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Post by telson13 on Jun 21, 2018 22:48:24 GMT -5
Good to know the Twins only roll over for NY. God, I hate the Twins. So very, very much. Goes back to the Viola days I guess. Well at least the Twins were kind enough to gift wrap David Ortiz. I remember when Viola dominated. Do you remember when he signed up to pitch for the Sox? I remember being excited about the 1-2 punch of Clemens/Viola. It was going to put them over the top in 1992. Haha. Viola actually pitched pretty well in 1992 and 1993. Not as dominant as his Twins and Mets days, but he was really good - until he blew out his elbow in 1994 and never pitched again. Yeah, in his heyday he was a helluva pitcher. Middling FB but he had a little deception and the circle change was fantastic. He had a 4-year run of excellent pitching; I too was excited when the Sox inked him. He did pitch pretty well for some awful teams in ‘92-‘93, but yeah, he was certainly past his prime then. In my mind he’s kinda inexorably linked to Jimmy Key, who was similar as a lefty soft-tosser who had a couple great years with NY before the strike. Both from that late-80s to early 90s run when Clemens was the premier guy in the AL. Then there was Teddy Higuera, who was excellent until he just disintegrated, and Mark Langston and Chuck Finley, all of whom were harder-throwing quality LHSPs. |
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Post by telson13 on Jun 21, 2018 22:57:12 GMT -5
So since April 21rst the Yankees are 41-13. That's pretty much a 76 percent winning percentage. Keep in mind that Gleyber Torres was promoted on April 22nd. I actually got to give the Sox credit. When your rival is winning 76 percent of the time, it's pretty hard to even be 2 games back and 4 losses behind in the loss column. The Sox need to do some damage head to head against the Yankees because the rest of the AL is doing a horrible job of competing against the Yankees. At some point the Yankees got to slow down. I hate waiting for it though. I hate pumping up this cr*p franchise. The one thing I think the Sox do have in their favor is the schedule. NY has some doubleheaders coming up, and a couple fewer scheduled off days, plus a WC trip. The Sox also get 7 home games against them and if I recall, have a slightly weaker ROS docket. I really do think it’s going to be a dogfight down the stretch. It’s why I liked your Ramos idea...1-2 wins could end up being HUGE. I hate trades for 3-month rentals, and I find egregiously stupid suggestions like Devers-for-Machado (thanks Nick Cafardo) nauseating in the extreme. But some aptly targeted bit players or positional upgrades in areas of extreme weakness might really help. I hold out hope, too, that one of the Thornburg/Buttrey/Jerez trio can be lightning in a bottle. |
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Jun 21, 2018 23:14:07 GMT -5
So since April 21rst the Yankees are 41-13. That's pretty much a 76 percent winning percentage. Keep in mind that Gleyber Torres was promoted on April 22nd. I actually got to give the Sox credit. When your rival is winning 76 percent of the time, it's pretty hard to even be 2 games back and 4 losses behind in the loss column. The Sox need to do some damage head to head against the Yankees because the rest of the AL is doing a horrible job of competing against the Yankees. At some point the Yankees got to slow down. I hate waiting for it though. I hate pumping up this cr*p franchise. The one thing I think the Sox do have in their favor is the schedule. NY has some doubleheaders coming up, and a couple fewer scheduled off days, plus a WC trip. The Sox also get 7 home games against them and if I recall, have a slightly weaker ROS docket. I really do think it’s going to be a dogfight down the stretch. It’s why I liked your Ramos idea...1-2 wins could end up being HUGE. I hate trades for 3-month rentals, and I find egregiously stupid suggestions like Devers-for-Machado (thanks Nick Cafardo) nauseating in the extreme. But some aptly targeted bit players or positional upgrades in areas of extreme weakness might really help. I hold out hope, too, that one of the Thornburg/Buttrey/Jerez trio can be lightning in a bottle. The Machado rumors make me borderline laugh. The Sox are enamored with Devers. He's like their first born child. He's not going anywhere. Yeah I liked the Ramos idea because of the lack of cost given up and a real upgrade in a area of need. I think the bullpen arm that might make the biggest impact in the minors in the whole system is Poyner. He's the only guy that throws strikes consistently out of the group you just named. Thornburg when he's not coming back from major injury should be that, but no one knows if he can be that this year or even going forward in the future. TOS is hard to project when it comes to rehabbing. I still think the Sox go get a bullpen arm outside of the organization. I'd actually bet money on it that they do, so get ready for it. |
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Post by soxfansince67 on Jun 22, 2018 6:55:25 GMT -5
To close out this thread - just read that this is the earliest that three teams are at 50 wins...ever.
The rest of the season is going to be really epic as we watch Boston, Houston and the MFY jockey for position. Wow.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 22, 2018 7:49:14 GMT -5
So since April 21rst the Yankees are 41-13. That's pretty much a 76 percent winning percentage. Keep in mind that Gleyber Torres was promoted on April 22nd. I actually got to give the Sox credit. When your rival is winning 76 percent of the time, it's pretty hard to even be 2 games back and 4 losses behind in the loss column. The Sox need to do some damage head to head against the Yankees because the rest of the AL is doing a horrible job of competing against the Yankees. At some point the Yankees got to slow down. I hate waiting for it though. I hate pumping up this cr*p franchise. That's an amazing stretch of baseball. For perspective the 1978 Yankees went 53-22 down the stretch to erase a 14 game Red Sox lead. The 2018 Yankees would have to lighten the pace, going just 12-9 to match that pace. And the Sox blew the lead that year because after nearly playing .700 ball that year for more than half a season, they just play .500 the rest of the way while the Yankees played .700 ball. So basically this season the Yankees have been 9.5 games better since they went on this tear. And the Sox cooled off (obviously) after their historic 17-2 start, but they have been 33-23 since which is just a shade under .600 ball - if only the 1978 Red Sox could have been anywhere near as good the remaining 70 games of the season. So it's not like the 2018 Red Sox haven't been excellent all along either, but if it seems like the MFYs never freaking lose, the 41-13 stretch explains that. So basically the Sox have been playing .600 ball as the Yanks play .750 ball which is why it sometimes feels the Yankees are drawing away slowly but surely. Funny how this coincides with Torres. Torres is giving the Yankees what we hoped Devers would give the Sox. The hottest prolonged stretch I've seen the Sox have is a similar record to the Yanks' current mark. The Sox finished up 2004 at 34-12 and went 11-3 in the post season to finish 45-15, 60 games of .750 baseball - when it mattered most! Kind up puts you in awe of the 2001 Mariners who had fairly recently dealt away Randy Johnston and most recently Ken Griffey Jr and lost A-Rod to free agency, yet went out and won 116 games against 46 losses (.716 winning pct!). Didn't do them any good in the post-season though. |
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