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  1. illinoisredsox
    Team definitely needs a kick in the ass but to be fair, Girardi benefitted greatly by having his players actually do their jobs. Funny how good a manager can look when that happens. Penwise, the only really questionable move was taking Buch out so quickly but Barnes has been good lately so it wasn't ridiculous. Abad sucked but Ross was worse. Tazawa looks shot. And let's not forget Kimbrel blew goat chunks Tuesday night. I'm not sure how a manager (any manager) overcomes that.
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    I blame Blanton. As I wrote the other day, I thought it was part of the pitchers' fraternity rules that you don't do stuff like that to other pitchers.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Say what you want, but in the big games, he wanted the ball and generally came through. This pitching staff could use a little of that mentality.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Good God, can 1 f***ing reliever get a freaking out
  5. illinoisredsox
    OTOH, his 2014 stats say maybe. So do his 2015 stats. And, as you so often like to respond to me: sss
  6. illinoisredsox
    Not according to these: http://www.overthemonster.com/2016/5/9/11639650/red-sox-rich-hill-free-agent-rumors http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/john-tomase/2016/05/09/rich-hill-one-got-away-thats-ok-because-he-has Both indicate he "wanted a clear shot at starting", to quote the weei link
  7. illinoisredsox
    He wanted a guaranteed starting spot, they could/would not give that to him. Remember, the projected starters were Price, Buchholz, Porcello, ERod and ?. Wright, Hill, Owens and who knows who else were supposed to compete for that last spot. Nobody could have forseen ERod getting hurt and Buchholz sucking as badly as he did (he underperformed the low expectations even his harshest critics had for him). Edit - I forgot Miley was still in the equation when all this came down in November. Add one more to the list.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Yep, except this one. I agree its stupid but in this case, NY was correct. Link to the Fenway ground rules, #3 is the applicable one: https://groundrules.mlb.com/redsox/index.html "Batted ball in flight striking to the right of yellow line on left center field wall behind flagpole: Home Run."
  9. illinoisredsox
    Nobody with Price colored glasses is claiming he's having a great season. But neither has he "stunk" as several have said. For whatever reason, when he has pitched well over the past 3 months, the team has decided to take the night off with the bats. Oddly, when he has pitched poorly, the offense has shown up most of the time.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Case in point, Lackey in 2011. His ERA was 6.41, among the worst in the HISTORY of major league baseball over a full season. Somehow, he managed to go 12-12.
  11. illinoisredsox
    "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing" - Warren Spahn How many times do you see the same pitch trying to hit the same spot at the same speed from our pitchers? Major league hitters will catch up to it eventually even if it's Chapman throwing 103. Nowadays, there is nothing special about a low 90s fastball. 15-20 years ago there was. I don't know how many people were railing at the fact the the hitters couldn't pummel the "soft tossers" on the recent road trip. If you watched them carefully, it was up, down , in, out, different speeds. In other words, just the way Spahn described it.
  12. illinoisredsox
    It's the chance you take when you sign a pitcher who is over 30 (especially one who has been around a while).
  13. illinoisredsox
    Then get tired. He's had 11 good starts since May 12 in 17 games (games the team should have won, in a few of them, all they needed to do was score 2-3 runs, in the rest, 4 would have done the job). He's had 2-3 mediocre ones (where he hasn't been terrible and he's given the team a chance to win) and he's had 3-4 horrific ones (ironically, the offense has actually shown up in a couple of these). As I said, he hasn't been Cy Young like, but he's been decent.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Maybe Price only takes advice from people with the initials DP.
  15. illinoisredsox
    1) Pitchers will take advice from anyone. 2) Actually, no he hasn't. Here are his line scores since: Date IP H R ER BB K DEC 5/12 6 2/3 6 1 1 1 12 W 5/18 7 1/3 5 2 2 1 5 W 5/24 7 5 3 3 1 6 W 5/29 6 1/3 5 2 2 3 3 ND (Sox won game) 6/3 7 6 3 3 4 5 L 6/8 8 3 2 2 2 7 L 6/14 8 5 3 3 0 11 L 6/19 6 8 1 1 0 7 W 6/24 2 1/3 12 6 6 0 1 ND (Sox won game) 6/29 6 1/3 9 4 4 1 10 L 7/5 8 8 3 3 1 10 L 7/10 8 4 0 0 1 10 W 7/17 5 2/3 11 3 3 1 1 L 7/23 5 2/3 11 5 5 2 4 ND (Sox lost game) 7/28 8 7 0 0 1 6 ND (Sox lost game) 8/2 7 7 4 4 0 5 ND (Sox lost game) 8/7 5 6 6 3 5 3 L 17 games, I count 11 good starts (and certainly starts that you would take out of any pitcher and ones the team could have won had the offense shown up those days), 3-4 bad ones and 2-3 mediocre ones. Since Pedroia's advice, ERA has dropped from 6.75 to 4.34 (still above where it needs to be, but a significant drop). While he hasn't been Cy Young level, if that's sucking, 90% of the pitchers in both league suck. EDIT - Apologies for the eye chart, haven't figured out the table thing yet. Works great in WORD.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Re. Price, I think Eck was onto something several weeks ago when he said that Price is in a transition process as a pitcher, moving from the flame thrower we remember into a guy who will have to rely a little more on location, etc. He's always been more of a pitcher than a thrower, so he should be able to do it, but unfortunately for the 2016 Red Sox he's still going through the process. Not much anyone can do except let him go through it. And let's face it, the last game not withstanding, overall he's been pretty good since June 1. Not his fault that in most of those games the offense decided to take the night off.
  17. illinoisredsox
    To be fair, my guess is they weren't going to use Porcello since he pitches Tuesday. ERod pitched Saturday, I'm sure he was tired. That leaves Pomeranz and Wright. Wright's got the most time to his next start, so he got the nod.
  18. illinoisredsox
    This. That left basically using starting pitchers as PRs, since the bull-pen guys might be needed to actually pitch. I thought maybe Pomeranz would be a better choice since he's actually run the bases at least a little this year, but among Porcello, Wright, Porcello and ERod, maybe Wright's the fastest one.
  19. 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.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Only way they use a 6th starter is if they have a doubleheader.
  21. 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.
  22. 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).
  23. 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.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Some people just like to rant.
  25. 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.
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