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  1. illinoisredsox
    who says Papi can't play D?
  2. illinoisredsox
    That's just tough luck there. Great pitch and a great hitter just fights it off for a hit.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Man when Rodriguez loses it he loses it fast.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Rodriguez looks like he's aiming the ball. Go after him. Time to get the pen up .
  5. illinoisredsox
    That was a pair of well placed grounders.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Papi hit 3rd and went 1-5 last night.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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?"
  19. illinoisredsox
    I purposely stayed away from the game thread last night figuring you would act like a petulant child. I see from a quick perusing this morning that I was correct. As for talksox version 2016, who would have thought that a newbie like me could have such influence over this board.
  20. illinoisredsox
    I'm sure we are all waiting with bated breath for that. Will you at least keep them game related?
  21. illinoisredsox
    Doubt it; salary is a sunk cost and players are paid whether they play in a game or not.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Given the box of chocolates way the pen has performed this year, I think Farrell was in tough spot there. Abad was the right call, and he made Cano look foolish on one pitch. The homer wasn't that bad a pitch (neither was it that good) and probably would have been called a ball had Cano not golfed it out. Personally. I try to critique a move at the time. If I'm not on, I try not to say anything afterwards (I will not say it never happens). I try not to let the results decide if the move was correct. And damnit, Johnson never should have pinch hit for Willoughby in Game 7.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Apologies if that was the case. I think you posted something around 11 (oops, midnight on the East Coast) and the implosion started about 10 minutes later.
  24. illinoisredsox
    He has said Price should have started the 8th. Can't remember if it was after the first homer or after the bloop hit, but a700 was imploring Farrell to get the pen going in real time. There's only the master 20-20 hindsight guys who are now saying the pen should have been up before the 8th.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Exactly. You, Jason, etc were putting that on at the time. Weren't nobody calling for the pen before the 8th.
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