Ward, Whitlock, Houck, Bello, Crawford, Mata, Seabold, Winckowski, Walter, German... Ten young pitchers who are going to collectively determine the fate of the 2023 Red Sox.
Post by freddysthefuture2003 on Oct 5, 2022 10:32:02 GMT -5
Was going back through yesterday's boxscore and I saw Ward struck out Blake Hunt, who is no longer a top 30 org prospect for TB. What an abysmal trade return for Blake Snell so far. If Edwards doesn't out, they whiffed on this one big time
Post by julyanmorley on Oct 5, 2022 10:51:36 GMT -5
I didn't pay too much attention on the streams when Niko's teams were pitching, but I saw some ugly stuff out of Kavadas in the field. I'm thinking he's not a guy you're going to ever want to plan on playing 50+ games in the field in a major league season.
Yorke leading off again, Abreu gets his first start, playing RF and batting 5th
Abreu was DH the first game, no?
"We really don't need the whole commercial break/warm-up routine every time a new reliever comes into the game. It certainly made sense in 1884 when they only switched pitchers when the starter was attacked by pickaxe or caught consumption, and no reliever was warming up because he was busy gambling and drinking." - JD
I still think I'm going to wake up and say "I shouldn't listen to the podcast before bed, I dreamed the Sox signed a guy from Curaçao named Charlie Zink." - KOC
Post by vermontsox1 on Oct 10, 2022 21:32:01 GMT -5
He came out after a real tough outing: 3IP, 4H, 2ER, 5BB, 2K - only threw 30 of 69 pitches for strikes (43%). Still responsible for two runners in the 4th inning.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 16, 2022 6:33:56 GMT -5
• Red Sox right-hander Thad Ward returned late this year from 2021 Tommy John surgery and is working in Fall League with stuff that’s a bit below what he had before the injury. On Monday, he was 91-93 mph with four pitches, the curveball ahead of the slider and the changeup probably too close to the fastball in velocity. With that kind of stuff, you’ve got to throw strikes, and Ward didn’t, walking five in three innings, throwing just 43 percent of his pitches for strikes. He’s still on the way back, but at this point he has a lot more ground to make up to be where he was before the surgery when he looked like a potential fourth starter.
For those with subscriptions, interesting observations on Rocker & Lawler.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Oct 16, 2022 7:30:49 GMT -5
So either he didn't throw the cutter that's probably his second best pitch or the report is off. Weird.
"We really don't need the whole commercial break/warm-up routine every time a new reliever comes into the game. It certainly made sense in 1884 when they only switched pitchers when the starter was attacked by pickaxe or caught consumption, and no reliever was warming up because he was busy gambling and drinking." - JD
I still think I'm going to wake up and say "I shouldn't listen to the podcast before bed, I dreamed the Sox signed a guy from Curaçao named Charlie Zink." - KOC
I am going to the Scottsdale Scorpions game this afternoon (3;00 p.m. local time). I hope that a reasonable number of Red Sox prospects will play (always a crap shoot).