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Post by Guidas on Jun 25, 2023 14:07:30 GMT -5
I’m tired of Casas getting blamed for these losses. If the game comes down to one play by one player, your team hasn’t scored enough runs. Especially when he was basically the entire offense yesterday Well, Winkcowski did give up 3 HRs in just 2 innings of work, so, team effort all around.
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Post by station13 on Jun 25, 2023 14:07:33 GMT -5
Bobby made a trip to get 1 AB lol. WTF Cora
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Post by cdj on Jun 25, 2023 14:09:07 GMT -5
Caleb Hamilton is doing a good job ending innings so we can have a clean start with the top of the order #Intangibles
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Post by terriblehondo on Jun 25, 2023 14:10:26 GMT -5
Everyone bitches about Manager decisions at some point. But he has way more information than you do when he is making his decisions. Work load, availability, Who is working through something and what the analytics department has given him. If Cora is as horrible as a lot of these game day threads say how is he employed? Wouldn't that mean that Bloom is also just as bad for not getting rid of Cora? Because Bloom would also have all the same information as Cora. It's tougher to fire a manager mid-season unless it's a dumpster fire, since you worry about the new guy not having time to build a rapport with the players and hurting chemistry. He's been bad in years past, but this year is another level of bad. And yes, I think Bloom bringing back Cora, especially when he had the world's greatest excuse not to do so in the form of the Astros cheating scandal, was a big mistake. Well Bloom has had 2.5 years to make a change if Bloom thought Cora was so bad. They are both working with the same information. As far as changing Managers Mid Stream has it has worked numerous times through the years.
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Post by scottysmalls on Jun 25, 2023 14:13:44 GMT -5
A frustrating thing about Cora, in my mind at least, is I feel like in the past (maybe pre-2022?) he was better at tactical decisions. So either I’m imagining that (possible) or else what happened?
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Post by notstarboard on Jun 25, 2023 14:14:18 GMT -5
It's tougher to fire a manager mid-season unless it's a dumpster fire, since you worry about the new guy not having time to build a rapport with the players and hurting chemistry. He's been bad in years past, but this year is another level of bad. And yes, I think Bloom bringing back Cora, especially when he had the world's greatest excuse not to do so in the form of the Astros cheating scandal, was a big mistake. Well Bloom has had 2.5 years to make a change if Bloom thought Cora was so bad. They are both working with the same information. As far as changing Managers Mid Stream has it has worked numerous times through the years.
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Post by kevfc89 on Jun 25, 2023 14:14:37 GMT -5
Rafaela might've robbed that
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Post by soxfaninnj on Jun 25, 2023 14:15:18 GMT -5
Prime Jbj would have def caught that
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Post by station13 on Jun 25, 2023 14:15:33 GMT -5
CF is tiny here
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Post by scottysmalls on Jun 25, 2023 14:15:35 GMT -5
Man Robert has been destroying us all series
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 25, 2023 14:19:29 GMT -5
Robert is p good
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Post by incandenza on Jun 25, 2023 14:20:12 GMT -5
Jake Burger looks like a guy whose name ought to be Jake Burger.
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Post by notstarboard on Jun 25, 2023 14:22:07 GMT -5
Benintendi with the 7th percentile hard hit rate and 6th percentile OAA in LF. Bunch of hits this series, but mostly grounders and soft line drives in the right spot.
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Post by Guidas on Jun 25, 2023 14:23:31 GMT -5
Annnnnd we'll let Refsnyder, with his crap history vs. RHP hit here.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 25, 2023 14:24:08 GMT -5
A frustrating thing about Cora, in my mind at least, is I feel like in the past (maybe pre-2022?) he was better at tactical decisions. So either Iâm imagining that (possible) or else what happened? I dunno, so much of it is situational. I was driven absolutely insane by how much he played Eduardo Nunez in 2018 but when you win 108 games and a World Series everyone is going to remember that as "doing everything right."
And I think about half of the agita now has to do with his playing Kiké at SS so much, and people seem to be overlooking the fact that he's had precious little choice in the matter, given the ridiculous spate of injuries.
I think his handling of the bullpen has mostly been good, maybe better than in years past.
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Post by notstarboard on Jun 25, 2023 14:39:39 GMT -5
A frustrating thing about Cora, in my mind at least, is I feel like in the past (maybe pre-2022?) he was better at tactical decisions. So either IâÃÂÃÂm imagining that (possible) or else what happened? I dunno, so much of it is situational. I was driven absolutely insane by how much he played Eduardo Nunez in 2018 but when you win 108 games and a World Series everyone is going to remember that as "doing everything right."
And I think about half of the agita now has to do with his playing Kiké at SS so much, and people seem to be overlooking the fact that he's had precious little choice in the matter, given the ridiculous spate of injuries.
I think his handling of the bullpen has mostly been good, maybe better than in years past.
He has had plenty of choice - how many games did he start Kiké at SS with a healthy Arroyo, Reyes, or Chang either at 2B or on the bench? I'd guess more than half of them.
Hard disagree about the bullpen management too. He's once again picking a favorite reliever and riding them into the ground. This year he's also frequently punting on games early, which drives me crazy. To say nothing of his questionable hook for starters, which usually is at least a few batters slow. And not just for performance reasons - Sale threw like 110 pitches in back to back starts before he predictably went on the IL...
Edit: Oh, and the interview he gave saying he just didn't view Reyes (0.2 fWAR, 90 wRC+, 0 OAA at SS in 105.1 innings) as an everyday player, while simultaneously riding everyday SS Kiké Hernandez (-0.8 fWAR, 70 wRC+, -10 OAA at SS in 436 innings) with a 1st percentile xwOBA and 1st percentile OAA. But they're buddies and Reyes is the weird new guy, so it's cool.
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Post by notstarboard on Jun 25, 2023 14:41:52 GMT -5
Sooooo bad from Casas there. If he's hung up just sprint at him, and worst case if you think he might make it throw in front of the runner... You should never throw behind him and let him get the extra base.
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Jun 25, 2023 14:42:04 GMT -5
Why is Cora not challenging?
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Post by kevfc89 on Jun 25, 2023 14:43:05 GMT -5
of course benny kills us this series
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Post by notstarboard on Jun 25, 2023 14:44:05 GMT -5
of course benny kills us this series On the bright side he'll be killing CWS for the next five years on that contract
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Post by wkdbigsoxfan on Jun 25, 2023 14:44:49 GMT -5
Benintendi and Vazquez this week. Really?
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Post by cdj on Jun 25, 2023 14:44:53 GMT -5
Death by Benny
Poor fundamentals by Triston after cutting the ball, didn’t end up hurting though
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Jun 25, 2023 14:46:01 GMT -5
Death by Benny Poor fundamentals by Triston after cutting the ball, didn’t end up hurting though Aesthetically unpleasing, for sure.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 25, 2023 14:46:34 GMT -5
Was def rooting against Benintendi after the trade, but now that he reached free agency and signed a contract nobody wanted the Red Sox to have I am back to hoping he has success
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Post by terriblehondo on Jun 25, 2023 14:47:25 GMT -5
Sooooo bad from Casas there. If he's hung up just sprint at him, and worst case if you think he might make it throw in front of the runner... You should never throw behind him and let him get the extra base. It's not like that hasn't been taught to him his whole life. I have to say that you watch this team play and they aren't good defensively and they blow a lot of fundamental plays that should be 2nd nature by the time you reach MLB because it has been screamed at you or someone you played with your whole live.
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