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  1. illinoisredsox
    Be nice if the team would give him a little support every now and then.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Bello’s on the mound; Sox are guaranteed to screw up at least two plays that lead to a run. That inning, couldn’t turn two and dropped a fly ball.
  3. illinoisredsox
    How about a drinking game? Every pitch they DON’T show Judge in the dugout, take a shot of the adult beverage of your choice. Bello has pitched well and is getting his usual offensive support and defensive support.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Diekman is left handed; that buys him more looks than a comparable rightie.
  5. illinoisredsox
    He’s got power, so some team will take a shot even if it’s for a marginal minor leaguer. He’s still 5th on the team in homers and was 3rd most of the year while being platooned and basically benched after the trade deadline. Xander and JD only recently passed him in homers. At this point, mentally he doesn’t think he can hit major league pitching. He may even figure it out, but that will not be in Boston and at age 27, his time to show anyone he can is nearly gone. As moon said, he almost certainly will not be on the 40 man next year.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Some people have trouble with those monosyllabic words.
  7. illinoisredsox
    So you would rather he try and pitch through a hip injury, possibly ruining his arm for ????
  8. illinoisredsox
    Not nearly as impressive as German lowering his ERA from infinity to 45.00
  9. illinoisredsox
    Doesn't mean he would have done it in Boston. Fenway is not Citizens Bank Park. Even looking at least year, he hit 25 in 71 games (303 Plate Appearances) for the Nationals and 7 in 41 games (106 PAs) with the Sox. I have little doubt he would have done well in Boston this season, but I doubt he would have hit 40 dingers. Would I have preferred him over JD? Certainly, but paying both of them wasn't going to happen (they certainly would have had to pick up a lot of JDs salary).
  10. illinoisredsox
    Worse than Massarotti?
  11. illinoisredsox
    Bello needs to learn to pitch out of the stretch; he seems to have a lot of trouble doing that.
  12. illinoisredsox
    No plate discipline like in the 5th inning, when he started off taking 3 balls, then a strike, fouled off a pitch and then took ball 4 (Sox eventually loaded the bases that inning but failed to score)? Or like in the 7th, when he started out 0-2, took 2 balls, fouled off a pitch and then took 2 more balls, working another walk? Yeah, he's swung at some bad pitches. He's also walked 6 times, which would be a pace to walk over 100 times over the course of the season. His OBP is .265, which isn't too bad considering he's only got 3 hits. I'd say he's shown plenty of plate discipline; there are several guys who could take a lesson in that from him.
  13. illinoisredsox
    That’s the way I’ve heard, 4 infielders and two must be on each side of second base when the pitch is made. To prevent the inevitable shenanigans, MLB would be wise to place limits as to how big (deep) the infield dirt can extend. Right now there is no limit. So maybe it can be a max of say 120 feet (just tossing out a number) from home plate all around.
  14. illinoisredsox
    After one of his first few starts, I tongue and cheek suggested that Bello might want to go back to the minors where he'd get better defensive support. They've played like s*** behind him ever since he came up. They don't score for him, they don't field for him. Yeah, the kid needs to work on being more efficient, but he needs some help from his teammates.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Excellent rebuttal. Off the top of my head you’re missing Randy Johnson and Catfish Hunter. I then looked up the number of perfectos on MLB history. It’s 23 (21 since 1900). You were able to come up with over 80% of the ones in the “modern” era and just shy of 75% of all of them.
  16. illinoisredsox
    If you use standard ERA, the Royals are worse. If you use ERA+, they’re only the 4th worst, ahead of the Tigers, Royals and Athletics. Either way, not company you want to be in.
  17. illinoisredsox
    WAY BETTER? Pitching, both starting and bullpen. It’s also the most difficult to fix, especially starting pitching. And from what I’ve heard, the FA starters are not all that fantastic coming up this off-season. Eovaldi is in the top 4 of who’s available. Judge isn’t coming here. It’ll either be back to the Yankees or home to San Francisco.
  18. illinoisredsox
    The official strike zone is the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball -- and a point just below the kneecap. In order to get a strike call, part of the ball must cross over part of home plate while in the aforementioned area. So as long as part of the ball touches any part of that pentagonal prism above the plate between those two theoretical levels, it’s a strike. The front is the easiest point to do that, but not the only one.
  19. illinoisredsox
    A coach seat would be an overpay. Seriously, I just sit the guy down for the rest of the season. He literally contributes nothing and is certainly not going to be here next year. Let Pham, Bogie, Devers rotate through DH. My only surprise was that he actually hit the ball in the 8th; I figured threee sliders down for a K.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Not even close; spikes were not up nor was there any movement of them except straight ahead. Any fielder who wants to block the base that way risks what happened there. Don’t they all these days? The way fielders block bases these days , I’d like to see more guys go in feet first. It would cut a lot of the blocking out.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Arroyo fouled a pitch off his foot yesterday; it looked pretty nasty. He finished the AB but he was very gimpy doing so. He certainly got a nasty bone bruise if not something worse. I doubt he was really available today.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Not watching, but even if true, recall his first couple starts when he was giving up runs without the ball leaving the infield. Lots of soft contact (and lousy defense) in those games. It evens out.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Don’t see it myself. For one thing, he lives in Arizona. Another factor is his sons are 13, 10 and (just turned) 9. I don’t see him leaving that given the amount of commitment that a broadcasting gig would entail
  24. illinoisredsox
    Good call
  25. illinoisredsox
    Eck says you don’t always know. I’ll take his word for it.
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