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Everything posted by notin
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I am ok with holding Hernandez there. Why test Jason Hayward, one of the best arms in MLB, in the eighth inning of a tie game and Betts and Ramirez due up with the bases loaded and no one out? You're only looking for one run at that point and you get that even if Betts (somehow) ground into a double play. There's a time and place fir aggressive baserunning. I am not to sure that was it. ..
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Yes. But you get fewer. Every tesm does. SLG is great. But history hss shown that scoring is more dependant on OBP. Probably because it helps to have guys on base when you rap tjose XBH
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The main reason OBP correlates better to scoring is that the sheer quantity of baserunners greatly outnumbered the number of, say, home runs. Slugging is great, but if you look at the data you will see OBP is king when it comes to scoring.
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It certainly can. If DPs give the team fewer plate appearances, it could have a slight benefit. It won't be as large as the effect on team batting average. .
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No. Chicago. Grew up in Worcester.
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One of the biggest issues with team batting average as a stat is that it is helped by hitting into double plays. After a while those 1 for 3 innings instead of 1 for 4 innings.start adding up...
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Not really true, as several teams. But rather than name examples, one simple question. If the Sox used Kimbrel to get the toughest outs on the other team rather than as a ninth inning specialist, like how the Guardians use Miller or the A's use Casilla, are the Sox a better team, worse team or the same?
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Little undervalued his pen, although he did have a few season long reasons to justify it. Its also possible he was fired for not being Theo's guy. Joe Maddon overused Chapman last year in the post-season and it nearly cost the Cubs the World Series. Think he would have been fired in that case?
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Yes and no. He went all-in on Chapman, but when your team hasn't won a title since Teddy Roosevelt was president, I can understand the urgency factor. As for Davis, did he really give up that much?
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Another possibility is that the Sox have only played 20 games. Those numbers could easily change in one week. But the overall picture should be wins, not runs. Are the Sox winning or not? And throughout the entire month of April, the only team the Sox have played that is more than 1 game below .500 is Toronto, and they might be the biggest underachievers the first month of the season...
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I don't believe in curses but I at least have a definition. ..
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Or when healthy...
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I have nothing against Kimbrel, who is very talented, but I do think fans and some teams (but not all) greatly overvalued closers...
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Sale, yes. Thornburg, yes. Kimbrel and Pomeranz are another matter. Hesitant on Smith. I like him as a pitcher but I think the Sox greatly undervalued Miley...
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What are you talking about? I saw the pictures. It was the largest crowd ever to see a Sox-Yankees game. At least, according to the people who count crowds for Trump, anyway...
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I blame Cherington for Sandoval, as well as Castillo. But really, like the Reset Button Trade (which i also credit Cherington for), we do find out Henry and Co. were calling a lot of shots then. Crawford being another. But it's just so much easier to credit/blame the GM for his tenure. Overall I still think Cherington did a good job despite my immediate dislike of the Sandoval signing..
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That is a good point and somewhat of a relief. Hopefully Holt is closer to Drew than Esasky...
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The Sox lead the league by scoring by a wide margin. While we all expected that margin to shrink, they did add a full season of Benintendi and also reduced the scoring against by adding Sale and (eventually) Thornburg. And there is also the absence of Price and that impact. If some of these, say, 3-2 losses were 2-1 wins, would the offense still be the same concern?
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[quote=Wade Boggs;1057can't get as much as you think. It not about a trade clause , about 90% of MLB players wave it for a chance 2 win. It is about the return. A bad teammate is a different story entirely. So you want Hernandez or Holt replacing him. Plus Hernandez and Holt are about a tick above average in the field... I'm more concern about the clubhouse and leadership, as of his loss of his own skill. I don't have much of a reference point for vertigo, but if if the results for Holt are like they were for Esasky, tjis could be it for him...
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I think a lot of fans might also be underestimating the impact of the flu. The influenza virus can be deadly in cases and can have lingering effects. Most people don't realize this because the "flu" they had that time was probably not the actual flu, but some other weaker virus with"flu like symptoms"..
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Small ball is ok once in a while, but it's best used by teams without hitters, not by slumping teams. You don't break out of a slump by sac bunting...
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Using the bunt to avoid a double play is kind of silly. "Ok in order to not make two outs on one play, we're going to start intentionally making that first out right away and get it out of the way. That'll teach 'em." The issue isn't a lack of busting and stealing, and thst certainly doesn't originate with the Bill James Red Sox. Back in the 1980's, the Era of the Lead Off Hitter, where teams and players were breaking stolen bases record annually, who was stealing for the Sox?
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If Benintendi stops at first, yes. If Benintendi runs hard into second, probably. But I like how he at least made it a no doubter...
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Benintendi's OBP is .415. Pedroia's is .329.
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Actually that gaff wasn't so bad. Rather than run directly into the out at second, Benintendi appeared to wisely slow up long enough to allow Bogaerts to score. I'll take that level of heads-up play from a rookie anyday.
