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Post by braziliansox on Mar 28, 2016 21:20:11 GMT -5
Am I the only one scared we might see Chris Young everyday? I can already hear Farrell's interviews: "He's a veteran, he is a guy that gives you professional ABs" Why are we assuming that Young would logically be anything less than the 3rd outfielder? He's obviously playing whenever we face left handed pitchers. And he might represent the best blend of offense and defense versus RHP as well - the alternatives are Castillo and his career 49 wRC+ versus RHP, Shaw who can hit righties but isn't actually an outfielder, and Holt. I would like to see a Holt/Young platoon in LF personally but I can see the argument for Holt being needed elsewhere. As others have noted, Castillo is an elite OF defensively, and there's reason to believe we still might see improvement with the bat for obvious reasons, even if you expect neither will hit, might as well play the best defender. With Young there's no unknown, he is just terrible against RHP, and there's less than 1% of a chance of that changing. So even if Castillo fails might as well give ABs to Holt until Benintendi is ready, no point in playing Chris Young at all. Btw, in my post you quoted, I didn't even mention Castillo, I understand he has he flaws. I just said you just dont play Young against RHP and that's common sense.
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Post by rafael on Mar 28, 2016 23:07:23 GMT -5
A fellow Brazilian in this board! Welcome!
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Post by braziliansox on Mar 29, 2016 3:38:55 GMT -5
A fellow Brazilian in this board! Welcome! How unlikely is that? Haha I thought that nickname would be safe... So where are you from bro? Send me a pm!
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Post by radiohix on Mar 29, 2016 11:03:33 GMT -5
I think there's a third brazilian posting regulary here: He goes by the nickame Don Caballero.
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Post by thursty on Mar 29, 2016 13:21:26 GMT -5
Kelly getting rocked - 3 Hrs in 3+ IP
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Post by nomar on Mar 29, 2016 13:39:51 GMT -5
Kelly getting rocked - 3 Hrs in 3+ IP He's so frustrating. Porcello has given up a ton of bombs too this spring. Hopefully Brian Johnson has a good year.
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Post by Don Caballero on Mar 29, 2016 14:34:56 GMT -5
A fellow Brazilian in this board! Welcome! That makes 3 of us, I think we can begin planning a coup (:
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 29, 2016 15:58:31 GMT -5
...which will make you part of a very large crowd, from what I've been reading!
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Post by Guidas on Mar 30, 2016 10:47:27 GMT -5
And so it begins:
@kenlairdweei 15m15 minutes ago Farrell on if Chris Young will get more playing time than Rusney Castillo? "Probably, at this point"
This only makes sense vs. LHP or in an emergency. Period.
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Post by thursty on Mar 30, 2016 10:53:27 GMT -5
And so it begins: @kenlairdweei 15m15 minutes ago Farrell on if Chris Young will get more playing time than Rusney Castillo? "Probably, at this point" This only makes sense vs. LHP or in an emergency. Period. Well, he did essentially announce a platoon in LF of Holt/Young yesterday; I wouldn't read anything about Young facing RHP into that comment. Castillo has no place to play now.
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Post by sox fan in nc on Mar 30, 2016 10:56:25 GMT -5
And so it begins: @kenlairdweei 15m15 minutes ago Farrell on if Chris Young will get more playing time than Rusney Castillo? "Probably, at this point" This only makes sense vs. LHP or in an emergency. Period. Well, he did essentially announce a platoon in LF of Holt/Young yesterday; I wouldn't read anything about Young facing RHP into that comment. Castillo has no place to play now. McCoy Stadium.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Mar 30, 2016 12:00:55 GMT -5
And so it begins: @kenlairdweei 15m15 minutes ago Farrell on if Chris Young will get more playing time than Rusney Castillo? "Probably, at this point" This only makes sense vs. LHP or in an emergency. Period. Its been pretty obvious for a while now that Farrell has his favorites.
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Post by nomar on Mar 30, 2016 12:15:17 GMT -5
And so it begins: @kenlairdweei 15m15 minutes ago Farrell on if Chris Young will get more playing time than Rusney Castillo? "Probably, at this point" This only makes sense vs. LHP or in an emergency. Period. Its been pretty obvious for a while now that Farrell has his favorites. Pretty much all the information we have favors what he's doing though, aside from a small defensive sample in LF from Castillo.
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Post by mgoetze on Mar 30, 2016 12:58:10 GMT -5
Good-looking play by Sam Travis to get the tag with noone covering the bag.
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Post by mgoetze on Mar 30, 2016 13:38:35 GMT -5
No baserunners for Koji, but you can see he wasn't very happy with his outing.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 30, 2016 14:56:59 GMT -5
He was unhappy because it took more than 10 pitches.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 30, 2016 18:29:39 GMT -5
And so it begins: @kenlairdweei 15m15 minutes ago Farrell on if Chris Young will get more playing time than Rusney Castillo? "Probably, at this point" This only makes sense vs. LHP or in an emergency. Period. Its been pretty obvious for a while now that Farrell has his favorites. If Brock Holt is taking a good chunk of the at-bats against RHP, then yes, Young is going to get more at-bats than Castillo. He didn't say that Young is getting all of the LF playing time, just that he'd be playing more than Castillo. It could be part of something looking like Holt > Young > Castillo.
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Post by beantown on Mar 30, 2016 19:11:53 GMT -5
A fellow Brazilian in this board! Welcome! That makes 3 of us, I think we can begin planning a coup (: Hang on a second, 4 of us! I am Brazilian as well Paraibano! Never knew there were so many of us on here.
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Post by braziliansox on Mar 30, 2016 19:25:30 GMT -5
That makes 3 of us, I think we can begin planning a coup (: Hang on a second, 4 of us! I am Brazilian as well Paraibano! Never knew there were so many of us on here. That's awesome man, I'm from Recife but I live in João Pessoa now! Are you here too? Same country was already unlikely, same state even more, maybe same city as well? damn haha
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Post by larrycook on Mar 30, 2016 20:28:50 GMT -5
did price get enough work this spring? His fastball lacked life today, like it was March 1st instead of March 30th.
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Post by beantown on Mar 30, 2016 21:18:15 GMT -5
Hang on a second, 4 of us! I am Brazilian as well Paraibano! Never knew there were so many of us on here. That's awesome man, I'm from Recife but I live in João Pessoa now! Are you here too? Same country was already unlikely, same state even more, maybe same city as well? damn haha You won't believe this but I actually am from João Pessoa too! It really is a small world. I've been in USA for about 15 years now but most of my family lives there. Can't believe there are baseball fans (much less Red Sox fans) in JP too. Good to meet you brother hahaha
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Post by braziliansox on Mar 31, 2016 0:17:50 GMT -5
That's awesome man, I'm from Recife but I live in João Pessoa now! Are you here too? Same country was already unlikely, same state even more, maybe same city as well? damn haha You won't believe this but I actually am from João Pessoa too! It really is a small world. I've been in USA for about 15 years now but most of my family lives there. Can't believe there are baseball fans (much less Red Sox fans) in JP too. Good to meet you brother hahaha I might be the only one though haha Football has actually grown quite a bit, I know quite a few people that watch it (most are posers though) and even play it, but baseball is really not a thing yet... In Recife and Natal that are a couple teams actually, and it's starting to grow but nothing here yet.
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Post by thursty on Mar 31, 2016 7:29:42 GMT -5
Smyly looked awful good yesterday; some really bad swings from lefthanded and righthanded alike
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Post by steveofbradenton on Mar 31, 2016 7:31:08 GMT -5
did price get enough work this spring? His fastball lacked life today, like it was March 1st instead of March 30th. I was at this game myself, and actually had the same take. I left telling myself......this is just Spring Training and he will rev it up in Cleveland. His control was not crisp and his fastball did not explode. Even the outs were real loud. I'm sure when the real season starts he will be great, but he was not impressive yesterday.
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Post by bookiemetts on Mar 31, 2016 12:24:31 GMT -5
Today's lineup is probably going to be the opening day lineup against Kluber right? Betts Pedroia X Papi Hanley Shaw Holt Swihart JBJ It's not a bad lineup really. One thing about Price is that he usually is a "slow" starter to the season. For his career March and April are by far his worst months (3.84 career ERA), and this happened last year as well.
Over the weekend I also will upload a complete spring training highlight video with all of the clips available from the players expecting significant playing time this season in 1 video if people are interested.
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