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I’m guessing he’ll play 2 out of 3 for the foreseeable future. Just watching him since he came back, it obvious he’s not 100%. If 2/3 keeps him healthier and in the lineup even that often, okay. We need him.
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This. A .500ish team is not a bad team nor is it a good team. The Rockies are a bad team. Last year’s White Sox were a bad team. The Sox have not had what could even be remotely considered a bad team for a full season since 2014, when they went 71-91 (2020 doesn’t count for good, bad or average anything). No, those recent 78-84 teams were not bad. Mediocre yes. A C- grade sure. Not a D or F.
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Probably wouldn’t be a bad idea. It’s the entire travel baseball mentality; throw as hard as you can as long as you can and then we’ll put someone else in. It’s permeated every level of American baseball. No setting hitters up or learning the art.
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Fred’s a little weak on being able to tell the difference between throwing and pitching. Imanaga knows how to pitch and he was putting the ball where he wanted it most of the night. Tip of the hat to him; he was excellent tonight. I also recall that a certain Sox closer threw no harder than the upper 80s; all he did was help to win a World Series.
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Would it have mattered? 0 runs is not a winning number.
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You can’t try and hit the ball 500 feet with this guy. Wait on him and look the other way.
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How the hell did he hit that pitch that hard? It might have beaned him if he didn’t swing.
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Sox are trying to hit everything 500 feet. Wai All of these posts have merit. Weak contact (which is what Wong has had all year) isn’t good, but it beats no contact (ala Romy today). Weak contact at least has a minute chance of something good happening.
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Hey, I got a standing ovation by the entire crowd when I came out of one several years ago. (I remain convinced that it had nothing to do with Andre Dawson’s 3rd homer of the game).
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Although to be fair, I thought Bregman got a break on the 2-1 pitch. I do think Imanaga is getting some calls that Bello isn’t, but that tends to happen when you throw the ball near the plate most of the time.
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I’m hard pressed to think of a ball he’s even hit hard this year.
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Well, if nothing else, they got out of Wong leading off next inning
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Imanaga got a break on the 3-1 pitch to Bregman and took advantage of it. Romy’s AB was the killer.
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A "baseball" related Meat Loaf story written shortly after he passed by a a young woman who played high school softball for him: https://deadspin.com/meat-loaf-was-my-softball-coach-5821391/
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TYPM will never see this as I’m sure I’m one of the chosen 12, but all I can say is wow. To borrow from Colonel Sherman Potter “TedYazPapiMookie, just a hunch. Will Rogers never met you, did he.”
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Which if you think about it is a completely true statement on his part.
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Pure speculation on my part, but my guess is he was neither a plus nor a minus re. clubhouse culture; he didn’t drag it down and he didn’t add to it either. He was just there. If there were real issues, the press would have been all over it. He seldom sat near anyone on the bench (in the dugout shots we saw, anyway). The happy kid who always had a sort of goofy smile on his face disappeared a couple years ago (when Bogaerts left) and he found out this is a business. I’ve likened him to Yaz in that he is likely very introverted; the lack of reaction by his former teammates probably stems from the fact that none knew him very well. I wish him well in SF and hope he kills it there (except for a certain 3 games a year).
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Just catching up; keeping Bregman’s D in the game would be more important at that point. Plus it’s not like they had speedsters on the bench today: Toro, Narvaez or Refsnyder wouldn’t be anyone’s choice as a pr.
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A minor plus from today the Sox have clinched the season series against Tampa. which means they now have the playoff tiebreaker over the Rays.
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Why would the back-up catcher need to catch during the playoffs other than injury? Yes, it’s a concern, but it’s no where near the top of the list.
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TYPM’s real problem is he can’t comprehend a scenario where he could be even slightly incorrect. One need not look any farther than his insane mancrush on Campbell; he’s right in his assessment and the view of all the people who are actually paid to make those judgements/decisions (all the Sox organizational folks plus the baseball coach at Georgia Tech) are idiots for not seeing it TYPM’s way. He’s not here to discuss, he’s here to lecture. He’s both sad and amusing at the same time.
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The self-proclaimed “superior baseball mind” does inject some humor into this place.
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Cora's now done this 3 times this year,; Sox are 3-0 in those games with Slaten, Weissert and now Hicks getting saves. He's not going to make a habit of it, but obviously unlike a lot of closers, Chapman doesn't object to the practice and can actually do well when called upon.
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Pitchers have to be put on the 15 day DL. 10 day IL is for position players only. That being said, it might not be a bad idea; the ASB takes up 4 days of the stint, so 11 games max. He could use the rest.
