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  1. notin
    It’s the Bench. While they are the guys we use vs LHP, they’re not starters; they’re role players. And Sogard does not start every game vs LHP. My only concern is Duran, while Cora said is starting for defensive purposes, is a questionable choice. Abreu hits lefties better and is a superior defender. And while Duran’s speed is a potential asset in that left field canyon, Eaton is the faster runner. And probably the better defensive outfielder. But it’s not like that decision necessarily cost anything. Abreu could have very easily been just an non-existent on offense as Duran has been…
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    The Yankees were the top slugging team in MLB and have scored 5 runs in two games. Their lineup yesterday featured 9 players with 20 or more home runs on the season (counting Volpe’s game one blast). How’s that working out? Sox played two games in the ballpark against their two best starters and earned a split while playing their B team lineup…
  3. notin
    The Sox have played two playoff games starting Rob Refsnyder, Romy Gonzalez and Nate Eaton aka The Bench. Its a little better with Abreu, Lowe and Yoshida…
  4. notin
    And Eaton was running full tilt while Hayes was in slow motion. We probably shouldn’t rely on Major League for accurate baseball strategy. I mean, in that movie Dennis Haysbert hit a game-tying home run on an 0-2 fastball after demonstrating for the entire movie he could not hit a curveball…
  5. notin
    StatCast numbers varied from my “second overall” but only because he didn’t have a qualifying number of Theres. He threw 97mph this year per their page. Abreu has a cannon as well, but the problem was defiant not Eaton’s throw, which was right there. Chisholm, off with the pitch, runs well and slid properly. That was not on Cora. Not every outcome is someone’s fault…
  6. notin
    Eaton has the second strongest arm among all MLB outfielders, behind only Toronto’s Addison Barger. He was the best chance on this team of getting Chisholm at the plate. But it was a 3-2 pitch, and the speedy Chisholm got a good jump. The throw was amazingly accurate. But Chisholm is fast and had a good slide. If that was any of the 8 other Yankees, thats probably an out at the plate. That is not on Cora…
  7. notin
    Showakter was managing Texas in 2005 and started his B team in the last game against the Angels, possibly to try to stick it to Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner erupted about Showalter not taking the game serious as it had implications that affected the Yankees, despite the Yankees playing their own B team when they controlled their own destiny Naturally a few years later in 2011, the Yankees lost the last game of the year to Tampa despite leading by 7 in the 8th inning and did not use Mariano Rivera. That Tampa win eliminated the (very unworthy) Red Sox team from the postseason. That was Fun Steinbenner Yankee Logic - other teams apparently owe it to the Yankees to take games with postseason implications seriously, but the Yankees owed no such courtesy to anyone else. So naturally they looked for conspiracies about losing out to Toronto…
  8. notin
    It was 2005. Thank you for the correction…
  9. notin
    How did I miss that?
  10. notin
    Exactly. If the score is 6-1 (either way) in the 9th tonight, no one will regret using Chapman the way Cora did…
  11. notin
    I assume this means in the postseason. I find it hard to believe in the some 270,000 MLB games played to date, no team has ever done this rather mundane feat before…
  12. notin
    I suppose Wong will replace Narvaez…
  13. notin
    I expect the Fully Loaded Bronx Bomber lineup today where all 9 Yankees have at least 20 HRs this year (if you count McMahon’s 16 with Colorado and Volpe’s 20th yesterday)…
  14. notin
    Same lineup today?
  15. notin
    But it’s better than most batted ball outcomes. Walks are gifts, it’s impolite to refuse them…
  16. notin
    Walks are vital. Hit the ball? You get on base 30-40% of the time. Draw a walk? 100%!
  17. notin
    Yankee Fan Paranoia. Very common. Back in 1995, the Yankees beat the Red Sox in game 161 to clinch the AL East , leaving Boston with the sole wild card. In game 162, the Yankees trotted out their B Team and lost. The problem was the Yankees had won the AL East but not home field. They needed to either win their final game or for the Angels to lose to the Rangers. The Rangers, managed by ex-Yankee skipper Buck Showslter - not a Steinbrenner fan at all - trotted out his own B Team and lost, giving the Angels home field against the Yankees. As he was still alive at that point, George Steinbrenner went on an absolute tirade, blasting Showalter and going on about the importance of respecting the game for other teams that still have stakes. Given that the Yankees didn’t take their own game seriously- and they did control their own destiny - was Steinbrenner right in this instance?
  18. notin
    Lose games 1 and 2 and it resolves itself. Same if the Sox win them both, although only temporarily. But win only one of the first two and - Connelly Early? Or Kyle Harrison?
  19. notin
    As Pedro boldly threatens a 106 year old man…
  20. notin
    A serious answer to this post - given all the contractual restrictions players making millions upon millions of dollars have regarding physical activities, I just don’t see them allowing rock climbing. Protecting the elbow by potentially damaging the hand isn’t really all that beneficial. Actual rock climbing has much greater risks. But even using rock climbing walls in a gym can lead to injuries that prevent a pitcher from pitching…
  21. notin
    So are you saying he should just be put to sleep?
  22. notin
    And maybe Pedro drilling Karim Garcia! I could watch that again and again…
  23. notin
    Thats only because they finished the year going 3-12 in their last 15 games…
  24. notin
    Completely irrelevant, but “Complex Tears” (pronounced “tiers”) sounds like a good title for a hit song…
  25. notin
    I can’t count Sandoval among the pitchers the Sox lost. If he never blew out his elbow,, he might not be in Boston. Small point, I know…
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