As I’ve said before Duran has been in, and out of the lineup, which most likely makes it harder to get going. I’m not a big Duran fan, but he’s shown he’s better than how he looks so far.
That doesn’t sway Cora that Mayer may have a better arm, and glove. As for the bats Story does have 17 RBI to Mayer’s 3, you know something that actually shows up on the scoreboard, and Story is still a FT player, and Mayer still is not.
Mayer is still a part time player, and a SUSPECT hitter, so NO on 1.
Duran goes to leadoff, and plays every day. little Anthony gets dropped down even lower.
Just have a set lineup for a couple of weeks would be a novel idea IMO. Duran has been pretty much an everyday player for a few years now, and so has Masa. What Cora had done these 20+ games hasn’t worked. Not everyone has to play, or get days off at this point in the season. Even Abreu who was the best hitter early on has been as bad as anyone lately. Outside of an injury I don’t see any big roster moves, or positional changes in the near future.
The way I look at it is the Red Sox are 5 GB. 5 GB just to get to 500, and if you can’t do that it doesn’t matter what all the other teams are doing, or looking at any wildcard dreams.
I’m certainly not sticking up for Duran, but Cora doesn’t help things with his different lineup pretty much every day. I don’t see that’s worked out to good. To say Duran doesn’t deserve to play you’re leaving out others to be right with him.
Useless, and meaningless stat. little Anthony for instance has 1 HR, and 4 RBI for the season, which is a lot more telling on how he’s done. Stood there TMTC with the bat on his shoulder looking at a called third strike go by. The eye test is a lot more telling than everyone’s measuring stick the OPS. What does Abreu’s OPS look like compared to what has he done for the team lately. Two different stories. Ops isn’t all it’s made out to be.
That was the biggest talking point on another talk show yesterday prior to the game about Cora having so many different lineups, and how it makes it harder to get going for the players in, and out of the lineup the most.
The Red Sox have scored 3 conventional runs the last 3 days, so they will probably break out today, score a bunch of runs, and make their stats look better than they really are.🤫
I mentioned this past offseason more than once that after Cro Man’s first heavy workload of innings last year if it would have any effect on him this year.
Luckily, and deservedly so for the Red Sox they are on the back burner of Boston sports right now. The Celtics, and B’s start their postseason tomorrow, and the NFL draft is next week for the Pats.