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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 8, 2016 16:44:39 GMT -5
Sandoval 0-8 with two errors so far. Pablo appears trending like Alvarez and Kevin Mitchell and eating himself out of the league in a next two years. His contract is even worse than Offerman. I guess Shaw and Holt provide fall back options at 3B until Devers is ready. Holt doesn't have the arm for third.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 8, 2016 16:42:20 GMT -5
Old men telling people to stop using technology is a pretty dumb thing to fight for. "TWEET YOUR SEAT TO WIN HOT DOGS!!! FOLLOW RED SOX ON TWITTER! SHARE YOUR PHOTOS FROM THE GAME!!!"
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 8, 2016 16:38:29 GMT -5
So much talent and so little common sense. Punting 2 years of development is a pretty dumb thing to do. His talent will take him far, but counting on him is something that has gone out the window. Doubt this is the last time he gets in his own way.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 7, 2016 18:41:46 GMT -5
I wonder if he was working on that in this outing, just like I wonder if he was trying to get swings and misses the last game. Maybe during the regular season he could just work on giving up zero hits and walks, and call it a perfect season. I kid. But I really do hope he's not working on stuff like that at this early stage. ST is for remembering how to throw your pitches, not trying to get results, especially specific ones. OTOH, if he was working one week on a certain location, and the next on a separate location, and hitting his spots simply resulted in those outcomes, then more power to him. You make it sound as if the two are independent of one another.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 7, 2016 17:47:43 GMT -5
The massive amount of ground balls Owens generated today was a really really welcome sight.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 7, 2016 17:45:05 GMT -5
I suspect Schwarber could play 1B at an acceptable level-- he's just blocked there with the Cubs. If that's true, there isn't really any issue with his fit on the Red Sox, even if Hanley flames out defensively. I'm not really that makes much sense. With the logjam of DH candidates the Sox have in Hanley and Pablo, them trading for another guy with no definitive position (there's no evidence Schwarber can play first base, outside the thought "ehh, he could probably do it") just sorta makes little sense from a front office standpoint. If Hanley bombs, and Shaw can't handle it, and Travis isn't ready, I doubt they go looking for another project 1B. The other hitch in all of this, is that if the Cubs deal Schwarber, they're gonna want young SP in return. Basically, Schwarber makes little realistic sense, imo.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 7, 2016 17:38:10 GMT -5
O'Brien is a great broadcaster, have listened to him for a long time. Dude has no personality though. I have found myself tuning him and Remy out sadly.
I bought into Remy and Orsillo's relationship, and enjoyed them as entertainers. I can see what's happening myself, so what Don brought was great. Anywho, can't change it, but realizing we'll probably never hear Remy and O'Brien laughing in stitches unable to talk, is a pretty sobering realization.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 6, 2016 17:08:45 GMT -5
Will be interesting to see how this team does out of the gate. Kluber, Carrasco, Salazar and then 3 games against the Jays all on the road is a little rough haha
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 6, 2016 14:41:06 GMT -5
The somersault pop up drills for the catchers Pete Abe posted video of today was pretty interesting haha
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 6, 2016 14:33:24 GMT -5
Interesting. That said, control and not missing bats when, say, he's up in the zone aren't new problems either for him. You got any idea of which pitches out of the zone were getting hit? If it were, say, the changeup, that'd be worrisome. If it were the fastball, then yeah, that'd basically be what we've been saying all along. From BrooksBaseball. .650 was the average O-Contact rate in my sample. FB outside the zone: .796 Contact on 93 swings. 44 balls fair, 30 fouls. .318 BA, .364 SA. Yeah, that's probably terrible (Contact% for FB outside the zone is probably higher for everyone, but not that high). Lots of pitches missed to spots where free-swingers can handle them. CH outside the zone: .520 Contact on 75 swings. 35 balls fair, 4 fouls. .229 BA, .286 SA. CU outside the zone: .632 Contact on 19 swings. 1/9 with 3 fouls. SL outside the zone: .556 contact on 9 swings. 1/5. All but 2 of his 156 changeups that missed the zone either missed down or to his arm side, or both. He had a .481 O-Swing; average in my sample was .295. Great numbers. Good stuff, thanks for crunching.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 6, 2016 14:29:51 GMT -5
Hanley's career 129 ops+ is showing
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 6, 2016 14:21:43 GMT -5
But you can say that about Betts, Bogaetts, Correa, Seager, or basically anyone else. Look at the Miley trade, for a established starter we got a reliever with out a strong prospect profile and only 1 year sample, and a long man. Bradley and swig art were both top 50 prospects when they graduated, and it's easy to see Bradley elite defensive play and Swiharts potential on both sides. What I don't get is why would would want to trade our 4 win players. Why not keep them and build around them? Although a Swihart for schwarber trade might make sense next season. Why would they trade Swihart for Schwarber? Schwarber is horrendous in the field
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 6, 2016 14:16:05 GMT -5
Xander and Hanley both with screaming line drive doubles off the Monster 2.0. EDIT: Rusney golfed one for a wallball double too. No grounder there. It's a bit sad but him pulling a ball and not killing 7 gophers in the infield is big news. Hopefully his "shortened swing approach" or whatever is going to help. For anyone watching close enough, does his swing look any different this spring than in the past?
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 5, 2016 14:01:54 GMT -5
Trout isn't and won't be available haha.
The level that JBJ and Swihart and Kelly would have to rise to, means the Red Sox would never do that deal.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 5, 2016 13:58:25 GMT -5
Shaw's massive leg kick has me skeptical about his offensive potential
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Mar 4, 2016 23:52:40 GMT -5
Sounds like Farrell's nice and focused on the season
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 29, 2016 16:41:57 GMT -5
Man do I love me some Alex Speier, but christ almighty reading his Panda workout story today from 108 stitches was an atrocious experience. From someone who normally cuts through the bull****, that was a rare misfire.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 29, 2016 14:47:08 GMT -5
Well that was an ugly first appearance for Panda. He looked overmatched against a college pitcher. Not a good sign. Off speed pitches take time to get use to though I guess. That's what he struck out on. The too fat to bend over for a ground ball thing worried me more
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 29, 2016 14:05:08 GMT -5
Well that was an ugly first appearance for Panda.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 24, 2016 23:11:00 GMT -5
Anyone who actually listened to what Henry said rather than just believe what the media manipulate his words into, clearly heard him say they are looking to find the right balance between the traditional "scouting" outlook and the analytic outlook. It was heavily insinuated that Ben Cherrington was too absorbed in analytics that it lead to bad decisions. Additionally, he termed it evolutionary. Not revolutionary. Bingo.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 24, 2016 20:53:15 GMT -5
Ugh. Even if analytics were the driving force behind personnel moves, they can be used for dozens of other purposes. I really, really hope this isn't true. It would be a sad day for this organization. lol relax. They didn't even change their staff that much. If there was a huge change, there'd be an entire overhaul, and there hasn't been one. Any backpedaling on analytics is probably already evident in how Dombrowski operates within player evaluation (trusted scouts, his own eyes, etc.)
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 23, 2016 19:47:05 GMT -5
Gammons latest drops that Dombrowski offered Darren O'Day his biggest offer of the offseason, but that it was conditional on the Kimbrel deal.
edit: also, he mentions that Allen Craig has a new approach, and looks "exceptional"
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Feb 21, 2016 17:10:30 GMT -5
Some good and bad from Spring Training so far.
New guys and young guys seem in great shape and ready to roll. Love what I'm hearing from Swihart and Shaw and Owens and the other young guys who want to nab spots.
The bad? Hanley takes the weekend off and seems poised to continue to do the bare minimum to learn first. Honestly, the only hope here is that his other infield work translates and he's more athletic than he looked last year.
Sandoval? Awful. In January Farrell told the writers at the dinner that Sandoval was down "20-22" pounds and had retained a personal chef dietician. He's clearly in awful shape. The video of him at third looked atrocious. Luckily, Dombrowski doesn't feel tied to either of these guys, and has showed a "put up or shut up" attitude in the past with inherited managers/coaches and talent.
Will be real interesting to see how Farrell commands this team. He normally has immense faith in veterans, yet the poised to struggle veterans are largely Hanley and Panda, two guys he really doesn't want to be betting on. I also fail to understand the JBJ platoon talk. JBJ hits lefties, and plays insane defense. Young should be platooning with Castillo. We'll have to see how it shakes out I guess.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Jan 7, 2016 23:24:05 GMT -5
Tessie was also a song ripped from a popular musical in the early 1900's about a woman singing to a beloved parakeet lol. Without Dropkick, no one would even care. who could just as easily be called Wilma or Wendy or Hermione. What's the Red Sox significance in those names? They want their mascot to have a name that is intrinsically Red Sox.
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Post by pokeyreesespieces on Jan 6, 2016 20:47:25 GMT -5
Agree with Norm. 22 year old incorporates what essentially amounts to a new plate approach and wildly better defense in the course of an offseason. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I know what this kid is and isn't capable of. He's still a few seasons away from his peak physical/body/power years.
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