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I really thought Tracy was going to have Seigler bunt the winning run into scoring position. Then I realized the smart manager was playing for a two-run lead on the road. That's why he gave him the triple sign. -
As we get closer to the final month before the postseason, consider this: Ceddanne Rafaela is a very good baseball player: 1st in AL in doubles, 2nd in dWAR, 3rd in WAR, 3rd in hits, 4th in batting average, 1st in CF put-outs, 1st in assists, 2nd in defensive runs saved... ... but also last in MLB in challenges. If a guy is the very worst in the industry at something, it doesn't take a boss with a degree in molecular biophysics from Yale to ban him from continuing to do so... DOES IT? A: Not when having challenges available for actual bad calls late in a game could make the difference between winning or losing! How hard is this? If the guy can't stop himself from tapping his helmet, take it away from him and make him bat hatless!
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Regarding #2, let's say we're going back to the South Bronx again for three Wild Card games in October. Is there any scenario where we don't want Tolle pitching one of the first two games with elimination always looming?
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The way he's pitching, 1-0 feels like 10-0.
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And the current format also forces embarrassing scenarios like two opposing teams trying to lose their final regular season game against each other because the winner then has to go play an entire first-round playoff series in the Bronx, NY instead of at any AL Central club's city. Imagine: to start that fateful deciding showdown if the Red Sox called up a 32-year old minor league pitcher who had an 0-9 record with a 7 ERA in AAA vs. a Tigers team who really didn't want to take advantage of batting practice for one more day? What would fans of both teams think?
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I give Tracy credit for pitching to Killer Koss. In some Little League tournaments, managers are intentionally walking Little League home run hitters.
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Jones' batting average on the Red Sox is clearly better: .478 to White's .286 (in their 27 and 22 Boston plate appearances). That's about it. White's sheer speed gives him a clear edge on the bases and in the outfield. Jones has a negative dWAR the past three seasons.
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A good problem to have, because it may mean the Sox have advanced past the first round in October. If Mead returns and is deemed ready to rock, we may have to say goodbye to Jahmai. Mead's role would almost certainly be as a righty DH or PH, as it's hard to imagine him supplanting anyone at 2B and providing playoff defense... ... even before he broke his glove-hand/wrist, he was a negative-dWAR position player. But upgrading the batting order with a guy who was on a 30-home run pace could be like when the 2016 Cubs suddenly got Schwarber back in time to win the World Series.
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Mickey and Tony Sigs may be demoted when Ant, Story and IKF return (one of those three can be added when rosters expand Sept. 1).
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I'm thinking the righty DH will be Mona since Tracy said the other day he's staying in the batting order somewhere when Story comes back. And I doubt that means moving over to second base, because Sogard is Chad's man -- and (every day more) fans' man.
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Tracy made the right moves in the fateful final frame, but just look at his hungry gamers: Durbin Legend walked to start the rally. Jahmai pinch hit for Duran and got hit by a pitch. Mona hit into a force out, but Eli pinch hit for Mickey Cochrane Gasper and singled in the first run. Then Sogard, who made a game-saving catch in the top, comes through again with a double to tie it. After Ceddanne is intentionally walked, Abreu - 4-for-4 in Ks - made contact! Wyatt Olds got his first big league win. He is undefeated with a 0.00 ERA in his career.
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I like seeing many perspectives. When I typed about Duran's metal health, I must have meant the sharpness of his spikes, which produced an increase in stolen bases the past month, and last night carried him counterclockwise to an easy triple.
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We have no idea the adversity a guy like Duran faces every single day of his career. We only hear or read about the obvious issues like going public about his metal health or getting suspended for using bad language with a heckler. But there have to be so many other instances. Same with Contreras -- who it was reported yesterday had an exchange with a fan for not running out a grounder at the end of the game. On a New England talkshow a few fans sitting close to the action called in with more details -- one sent her phone video -- about what happened. Contreras was actually speaking to a loudmouth who was continually swearing at Red Sox players in the dugout. One of them was Duran, who to his credit chose not to confront the guy, who was with a kid. Contreras had security escort the blowhard to the exits, while fans in the section applauded. He was sticking up for his teammates.
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It's one thing to misread the market -- happens daily on Wall St., right? But what's irksome for diehard fans is when owners are either in denial or spite, and would rather squeeze every ounce of value they can get out of stars, and then take pennies on the dollar in their last deadline or even hold the door open when they hit free agency. Hey, every summer there's a new draft!
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A Realistic View at the 2026 Red Sox Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Catchers still run the defense, and are in on every pitch in the game. No other defender supporting the man on the mound comes close: Shortstops average about 4 fielding chances per game. Centerfielders get about 3 max. Catchers average 8 to 11 chances (internet told me). Catchers also handle over 100 pitches per game... but if there's a strikeout pitcher, the shortstop touches the ball more when it's thrown around-the-horn... initiated by the catcher. -
All the extensions for young players doled out by CBOs from Yale were undoubtedly influenced by holdover Assistant VPs in the front office, who finally learned an ugly lesson from years of lowballing the greatest homegrown player in the history of the franchise to be traded in his prime and win three more World Series (and counting) in the National League.
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My first wife didn't drink coffee and couldn't brew it, either.
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He just read your post and yelled, "Foul!" out loud. Now he's imagining picking the lock... leaning on his good knee, twisting on his good side... under drifting cloud formations that look like Anthony's ring finger pointing, and Story doing lateral shuffles.
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a 4.10 ERA is nice to opponents, especially when it doesn't account for inherited baserunners allowed that only mar the ERA of the pitcher he replaced... ... for example, 6 of Weissert's 8 HRs served came with men on base (though I don't know how many of those men were inherited runners). Then again, bb-ref tells us this: 2 outs, RISP = BA of .191... but High Leverage = .308. However, no one in Italy can forget when their closer struck out Aaron Judge in the WBC! Greg will never have to pay for an expresso in Tuscany again.
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Anyone back then who thought the Red Sox would make the playoffs was odd.
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I'm not worried about a 20-year old playing shortstop. I just hope they take it easy on Old Man Story returning from his hernia -- pushing him too hard might ruin him for wife!
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I thought it would the first 5 innings; after that he'd need both hands to count them and that might put too much strain on his injured ring finger wrist.
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I didn't want Chapman to challenge Moreno, but he threw it 1,000 mph.
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Yeah..... Mickey! Pfaaadt goes Pffffffffffffflat. Zona fans say Pfaaaaaaaaccckkk.
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The only thing worse is Weissert blowing a late lead. But throwing meatballs over and over to ruin the entire TV entertainment product by the 6th inning is next.
