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7/7-7/10 Red Sox vs. Yankees Series Thread
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Post by taiwansox on Jul 10, 2022 21:18:59 GMT -5
Bobby is way too anxious at the plate
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Post by kevfc89 on Jul 10, 2022 21:21:03 GMT -5
does every reliever the yankees have throw 100mph?
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jul 10, 2022 21:22:38 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on Jul 10, 2022 21:25:41 GMT -5
Bello and Sale the next two days. Fun
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 10, 2022 21:26:21 GMT -5
does every reliever the yankees have throw 100mph? eh....these pro's see that enough. We exposed vulnerability this weekend. That is gonna help.
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Post by taiwansox on Jul 10, 2022 21:32:06 GMT -5
Even if we lose this game I feel like our offense is getting its identity after last night. Bobby needs to get some time in Worcester to get regular playing time. Too bad Casas has been injured for so long
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Post by Foulke_In_Athol on Jul 10, 2022 21:33:55 GMT -5
does every reliever the yankees have throw 100mph? eh....these pro's see that enough. We exposed vulnerability this weekend. That is gonna help. Yeah, it's kind of like in Rocky IV where Rock clocks Drago and everyone's like "he's cut, he's cut" and Drago sees his own blood Rocky's corner says "see Rock he's just a man." *SPOILER ALERT* Then Rocky goes on to win and give a great speech about change in a cold war climate. So poignant.
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Post by kevfc89 on Jul 10, 2022 21:40:25 GMT -5
Jeter fields much better than Jeter
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Post by notstarboard on Jul 10, 2022 21:40:44 GMT -5
Damn Jeter
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Post by taiwansox on Jul 10, 2022 21:43:26 GMT -5
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Post by Guidas on Jul 10, 2022 21:43:49 GMT -5
Great Win!!
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 10, 2022 21:47:22 GMT -5
Our boys hung in there tough without a lot of key players. Plenty to feel good about. Great effort !!
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Post by Foulke_In_Athol on Jul 10, 2022 21:47:43 GMT -5
Well we stole one last night and we won one tonight... That was kind of what a lot of people were hoping for considering our injured rotation.
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Post by wkdbigsoxfan on Jul 10, 2022 21:49:46 GMT -5
That was a very evenly played series
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Post by taiwansox on Jul 10, 2022 21:51:16 GMT -5
5.2 scoreless from our bullpen, MFY bullpen gave up 5 runs in 4 innings
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Post by incandenza on Jul 10, 2022 21:51:28 GMT -5
This is so stupid. When the Red Sox were great in 2018, it was because they had a whole bunch of great players. With these Yankees it's Jose Trevino, Nestor Cortes, Michael King, Matt Freaking Carpenter... Judge, Stanton, Cole, and a bunch of journeymen are gonna win 110 games. Seriously? C'mon. The Sox had major holes that year and still won 119 games. They had Betts and JDM. Bogaerts and Benintendi were contributors. The rest of the lineup was problematic. Devers wasn't Devers yet and he even got himself down to the minors. Eduardo Nunez was lousy on both sides of the ball and he played regularly. 1b was a platoon which did the job...after they released their #3 hitter, Hanley Ramirez. JBJ was hitting .200 around the all-star break. They had 3 catchers and Blake Swihart, hitting .220 was the best hitting of the 3 of them. They were getting great starts out of Brian Johnson, Steven Wright, and Hector freaking Velazquez for Christ's sake. The bullpen had Kimbrel who didn't have a banner year and was an arsonist during the post season. They struggled in middle relief most of the year. They were bailed out in the pen by Joe freaking Kelly of all people, the guy who was jekyll and hyde most of the year. They caught lightning in a bottle with Ryan Brasier. Please spare me the nonsense that the Red Sox were comprised of all HOFers in 2018 playing to their level while the Yankees are just 2 hitters, an expensive pitcher and a bunch of journeyman players, because if the latter is true, then the Sox were Mookie, JDM, X, Beni, a half season of Sale, Price, expensive Kimbrel, and a bunch of journeyman players. When I look at the 2022 Yankees I see the 2018 Red Sox staring back in the reflection. They are similar to each other. The 2019 Red Sox had virtually the same team and even had Devers and Vazquez blossom, but the team fell apart and won 84 games. I think if this same exact Yankees team played in 2023 they'd probably win 92 games and would be nowhere near the 115 they're on pace for. Neither team resembles the 1996 - 2001 Yankees dynasty. Sometimes it's just your year. And that's all there is. Everything just breaks right somehow someway. It did for the Sox in 2018. It's happening for NY this year. Hopefully it doesn't last in the post-season, but it wouldn't shock me if it did. I think you missed my point. The Red Sox had a bunch of great players who played great. Then they had some sucky guys who sucked. Somehow it all came out to 108 wins and a World Series title. The confounding thing about this Yankee team is that they have a bunch of sucky guys playing great.
...But maybe these last two nights are the beginning of the reversion to the mean! (Except for Matt Freaking Carpenter.)
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Post by radiohix on Jul 10, 2022 21:51:39 GMT -5
Every time I see James Paxton high giving guys, I get excited: He’ll been one of the best trade deadline pitching acquisitions if he’s his normal self.
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Post by philip on Jul 10, 2022 21:53:08 GMT -5
Would still love to see bell in this lineup
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Post by cdj on Jul 10, 2022 22:00:29 GMT -5
They ain’t that much better than us fellas, a playoff series isn’t unwinnable
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Jul 10, 2022 22:03:37 GMT -5
Thats get someone halfway decent to play first base before we cue the duck boats fellas.
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Post by incandenza on Jul 10, 2022 22:04:35 GMT -5
Granted, the Yankees scored a lot of runs off the Worcester pitching staff in this series, but the Red Sox scored a lot of runs off their A-list pitchers. Bodes well if you ask me.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 10, 2022 22:10:03 GMT -5
Seriously? C'mon. The Sox had major holes that year and still won 119 games. They had Betts and JDM. Bogaerts and Benintendi were contributors. The rest of the lineup was problematic. Devers wasn't Devers yet and he even got himself down to the minors. Eduardo Nunez was lousy on both sides of the ball and he played regularly. 1b was a platoon which did the job...after they released their #3 hitter, Hanley Ramirez. JBJ was hitting .200 around the all-star break. They had 3 catchers and Blake Swihart, hitting .220 was the best hitting of the 3 of them. They were getting great starts out of Brian Johnson, Steven Wright, and Hector freaking Velazquez for Christ's sake. The bullpen had Kimbrel who didn't have a banner year and was an arsonist during the post season. They struggled in middle relief most of the year. They were bailed out in the pen by Joe freaking Kelly of all people, the guy who was jekyll and hyde most of the year. They caught lightning in a bottle with Ryan Brasier. Please spare me the nonsense that the Red Sox were comprised of all HOFers in 2018 playing to their level while the Yankees are just 2 hitters, an expensive pitcher and a bunch of journeyman players, because if the latter is true, then the Sox were Mookie, JDM, X, Beni, a half season of Sale, Price, expensive Kimbrel, and a bunch of journeyman players. When I look at the 2022 Yankees I see the 2018 Red Sox staring back in the reflection. They are similar to each other. The 2019 Red Sox had virtually the same team and even had Devers and Vazquez blossom, but the team fell apart and won 84 games. I think if this same exact Yankees team played in 2023 they'd probably win 92 games and would be nowhere near the 115 they're on pace for. Neither team resembles the 1996 - 2001 Yankees dynasty. Sometimes it's just your year. And that's all there is. Everything just breaks right somehow someway. It did for the Sox in 2018. It's happening for NY this year. Hopefully it doesn't last in the post-season, but it wouldn't shock me if it did. I think you missed my point. The Red Sox had a bunch of great players who played great. Then they had some sucky guys who sucked. Somehow it all came out to 108 wins and a World Series title. The confounding thing about this Yankee team is that they have a bunch of sucky guys playing great. ...But maybe these last two nights are the beginning of the reversion to the mean! (Except for Matt Freaking Carpenter.)
No, I did get your point. Steve Pearce was World Series MVP and pretty damn good during the season. If he wasn't the definition of journeyman, who is? I don't think the Sox had a lot of "great players" on the 2018 team. I mean, who are the HOFers? Probably Betts and Devers. Maybe Kimbrel? Well, Devers and Kimbrel didn't perform like HOFers that season. Great players for the Sox that year? Betts, JDM, arguably X, Sale for half a season and arguably Price. I mean, there were more HOFers on the 1970s Red Sox when they had Yaz, Fisk, Rice, Eckersley who replaced Fergie Jenkins and near HOFers in Evans, Tiant, and perhaps Lynn. The Sox won games with Velazquez and Johnson and Wright pitching well, with Kelly pitching like a god in the post-season. Brandon Phillips won them a game. I just think the 2018 Sox and 2022 Yankees are kind of cut from the same cloth, at least to this point. Hopefully the Yankees are at their worst in October, but until then, they're going to win 105 plus games. Anyways, at least for the last two games, they didn't look like a championship team, so at least there's that. The Sox got something good out of the split in the series.
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Post by redsox43 on Jul 10, 2022 22:13:27 GMT -5
Bello and Sale the next two days. Fun 2023's best 1-2 punch in MLB.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 10, 2022 22:14:00 GMT -5
Great win for the Sox. Looks like that momentum from the night before carried over after all.
While they gained nothing in the standings, they gained a lot from this series, I think. Those last two games had to be really good for their psyche. That's two comeback wins, one down to their last out and the other one, down 4 runs.
When all is said and done, I feel good about their chances of making the playoffs. If they can fix either 1b/rf or both and supplement the bullpen and get their starters back healthy, they should be ready for October with a chance. If they fix enough of their issues, they can be dangerous in the post-season tournament. Of course you can say that about a bunch of teams, but it does fit for the Sox.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Jul 10, 2022 22:22:38 GMT -5
Great win for the Sox. Looks like that momentum from the night before carried over after all. While they gained nothing in the standings, they gained a lot from this series, I think. Those last two games had to be really good for their psyche. That's two comeback wins, one down to their last out and the other one, down 4 runs. When all is said and done, I feel good about their chances of making the playoffs. If they can fix either 1b/rf or both and supplement the bullpen and get their starters back healthy, they should be ready for October with a chance. If they fix enough of their issues, they can be dangerous in the post-season tournament. Of course you can say that about a bunch of teams, but it does fit for the Sox. Yeah this is how I feel, although im no as worried about the pen as other people. Whitlock, Houck and Schreiber plus rotation guys going to the pen for the playoffs… that will be fine. 1B and RF are much bigger needs to me. RF is also a long term need… its basically been ignored.
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