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Relief pitchers totally incapable of challenging hitters with a strike. let them hit the ball or swing/miss. Pitiful show between two marginal teams -
Fred says what everyone is thinking, except Moon
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Remember when the Jays were going strong with Guerrero Jr., Biggio and Bichette , plus Manea. Looked like they would own the ALE. Not so fast, Pilgrim
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Cora stretching his shorts a bit with Penrod to close a 4th straight victory, but it ain't over yet Ac
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Gruesome Grissom is awesome . He may have a future in this game
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Hah, Story gets a big hit. They do respond to trashing when necessary.
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And the #1 guy ( also nameless) did not reach 85 RBI's. Rafaela could catch him with a big 4 games.
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Youk prattling on about Martin's ability to "fill up the zone" with strikes. He walks the leadoff man, but comes right back with the DP ball. It was all a setup, BJ fans
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So Red Sox either lose or go to the ghost like 10th. Toronto has at least 6 outs left, Sox , only 3
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Did the Sox slide after the A-S break begin with acquisition of D. Jansen followed by Sims and Garcia. ? Did the clubhouse consensus become WTF? Jansen certainly relieved Wong of a significant amount of catching. Is he that much better than McGuire, who was not having a good year. Sims and Garcia were of no real effect. Weak choices, Brez
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Our Guerrero on the mound is just wild enough to intimidate hitters from digging in but make no mistake he is a natural born thrower. That's OK if you have others who can paint the black
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A viable Grissom, maybe platooning with Hamilton, could be a step up at 2B next year. No more Valdez, please. Sogard isn't the answer either. Gonzalez has value ( as may others in or out of the Sox system) by playing 1B and 3 B , though not real well.
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At least yoshi makes enough contact and Toronto bobbles a bit to get the run home. Why do i care. I personally hate to lose anything.
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F'ing Story K'ing with a man on 3rd and no outs, A DP would have tied the game. He is a veteran chaser, no excuse like the younger guys. Not likely to become a Story fan
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Splendid, O'Neill is one guy I will have trouble remembering who he was next year, and not care.
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Mentally, physically, and emotionally
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Rafaela chases one pitch but delivers his 75th RBI with a sharp single with the bases loaded. Given the contract and ability to drive in runs, maybe the Sox should just work with him a little bit . The outfield play, undersstanding call offs would help too.
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But note that of the best 12 teams in MLB, 11 of them lose their last game. Sox could win their last , so there's that
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This game. Warning track power for Boston, wall power for BJs. Sloppy sliders from Bello and Sims. Slaten is past his expiration date too
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Looked like Abreu was calling that ball in RF. Good thing it does not matter in the grand scheme except to highlight the 2 rookies, Abreu and He who shall not be mentioned.
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My only comment on the Rfaela deal, especially in September is that he is slightly built (5'9"/165??) and has played a full season ( 150 games and still counting) . He has played 2 demanding positions well enough that management has not seen fit to sit him down. That's all to his credit . The swing/miss choices and OBP are poor. But consider, young Caribbean basin players, including DR are looking at a chance in a 1000 to get out of their countries and enjoy generational wealth for likely a large family . They were not going to get signed for walking or bunting. Swing the bat, something may happen. I think Cedanne, Abreu, Devers, and Guerrero for BJ's are examples of this. Rafaela's contract was a year premature and should have been dependent on his self improvement.
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As mentioned at the end of yesterday's game thread, odd time to run off a win streak with key players shelved. But when it still mattered they were not capable of supporting good pitching. I'll watch small parts of the final 5, but lost any serious interest in this group a couple weeks ago.
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Odd isn't it that when the chance at a playoff appearance ( singular) remained at hand, the team ( hitters) could do nothing to support effective pitching, but as soon as it is just beyond reach, and minus Devers, K.Jansen, Refsnyder, the team can run off a 3 game streak. Baseball is odd that way.
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It's easier with the relatively small sample size of a season mostly spent on IL, doing game interviews.
