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In their 24 games this season, the Red Sox have scored in the 1st inning 4 times for 5 total runs. Opponents have scored in the 1st inning vs. Boston 10 times for 17 runs. -
Some were just waiting to come in because they didn't want to watch another leadoff man strike out.
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Can we just skip leadoff tomorrow and just start with the #2 batter? The Yanks can have the out, but at least it will cut down on our strikeout total.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hey -- when all Boston's execs are in their front office, they're the smartest guys in the room. -
A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This may be blasphemy to all the front offices that swear by the batting philosophy espoused by Driveline to "pull the ball in the air" -- but how's that working out in the majors, Red Sox? Crusty old fans like me grew up reading Ted Williams' bio and his hitting bible, "The Science of Hitting." We've known about the "slight uppercut swing" since we were kids -- but we were also taught by normal humans that the most consistent approach at the plate is to turn the top hand down on contact for line drives and to "hit the ball where it's pitched." Pitchers aren't as stupid as Ted thought. If they know everybody's trying to pull, they'll constantly work off the outside corner for flailing chases or at least roll-over grounders. Look familiar, fans of futility? Hall of Famers with god-given, elite hand-eye shouldn't be MLB batting coaches, because to them, it all came natural. Neither should guys who never made it be in charge of those who did. When Boston hires new batting coaches, bring in ex-big leaguers who maybe didn't have the gifts, but succeeded by learning to use the whole field. -
You're just saying that because when Anthony leads off games this year he's batting .095 with 38% strikeouts. And he looks miserable. But last year Roman hit .320 with 28% K-rate leading off 27 games. In comparison, Duran batted .212 leading off games with a 34% K-rate last season. The year before when he was an All-Star, Jarren batted .243 with a 28% K-rate leading off games.
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Sonny Gray Placed On 15-Day IL By Red Sox
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Steve Drumwright's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It's sad and it's sweet but his legs were complete when Gray wore a younger man's clothes. -
Rivera may not crumble under the big lights since he just pitched a month ago with his entire country screaming for him at a big party in the sold-out stands.
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Sox have a lot of promising ex-college arms, but 6 foot-7 inch Rivera schooled a lot of pro hitters in the WBC as Puerto Rico's go-to guy.
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This is actually a hitters' post for drewski... seeing the name Hillenbrand did remind me of the '02 Sox that had four legit All-Stars (won't bore you with their stats), including Manny, Nomar and Johnny Damon. They won 93 games BUT didn't make the playoffs... ... so their new GM that winter went out and acquired another batting champ to play 3B, a home run hitting 1B, a 2B good enough to bat third in the postseason, and a Hall of Fame DH. In '03, eight Red Sox had 85 or more RBI and five of them received AL MVP votes on a club that would've went to the World Series with any manager not named Little. The GM was Theo -- who still works in Boston. Why can't they let him make moves like that again?
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If Paredes' WAR is actually Below a Replacement Player, then the Red Sox could just have a poster play third -- and it wouldn't cost anything. We're all below replacement players... but not replacement posters! Well, a 1970s Farrah Fawcett is probably still a collector's item to someone... but not worth an Abreu. I was thinking more like the Incredible Hulk I got at Store 24 and hung on the back of my dorm room door.
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Question of the week: are you optimistic?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Shows what a lazy chump I am -- he was under when I looked yesterday.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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." -
Rafaela is one of three Red Sox, along with Durbin and Yoshida, with a K-rate under 20%.
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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?
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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.
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Love the fake bunt two-run single.
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Ceddanne touched the ball!
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This has seemed like a must-lose for Cora all game. He knows if he gets fired, he still gets paid.
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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.
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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.
