Red Sox and other Major League Baseball

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 3 years ago

It mystifies me how they can continue to roll out single A pitching. Especially with what is still a pretty solid batting order.

Somebody splain the logic to me cause looks like a missed opportunity to me.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 3 years ago

Clean up hitter batting Only .207, why is JD Martinez still in that slot? Move him out, he’s had a horrendous year.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 3 years ago

Barnes vs. Yankees
Barnes has a 9.53 ERA (27 ⅓ innings, 30 earned runs) in 31 career outings vs. New York.

Martinez’s average down to .199
J.D. Martinez’s batting average is down to .199 after he went 0-for-6 with four strikeouts.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 3 years ago

Barnes as closer going forward appears to be a fantasy.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 3 years ago

Eleven straight losses to the Yankees. The Red Sox flat out suck and few are even following them anymore. New England interest in baseball and the Red Sox is approaching its lowest point since before the Impossible Dream season of 1967.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 3 years ago

I watched the game last night until 12:15am (because I have no life, and what else can you do at that time o' night and stay out of trouble?) And I thought, as sad and boring as that was...how must it be if you're a player on the Red Sox? Your team stinks, you're going nowhere, it's after midnite and there are no fans in the stadium. That has to suck. Bad. I felt bad for Jerry Remy having to stay up that late.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 3 years ago

The fans are staying away in droves too lol !!

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 3 years ago

Yankees have now won 12 straight games vs Red Sox. 3rd time in their history that they have won 12 straight vs Boston.

Today the Yankees can make historY by winning 13 straight.

What a hopeless team Boston is today.

From ESPN
The Yankees pummeled the Red Sox 8-0 on Saturday night for their 12th consecutive victory over their American League East rivals, tying a franchise record. The Yankees -- who also have now won 10 consecutive games overall since landing at the .500 mark on Sept. 8 -- have taken 17 of the past 18 games between the clubs since July 28, 2019.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 3 years ago

Only 7 more games left to this disaster of a season

Sun, 20 Sep vsNew York 1:07 PM
Tue, 22 Sep vsBaltimore 7:30 PM
Wed, 23 Sep vsBaltimore 7:30 PM
Thu, 24 Sep vsBaltimore 7:30 PM
Fri, 25 Sep @Atlanta 7:10 PM
Sat, 26 Sep @Atlanta 7:10 PM
Sun, 27 Sep @Atlanta 3:10 PM

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 3 years ago

Cora back no surprise

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 3 years ago

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 3 years ago

Will be interesting to see if they bang out a full house at Fenway today...
(JBJ was one of my favorite players)

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 3 years ago

Don't hit my batter

Crazy times these days

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 3 years ago

What an idiot arrest that hooligan !!

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

Pitcher checks...good or bad? I'm a fan of offense, but it seems like the decrease in spin rate has just led to more walks...which are every bit as boring as Ks (too lazy to look up the stats...just what it seems like). Speed up the game by giving the pitcher 20 seconds to throw it, or it's a ball. My biggest issue is still...pitch...the...fricken...ball....

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 2 years ago

Baseball game length has magically increased mostly because of commercial time - three minutes between each half-inning is roughly 50 minutes by itself. Everything else is just trimmin' around the edges.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

I liked seeing the Girardi Scherzer spat and Sergio Romo stripping was hysterical

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Bradley jr Batting .154.

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 2 years ago

Well, it's kinda hard to find a great fielding CF who can hit, so it made sense to keep Bradley Jr. when he was younger and cheaper. It's not like Hernandez is doing any better.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

ramster wrote: ↑2 years ago Bradley jr Batting .154.

Doesn’t surprise me with the drop in averages that he is hitting that low. Glad he is out of Boston and thank him for coming up huge in the 2018 ALCS v Houston

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

I love JBJ.....streakiest hitter ever.

But, hoo boy! Garret Richards goes tonight!
I'm going with 2 1/3 IP max...5 walks, 4 hits, at least 3 runs ...and he starts losing it, hitting people and ducks the post game. Sox win 8-6.

ram1980 · Unread post by **ram1980** » 2 years ago

NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑2 years ago I love JBJ.....streakiest hitter ever.

But, hoo boy! Garret Richards goes tonight!
I'm going with 2 1/3 IP max...5 walks, 4 hits, at least 3 runs ...and he starts losing it, hitting people and ducks the post game. Sox win 8-6.

May not survive 2 1/3.. he needs to go away.. bloom has made some good moves. This isn't one of them.. very soft. Doesn't fit the mold of most of the rest of the team.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

9 of 10...not too shabby...
And, yesterday, featuring a lineup that has the last 4 hitters with BA's of... .206, .167, .216, and .207...
If they can win with that, great...it is one of two parts that makes me wonder.
The other...Barnes. If they get to the WS, it seems like it'll be because of him. If they don't...maybe the same thing.
Hard to trust that guy, then again, that's closers these days... I never think the Sox are out of it against other closers either.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Those averages aren’t good but at least we don’t have the worst hitter in baseball now who makes $12 million a year for the Brewers. Whew!

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

ramster wrote: ↑2 years ago Those averages aren’t good but at least we don’t have the worst hitter in baseball now who makes $12 million a year for the Brewers. Whew!

I guess it's debatable...but I think I'd rather have jbj than any of the Mendoza area code quartet with the possible exception of Dalbec (potential alone).

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 2 years ago

There is a Mendoza line for the number of cats one person should have….

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

Ramulous wrote: ↑2 years ago There is a Mendoza line for the number of cats one person should have….

Right, and as someone that has had cats and didn't really mind them, the correct number of cats to have is..... a dog.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 2 years ago

NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑2 years ago
Ramulous wrote: ↑2 years ago There is a Mendoza line for the number of cats one person should have….
Right, and as someone that has had cats and didn't really mind them, the correct number of cats to have is..... a dog.

Correction. The cats had you.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

Good riddance JBJ there has to be a few players with a lower batting average this year ??

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 2 years ago

reef wrote: ↑2 years ago Good riddance JBJ there has to be a few players with a lower batting average this year ??

He's sitting at .172 through 280 plate appearances, and .292 slugging, which is pretty awful. His OPS+ is 48 - around 100 is an average major leaguer. He hit .283 last year, but it isn't unheard of for a baseball player to just shockingly lose it all from one season to the next. Chris Davis is one that comes to mind recently. Diamond Digest did a series on the AL East here.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

Also averages seem to be at a historical low especially before the sticky substance crackdown still JBJ below .200 is just awful

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Game already looks like a sell out

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

Just keeps getting worse for the Sox....

Barnes on the IL is bad enough, but the real bummer is... Marwin Gonzalez activated....

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

Jeez 5 losses in a row dammit !!

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Love watching this video. Memories.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

nasty skid...

I thought, not long ago...this team was a lock for the playoffs...not anymore. But, I don't think we're far enough into the season to consider it 'collapse' territory

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑2 years ago nasty skid...

I thought, not long ago...this team was a lock for the playoffs...not anymore. But, I don't think we're far enough into the season to consider it 'collapse' territory

But we are getting closer to collapse territory

Lost today on a walk off HR in the bottom of the 7th. 7th??? Did I just say that?

Barnes gives up the HR to the first batter he faced. Sox lose 1-0.
2nd game of double header tonight.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 2 years ago

Fitting that the Sox have Victory Day off?

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Sox have now lost 9 of last 11
Quickly have gone to 4 games out of 1st in the division

rjsuperfly66 · Unread post by **rjsuperfly66** » 2 years ago

Amazing how big a blow it appears the trade deadline was.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

Brock Holt the king of the Eephus pitch

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

reef wrote: ↑2 years ago Brock Holt the king of the Eephus pitch

Yep. At 31mph

Bill Lee would be proud of Brock.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Barnes loads the bases in the top of the 9th, including two walks and gives up a double to clear the bases - now 7-4 Tampa Bay as Sox run the risk of going 5 games back in the standings. Need a miracle in the bottom of the 9th.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Sox lose it 8-4 to Tampa Bay
Now lost 10 of last 12 games to quickly go to 5 games behind Tampa Bay.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 2 years ago

Ugh we are losing every which way posdible just playing bad bad baseball

ram1980 · Unread post by **ram1980** » 2 years ago

Should have gotten Rizzo.. first base is a black hole offensively and defensively.. berrios would have looked good here too.. bloom ran the trade deadline as if he was gm of small market Tampa instead of big market Boston..

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 2 years ago

Sox are now (3-11) in their last 14 games. Last night lost (8-1) to Tampa Bay. Barnes had the decision in 4 consecutive games losing 3 and winning 1.
Now mid August Sox have a critical series with last plus Baltimore - must take at least 2 in the series.

STC · Unread post by **STC** » 2 years ago

The Rizzo non-move is a fair second guess since the Yankees didn’t have to dip into any of their top end prospects to acquire him.

Berrios non-move is hard to argue with considering the price the Jays paid. They gave up Austin Martin, who was the 5th pick in the 2020 draft and was already excelling at AA and ranked as the 16th overall prospect in the game per MLB.com. Jays also gave up Simeon Woods-Richardson, a young arm who is ranked as the 68th overall prospect in
MLB at the time of trade.

Sox would have had to put Casas, Houck and more in the deal just to approach the package the Jays offered. Trading Casas would have made no sense considering the Sox have a hole at 1B and Casas is likely to arrive next year.

The lack of quality bullpen acquisitions is fair second guess. Robles is atrocious.

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 2 years ago

This team is the same team that was in first and was very competitive with Tampa/NY ect. Something took the wind out of the sail. They will have Schwarber and Arroyo which will help the offense and Sale and Braiser on the mound. Get rid of Franchy and use Dalbec more. There's still time.