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  1. illinoisredsox
    I was a little surprised Blanton faked the throw to second; I thought the pitchers' fraternity rules dictate you don't do that to other pitchers.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Only way they use a 6th starter is if they have a doubleheader.
  3. illinoisredsox
    No, they don't stink. Would you really rather be the Braves or the Rays? Those teams stink. The Sox are not a great team. Much as we want them to be, they are not a championship team. They've been playing .500 ball (give or take) for a couple months. They may well be a slightly above .500 team. They've got a lot of young guys who need to learn how to win consistently over a full season. The 3 B's have never been through this before. Yeah, I know Bradley was on the 2013 team early and Bogaerts was on it late. But they were bit players that year. Now they aren't.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Maybe we need to accept the fact that they just aren't that good. OTOH, 5-6 on a trip to the West coast isn't a disaster. Whether or not they make the postseaon is going to depend on how much they can beat the O's and Jays over the last 8 weeks. If they don;t figure out how to do that, they aren't going to play in October (nor should they).
  5. illinoisredsox
    Bogaerts better figure out how to hit or lay off a breaking pitch because he's gonna see a bunch of 'em the rest of the way.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Some people just like to rant.
  7. illinoisredsox
    You aren't going to use a reliever; they might be needed to pitch. That leaves one of the starting pitchers. Porcello, Wright, ERod or Pomeranz. Pomeranz may have been a better choice since he;s actually run the bases some this year, but maybe Wright is the fastest of that group.
  8. illinoisredsox
    who says Papi can't play D?
  9. illinoisredsox
    That's just tough luck there. Great pitch and a great hitter just fights it off for a hit.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Man when Rodriguez loses it he loses it fast.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Rodriguez looks like he's aiming the ball. Go after him. Time to get the pen up .
  12. illinoisredsox
    That was a pair of well placed grounders.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Simple. They want him playing every day. Right now, Leon is playing 4-5 times a week which means the backup plays 1-2. Vazquez will be a September call-up.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Those of you old enough may remember some of the 3-6, 2-8 type west coast trips that seemed to occur all too often and sank many seasons. When the O's undertook a very similar trip a month ago, they went 4-5 and got swept in a 4 game set in Seattle. So 5-6 on the trip means they held serve, 6-5 and they picked up a game. There is something to be said for that. Making the postseason is going to come down to how they fare against the O's and Jays the rest of the way. They need to start figuring out a way to beat them more often; if they don't start doing that, it's not going to matter.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Case in point, for giggles, I looked up Ozzie Smith's minor league fielding stats - he made 23 errors in 65 games for Walla Walla his first year of pro ball. He never played a minor league game again.
  16. illinoisredsox
    It very well could be. He has looked absolutely terrible since he came off the DL a month ago. Early in the year, even though he wasn't getting a lot of hits, he was drawing his share of walks and at least making the pitcher work for the out by fouling a few pitches off. Now he's rarely making contact.
  17. illinoisredsox
    A big question on that is how many errors were on actual fielding and how many were throwing errors. The latter is more of a concern. You often see inflated error totals due to the relatively poor condition of many minor league infields, especially in the lower minors. That is something none of us will ever know but organization does.
  18. illinoisredsox
    However, unlike Craig and Castillo, Pablo has enough service time to refuse a minor league assignment, which forces the Sox to either keep him on the major league roster or release him. If the latter, somebody almost certainly would sign him for the minimum and the difference in salary would count against the Sox luxury tax threshold. Either way, I don't how the Sox avoid counting all or most of that contract against the cap.
  19. illinoisredsox
    What weakened line-up? Ramirez couldn't play obviously, but Ortiz hit 3rd and went 1-5. You can discuss whether Brentz or Bebintendi should have started in left, but they went with Brentz, who went 1-2 before giving way to Holt (who drove home the game winner in the 11th). Shaw started at 1st in place of Hanley and had a homer and a couple hits.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Papi hit 3rd and went 1-5 last night.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Pretty sure it does. It's one reason Craig and Castillo are stashed at Pawtucket and off the 40 man. If they were released and ended up on another team's roster, the salary difference counts for the Red Sox.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Here's a link to that data: http://www.baseball-reference.com/games/situational.cgi?from=2016&to=2016&0=2&1=4&rsgtlt=lt&rs=3&ragtlt=gt&ra=5&2=6&trgtlt=gt&tr=10&3=8&mvgtlt=gt&mv=10&4=10&owlsgtlt=gt&owls=.500&sortby=WP&teams=team&years=each&submit= The Giants have the best record at 17-30, Texas is next at 13-26. Most clubs are in the 15-25% win rate in games where they score 3 runs or less. Red Sox are 29th out of 30 teams (only the Twins are worse). It is interesting that the Sox have had only 33 such games this year. Everyone else is well over 40 and some are above 50.
  23. illinoisredsox
    I think the corollary question is more apropos: how many games can a bad manager cost his team? I think the number there is a lot higher than the number that a good manager can get is team.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Most clubs, even championship ones, have stretches like that: The 2004 Sox got off to a hot start, but then went 27-30 in May and June (and 41-42 from May through July) The 2007 team had a great April and May, but went 28-26 from June 1-July 31 and 44-39 from May through August. Now who knows with this club. Let's face it, after the past couple years, to even be worried about a .500 stretch on this date is a big step forward.
  25. illinoisredsox
    I've seen some that say MAYBE 3 or 4 But Sparky Anderson, who knew a few things about winning, had a few very quotes on the subject that I think are pretty accurate: "Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind, then the manager is a success." "I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets? I've never seen a team win a pennant without players. I think the only thing the manager has to do is keep things within certain boundaries." "If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win—unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?"
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