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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 14, 2024 18:23:37 GMT -5
On second thought, Abreu looks beyond cooked. I thought he was merely bad, like last year. Didnt realize he has slid down to totally unplayable. Over 100 plate appearances with an OBP well below .200
Yeah, pass. Maybe some team can figure out why he dropped so dramatically, if its something mechanical or something like that, but yeah, it helps explain why Houston got off to such a wretched start.
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Post by ephus on Jun 14, 2024 19:22:38 GMT -5
Solid experienced veteran who is only a few years removed from being a top player in the league. Even if he never hits again, having that kind of influence and experience for young guys in the minors holds value, and if he regains any ability to hit then you have a guy on min dollars who can help in the bigs as a RH. There's a decent chance he's cooked, but hell, the same goes for Joey Votto, but having that kind of guy around even if he never plays or plays only sparingly is a boon on a young team. Ok, I’m intrigued.
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Post by asm18 on Jun 15, 2024 13:03:04 GMT -5
Yikes - isn’t this Bradish’s second UCL scare this year?
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Post by ematz1423 on Jun 15, 2024 13:29:44 GMT -5
Yikes - isn’t this Bradish’s second UCL scare this year? It is, I have him on a fantasy team and it sounded like in ST he was gknna need TJ so this is 2nd time.
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Post by chaimtime on Jun 15, 2024 16:13:15 GMT -5
Yikes - isn’t this Bradish’s second UCL scare this year? The “player x threw the fastest fastball of his career tonight!!” tweet immediately followed up with the “player x has suffered a worrisome injury” tweet like clockwork. At this point I can’t believe any player actually believes the pitch clock is what’s getting guys hurt.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 15, 2024 16:40:04 GMT -5
Harold Ramirez ended up on the Nats on a minor league deal. Surprised he couldn't do better
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Post by ephus on Jun 15, 2024 17:56:16 GMT -5
Was back at Wrigley today for Cards at Cubs and it was a Showman Imanaga Day. My god I celebrate the magical return of the salad spinning lefty. 7 innings, 1 run, 6K and zero BB. The guy had more gyrations than double-joined rapala in a White River rapid. Sometimes he’d jiggle his back leg, sometimes his to half. He had a hitch in his delivery - a little hiccup pause and the Cardinals batters could not get comfortable in the box. His stuff was pedestrian. 91 on the four-seamer, a slider in the 80s with some break. Control was there. He continually had batters down 2 strikes early in counts. He was incredibly effective. Truly a throwback and fun to see in this era of power arms and spinrate. Will it last? I mean Jaime Moyer pitched into his 60s so we shall see.
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Post by cdj on Jun 15, 2024 17:58:43 GMT -5
Was back at Wrigley today for Cards at Cubs and it was a Showman Imanaga Day. My god I celebrate the magical return of the salad spinning lefty. 7 innings, 1 run, 6K and zero BB. The guy had more gyrations than double-joined rapala in a White River rapid. Sometimes he’d jiggle his back leg, sometimes his to half. He had a hitch in his delivery - a little hiccup pause and the Cardinals batters could not get comfortable in the box. His stuff was pedestrian. 91 on the four-seamer, a slider in the 80s with some break. Control was there. He continually had batters down 2 strikes early in counts. He was incredibly effective. Truly a throwback and fun to see in this era of power arms and spinrate. Will it last? I mean Jaime Moyer pitched into his 60s so we shall see. Fastball may be 91 but it plays like it’s 96. Great little throwback type, not a major soft tosser sitting in the high 80s but love seeing command/control guys who know how to pitch
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Post by ephus on Jun 15, 2024 18:18:10 GMT -5
Certainly appeared that it played that way to the Cardinals batters!
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Post by soxfaninnj on Jun 15, 2024 20:54:29 GMT -5
Triceps tightness for Yamamoto. Uh oh that’s usually not good
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Post by nomar on Jun 15, 2024 21:51:36 GMT -5
Harold Ramirez ended up on the Nats on a minor league deal. Surprised he couldn't do better One of the truly luckiest hitters of an era. He was never good and had two really solid years.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jun 15, 2024 22:49:29 GMT -5
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Post by asm18 on Jun 16, 2024 18:04:59 GMT -5
Mookie has a fractured hand after a hit by pitch today against the Royals. Broken bone in wrist apparently
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Post by nomar on Jun 16, 2024 18:05:08 GMT -5
Mookie fractured his hand on a HBP
Someone needs to come up with some sort of hand protection. Obviously pitchers get hurt the most by far, but hand/wrist injuries on HBP are really common and serious. Even a thin, flexible layer of protection would really help with shock absorption
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Post by soxfaninnj on Jun 16, 2024 18:11:17 GMT -5
First Xander now Mookie, our injury luck even extends to our former top prospects.
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Post by taiwansox on Jun 17, 2024 12:46:30 GMT -5
First Xander now Mookie, our injury luck even extends to our former top prospects. Itâs the Kiké curse, every SS gets injured so Kiké re-emerges as a SS
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Post by cdj on Jun 17, 2024 19:24:33 GMT -5
Jose Suarez DFA by LAA
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Post by rhswanzey on Jun 17, 2024 20:46:02 GMT -5
JD Davis DFA’d. Would have been real nice for that to happen back when Casas went down.
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Post by taiwansox on Jun 18, 2024 11:29:47 GMT -5
Turns out Yamamoto has a rotator cuff strain. More questions around durability for the shorter pitchers coming from Japan (Darvish, Tanaka were more durable), adjusting to the every 5-6 days is difficult when you’re exerting yourself 100% like Yamamoto
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 18, 2024 11:40:07 GMT -5
Rotator cuff is not what you want to hear with a guy on that contract. Elbow you miss time and come back fine. Shoulder can end the party.
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Post by geostorm on Jun 18, 2024 13:01:47 GMT -5
"There was always something about Schwarber — something that has made him one of the most revered teammates in all of baseball. “You look at him,” Phillies infielder Edmundo Sosa said, “and you just feel the good vibes and the peace that’s around him.” He is the soul of the 48-24 Phillies, who have captured this city’s attention. He bashed two more homers Monday night. He is the everyman slugger with an empathetic spirit.
Bruno, with perspective from his post-playing life, gets it now. Schwarber’s father was a police chief in Ohio. His mother was a nurse. He has three older sisters, one of whom served in the Army. Had baseball not worked, he says he would have been a first responder — maybe police, maybe the military. There is depth to Schwarber — more than he’d like anyone to know."
“You put others before yourself,” Bruno said. “And that’s not something that you acquire. It’s something that you’re born with. He is a selfless man. It’s a special trait that he has.”
Once Kyle Schwarber enters your life, he’s never too far.
“I drive to work, I see his face on a billboard,” Bruno said. “And it just puts a smile on my face.”
Two times last week, an opposing manager came to see Schwarber. Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, an old Cubs coach, cornered Schwarber for almost 15 minutes behind home plate at Camden Yards. Alex Cora walked across the grass at Fenway Park and sat on a ledge with Schwarber.
Cora reminisced about his introduction to Schwarber when the Red Sox acquired him at the 2021 trade deadline. There was a pregame hitters’ meeting in which coaches went over the opposing pitcher’s arsenal and tendencies. They asked if anyone else had anything to say.
“Bro, this guy stinks,” Schwarber said on his first day with his new team. “Let’s go kick their ass.”
“We’re like,” Cora said, “‘Oh s—.'”
Phillies players have shared similar tales of Schwarber’s assuredness — whether it’s found in a dugout, a karaoke bar, or a casino. He bats first for a reason. Cora believed in the power of Schwarber’s words. He still does.
“That set the tone,” Cora said. “Play with confidence, go out there and do your thing. And he did. It was fun to watch.”
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 18, 2024 20:22:25 GMT -5
RIP Willie Mays, one of the greatest players of all time, a guy who could have shared an outfield for a decade besides Ted Williams and could have spent another decade alongside Yaz had some of the Red Sox scouts of the late 40s not been bigoted.
The player who most reminded me of Willie Mays was Ken Griffey Jr.
The Sox player who reminded me the most of Mays was Mookie Betts although he'll be lucky to hit half the amount of home runs in his career that Mays hit, a total that could actually increase should the researchers find "proof" of the two HRs hit in the Negro Leagues that havent been verified as of yet. As it was Mays actually lived long enough to see 10 more hits get credited to his hit total although his average dropped from .302 to .301 lifetime.
But what was remembered was how he had all five tools to the extreme plus he also had the non traditional tools of great plate discipline and his brilliant baseball brain. Like I said only Mookie has all 7 tools that I can remember from following the Sox. It's rare or as Ted Williams once said, the game was invented for Willie.
Baseball lost a legend today. RIP Willie Mays.
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Post by cdj on Jun 18, 2024 21:59:07 GMT -5
imo the greatest player of all time
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Post by grandsalami on Jun 18, 2024 22:04:07 GMT -5
Mets are 7-0 since grimace threw out the first pitch
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Post by grandsalami on Jun 18, 2024 22:46:38 GMT -5
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