.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Sounds like half the time he's good and half the time he's horrid. The good one has shown up so far.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Cause that's the way things are going right now.
  7. illinoisredsox
    In Boston? Where the fans are seemingly ready to critique everything a player does, right down to how he wipes himself after a bowel movement? Okay, I kid, a little My guess how he would have done. Okay. Not as well as he has in SF. Better than he did in KC. Probably not well enough to ward off the critics. I don't think it coincidence that players struggle a bit when they first come to Boston. As has been brought up, Schilling is about the only recent guy who has come in and done the job right away. And at that point, he was a very grizzled vet who had been a main cog in a World Series winner in Arizona and played in Philadelphia for many years (where the fans once booed Santa Claus). Victorino was another guy who came in and excelled right away. He was also another long time vet who had also played in Philly. You want a player to come into Boston and succeed right away? Look for a guy who has played and excelled in a tough media/fan town.
  8. illinoisredsox
    That would be the same Cueto who in a half a year in KC went 4-7 with an ERA of 4.76 for a World Series winning team? The same Cueto who was somewhere between mediocre and terrible in the ALDS and ALCS before pitching a gem against an NL team in the World Series? I didn't follow it all that closely, but did Cueto even talk to AL teams? The only other serious offer I saw was from the Diamondbacks.
  9. illinoisredsox
    It would help him a lot if he had some people in the pen he could rely on consistently. Right now, the whole pen is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, he never knows what he is going to get.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Agree. The fact that the pitch was down the middle is the bothersome thing. Had Cabrera golfed one off his shoetops or tomahawked a ball at his eye level, it would be less objectionable. Cabrera should have been walked, but even if Farrell didn't order it, Ziegler's been around awhile and should know the numbers, he should have pitched extremely carefully to MC on his own; Leon should have known the numbers and said something (it's the major part of a catcher's job IMO). Colossal failure on the part of all 3 of them.
  11. illinoisredsox
    The other things is he's pretty much always been a pitcher as opposed to a thrower. That also should help the transition. Eck mentioned all of what has been discussed in the past few posts when he was filling in several weeks ago.
  12. illinoisredsox
    They've had a .400 hitter in 3 of the last 4 years? Leon has cooled off considerably since the break (not unexpectedly). Plus Fulmer had already gotten 2 DPs in that exact situation. No issue with the bunt there.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Where was the pitch to Cabrera? I'm stuck looking at Gamecast.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Got a bad feeling with Cabrera up.
  15. illinoisredsox
    No save to be had, I'm calling for Ziegler right now (before the 9th starts). Edit after first pitch - hey, he listened.
  16. illinoisredsox
    I don't know that he's their best player, that might be Betts or Bogaerts at this point, but he certainly is their leader and that is definitely a concern for next season.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Okay, 18.
  18. illinoisredsox
    I think it may be a case of a team with many players who need to learn how to win. If you think about it, other than Ortiz and Pedroia, who has been through pennant chases before? Ramirez with the Dodgers to some extent. Bogaerts was there in 2013, but only as a bit player down the stretch. Bradley wasn't even that in 2013. Betts has played for 2 last place teams. Shaw is essentially a first year player. Holt is what he is, a utility guy. Hanigan has, but he's the back-up catcher. On the pitching staff, Porcello with the Tigers (and he has pitched pretty well). Price. Pretty much nobody else. It may be a club that's a year away.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Leon with a start.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Cabrera - VMArt pick your poison.
  21. illinoisredsox
    The top 6 guys in the line-up are not the problem and the bottom 3 are also fine. They are, for the most part, scoring plenty of runs. The issue is on the mound. Rearranging the furniture (line-up) isn't going to change that.
  22. illinoisredsox
    There are 4 main culprits. Funny thing is, 2 of them have had good years to date, 1 has been brutal and 1 has been okay. Wright has allowed 16 (passed balls are probably the main reason), yet the Sox are 12-8 in games he has started (he's personally 12-5) Porcello has allowed 6; the Sox are 15-6 in his starts (he's 13-2 personally). Hembree has allowed 6 unearned runs. While he's 4-0, he has either been lights out or bad. Then there's everyone's favorite whipping boy, Mr. Buchholz, who has also given up 6 unearned runs. No real surprise given his mental fragility and inabaility to handle a little adversity. The rest of the staff is in the 1s and 2s, so no concern there.
  23. illinoisredsox
    He did.
  24. illinoisredsox
    That's true, and KRod would not have come in when it was Shaw's turn to bat. Hill for Shaw would have been the move.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Unlike last night, this would be an ugly loss.
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