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Post by trotman on Apr 19, 2024 9:20:09 GMT -5
Aroldis Chapman suspended 2 days hopefully this weekend. Sox need all the help they can get. With Devers potentially missing a few games I have zero faith in any other hitter against an over the hill Chapman. The lefty would kill them
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Post by trotman on Apr 19, 2024 19:42:56 GMT -5
With another gem, Spencer Turnbull seems to be living up to his potential. For $2mil the Phillies may have gotten the best free agent SP deal. Turnbull wasn’t on anyone’s radar. I didn’t even know he was a FA
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Post by julyanmorley on Apr 19, 2024 21:17:51 GMT -5
Jackson Holliday has one single and walk in his first 28 PA, with 15 strikeouts
The Next Bobby Dalbec some are calling him
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Post by manfred on Apr 19, 2024 21:58:28 GMT -5
When can we do the “Yamamoto sucks” dance?
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Post by julyanmorley on Apr 19, 2024 23:47:23 GMT -5
Blake Snell was unable to defend the honor of Scott Boras. 15 ER in 11 2/3 innings for him now. His peripherals and pitch metrics are fine though.
Montgomery had a nice start
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 20, 2024 8:14:36 GMT -5
With another gem, Spencer Turnbull seems to be living up to his potential. For $2mil the Phillies may have gotten the best free agent SP deal. Turnbull wasn’t on anyone’s radar. I didn’t even know he was a FA Look at Dombrowski finding a hidden gem, lol. Thought he wasnt supposed to be able to do that.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 20, 2024 9:04:38 GMT -5
With another gem, Spencer Turnbull seems to be living up to his potential. For $2mil the Phillies may have gotten the best free agent SP deal. Turnbull wasn’t on anyone’s radar. I didn’t even know he was a FA Look at Dombrowski finding a hidden gem, lol. Thought he wasnt supposed to be able to do that. There are things Dombrowski is bad at. Talent evaluation isn't one.
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Post by stunzisox on Apr 20, 2024 14:13:20 GMT -5
Bottom of the 9th, Yankees stadium, 0-0 game, judge up to bat with a chance to win it. Golden sombrero. Nice.
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Post by julyanmorley on Apr 20, 2024 18:37:06 GMT -5
Jose Abreu is at .068/.138/.085 through 65 PA. He's owed $19.5 million in 2025.
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Post by Soxfansince1971 on Apr 21, 2024 10:13:38 GMT -5
Jose Abreu is at .068/.138/.085 through 65 PA. He's owed $19.5 million in 2025. He is having as bad a year as Dalbec, and with fewer ABs, Dalbec can have better numbers when he reaches Abreu’s ABs….hopefully.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 21, 2024 10:47:21 GMT -5
And just think, Chaim Bloom went to bed thinking he'd reached an agreement to sign Abreu last offseason.
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Post by julyanmorley on Apr 21, 2024 15:44:37 GMT -5
White Sox fall to 3-18. Position players at -1.6 WAR as a whole, led by Benintendi's -.8 (before today's 0-4). Pitchers are at 0.2. This team might be an all-timer.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 21, 2024 16:03:58 GMT -5
White Sox fall to 3-18. Position players at -1.6 WAR as a whole, led by Benintendi's -.8 (before today's 0-4). Pitchers are at 0.2. This team might be an all-timer. Bummer that the Sox don’t catch them soon
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Post by julyanmorley on Apr 21, 2024 16:06:39 GMT -5
Catching up with some old friends...
Matt Barnes holding it together for now for the Nationals despite his velo falling off a cliff
Thad Ward doing bad in AAA
Bradley Blalock with 17 scoreless to start his AA season, although only 11K
John Schreiber is having some success in KC, although it doesn't look like his stuff has returned to the levels it was at in his great year.
Nick Robertson off to a slow start in AAA
Josh Taylor is on the 60 day IL again
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Post by asm18 on Apr 21, 2024 16:37:47 GMT -5
White Sox fall to 3-18. Position players at -1.6 WAR as a w hole, led by Benintendi's -.8 (before today's 0-4). Pitchers are at 0.2. This team might be an all-timer. How do you go from a 23 year old two-hole hitter on an all-time great World Series team to *gestures to whatever Andrew Benintendi is*
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 21, 2024 17:45:52 GMT -5
White Sox fall to 3-18. Position players at -1.6 WAR as a w hole, led by Benintendi's -.8 (before today's 0-4). Pitchers are at 0.2. This team might be an all-timer. How do you go from a 23 year old two-hole hitter on an all-time great World Series team to *gestures to whatever Andrew Benintendi is* Hit too many grounders to 2b? Or are we talking about Verdugo?
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Post by shagworthy on Apr 21, 2024 18:20:29 GMT -5
How do you go from a 23 year old two-hole hitter on an all-time great World Series team to *gestures to whatever Andrew Benintendi is* Hit too many grounders to 2b? Or are we talking about Verdugo? He tried to get yoked, sold out flexibility for power and lost his true edge. Should be a precautionary tale about the 3 true outcomes approach and how it can derail someone's career.
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Post by gerry on Apr 22, 2024 11:17:47 GMT -5
Hit too many grounders to 2b? Or are we talking about Verdugo? He tried to get yoked, sold out flexibility for power and lost his true edge. Should be a precautionary tale about the 3 true outcomes approach and how it can derail someone's career. It’s good that truly ripped ONeill and Duran turned to Tom Brady type fluid workouts this off-season. Speed, power in balance.
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Post by manfred on Apr 22, 2024 12:07:08 GMT -5
I don’t think muscle is the only explanation for Beni. He hit ok in KC. His power evaporated, but his BA was good. And we won a GG (I know, I know), which suggests his athleticism hadn’t totally disappeared.
It is sad. I wonder if he has back issues or something. He reminds me of Greenwell and Trot… with a more extreme cliff.
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Post by asm18 on Apr 22, 2024 12:25:16 GMT -5
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Post by okin15 on Apr 22, 2024 13:55:10 GMT -5
Leaving aside the great comedy and my enjoyment this could happen to Boone and the Yankees, yet another reason to have ball/strike robo calls or reviews (I really like the way tennis does it).
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Post by trotman on Apr 22, 2024 14:28:29 GMT -5
JP Sears won't get the win but the Athletics are clearly the winner of that 2022 trade. As a reminder, the Yankees traded JP Sears/Luis Medina/Ken Waldichuk/Cooper Bowman to the A's for Frankie Montas and Trivino. JP Sears looks like a #4 and Luis Medina and Waldichuck started last year. Although, Medina looks like he's hurt right now.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 22, 2024 14:50:20 GMT -5
Just watched the end of the NY - Oakland game. A lunchtime treat! The Athletics are by no means a dead letter. Mason Miller, for one, is just about the most fearsome reliever I've watched this year. After they went ahead on a 2-run HR in the 9th, he wasted no time K-ing the side: Volpe, Soto, and Judge went down swinging.
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Post by shagworthy on Apr 22, 2024 15:30:16 GMT -5
He tried to get yoked, sold out flexibility for power and lost his true edge. Should be a precautionary tale about the 3 true outcomes approach and how it can derail someone's career. It’s good that truly ripped ONeill and Duran turned to Tom Brady type fluid workouts this off-season. Speed, power in balance. It wasn't just about the addition of body mass with Beni, his whole plate approach changed from a pesky guy who could occasionally get into a ball to a guy who seemed to be gunning for the stands every AB. It is sad, someone down the thread compared him to Greenwell and I think it's a fair comp except that Greenwell had a few more years of production on the front end before the rug was proverbially pulled on him. Either way it is sad. I had to eat my words after he was drafted because I thought it was a mistake and was very vocal about it, only for him to skyrocket to the majors and make me look like a buffoon. My reticence to his drafting originally was purely need based at the time. We like now, had a perceived dearth of pitching talent, so I couldn't reconcile picking an outfielder who had one breakout year and immediately went into the draft. Obviously I was wrong, lol.
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Post by shagworthy on Apr 22, 2024 15:37:49 GMT -5
It’s good that truly ripped ONeill and Duran turned to Tom Brady type fluid workouts this off-season. Speed, power in balance. It wasn't just about the addition of body mass with Beni, his whole plate approach changed from a pesky guy who could occasionally get into a ball to a guy who seemed to be gunning for the stands every AB. It is sad, someone down the thread compared him to Greenwell and I think it's a fair comp except that Greenwell had a few more years of production on the front end before the rug was proverbially pulled on him. Either way it is sad. I had to eat my words after he was drafted because I thought it was a mistake and was very vocal about it, only for him to skyrocket to the majors and make me look like a buffoon. My reticence to his drafting originally was purely need based at the time. We like now, had a perceived dearth of pitching talent, so I couldn't reconcile picking an outfielder who had one breakout year and immediately went into the draft. Obviously I was wrong, lol. AS for the TB12 stuff. I attribute less to the workouts and more to the fact that Brady was an unusually gifted athlete and pretty headstrong dude. I am going to get a lot of flack for saying this out loud, but I am not a Patriots fan (I know, on a Boston Message board I am basically asking to get swatted). That said, I am not a big football guy, I watch baseball, and basketball (Celtics). Some guys are just lucky and are blessed genetically. Nolan Ryan comes to mind when I think of baseball, or Dave Winfield, Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, Ortiz, Clemens, Randy Johnson, we could go on forever. A million people could do the exact same thing they did over their career and still amount to nothing.
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