2018 Boston Red Sox Thread

[Alsacs]

I agree with you on both moves. Particularly Devers. I'm not a Nunez believer. Both are sub par defensively but Devers can do damage in YS and provides a lot more pop than Nunez.

Nunez is starting tonight because he has hits off Severino and Devers is 0 for 12 off him.
Holt should be in for Kinsler tonight though.

 

[Alsacs]

Only a paranoid mind would see that as spiking the football. Now if he had said "Hope the hometown fans got a good look at their 108-win juggernaut" that would be out of line. But he didn't.

Okay moral police. You never contribute anything but go after low hanging fruit. The next time you have an original take on anything or don’t just attack something it will be a first.

 

[Alsacs]

I didn’t spike shlit.

Your piss-arse pitcher woke the bear.

Didn’t realize it was his job to tell the batter to get the Fluck back in there.

I will send him a thank you note for a job well done.

Sanchez single handily brought down a sport and got new time rules inserted??

Interesting.

108 is an awefully lot of wins...

You are better at smack talk than this.
Sanchez was slow. The pitcher told him to get back in the box. He did and then struck him out,
If Price wasn’t a bum the bullpen wouldn’t have been strained where Rodriguez length was needed.
Give the Yankees credit for the split. Now they need to win these 2 home games or its Sale in game 5.

 

[br801]

Okay moral police. You never contribute anything but go after low hanging fruit. The next time you have an original take on anything or don’t just attack something it will be a first.

You take yourself way too seriously and seem to have an awful lot of rules. Enjoy the game.

 

[Alsacs]

Major changes to the lineup.

Betts RF
Bientiendi LF
Martinez DH
Bogaerts SS
Devers 3B
Pearce 1B
Holt 2B
Vazquez C
Bradley Jr. CF

I am glad they sat Leon as well.
I would have started Nunez but Devers at YS makes sense.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

108 games or not, i have never felt confident about the Sox post season chances this year. We have one dominating pitcher, and a few good/very good pitchers, and the dominating one isn't himself, and i don't expect anything different from last year from the good/very good ones.

I said it last year, homers are the way to the world series in the AL. The Yanks are going to have more impact hits. Our pitchers are just too afraid. Seems like any strike to Judge or Sanchez is an automatic souvenir, and i don't think their pitchers feel the same way about any of our guys, including Martinez or Betts. In an 'all the marbles' set of games, the Fear Factor is more significant.

 

[donniesyracuse]

Seems like any strike to Judge or Sanchez is an automatic souvenir, and i don't think their pitchers feel the same way about any of our guys, including Martinez or Betts. In an 'all the marbles' set of games, the Fear Factor is more significant.

As a Yankee fan, I can tell you that the first six hitters in the Sox lineup scare me.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

As a Yankee fan, I can tell you that the first six hitters in the Sox lineup scare me.

I guess that's a reasonable perspective. Having seen 140 Sox games this year, though, and maybe only 20 Yanks games, your side worries me. Betts is amazing, but he doesn't have the same kind of physical intimidation factor. Benintendi's going to hit singles and maybe a corner xbase hit. Bogarts is a doubles guy. Martinez is the only one you look at and fear, and even he is more of a line drive/contact hitter than a guy who looks like he's swinging for "Lansdowne" at every pitch.

And we're relying on Eovaldi... He looked amazing his first couple of starts, then not so much. I don't know what to expect tonight, especially since he was one of yours for longer than he's been with us. I hope you don't have 'his book.'

 

[bpo57]

I guess that's a reasonable perspective. Having seen 140 Sox games this year, though, and maybe only 20 Yanks games, your side worries me. Betts is amazing, but he doesn't have the same kind of physical intimidation factor. Benintendi's going to hit singles and maybe a corner xbase hit. Bogarts is a doubles guy. Martinez is the only one you look at and fear, and even he is more of a line drive/contact hitter than a guy who looks like he's swinging for "Lansdowne" at every pitch.

And we're relying on Eovaldi... He looked amazing his first couple of starts, then not so much. I don't know what to expect tonight, especially since he was one of yours for longer than he's been with us. I hope you don't have 'his book.'

I think you're short selling some of the Red Sox hitters. Betts and Martinez were the two best hitters in the AL this year. Martinez particularly in YS can do major damage with his opposite field power. Benintendi has had big success in the Bronx in his short career.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

I think you're short selling some of the Red Sox hitters. Betts and Martinez were the two best hitters in the AL this year. Martinez particularly in YS can do major damage with his opposite field power. Benintendi has had big success in the Bronx in his short career.

No, not shortselling. I'm really just talking about my confidence in what they're going to do in postseason, a and about the impressions each make when i'm looking at them in the batter's box. With Yankees hitters, i really fear each one of them is going to take the ball deep. With all of the sox hitters, i'm just hoping/expecting a LD double. I really believe our pitchers think the same way, just by the number of walks and the way they're pitching—so much so far outside. Just fear. But, hey, i'm a sox fan, since 1970-something, so i'm pessimistic by nature, i guess.

 

[bpo57]

No, not shortselling. I'm really just talking about my confidence in what they're going to do in postseason, a and about the impressions each make when i'm looking at them in the batter's box. With Yankees hitters, i really fear each one of them is going to take the ball deep. With all of the sox hitters, i'm just hoping/expecting a LD double. I really believe our pitchers think the same way, just by the number of walks and the way they're pitching—so much so far outside. Just fear. But, hey, i'm a sox fan, since 1970-something, so i'm pessimistic by nature, i guess.

I agree with you about some of the Sox bullpen guys and their nibbling. That may play into your fear but the Sox didn't lead the AL in scoring by accident.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

I agree with you about some of the Sox bullpen guys and their nibbling. That may play into your fear but the Sox didn't lead the AL in scoring by accident.

The regular season scoring, though—I'm worried that, like last year, the bats just aren't the same against the better pitchers, and that when you have a lineup of 9 guys that hit 20+, every one of them is a single lucky pitch away from a run, whereas with the sox, it's going to take multiple hits to accomplish the same thing. Again, impressions and pessimism, but i kinda think the way through the AL is with homers/walks+homers, like Houston last year, and like i expect the Yankees to do this year.

 

[bpo57]

The regular season scoring, though—I'm worried that, like last year, the bats just aren't the same against the better pitchers, and that when you have a lineup of 9 guys that hit 20+, every one of them is a single lucky pitch away from a run, whereas with the sox, it's going to take multiple hits to accomplish the same thing. Again, impressions and pessimism, but i kinda think the way through the AL is with homers/walks+homers, like Houston last year, and like i expect the Yankees to do this year.

You might be right but I think the part you're missing is that the Sox can score runs in more diverse ways. They run the bases a lot better and they strike out less frequently than the Yanks. The Yankees have had serious problems all year long with runners on base.

 

[bpo57]

One other thought about strike outs. The NYY struck out 170 more times than the Sox this year despite the fact that two of the Yankees big strike out guys (Judge and Sanchez) missed significant time this year. Major reason why the Sox scored more runs this year.

 

[dasher]

Is Ron Darling serious? I'm still worried about winning this game. This is a playoff game. You score as much as you can until very late.

 

[bpo57]

Is Ron Darling serious? I'm still worried about winning this game. This is a playoff game. You score as much as you can until very late.

Amen.

 

[Alsacs]

Vazquez and Pierce have to stay in the lineup tomorrow against CC.
I would start Holt as Sabathia isn’t a power lefty. He is hitting well.
If Cora wants Nunez over Devers fine.

This lineup doesn’t have any automatic outs now. I love Leon’s D but we can’t afford his nonexistent bat.

 

[dasher]

Vazquez and Pierce have to stay in the lineup tomorrow against CC.
I would start Holt as Sabathia isn’t a power lefty. He is hitting well.
If Cora wants Nunez over Devers fine.

This lineup doesn’t have any automatic outs now. I love Leon’s D but we can’t afford his nonexistent bat.

Leon will start with Porcello. I wish it wasn't true. But it is. He will start with sale as well.

 

[dasher]

Do the sux pitchers plan on continuing to demand that Sanchez get back in the box and hit???

Asking for a friend...

I thought Sanchez did a good job getting in to the batters box tonight. Answering for a friend.

 

[Cowtown]

Spiking the football when it’s 1-1 is bad karma.
Also the pitcher was right. If Sanchez didn’t go to the mound like every other pitch like he did in the past 2-3 years MLB wouldn’t have had to pass the mound visit limit rule.
Sanchez is slower than turtle in the box, behind the plate pretty much everywhere. His style of slow play is why young people don’t watch the sport.

Oh stop it. Nomar was a human rain delay. He made games at least half an hour longer all by himself.

 

[donniesyracuse]

Oh stop it. Nomar was a human rain delay. He made games at least half an hour longer all by himself.

Beckett and Lester were also rain delays. Fisk was the original.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

You might be right but I think the part you're missing is that the Sox can score runs in more diverse ways. They run the bases a lot better and they strike out less frequently than the Yanks. The Yankees have had serious problems all year long with runners on base.

Well, the Sawx made me look stupid tonight. That was a bizarre game/result.

 

[Alsacs]

Oh stop it. Nomar was a human rain delay. He made games at least half an hour longer all by himself.

Nomar swung at the first pitch like 40% of time. He may have adjusted his gloves but he didn’t do what Sanchez does.
Sanchez literally delays the game when the pitcher is set and ready to throw.
The guy is the slowest hitter I have seen and I am not joking.
It was terrible how long he waits to get back into the box and try to delay the pitcher.
The game was over last night and he was still doing it.

 

[Cowtown]

Nomar swung at the first pitch like 40% of time. He may have adjusted his gloves but he didn’t do what Sanchez does.
Sanchez literally delays the game when the pitcher is set and ready to throw.
The guy is the slowest hitter I have seen and I am not joking.
It was terrible how long he waits to get back into the box and try to delay the pitcher.
The game was over last night and he was still doing it.

Sorry, but I was around then and I saw it. He went through his gloves routine after every pitch. Even after taking a pitch. It was BS. It was as bad as Sergio Garcia's grip and re-grip waggle and re-waggle routine in golf.

 

[KaiserUEO]

I thought Sanchez did a good job getting in to the batters box tonight. Answering for a friend.

Epic beat down.

I can hit Eovaldi.

Pathetic