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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 31, 2024 18:43:38 GMT -5
Thankful. Start with this series win and work from there.
Make it a hot August, boys.
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Post by dirtdog on Jul 31, 2024 18:43:46 GMT -5
Kansas City finally wrapped up their season series against the White Sox today. They finished 12-1 against them to make them 60-49 overall. Is that how Witt hit .485 in July? Stat padding vs the pale hose?
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Post by Legion of Bloom on Jul 31, 2024 18:54:14 GMT -5
Credit to Kelly for holding it down after a rough couple of outings.
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Post by dirtdog on Jul 31, 2024 19:00:40 GMT -5
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Post by incandenza on Jul 31, 2024 19:11:04 GMT -5
The offense is on track and the bullpen has been bolstered and will be further. Just need the starters to be passable and I think they're a playoff team.
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Post by keninten on Jul 31, 2024 19:11:35 GMT -5
I have a foggy memory from childhood of a guy who wasn't given his base on a HBP because he made no effort to get out of the way of the pitch. As time goes on I'm starting to wonder if I imagined that. Seems like some guys just armor up and lean in. Happened in the World Series in 2022. David Robertson hit Aldemys Diaz in I think extra innings. Don Drysdale hit a guy that would have scored a run. It was during his 58 inning scoreless streak.
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Post by notstarboard on Jul 31, 2024 19:31:58 GMT -5
Kansas City finally wrapped up their season series against the White Sox today. They finished 12-1 against them to make them 60-49 overall. Is that how Witt hit .485 in July? Stat padding vs the pale hose? It certainly didn't hurt! He had 21 PA against them in July and went 14-19 with 2 BB. 28-68 (still .412!) with 2 BB against everyone else.
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Post by asm18 on Jul 31, 2024 19:38:08 GMT -5
Kansas City finally wrapped up their season series against the White Sox today. They finished 12-1 against them to make them 60-49 overall. Yes, I realize Boston split with Chicago earlier this year (probability do be like that), but this team is so fraudulent it's not even funny. They have the second hardest remaining schedule despite playing in a trash division and have been at .500 against everyone not named Chicago so far. Looking forward to the road trip; I want another tiebreaker.
Edit: Minnesota only has three left against CWS. So far they're 9-1. Don't you love rewarding teams for playing an easier schedule and rewarding them again with better playoff seeding because record, not strength of victory, is the main thing that determines seeding?
It’s kinda nuts that they went 12-1 vs Chicago and are only 2 games up on us (similar to Minnesota) KC and MIN have 6 games left against each other
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Post by briam on Jul 31, 2024 19:55:17 GMT -5
We’re all lucky to get to watch Devers everyday. Happy as hell for Kelly.
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Post by tjb21 on Jul 31, 2024 20:27:13 GMT -5
Winning 2 games against Gilbert and Kirby is a great feeling.
Bello looked much improved to me.
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Post by asm18 on Jul 31, 2024 20:55:58 GMT -5
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Post by bluechip on Jul 31, 2024 21:06:22 GMT -5
Nice to see his former teammates liked him
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Post by carmenfanzone on Jul 31, 2024 21:45:47 GMT -5
So i am guessing Horn goes down when Garcia joins the team - unless, God forbid, Jansen did more than just tweak his back.
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Jul 31, 2024 22:05:50 GMT -5
Nice to see his former teammates liked him Well, the two shown anyway (and unless they were hate-watching).
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jul 31, 2024 22:06:42 GMT -5
The 3 Seattle starters might be the best threesome in baseball.
The graphic comparing Bello's repertoire to Luis Castillo's repertoire was amazingly close. As the announcer said, the main difference is location. Bello looked great today.
My takeaways from the Breslow interview, they weren't close on anything else and everyone wants Mayer/Anthony.
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Post by rhswanzey on Jul 31, 2024 22:07:44 GMT -5
So i am guessing Horn goes down when Garcia joins the team - unless, God forbid, Jansen did more than just tweak his back. Maybe it will be Criswell or Winck, so we can go back to having a 6th starter stretched out.
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Post by asm18 on Jul 31, 2024 22:38:35 GMT -5
If it were as easy as just cutting out certain pitches, everyone would do it. Bailey’s coaching superpower seems to be actually getting buy-in from the pitchers he’s working with on new/potentially scary changes. Imagine throwing four seam fastballs since adolescence and then being told to stop after already being established in the big leagues
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Post by bluechip on Jul 31, 2024 22:59:25 GMT -5
Nice to see his former teammates liked him Well, the two shown anyway (and unless they were hate-watching). The thought did cross my mind.
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Post by dirtywaterinla on Aug 1, 2024 1:07:32 GMT -5
So i am guessing Horn goes down when Garcia joins the team - unless, God forbid, Jansen did more than just tweak his back. Maybe it will be Criswell or Winck, so we can go back to having a 6th starter stretched out. Eh, I like Coop in the long relief role and Winck in the 7th inning spot. Both looked really good in their last respective appearances in those roles. You can always start Coop in a pinch or have him piggy back someone. You also have Priester in AAA now who can be called up for a spot start if someone goes down.
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Post by asm18 on Aug 1, 2024 8:30:03 GMT -5
Via SoxProspects' Ed Hand:
It's starting to feel really unlikely Dom Smith gets DFA'd when Casas returns as it seemed like originally given 1) that Dom's performing well of late (.290/.355/.565 in July - Dom's up to a 100 wRC+ on the season), and 2) they may have to load-manage Casas' health when he returns.
Given the versatility of other guys, you can afford merely a backup 1B/lefty pinch hitter. Send Sogard down and you can roll with a bench of: Jansen, Dom, Romy, Refsnyder.
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Post by julyanmorley on Aug 1, 2024 8:38:02 GMT -5
So uh is this injury not going to get right long term
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Post by shagworthy on Aug 1, 2024 8:44:18 GMT -5
Via SoxProspects' Ed Hand: It's starting to feel really unlikely Dom Smith gets DFA'd when Casas returns as it seemed like originally given 1) that Dom's performing well of late (.290/.355/.565 in July - Dom's up to a 100 wRC+ on the season), and 2) they may have to load-manage Casas' health when he returns. Given the versatility of other guys, you can afford merely a backup 1B/lefty pinch hitter. Send Sogard down and you can roll with a bench of: Jansen, Dom, Romy, Refsnyder. Depending on how Sogard plays Hamilton might be the odd man out. He's been anemic at the plate lately and his defense is still questionable. As I said earlier in the conversation thread, if Sogard can make routine plays @2b I will take any offense he produces as icing on the cake. I'm glad Devers has turned a corner defensively to go with his offensive output, although now that I called that out if he boots 2 the next game it's my fault. Baby Raf is mediocre at SS, he has the potential to be better, he seems to be caught between two extremes, either going too fast, or too slow, and that is when he makes his mistakes. I don't think you bring Grissom back up until he forces his way back into the discussion with performance and displays full health.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Aug 1, 2024 8:44:33 GMT -5
Via SoxProspects' Ed Hand: It's starting to feel really unlikely Dom Smith gets DFA'd when Casas returns as it seemed like originally given 1) that Dom's performing well of late (.290/.355/.565 in July - Dom's up to a 100 wRC+ on the season), and 2) they may have to load-manage Casas' health when he returns. Given the versatility of other guys, you can afford merely a backup 1B/lefty pinch hitter. Send Sogard down and you can roll with a bench of: Jansen, Dom, Romy, Refsnyder. I’m pretty okay hard-platooning them until Casas feels right.
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Post by asm18 on Aug 1, 2024 8:48:59 GMT -5
So uh is this injury not going to get right long term "Anybody have experience recovering from torn cartilage on the ribs or rib" Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bjj/comments/11zxcxp/anybody_have_experience_recovering_from_torn/ Literally every single person here being like, "you definitely shouldn't rush back" is kinda of noteworthy
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Post by wvusox on Aug 1, 2024 8:55:41 GMT -5
Don't look now, but for at least today the Sox will have (3) qualified pitchers on the MLB leaderboard after Bello's 6.1 innings yesterday:
#05 2.79 Houck #35 3.60 Crawford #66 5.13 Bello
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