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5/10-5/12 Red Sox vs. Nationals Series Thread
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Post by terriblehondo on May 12, 2024 16:40:18 GMT -5
That was one ugly baseball game.
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Post by Foulke_In_Athol on May 12, 2024 16:46:38 GMT -5
I Told Yah, We're back in business fellas!!!
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Post by Guidas on May 12, 2024 16:50:35 GMT -5
Great win!
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Post by itinerantherb on May 12, 2024 17:32:32 GMT -5
So if Rafaela makes that catch and his momentum carries him into the bullpen, is it a homerun (ball left the playing field) or is it an out (ball got caught)? Pretty sure it's an out. I saw a similar case in an NCAA game a few weeks ago and the hitter was ruled out.
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Post by incandenza on May 12, 2024 17:35:03 GMT -5
How do O'Brien and Youk fail to comment on that throwing style by O'Neill? I felt like I was losing my mind that no NESN employee throughout the entire game noticed that that Nats homer to LF was already a homer before it caromed off the pole... O'Brien and Youk extended their streak of not commenting on very obvious stuff happening in the game by not mentioning that the runner who crashed into Cooper's glove and knocked the ball out in the 3rd inning was waaaay off the basepath.
But also why did the Red Sox not challenge that?
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Post by briam on May 12, 2024 17:52:16 GMT -5
This team is incredibly annoying in that I believe they should have 5/6 extra wins and yet they’re so awful with RISP I have no idea how they’re 2 over .500.
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Post by itinerantherb on May 12, 2024 17:52:34 GMT -5
How do O'Brien and Youk fail to comment on that throwing style by O'Neill? I felt like I was losing my mind that no NESN employee throughout the entire game noticed that that Nats homer to LF was already a homer before it caromed off the pole... O'Brien and Youk extended their streak of not commenting on very obvious stuff happening in the game by not mentioning that the runner who crashed into Cooper's glove and knocked the ball out in the 3rd inning was waaaay off the basepath.
But also why did the Red Sox not challenge that?
Not only was he on the grass; it also looked like he threw his elbow out intentionally to hit Cooper's glove.
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Post by californiafan on May 12, 2024 18:41:55 GMT -5
I agree the runner interfered with Cooper and was surprised that there was no review.
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Post by julyanmorley on May 12, 2024 18:49:19 GMT -5
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Post by carmenfanzone on May 12, 2024 22:49:04 GMT -5
Sparky Anderson once aid you couldn't judge a team until they had played 40 games.Well, we are now at that point.
1. The starting pitching has been much better than most people (including me) expected even though they had had a significant number of injuries. While I think there will be some regression (Crawford can't go the whole year with an ERA under 2.000, can he?), starting pitching appears to be a strength, not a weakness, for this team. About the only question left is whether a few of their starters who have never thrown a full years worth of starting innings in the big leagues can keep it up for the entire year. Oddly enough, some of the early injuries to the starters might actually help with this issue. Pivetta, Bello, and Whitlock have all already had time off during the year. Moreover, Criswell has used the injuries to show he may be a capable replacement latter in the year if one of the starters needs to sit out for awhile.
2. The depth position players the team started the year with were not good enough. Reyes was good last year but that appears to have been his career year. He was bad this year with the bat and in the field. While Valdez might have improved his defense at 2nd a little, any improvement in that area is not enough to cover for a batting average that was significantly below .200. Devers being out for a few games and then Casas going out for a few months has highlighted that it was a mistake to go into the year with Dalbec as your principal backup at 1st and 3rd. The good news is that management has groomed the ineffective players already. It is too soon to tell if the replacements will be any better, but at least there is some hope.
3. There have been a lot of injuries. Havinh 4 different starters And three starting infielders plus one reserve infielder on the dl in the first 40 games is not normal.Hopefully, it will not continue.
4. Devers needs to start hitting like the player they are paying him to be and some of the others need to step it up a little too. 14th in runs scored is mediocre and not playoff caliber.
5. The defensive issues which popped up when Store was hurt seem (knock on wood) to have been mostly resolved by switching Rafaela to short and Duran's improvement in center.
Anyway those are my impressions after 40 games. I would be interested to hear what others think.
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Post by rhswanzey on May 13, 2024 0:33:35 GMT -5
Some items from Mike Petriello’s MLB.com overview of bat speed metrics: * MLB average bat speed is 72 MPH * two thirds of all swings taken are between 68-77 MPH * MLB leader: Giancarlo Stanton (81 MPH) * MLB least fast average bat speed: Luis Arreaz (62 MPH - Steven Kwan as second slowest, in conjunction with both players’ high contact rate and low exit velocity numbers, jumps out. Interestingly, Justin Turner is fourth slowest!) * average bat speed on all home runs: 75 MPH - the two slowest were 63 MPH There are also five other metrics introduced: fast-swing rate, squared-up rate, blasts, swing length, swords.
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Post by cdj on May 13, 2024 6:12:48 GMT -5
Sparky Anderson once aid you couldn't judge a team until they had played 40 games.Well, we are now at that point. 1. The starting pitching has been much better than most people (including me) expected even though they had had a significant number of injuries. While I think there will be some regression (Crawford can't go the whole year with an ERA under 2.000, can he?), starting pitching appears to be a strength, not a weakness, for this team. About the only question left is whether a few of their starters who have never thrown a full years worth of starting innings in the big leagues can keep it up for the entire year. Oddly enough, some of the early injuries to the starters might actually help with this issue. Pivetta, Bello, and Whitlock have all already had time off during the year. Moreover, Criswell has used the injuries to show he may be a capable replacement latter in the year if one of the starters needs to sit out for awhile. 2. The depth position players the team started the year with were not good enough. Reyes was good last year but that appears to have been his career year. He was bad this year with the bat and in the field. While Valdez might have improved his defense at 2nd a little, any improvement in that area is not enough to cover for a batting average that was significantly below .200. Devers being out for a few games and then Casas going out for a few months has highlighted that it was a mistake to go into the year with Dalbec as your principal backup at 1st and 3rd. The good news is that management has groomed the ineffective players already. It is too soon to tell if the replacements will be any better, but at least there is some hope. 3. There have been a lot of injuries. Havinh 4 different starters And three starting infielders plus one reserve infielder on the dl in the first 40 games is not normal.Hopefully, it will not continue. 4. Devers needs to start hitting like the player they are paying him to be and some of the others need to step it up a little too. 14th in runs scored is mediocre and not playoff caliber. 5. The defensive issues which popped up when Store was hurt seem (knock on wood) to have been mostly resolved by switching Rafaela to short and Duran's improvement in center. Anyway those are my impressions after 40 games. I would be interested to hear what others think. Fun fact- Devers has the highest ops+ of his career right now, including the season in which he led MLB in total bases (his OPS+ is 146)
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Post by asm18 on May 13, 2024 9:18:21 GMT -5
At 19-20, the Nats are 1 game out of the NL Wild Card race (behind San Diego). In comparison, at 18-22 the Blue Jays are 6 games back in the AL Wild Card race for the third spot.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 13, 2024 11:49:51 GMT -5
Some items from Mike Petriello’s MLB.com overview of bat speed metrics: * MLB average bat speed is 72 MPH * two thirds of all swings taken are between 68-77 MPH * MLB leader: Giancarlo Stanton (81 MPH) * MLB least fast average bat speed: Luis Arreaz (62 MPH - Steven Kwan as second slowest, in conjunction with both players’ high contact rate and low exit velocity numbers, jumps out. Interestingly, Justin Turner is fourth slowest!) * average bat speed on all home runs: 75 MPH - the two slowest were 63 MPH There are also five other metrics introduced: fast-swing rate, squared-up rate, blasts, swing length, swords. Great, so one of the best hitters on the game, Arraez has one of the slowest bats in the game while one of the worst hitters in the game has the fastest bat speed in the game; at least Giancarlo has great bat speed when he swings and misses, lol.
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Post by scottysmalls on May 13, 2024 11:59:01 GMT -5
Some items from Mike Petriello’s MLB.com overview of bat speed metrics: * MLB average bat speed is 72 MPH * two thirds of all swings taken are between 68-77 MPH * MLB leader: Giancarlo Stanton (81 MPH) * MLB least fast average bat speed: Luis Arreaz (62 MPH - Steven Kwan as second slowest, in conjunction with both players’ high contact rate and low exit velocity numbers, jumps out. Interestingly, Justin Turner is fourth slowest!) * average bat speed on all home runs: 75 MPH - the two slowest were 63 MPH There are also five other metrics introduced: fast-swing rate, squared-up rate, blasts, swing length, swords. Great, so one of the best hitters on the game, Arraez has one of the slowest bats in the game while one of the worst hitters in the game has the fastest bat speed in the game; at least Giancarlo has great bat speed when he swings and misses, lol. With Arraez and Kwan, the slow bat speed for high square-up rate is clearly a choice. They're sacrificing power to spray liners everywhere and it works well. If they could maintain their high square-up rate while swinging the bat much faster they'd be Juan Soto. I think similarly for Stanton, he swings as hard as he can, and thus when he makes contact the ball goes really far. He is also definitely not one of the worst hitters in the game.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 13, 2024 12:11:31 GMT -5
Great, so one of the best hitters on the game, Arraez has one of the slowest bats in the game while one of the worst hitters in the game has the fastest bat speed in the game; at least Giancarlo has great bat speed when he swings and misses, lol. With Arraez and Kwan, the slow bat speed for high square-up rate is clearly a choice. They're sacrificing power to spray liners everywhere and it works well. If they could maintain their high square-up rate while swinging the bat much faster they'd be Juan Soto. I think similarly for Stanton, he swings as hard as he can, and thus when he makes contact the ball goes really far. He is also definitely not one of the worst hitters in the game. Stanton is an awful hitter. He's around .200 these days. But no, when he's walking often enough and smashing HRs he can be an effective offensive player. To some its semantics but to me there's a difference between a good hitter and a good offensive player. One can be one but not the other. When I'm talking hitter, I'm talking hit tool or as Wee Willie Keeler would say, "hit 'em where they ain't."
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Post by scottysmalls on May 13, 2024 12:24:46 GMT -5
With Arraez and Kwan, the slow bat speed for high square-up rate is clearly a choice. They're sacrificing power to spray liners everywhere and it works well. If they could maintain their high square-up rate while swinging the bat much faster they'd be Juan Soto. I think similarly for Stanton, he swings as hard as he can, and thus when he makes contact the ball goes really far. He is also definitely not one of the worst hitters in the game. Stanton is an awful hitter. He's around .200 these days. But no, when he's walking often enough and smashing HRs he can be an effective offensive player. To some its semantics but to me there's a difference between a good hitter and a good offensive player. One can one but not the other. When I'm talking hitter, I'm talking hit tool or as Wee Willie Keeler would say, "hit 'em where they ain't." Ah I see you were referring to specifically contact/hit tool got it that makes more sense. I'd still push back on "one of the worst hitters in the game" for him, his BA is only 4% below league average, which actually is pretty impressive given how hard he swings.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 13, 2024 13:23:59 GMT -5
Stanton is an awful hitter. He's around .200 these days. But no, when he's walking often enough and smashing HRs he can be an effective offensive player. To some its semantics but to me there's a difference between a good hitter and a good offensive player. One can one but not the other. When I'm talking hitter, I'm talking hit tool or as Wee Willie Keeler would say, "hit 'em where they ain't." Ah I see you were referring to specifically contact/hit tool got it that makes more sense. I'd still push back on "one of the worst hitters in the game" for him, his BA is only 4% below league average, which actually is pretty impressive given how hard he swings. Understood, but even though he's at a respectable. 230 - geez .230 is respectable- are we back in 1968, lol, Stanton is coming off 2 seasons of .211 and .191 which is Joey Gallo like, and quite putrid no matter what era we're in.
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