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  1. illinoisredsox
    Well, we certainly could use the Ellsbury of 2011 (although Betts is doing a pretty darn good imitation offensively so far).
  2. illinoisredsox
    I've mentioned this a few times. Unlike 2013, this is not a roster replete with guys who have through this before. Ortiz and Pedroia among the position players, Price and Porcello among the starting pitchers, Uehara and Tazawa in the pen (and neither is near what they were that year). That's it among players who had roles in postseason drives. Bogaerts was a bit player in 13. Bradley had been sent down and was not brought back up for the pennant run. Betts has played only for last place teams.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Now to be fair, Williams was hurt in the 46 Series. Hard to believe now, but there was a full week between the end of the regular season and the first game of the World Series. The Sox played a some exhibition games against a group of all-stars to stay sharp, but Williams was hit on the elbow in one of them and had it swell up on him to the point where he couldn't swing a bat for several days. He "healed" in time to play, but all indications are he was not anywhere near 100% and unfortunately, it was his only shot. Ortiz has had the advantage of multiple postseason series and years to cement his legacy. We remember the fantastic fantastic series and tend to overlook the not so good ones: 2-21 against the A's in the ALDS in 03. 4-17 against the Angels in the 08 ALDS followed by a 4-26 against the Rays in the ALCS. 1-12 against the Angels in 09. 2-22 against the Tigers in 13 (1 of the 2 was a pretty big hit as I recall). Make no mistake about it, Ortiz has been the man many times in the postseason. But he also has had 75 more postseason games to build that legacy.
  4. illinoisredsox
    If you look at Gausman overall this year, he has pitched better than his 8-10 record. 3.43 ERA. He's been tagged for 5 losses when where he has given up 3 or fewer runs (4 where he has given up 2 or less). He's the guy the O's aren't scoring for this season. He was the #4 overall pick in 2012; there's a lot of talent there, and he appears to have started to harness it.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Gausman has reverse splits; righties hit him better, and that has been the case his whole time in the big leagues. The two seamer/split finger that goes down and away from lefities is downright nasty. If he adds a breaking pitch he can throw to righties, he could become a perennial Cy Yong candidate type pitcher.
  6. illinoisredsox
    If you look at Gausman overall this year, he has pitched better than his 8-10 record. 3.43 ERA. He's been tagged for 5 losses when where he has given up 3 or fewer runs (4 where he has given up 2 or less). He's the guy the O's aren't scoring for this season. He was the #4 overall pick in 2012; there's a lot of talent there, and he appears to have started to harness it. If he adds a breaking pitch that he can throw to righthanders, you are talking about potentially one of the best in the game.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Is Castillo really a clueless airhead or simply just not that good?
  8. illinoisredsox
    The strike outs don't bother me; that's physical. Mental errors like forgetting the number of outs or sitting in the clubhouse on snapchat during a game do bother me. You would think he'd be lapping it all up on his first trip to a major league dugout, not lounging in the clubhouse during a pennant race. If he's that disconnected, there is a problem.
  9. illinoisredsox
    If true (and I've seen nothing other than mvp saying it), it does put him in the running for airhead status. I would hope that Señor Ortiz has had a chat or 2 with him. If he won't listen to Big Papi, then he is definitely an airhead. I would also consider sending him home if incidents like this continue. This is, of course, assuming the report is true.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Ground ball hit in a good spot. It happens. I'd be much more worried if it had been a hard line drive.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Maybe 7 days off was too long. Maybe his innings are catching up with him. Or it was just one of "those" games. Who can tell with pitchers?
  12. illinoisredsox
    Sox next day off is September 26. Leon isn't going to start (or even play) every game until then. Now why Hanigan tonight I have no idea, although with catchers taking the beating they do, there could be some nagging little thing that a day off would help get Leon back closer to 100% (I don't think any player is 100% at this point of the schedule). Pure speculation on that, though.
  13. illinoisredsox
    You must have missed the part where I said "I'm not comparing Moncada with Mays". Of course the situations are not analogous. My point was if an all-time great can struggle in his first couple weeks in the big leagues, we really do owe it to Moncada to give him a little time. Most people saw that; somehow you didn't.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Several years ago, te Giants brought up a kid who proceeded to start his career 0-12 and 1-26. 660 or so homers later, Willie Mays was elected to the Hall of Fame. I'm not comparing Moncada to Mays, but patience people.
  15. illinoisredsox
    So in other words you are looking to see them lose the last 20 games of the season. Because other than Farrell himself deciding to quit or him getting caught molesting collies, that's the only way he will not be the manager next year.
  16. illinoisredsox
    The last time the Sox had a 20 game winner was 2007, when Josh Beckett accomplished it. The time before that was Curt Schilling in 2004. As I recall, those were a pair of rather successful seasons for the team. Let's hope history repeats itself.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Saw something last week saying they might send him on a rehab to Lowell or Salem to get a few ABs before activating him. Lowell was eliminated from their playoffs yesterday, but Salem is still in the Carolina League playoffs. Might be feasible if they make the finals there.
  18. illinoisredsox
    That's the wild-card game. I'm talking about a tiebreaker game for the second wild card spot. If you want a more recent example, in 2013, the Rays and Rangers tied for the second wild-card spot. The Rays finished 92-71, beating the Rangers in game 163 and qualifying for the wild-card game.
  19. illinoisredsox
    The one game playoff is considered a part of the regular season (e.g., the 1978 Red Sox' final record was 99-64 and the Yankees' was 100-63); the roster rules that exist today would be in effect for it. The wild card "series" would have playoff roster rules.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Saw something that said they may send him on a rehab to Lowell and/or Salem for a few ABs before reactivating him; I guess those clubs are in their league's playoffs.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Very possible. Bogaerts has started (and played in) 134 of the Sox' 138 games this year. OTOH he basically did the same thing last season (played in 156 games, starting 154) so it's not like he's never played this much before; he did very well down the stretch in 2015. His career splits show August has been a rough month for him: April .281/.366/.387/.752 May .339/.388/.502/.889 June .261/.299/.381/.679 July .302/.337/.417/.753 Aug .240/.291/.313..604 Sep .306/.352/.459/.810 So hopefully he gets back closer to his historical September numbers down the stretch.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Question: How do you handle the staff down the stretch? Do you keep with the rotation as is or do you send Price and Porcello every 5th day (off days could affect this) and pencil in the other 3 in between? The former gives Price, Porcello, Pomeranz and ERod 5 starts each with Buchholz/Wright getting 4. It also means Buchholz/Wright would pitch a potential Monday game in case of a tie for the final wildcard playoff spot, but puts Price in line to pitch the Tuesday one-game wild card playoff game. The latter gives Price 6 starts, Porcello 5, with Pomeranz, ERod and Buchholz splitting 13 games (I assume Pomeranz would get 5 and the others 4 each). One of them would get a potential Monday game with Porcello set up for a Tuesday game.
  23. illinoisredsox
    He is doing remarkable Pedro Cerrano imitation.
  24. illinoisredsox
    As of right now (12:20 CDT September 2) he's not even on the 40 man roster. I just looked at the Red Sox site; after having 39 names on it for all of August, it now has 40 names (unless I am completely missing something), none of which are Moncada. So that means somebody has to go to add Moncada (and someone else has to go for LHP Robby Scott, who is supposed to be "selected" from Pawtucket and brought up as well). Kelly and Marrero have been added to the expanded active roster already.
  25. illinoisredsox
    FYI, Kimbrel threw 22 on Tuesday. That's a fairly high number. Had he thrown 12 or 14, I would agree with you. JF didn't want to use Tazawa. That's why he kept Abad in as long as he did. It would help the manager out a lot if he had guys who come in and get the needed outs 9/10 times. Unfortunately, it seems that with this pen it's a 50-50 proposition.
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