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Post by soxfaninnj on Aug 4, 2023 20:06:15 GMT -5
Did we skip spring training wtf is this nonsense
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Post by blizzards39 on Aug 4, 2023 20:06:58 GMT -5
Same thing I see now. A team that doesn’t win consistently enough to make the playoffs. Doesn’t help when they have 3/5 of a pitching staff Story, Sale, Houck, and Whitlock will likely all be back this month. And this inconsistent team has been playing good enough baseball to be 2 GB of WC3 without those guys for quite a while. To many non competitive players. Some of that will be fixed. The overall defence is maddening. Again this inning
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Post by station13 on Aug 4, 2023 20:09:40 GMT -5
Chang with a nonchalant throw.
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Post by notstarboard on Aug 4, 2023 20:09:47 GMT -5
Story, Sale, Houck, and Whitlock will likely all be back this month. And this inconsistent team has been playing good enough baseball to be 2 GB of WC3 without those guys for quite a while. To many non compensating players. Sone of that will be fixed. The overall defence is maddening. Again this inning The 2018 squad got nothing from 3B, 2B, and C. It's not about roster spots that aren't productive. It's about a productive overall roster.
The defense is maddening, but the offense is good and the pitching has a high ceiling when healthy. It just looks bad now because 3/5 of the rotation has been injured for several weeks. Story should also help stabilize the defense.
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Aug 4, 2023 20:09:58 GMT -5
Same thing I see now. A team that doesn’t win consistently enough to make the playoffs. Doesn’t help when they have 3/5 of a pitching staff Story, Sale, Houck, and Whitlock will likely all be back this month. And this inconsistent team has been playing good enough baseball to be 2 GB of WC3 without those guys for quite a while. I sincerely hope that those guys all come back and are effective. But that won’t change the atrocious defense and insanely streaky offense that they’ve displayed all season. I still think they have a chance, but they just seem to shoot themselves in the foot way, way too often
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Post by notstarboard on Aug 4, 2023 20:10:04 GMT -5
Chang with a nonchalant throw. Jacques wasn't covering yet.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Aug 4, 2023 20:10:05 GMT -5
Do other teams have this thing where ex-players regularly issue ill-informed public criticisms of their GM? really...he played in the league for 15 years, you don't think he would have an idea of that ?
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Post by soxfaninnj on Aug 4, 2023 20:10:36 GMT -5
3 exact same pathetic abs by Wong
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Post by kevfc89 on Aug 4, 2023 20:11:13 GMT -5
Wong's K-rate is about to hit 35%...as much as I like him, that's not going to make for sustainable offense.
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Post by notstarboard on Aug 4, 2023 20:11:25 GMT -5
Do other teams have this thing where ex-players regularly issue ill-informed public criticisms of their GM? really...he played in the league for 15 years, you don't think he would have an idea of that ? He's paid to throw, not to think
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Post by wkdbigsoxfan on Aug 4, 2023 20:11:34 GMT -5
Getting shut down like this by Manoah is embarrassing
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Post by taiwansox on Aug 4, 2023 20:12:08 GMT -5
Our offense has been so bad since the break, that’s the real problem not the pitching
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Aug 4, 2023 20:13:16 GMT -5
That helps !! Yu !!
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Post by taiwansox on Aug 4, 2023 20:13:16 GMT -5
At least Chang can hit every 10 ABs!
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Aug 4, 2023 20:13:38 GMT -5
really...he played in the league for 15 years, you don't think he would have an idea of that ? He's paid to throw, not to think not now he isn't. ha. but i will take his opinion on that point, over a GM who never spent a minute in the dugout, or any fans. I don't think that is too controversial.
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 4, 2023 20:13:49 GMT -5
You hang 'em, Yu bang 'em!
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Post by taiwansox on Aug 4, 2023 20:13:51 GMT -5
Cora better PH for Verdugo instead of Duran tonight!!!
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Aug 4, 2023 20:14:06 GMT -5
To many non compensating players. Sone of that will be fixed. The overall defence is maddening. Again this inning The 2018 squad got nothing from 3B, 2B, and C. It's not about roster spots that aren't productive. It's about a productive overall roster.
The defense is maddening, but the offense is good and the pitching has a high ceiling when healthy. It just looks bad now because 3/5 of the rotation has been injured for several weeks. Story should also help stabilize the defense.
That team also had an MVP, three gold glove caliber outfielders, a gold glove caliber 1st baseman, two aces (I know Sale missed like half the season, but he was the best pitcher in baseball when he did pitch), an all-star shortstop, and was just much more solid defensively and fundamentally.
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Post by soxfaninnj on Aug 4, 2023 20:14:18 GMT -5
This is not the spot for Refsynder, let duran learn please
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Post by incandenza on Aug 4, 2023 20:15:30 GMT -5
Do other teams have this thing where ex-players regularly issue ill-informed public criticisms of their GM? really...he played in the league for 15 years, you don't think he would have an idea of that ? Look, I always liked Wakefield as a player, but he's just a dreadful announcer and whenever he decides to opine on anything off the field he plainly doesn't know what he's talking about.
It also rubs me th wrong way when the announcers decide to be talk show hosts and throw out their own opinion as if it's deserving of some sort of authority (O'Brien does it all the time). Should the team have gotten a pitcher at the deadline? There are plenty of things to say about that, hashed out here ad infinitum. Wakefield demonstrated no awareness of any of the relevant issues, let alone any ability to communicate those issues to the audience. Fine for an ex-player to have a player's opinion, but not one that fancies himself an *announcer*.
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Post by notstarboard on Aug 4, 2023 20:15:49 GMT -5
The 2018 squad got nothing from 3B, 2B, and C. It's not about roster spots that aren't productive. It's about a productive overall roster.
The defense is maddening, but the offense is good and the pitching has a high ceiling when healthy. It just looks bad now because 3/5 of the rotation has been injured for several weeks. Story should also help stabilize the defense.
That team also had an MVP, three gold glove caliber outfielders, a gold glove caliber 1st baseman, two aces (I know Sale missed like half the season, but he was the best pitcher in baseball when he did pitch), an all-star shortstop, and was just much more solid defensively and fundamentally. And that team also won 108 games. You can make the playoffs with 20 less. And this team is definitely good enough to do that when healthy, even if they don't clean up their fundamentals.
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Post by greenmonster on Aug 4, 2023 20:16:18 GMT -5
He's paid to throw, not to think not now he isn't. ha. but i will take his opinion on that point, over a GM who never spent a minute in the dugout, or any fans. I don't think that is too controversial. Well....Bloom was in the War Room
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Post by taiwansox on Aug 4, 2023 20:18:14 GMT -5
Refsnyder needs to PH for Verdugo next inning if Mayza is back out, we need urgency and a baserunner
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Post by incandenza on Aug 4, 2023 20:18:46 GMT -5
Hey, good thing Story didn't come back today! We'd be deprived of that Chang bomb.
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Post by notstarboard on Aug 4, 2023 20:19:07 GMT -5
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