Jason33

A team that’s massively underperformed all year.

What JD Martinez is overrated? He’s been a great hitter his entire career and hits big under pressure. He’s not having his normal year this year but yet he’s still batting .297 25HR 65RBI. He’ll finish with 35HR and 90-100RBI’s. That’s the first time I’ve heard he’s overrated. Maybe he’s not as good this year but not overreacted.

We just got our asses kicked by a little bit better than average team. We are SO inconsistent. One night JD goes off but nobody else. Then Bogaerts or Betts or Devers but none on the same night. Our pitching is pathetic. The fact that we didn’t make any moves is a friggin joke. Oh I’m sorry Cashner. SUCKS. He’s been absolutely terrible.

I have to agree he’s been terrible unfortunately.

Sell Sale massive contract with his great years behind him.

Cora is going to be the only manager I’ve heard of to win the World Series and be kicked out of the city he won the World Series in the next year. I was never on board with get rid of Cora because were having a good year but I’m starting to get that way. All the moves that work last year are not working at all this year. I know it’s on the players but he’s made some really s***** moves. Or I should say none moves.

Why the hell is it that Velasquez is still freaking pitching? I mean Cora has just sat there and left him out there after is giving up run after run after run giving us a slim to none of coming back. We should’ve already won this freaking game. This is why we’re only a few games over 500.

What the hell is Cora doing? Velasquez has not gotten one out and yet the bases are still loaded and he stands there and stares at the guy instead of pulling him out. I guess we can afford to lose games.

You have to get a pitcher that’s used to pitching in the ninth inning. It’s hard to throw a starter straight into the closer role. The closer has to be able to let a bad night go and be able to come back out the next night and shut it down. Starters have the mentality of five days between starts and nine innings or however long they last to redeem themselves from a bad inning. Also if Cora has to pick a guy for the ninth and stick with him. This way he’ll get used to the pressure. There’s plenty of teams that are not in contention that have decent closers that we can trade for instead of Eovaldi being thrown into the fire when he gets back. We’ve lost at least 5-6 games this year because of blown ninth innings.

Barnes, Braiser, Hembree, Walden are not the closer solution. We need to go after a decent closer on a crappy team. Maybe Diaz on the Mets or Hand on the Guardians. Although I’m sure Hand would cost a lot in prospects. Not sure about Diaz.

If his back is bothering him then he needs to sit for a couple more games. I know we need him but it’s better to have a good healthy JD than a injured average JD.

You’re right he has been pretty bad compared to what he did last year. He went 0-8 the other night with I think 5 strikeouts. He’s not hitting with as much power and he’s not driving in the runs he was driving in last year. Same thing for Mookie. Although Mookie seems to be hitting better of late. Also Benny is not hitting for any power whatsoever. Bogaerts is having a decent season and so is Devers. If we can get JD, Betts, and Benny going well be a tough team to beat.

I will have to agree with you on that one they do seem to be playing uninspired baseball. It’s like they’re saying we won the World Series last year and we will get going this year when we get going and if we don’t make the playoffs oh well we won the World Series last year. That crap does get old especially trying to watch it.

We just won the WS last year. I know the team is definitely underperforming but a nice winning streak and we’re right back into the race. All we need to do is get into the playoffs. Also it’s the players that are underperforming. Benny, Betts, and JD are all underperforming in comparison to last year. I will say all the calls Cora made last year are not working as well this year. The biggest thing he needs to do in my opinion is name a closer and not do this closer by committee because whichever reliever he picks is thrown right into a high pressure situation. If you picks Brasier, Barnes, Hembree, or whoever. Just pick him and let him be the closer. He’ll get used to pitching in the ninth-inning instead of being thrown into that situation. That’s exactly what happened tonight with Brazier and he gave up the tying run and then eventually we lost.

JD is huge but Mookie is more valuable altogether. He’s a way better fielder and just as good a hitter. Plus he steals bases. Also he’s young.