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Post by bluechip on Apr 1, 2013 15:49:24 GMT -5
At least this year we will not have to listen to sports radio and tv ask " when will Red Sox win their first game?"
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Post by jmei on Apr 1, 2013 15:49:40 GMT -5
162-0.
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Post by atzar on Apr 1, 2013 15:50:56 GMT -5
Good win to start the season. Lots of good things to take away from this game. The biggest item on that list is the fact that it's not 2012 anymore.
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Post by iakovos11 on Apr 1, 2013 15:52:58 GMT -5
Sox draw 8 BB's today (3 from JBJ). Nice to see them getting back to OBP and working counts
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Post by JackieWilsonsaid on Apr 1, 2013 15:56:10 GMT -5
After surgery is Tazawa limited to relief?
His stuff is electric.
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Post by dmaineah on Apr 1, 2013 15:57:08 GMT -5
great game by Ellsbury today. hope he has a great year & we get him signed
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Post by soxfan06 on Apr 1, 2013 15:58:01 GMT -5
Miller hit 98 MPH Uehara hit 90 MPH Bailey hit 95 MPH Tazawa hit 96 MPH Hanrahan hit 98 MPH
Boy the Bullpen this year is gonna be fun.
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Post by bluechip on Apr 1, 2013 15:58:26 GMT -5
I like the hustle on that play, but not the intelligence. Pick your spots to play reckless like that. The ninth inning of an 8-2 game isn't one of those spots. It is never a good idea unless you are trying to avoid a tag. Running through the bag is faster. Diving just feels faster. They have done studies on this: www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/physics-to-mark-teixeira-dont-dive/I really do not understand why teams allow star players to slide into first or how the bad habit devolps.
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Post by atzar on Apr 1, 2013 16:02:31 GMT -5
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
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Post by ramireja on Apr 1, 2013 16:06:43 GMT -5
Sox draw 8 BB's today (3 from JBJ). Nice to see them getting back to OBP and working counts Yeah, Yankee pitchers made 190 pitches compared to 148 for our guys. Nice to see.
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Post by hammerhead on Apr 1, 2013 16:08:45 GMT -5
Miller hit 98 MPH Uehara hit 90 MPH Bailey hit 95 MPH Tazawa hit 96 MPH Hanrahan hit 98 MPH Boy the Bullpen this year is gonna be fun. All that Velocity and the pitcher that looked the most dominant was the one with the lowest.... Really great looking Pen could make this season a heck of a lot better then the expectations are.
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Post by danr on Apr 1, 2013 16:36:05 GMT -5
Miller hit 98 MPH Uehara hit 90 MPH Bailey hit 95 MPH Tazawa hit 96 MPH Hanrahan hit 98 MPH Boy the Bullpen this year is gonna be fun. Hanrahan hit 99 with one pitch. I was not aware he threw that hard. I thought his slider was his main pitch. He doesn't have the pretend intimidating look that Papelbon had, but the look he has, and those pitches, might make him a better closer. Tazawa also was very impressive. I don't remember him throwing quite this hard before the TJ surgery.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 1, 2013 16:42:10 GMT -5
I don't remember him throwing quite this hard before the TJ surgery. He didn't. Sat 89-93 IIRC. I think the increase probably has more to do with the bullpen conversion than the surgery.
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Post by mantush on Apr 1, 2013 16:42:57 GMT -5
How did Bradley look? I noticed he drew three walks.
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Post by okin15 on Apr 1, 2013 17:05:52 GMT -5
I really like our bullpen this year. Farrell has a lot of good options for the late innings. And he's apparently decided he needs to use all of them today. There wasn't a lot of reason to take Uehara or Bailey out of the game. They have a day off tomorrow. No reason to leave them in, as it's early, and everyone is just getting their sea legs. Great win from what I could hear on the radio, although Iglesias isn't going to keep catching those breaks.
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Post by danr on Apr 1, 2013 17:19:16 GMT -5
How did Bradley look? I noticed he drew three walks. He was picked by the announcers as "The Player of the Game." Their drooling over him almost fogged up the television screen. However, it wasn't undeserved. He looks good. It's hard to say if he will hit, since it was only one game, and he didn't. But he has terrific pitch recognition and he learns very fast. It appeared Sebathia had found a weakness, low inside pitches off the plate, but Bradley adjusted and stopped swinging at them. He is an exceptional fielder, and he may have saved the game with an over the head catch of a Cano drive. I'm not sure any other OF on the team would have caught it, and if it had not been caught, the game might have turned around.
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Post by sarasoxer on Apr 1, 2013 17:19:17 GMT -5
I don't remember him throwing quite this hard before the TJ surgery. He didn't. Sat 89-93 IIRC. I think the increase probably has more to do with the bullpen conversion than the surgery. I don't remember Tazawa getting as high as 93 prior to last year. As I recall he did have some outings from the pen prior to injury and was low 90s at best. I think that this is just one of those guys whose velocity got a boost from the surgery (as opposed to Matsuzaka). He topped at 96 last year too. Moreover, this guy has outstanding control. The bullpen was great today but we don't want to trot out 5 relievers a game....and spend those guys yet another year. Hopefully Lester will morph into someone who can get thru 6 and 7 consistently with Farrell's help. Buch will likely do it. Doubront is sort of a clone of Lester as far as running up pitch counts and who knows how Lackey and Dempster will do innings/start? Good day today tho!!
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Post by jimoh on Apr 1, 2013 17:59:27 GMT -5
How did Bradley look? I noticed he drew three walks. .... He is an exceptional fielder, and he may have saved the game with an over the head catch of a Cano drive. I'm not sure any other OF on the team would have caught it, and if it had not been caught, the game might have turned around. Red Sox left-fielder in Yankee Stadium goes back on a ball hit straight over his head and "makes a tremendous catch"? Gotta like that. Yaz' in the Billy Rohr no-hit bid is still the best. This is just the audio:
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Post by Guidas on Apr 1, 2013 18:44:51 GMT -5
The three walks by Salty made him almost JBJ-like.
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Post by ozebaseball on Apr 1, 2013 20:54:51 GMT -5
It appeared Sebathia had found a weakness, low inside pitches off the plate, but Bradley adjusted and stopped swinging at them. This. So much of this. Bradley impressed me a lot with his all around play, not just the catch or the walks but even down to the little things like how hard he was busting it on a 2 out pop up. That stuff makes a guy easy to root for for fans and his teammates, but his evolution from at bat to at bat was what had me thinking "maybe he'll do better than I thought". Don't get me wrong, I'm not down on him, I just expect the usual rookie troubles. But he displayed some serious intelligence and ability in the way he changed his approach in response to CC challenging him by exploiting the weakness he uncovered. No doubt he'll see more inside pitches over the next couple of weeks but it was really impressive. Also worth noting he was sitting on the inside slider, it was only the running 2 seamer inside he was chasing, anything outside, offspeed or not, he was happily sitting on if it was a ball or fouling off if it was a strike. The combination of pitch recognition and plate approach was more impressive than I expected, notwithstanding the raised expectations as a result of all the positive reports here. Salty's discipline in this game also really impressed me. Very un-Salty like. However, as mentioned up-thread, his receiving was just terrible in a lot of respects. He made some good blocks, but he also screwed the pooch on a couple and his general receiving skills weren't helping Lester at all. I concur with what others said on Lester - his stuff was definitely much improved. One thing I noticed was he also seemed more mature and/or relaxed. There was no sooking when he didn't get a call. It was more like a, "damn, I wanted that, I better execute the next pitch" type attitude - which is exactly what you want to see.
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 1, 2013 22:04:10 GMT -5
I really like our bullpen this year. Farrell has a lot of good options for the late innings. And he's apparently decided he needs to use all of them today. There wasn't a lot of reason to take Uehara or Bailey out of the game. I didn't have a problem with that, he's likely still testing waters with his bullpen. No better time to do it than now.
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Post by raftsox on Apr 2, 2013 8:02:21 GMT -5
How did Bradley look? I noticed he drew three walks. He was picked by the announcers as "The Player of the Game." Their drooling over him almost fogged up the television screen. However, it wasn't undeserved. He looks good. It's hard to say if he will hit, since it was only one game, and he didn't. But he has terrific pitch recognition and he learns very fast. It appeared Sebathia had found a weakness, low inside pitches off the plate, but Bradley adjusted and stopped swinging at them. He is an exceptional fielder, and he may have saved the game with an over the head catch of a Cano drive. I'm not sure any other OF on the team would have caught it, and if it had not been caught, the game might have turned around. It seemed to me that he was either hesitant or overmatched with the pitches themselves. He obviously could see the balls well enough, but it was almost as if he wasn't able to get a good swing on them. I'll give it a while to see if it's just nerves though.
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Post by awall on Apr 2, 2013 8:55:43 GMT -5
i know we can't expect Drew to stay on the bench after he's fully recovered, but man do i love the thought of watching Iglesias, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Bradley and Victorino play behind those pitchers.
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Post by brianthetaoist on Apr 2, 2013 9:17:53 GMT -5
In JBJ, I saw a guy with excellent defense, a good approach at the plate, and a knowledge of the strike zone. So, basically, nothing we didn't already know ... can't tell yet how he'll do when guys start pounding the strike zone on him or how he'll adjust when holes are exposed.
Overall, nice win, but it's just one game against a pretty bad team, facing an ace pitcher who was a little off. The Yankees really look terrible. Robinson Cano looks pretty isolated in that lineup.
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Post by gatortough on Apr 2, 2013 13:37:28 GMT -5
www.fangraphs.com/pitchfxo.aspx?playerid=404&position=P&pitch=FAInteresting to look at Sabbathia's FB velocities. He's never had a start averaging 90 mph until yesterday. I only saw him throw one 91 yesterday, mostly 88-89 when I was looking. It might ramp up a bit going forward, but it certainly looks like a it's trending downward overall. Some of it might be due to the injury last year, but it's definitely something to watch going forward. Sabbathia with an 89 mph fastball looked pretty hittable even though he managed to limit the damage. If that continues, New York is in huge trouble. Still has 5 years and 119m left on his contract. Yikes.
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