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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I would say the 11 other AL teams are optimistic about pitching against the stars of the Eccentric Kool-Aid Flaccid Test by Tom Whiff.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We worked on our pitchers throwing high and inside whenever a batter squared. The idea isn't to bean a guy, but to get him to pop up into a double play... ... because every single batter in the history of high school baseball -- whenever they got the bunt sign -- went after the next pitch, no matter where it was: 10 feet outside, over their heads, underground, in the parking lot at DQ. They can't help themselves, even when it's not a suicide squeeze -- it's an obligatory rite of passage, like talking to the redhead at the drive-in in The Outsiders, even when you know you don't have a prayer.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not easy if you've never learned it, but that's maybe the point. Professional batters presumably have the best hand-eye coordination in the sport. Guys who made it to the majors used to have all the basics mastered on the way up... maybe this changed when clubs just started promoting god-blessed athletes like Deon Sanders. If they have split-second pitch recognition and reactions that allow them to check swing, then they can also pull back on pitches they can't bunt. But metrics also decided this century it's not worth it to bunt anymore (they didn't poll Red Sox fans who'd rather watch their favorite whiffers win in extra innings more often). Some wonder if programs in high school, college and the minor leagues no longer teach bunting? How many of us remember at any level taking batting practice: we weren't even allowed to swing until we bunted one fair towards first, then towards third. And the next swing was a fake-bunt slash (another lost art). Of course, those who do make it to The Show likely get there from hacking away and are just out of practice.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Which is stranger than his contact rate -- are the inconsistencies of supposedly better pitching causing Ceddanne to be more hesitant out there? In past years he looked more confident, like he knew he always needed full sprints off the crack of the bat.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shows what a lazy chump I am -- he was under when I looked yesterday.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was fun when NESN showed the owners enclosed in their Fenway suite, peering out and looking confused while the Tigers blasted Crochet... presumably turning their graphs sideways, then upside down, singing "Power to the Peep Hole."
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Rafaela is one of three Red Sox, along with Durbin and Yoshida, with a K-rate under 20%.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Still can't get over Duran being pinch-bunted for by a defensive specialist (who couldn't bunt either). But how can a really fast baserunner who played college ball get to the majors and not know how to bunt?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thirty-six year-old hamstring. He'll never be the same... ... but he will have his good days and bad months. And then he'll bend to pick up a pencil in his office and the whole thing will seize up on him. But that won't compare to the night he rolls over in bed and wakes up screaming when the tissue feels like it's tearing off the bone. Screwed.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Love the fake bunt two-run single.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ceddanne touched the ball!
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This has seemed like a must-lose for Cora all game. He knows if he gets fired, he still gets paid.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox pinch-bunt for a guy who was the All-Star Game MVP for hitting a homer. And he strikes out. I coulda done that.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now the Sox are getting blown out, 2-2. Remember, some relievers half asleep and freezing still have to get 15 more outs before Detroit scores a run... because that's all it will take to win the series.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I saw what I saw when I saw it. Bos 2, Det 1 but the Sox actually trail 1 to 2. Doesn't it feel like that?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Has any club that ever stressed "run prevention" this much not played its best possible defense? If you mean it, Front Office, show us you mean it! ... or is the team maybe run by the Back Office?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sox trailing, 1-2. Try to keep in mind this Red Sox team is never as good as they look when they're bad. There's still time for a Boston batter to actually drive in a run in this game.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So glad the owners were there yesterday to see in person the putrid fruits of their impotence. The Sox did finally score their first run of the entire series on a swing resulting in an initial bounce greater than 70 feet. It came on a home run by a guy who also hit the last Fenway Park HR back on April 6: Willson Contreras (rhymes with rarest). But the Tigers won again because they hit three times as many homers off Boston's ace. That was the difference, and it will be all year when the Sox lose. No more excuses about running into tough pitching -- the Red Sox turn every starter they face into Cyanide Young. When NESN noted Crochet had the second-worst stats of any MLB starter, they didn't tell us who was worse -- my first thought was Dustin May, who completely shut down his old club by exposing their weakest link: weaklings.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anthony guns down a runner at the plate. NESN had no choice but to show that throw -- a one-hop liner to erase a baserunner that touched 3rd when Roman had the ball (total disrespect by Detroit). On every other ball hit to Anthony, the NESN camera shot was changed right when he released the ball on throws to the cut-offs... seriously, guys, are President Sammy and his CBO that insecure they ordered you to deny paying viewers from seeing something they're actually interested in?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I listed all the MVPs in the championship years. Barrett was great that whole postseason in '86 and led in total hits, and Bruce Hurst was going to be awarded WS MVP if his staff mates didn't choke in Game 6. But if the Red Sox did win '86, is there any doubt who'd be remembered as THE HERO of their first ring in "68 years!" Dave Hendu Henderson RIP saved the pennant with a home run in the LCS and then blasted what should've been a bigger HR in extra innings in WS Gm 6 with the trophy on the line... ... and now we're back to home runs.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The problem is that changes clearly need to be made -- but "this is the roster" is the reality. The main changes needed to be made in the offseason unless a new manager -- and pray to the baseball gods, a new coaching staff -- comes in without any relationship to the players and immediately switch Mayer and Story. They're committed to giving Durbin half a season to get straightened out, so aren't replacing him with IKF or Monasterio yet. Who knows when Romy returns or how long it takes him to contribute. The only move that could help right now -- and this is going to freak some fans -- is to trade Duran for any asset like a decent reliever and make Yoshida a full-timer in the batting order. This current starting line-up just isn't going to strike out less unless Masa the Punching Bag gets to punch pitches regularly. He should be the DH every day and not Anthony, who needs to play left field every day so he doesn't sit in the dugout and think too much. Young guys need to run on and off the diamond all game long to get into and stay into a groove on both O and D.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I loved the way Barrett played baseball, but my post was intended to reference World Series champion Red Sox teams. Thus, bell a ring. Here's an exchange I overheard in 1986 in pregame batting practice before a September game with Toronto... Red Sox hitters were asking recent call-up Pat Dodson what it was like to face Blue Jays' hard-throwing prospect Duane Ward. Dodson mentioned a fastball that tailed inside to righties. "Oh, great," said Barrett, "90 miles an hour right at my hands." NINETY was considered really fast back then, 40 years ago when Mason Miller was negative-12.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agree, and I hate to say it, but maybe other clubs just view him as too -- I want to say unreliable, but inconsistent to give up major assets (in a way, that may be why Giolito is still unsigned). And I know it's easy for posters to look at crappy current stats for all the big names we didn't sign or trade for, but I personally don't think all those numbers automatically transfer to a different home park, line-up, fan base, media market etc. Bogaerts may be an example, since he thrived more in Fenway than Petco: ..312/870 to .272/.747. Of course, age is also one of the many other factors -- but we just don't know which ones really count... Machado .297/.890 at Camden Yards, .274/.832 at Petco. Maybe perfect weather every day of the year makes it just too hard to focus on any job in San Diego?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Doesn't bell a ring.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ground ball back to Foulke... David Ortiz-David Ortiz-David Ortiz!!! All this reminiscing reminds me of Red Sox champions, especially those who won postseason MVPS: Papi, Manny, Beckett, Lowell, Koji, Ortiz again, Jackie Bradley and Steve Pearce. Besides a few lights-out pitchers who are always essential to winning, all the position players who were voted Most Valuable in Boston Octobers hit pivotal home runs. Ol Brez sure wasn't fooling at the Winter Meetings when he said, "Home runs are a foolproof way to put runs on the board."
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