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Outside of the fact that they play different positions, you’re going to ignore Casas’ previous 3-4 months?

Verdugo’s decline (and seeming not give a s$!t) second half coincided with the Sox apparently having no interest in extending him. All indications were that he really liked playing in Boston. Seems like a bit of a chicken-egg thing.

This series, the Sox are (were) 1-21 with RISP plus 2 sac flies.

Rafaela didn’t get the memo about striking out with a guy on 3rd. Twice he didn’t get the guy in, but he did put it in play. Unfortunately, the Pale Hose made a couple nice plays on them.

It was both the Yankees winning at a ridiculous pace the last 2 months and the Sox being on fumes because Zimmer played the regulars every day all year. After the All-Star break the Yankees went 54-25 (.684). In August and September, they went 41-16 (.719). If they played at a mere .700 pace, game 163 never happens. As I said, the idiot Zimmer played the regulars to the point of exhaustion: Rice played all 163 games that year. Fine, he was young, strong and played both LF and DH, he could handle it. Burleson played in 145 of the 147 games he was available for. He was on the DL for a couple weeks in July. Remy played in 148 games, and most of the ones he missed were in early September when he was banged up a little (no need for a DL stint at that time of year) What Zimmer did to Fisk was criminal. Fisk played in 157 games. He caught in 154 of those, starting 150 of them. This was after the 1977 season where he played almost as much. Zimmer kept Hobson in the line-up all year, even while Butch was rearranging bone chips in his elbow between pitches. The biggest culprit in the collapse was Zimmer.

The first sentence of your comment is the ideal. The answer to the second one is because that’s not what pendulums are built for.

Extremely well said.

CB does okay on the bases; he’s a disaster on the plate. Angel sucks at all aspects of umpiring; he’s in a class by himself.

Tell me you wouldn’t have signed up for 2 runs and 6 innings from Crawford before this game started.

Wasn’t Bernardino out with it for a few days in the past week or 2?

Assuming that Bloom has a five year contract (do we really know?), he either has to go soon (now or just after the season ends) or he has to be extended. He cannot be allowed to be the CBO as a lame duck. He could wreak all sorts of havoc in that status.

Looked it up in Baseball Reference. It was a make-up game from a rainout on May 24th. But Speir messed this up; BR has the game listed as being in Yankee Stadium.

Bad day for the team, I’ll chalk our issues today up to that; time to move on.

What is the point?

WTF does this sentence mean? Not trying to be snarky, it literally makes no sense.

It was pretty obvious he's talking about common sense. Reading Comprehension 101, try it.

Give it up max, he will never acknowledge that someone else might have a valid point. You know what I don’t understand? Why iortiz is posting here instead of managing a major league team. I’m still blaming OB for mentioning the Yankees were having trouble scoring runs.

Like I said, this loss is on the offense. Once again, several opportunities to score runs, couldn’t do it. Yankees had exactly one, and they cashed it in.

If you meant lots of games have been won when scoring 2 runs, I can only respond lots more have been lost when scoring only 2 runs.

Whatever. If the Sox lose this one, it’s on the offense. One run on Raffy’s homer and gifted the other on a wild pitch. Two runs does not win many games, no matter who your pitcher is.

I asked who you would have brought in. A name. Anyone else is a total cop out.

Right, because in the span of 2 pitches (after the HBP, Higashioka singled on an 0-1 pitch), a reliever was supposed to get warmed up.

That’s not an answer, but I’d expect nothing more from you. I’m shocked you actually attempted a response.

Definitely. Either Schreiber or Whitlock for the 7th, depending on the matchups and how the hitters have done on those guys (data Cora has and we don’t) Edit - Llovera back out. Mistake in my mind, but we pretty much are in try out mode at this point, so who knows. IMO, if Bloom is retained, it would not shock me to see Cora resign; they are definitely not on the same page.

You don’t post and run. If asked a question, you usually answer it and you do it often enough that if you don’t answer, I figure you just didn’t see it.