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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 19, 2017 20:53:48 GMT -5
Anybody have the exit velocity on JBJ blast? 106 mph. 423 feet.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 19, 2017 20:52:54 GMT -5
Yeah but how long SHOULD the Red Sox wait on JBJ? Just until Steve Selsky is ready.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 23:18:07 GMT -5
On Gameday, what is the difference between the red and blue boxes? I believe the red is where they hit well. Blue is where they're cold. I think anyway?
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 22:59:25 GMT -5
Yep- All nine of Beltran's home runs this year have been from left-handed pitchers. So naturally JF allows a lefty to face him. Its the opposite actually, his 9 HRs came as a LHB, not against LHPs. You're right. The twitter feed I read that on just changed it. My apologies. I love you JF and RS!!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 22:54:16 GMT -5
What a throw by Beni. Terrible bullpen work by Farrell and the boys tho. Yep- All nine of Beltran's home runs this year have been from left-handed pitchers. So naturally JF allows a lefty to face him.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 22:10:03 GMT -5
Absolutely ridiculous double steal call there. What else is new? This is me right now thinking about jf.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 21:49:29 GMT -5
It's not as if Price was pitching well either. I get it when pitchers are lights out and are close to their pitch limit. In this game, I probably would have had someone up in the 3rd and taken him out before the 5th. Absolutely. I could understand if he were pitching well or if he had a low pitch count or there were several left-handed hitters coming up or if the bullpen was exhausted and he wanted to steal an inning... but none of that's true (perhaps a little bit of the bullpen rest). Plus he had sat for a fairly long time because the top of the 6th lasted a decent chunk of time. I just don't understand his logic at all.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 21:40:19 GMT -5
Deep sigh.... i called that. 😫
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 21:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 21:23:53 GMT -5
I swear I called it! Again! Do it again!!!!!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 20:51:59 GMT -5
Getting shut down by another pitcher with a near 5 ERA. I am not watching (blacked out) - are they getting any decent swings at all (except for the home run)? No, not really. First inning they made some nice hard contact. Since then, it's been few and far between.... Edit: xman!!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 20:09:07 GMT -5
Wow. Baseball gods not happy at Sox.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 18, 2017 19:59:30 GMT -5
Price getting two strikes on hitters consistently but not putting them away. Frustrating to say the least. But he's fighting through it. Hopefully things start to click for him.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 17, 2017 20:46:50 GMT -5
"Frederick Alfred Porcello III " Is this true? This can't be true. Haha I forgot that's his full name. It's a great name if you're a Prussian Junker circa 1840.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 17, 2017 12:24:42 GMT -5
You're kinda making my point, aren't you? I didn't say it wasn't a good win. I said it was an ugly win. Which the point you made above agrees with. Furthermore, yes Barnes and Kelly shutdown a very good hitting team. And I gave them credit for that. However, you're looking at the score and going "oh that was an excellent game." I'm looking at four base runners in 1 2/3 innings and am going "good hold guys but you're playing with fire if you don't clean that up." Personally, I don't think Kelly needing 23 pitches to get two outs and giving up two base runners to do it qualifies as "excellent " relief work. But to each his own. You went out of your way to blame Bradley and Young. My point is simple: they were very likely doing what the signals they were taking told them to do. That's a big difference and, no, it doesn't validate your contention at all. Lol- All I said was it was an ugly game to watch. You seem to think it was an excellent game. That's fine. Personally, if what you're saying is right and they got that signal/ misplay that situation, I'd call that ugly. I call four base runners in 1 2/3 inning ugly. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose. We'll just have to agree to disagree. Although it's somewhat worth noting Barnes called his outing ugly during post game interviews.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 17, 2017 12:08:45 GMT -5
I'll argue that "situational hitting" got them into that mess. You've got the hottest hitter on the team. Leave the guy on third and let Bradley find something he can hit instead of picking the pitch for him. That's how you maximize your odds, instead of taking the bat out of his hands. There's a lot of stale thinking that doesn't add much to the probability of scoring a run. You're kinda making my point, aren't you? I didn't say it wasn't a good win. I said it was an ugly win. Which the point you made above agrees with. Furthermore, yes Barnes and Kelly shutdown a very good hitting team. And I gave them credit for that. However, you're looking at the score and going "oh that was an excellent game." I'm looking at four base runners in 1 2/3 innings and am going "good hold guys but you're playing with fire if you don't clean that up." Personally, I don't think Kelly needing 23 pitches to get two outs and giving up two base runners to do it qualifies as "excellent " relief work. But to each his own. Would you be saying the same thing about situational hitting if JBJ hit a soft ground ball that found it's way just past the diving Altuve? Or if he had an infield hit? Would you say it was bad situational hitting if he hit a ball with an EV of 115 where an outfielder stole a home run? That's why it's random. Over the long run, most players hit pretty close to exactly the same in clutch spots as they do all the other times. And batters fail usually 70% of the time so it's easy to get discouraged and blame the lack of clutch. I disagree with this somewhat with "most players hit pretty close to exactly the same in clutch spots...." I'm not talking about all clutch spots. Just this particular situation lap that jbj fought himself in last night. I define situational hitting as where a positive outcome is more than a hit or walk. Take last night, runner at third with one out. Positive outcome: hit, walk, hit by pitch, deep fly out to center/ right (sac fly), certain ground outs that drive in the runner. Anyone of those would have been fine, even if obviously a hit would have been better than a sac fly. Now try it again, but this time instead one out we have two. Positive outcomes are hit, walk, and hit by pitch only. Both are clutch spots but one is not like the other. Yes the batting average of the two examples might be the same over time, but in the first case even a non hit might be okay.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 17, 2017 3:02:22 GMT -5
I'll argue that "situational hitting" got them into that mess. You've got the hottest hitter on the team. Leave the guy on third and let Bradley find something he can hit instead of picking the pitch for him. That's how you maximize your odds, instead of taking the bat out of his hands. There's a lot of stale thinking that doesn't add much to the probability of scoring a run. You're kinda making my point, aren't you? I didn't say it wasn't a good win. I said it was an ugly win. Which the point you made above agrees with. Furthermore, yes Barnes and Kelly shutdown a very good hitting team. And I gave them credit for that. However, you're looking at the score and going "oh that was an excellent game." I'm looking at four base runners in 1 2/3 innings and am going "good hold guys but you're playing with fire if you don't clean that up." Personally, I don't think Kelly needing 23 pitches to get two outs and giving up two base runners to do it qualifies as "excellent " relief work. But to each his own.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 16, 2017 23:26:16 GMT -5
Wow.... I'll take the win but that was ugly in many areas. Still a win so 🤗 Not sure what you mean. Very good game for the starter, excellent relief work, and decent defense. If you're thinking of the runners in scoring position not being driven across, that has a significant random element. I wouldn't call Barnes and Kelly's work excellent. Yes, neither gave up a run (not a small achievement in a tight game; as a Nats fan as well I'd kill for either of these guys in the Nats bullpen). But Kelly looked very shaky. Barnes somewhat as well. Two relievers giving up four base runners in 1 2/3 is ugly, no matter how much lipstick you put on it. Plus two stolen bases in those two innings. It's great that both sucked it up and held the Houston to zero runs, but you aren't going to win too many beauty contests with that. I also don't think situational hitting is a significant random event. Yes, there is some randomness in it-- what part of baseball isn't a degree of randomness? But situational hitting also has an element of skill that this team has shown thus far to be consistently lacking. Runner at third, one out. Bad hitting by jbj, by running by young, and routledge getting mowed down in three pitches is ugly baseball. I don't want to be overly harsh considering we just beat a very good team in their park. I'll take ugly winning baseball over losing any day.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 16, 2017 22:24:10 GMT -5
Wow.... I'll take the win but that was ugly in many areas. Still a win so 🤗
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 16, 2017 16:45:49 GMT -5
This is a really interesting thread. Kudos umassgrad2005. When I first read the initial post, I said no way, total bs. And I'm still not 100% convinced, but now I can't stop thinking about it. I still think you're overpaying for somewhat marginal talent in the latter rounds. But I acknowledge and appreciate the points you have made throughout. And there might be something to it.
Ps thanks ramireja for all that hard work. It really helped!
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 16, 2017 16:24:49 GMT -5
Is there anything scarier than Porcello against the HOU offense right now? Yes, Pomeranz against the HOU offense. 😫
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 15, 2017 20:09:02 GMT -5
Anyone else petrified when Sale sprinted to second and slid? I saw our entire season flash before my eyes. Good for me, but I lost about three years in my life there.
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 14, 2017 21:19:33 GMT -5
Ya know.... that Mookie Betts kid might turn out to be a half-way decent player. Signed Captain Obvious
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 13, 2017 20:54:32 GMT -5
Never doubted Boyer for a moment! 🤥
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Post by jackiebradleyjrjr on Jun 13, 2017 18:57:26 GMT -5
Owens 4.2 IP, 7 BB, 2 WP, had 3 balls on another batter and then they went into a rain delay. He can command the rain!! 😳 At least better than his fastball. 😵
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