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Maybe because he just pitched Sunday? I know he only went 5 innings, but still … Pretty sure you’ll see him in KC on Friday. If they run through all 5 starters, with the off day, it will be Saturday
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Because their number one goal is to piss talksox posters off. You do realize they are all of 2 games out of first place, right?
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Uh huh. I’m trying to refrain from laughing at the internet tough guy routine.
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That’s your opinion. Question, would you say that to his face? Everyone here thinks they are smarter than every manager. He’s not the best in the league, he’s not the worst. I know I don’t want that job.
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Don’t see that happening. Bobby’s best bet was a fresh start somewhere else and he failed at that as well.
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Devers has an even larger and longer one. I’d rather leave Campbell at second.
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Millar not mincing a lot of words on his view of this. Said a lot of words, but all to the point.
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He came out because he threw a ton of pitches and a lot of them were high stress pitches (meaning lots of pitches with men on). I also don’t discount the shot off his nose affecting him in the 5th (I don’t know that it did, but it may have; it certainly was his worst control inning).
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No, but once again, without his best stuff (which even great pitchers have happen a few times a year), Crochet gave the team a good chance at the win. It’s what good pitchers do.
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This makes absolutely no sense. WTF are you trying to say?
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Which I said, he was a decent first sacker. He sucked as a 3rd baseman.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
illinoisredsox replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Almost certainly the answer. 40 man must be full when anyone goes on the 60 Day. -
You don’t just shove a guy into a position he’s never played before. First base may be the easiest position to play, but there are still techniques and plays that need to be learned. Throwing anyone in there with zero notice is detrimental to the team, and that is is something a manager needs to avoid. I remember when a need arose at 3B many years ago. Yaz (a great LF and a decent 1B) volunteered to man the position. It was an utter disaster. Should Rafi start taking some infields and working with the coaches on footwork, etc? Probably. In a game less than 24 hours after the injury? No.
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Seems like the Sox have always had trouble with Ryan.
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Duquette didn’t say he was in the twilight of his career; he said they hoped to have him during the twilight of his career; Clemens also turned down the biggest contract ever offered to a Sox player at the time. Either way, he still tanked his last 4 years in a Sox uniform, especially when compared to what he did afterwards.
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Clemens by a mile. He basically sucked his last 4 years in Boston, then miraculously became good again in Toronto. Boggs really wasn’t pursued by the Sox after he reached free agency. Clemens turned down a huge contract offer and there is the steroids thing.
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Whitlock was the problem Wednesday. I don’t put losing a ghost runner game on any pitcher unless he gives up a multiple runs in one of the extras.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
illinoisredsox replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Didn’t we have this same sample size discussion last week? With the same participants and the same rhetoric? -
Mayer’s not coming up to sit on the bench (which is what Hamilton does most of the time, tonight was his 10th start of the year, most of which have been for Rafaela, not Campbell) . If he’s brought up, it’s because Story or Campbell is hurt. Grissom for Gonzalez, meh. I could take it or leave it. Grissom’s never done much at the major league level and we really don’t know if he can play first, though I understand he’s playing some games there in Worcester, so it could be in the cards. Gonzalez hasn’t really done anything to merit demotion, but he’s a fungible player. The backup infielders are hardly the Sox main problem.
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Can someone speak to the cat about what it’s dragging in?
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He’s not overrated, but he didn’t have it tonight. Most of the time he does but it isn’t the first time he hasn’t and it won’t be the last. Even Mariano Rivera and the Eck occasionally didn’t have it, and Whitlock is never going to be in their class.
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He did what an ace does when he doesn’t have it on a given day: he gave the Sox a puncher’s chance. He kept the score reasonable instead of letting it blow up.
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Wasn't there a series a few years ago when the Astros threw 50+ straight fastballs at him? My point being it isn’t a new strategy. But until he proves he can do something with them …
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Houdini Whitcomb
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There are strikes and there are strikes. Down the middle will be a strike. but the BA will not be .250.
