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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 29, 2024 6:40:49 GMT -5
Jackson Holliday demoted He managed a .059/.111/.059 with a 50% strikeout rate How the heck could any team, let alone a competetive team allow a player to struggle So hard for so long. I mean, theres his confidence It briings down the other hitters wdhen they have to watch a guy K so much and bat 059/.111/.059 The Orioles are idiots for giving so many AB's away.... Oh we have Bobby Dalb? Oh he's hitting?! Whoopsie ... got a little egg on my face... Nevermind the above Balt. must know somethinhg the lay person doesnt grasp. You have to let the sample size get large enough to be meaningful. I don't mean that from a statistical perspective so much as meaning it needs to be large enough to tell you the difference between "initial struggles with his first time in the majors" and "we called him up too soon." Not a great situation but you could argue sending him back to AAA after 2 weeks would've potentially been just as bad for his confidence.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 29, 2024 6:13:41 GMT -5
OK, next question is what is the minor-league 60-day IL? What's the difference vs. a shorter term IL? Thank you! Guys on the 60-day and full-season ILs don't count toward the 165-man domestic reserve list, as explained on the team roster page. They also don't count against the reserve list at each level, although that's rarely actually a problem as I understand it.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 29, 2024 6:09:47 GMT -5
Anyone know what the deal is on Mata and Brandon Walter? I know there was some talk about 60 Day IL for Mata to open a 40 Man spot, but saw Pete Abe respond to someone on Twitter asserting that with “League could push back on that from what I gather.” Pete Abe either knows something we don't about the severity of the injury, or this is a classic nonsensical Pete Abe comment. Per the Cleveland Clinic's website on hamstring strains: "The grade (severity) of your injury determines how long it will take you to recover. A grade 1 strain may take around three days. Grades 2 and 3 could take weeks to months." It could easily take him 60 days to bounce back. He's already throwing bullpens. My guess is he's saying it's clear to him he'll be ready before then. My suggestion of Mata to the 60-day is that he arguably needs "spring training" and this gets him a full rehab assignment in Worcester, but I get that a reliever doesn't usually get 30 there. As for Walter, teams don't like calling guys up to put them on the 60. That might eventually be an option though. Given that Uwasawa was already on the 40 and a Joely DFA was the countermove, I'm wondering who's going to fill that last spot. Edit: Perhaps a May 1st roster refugee?
They don't need to fill the spot until they want to. Given that Grissom and Cooper are (theoretically) pushing two guys down tomorrow, it won't be right away.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 29, 2024 6:07:33 GMT -5
I'd probably go with "fine." Nothing is jumping off the page at me in either direction.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 29, 2024 5:42:31 GMT -5
That pen on the seadogs pen in general gives pause. not just starter Gonzalez, but hoope today. A guy with so much movement on his pitches and can also throw that hard, who loses it when anything goes wrong. this isn't just him, but coaching at fault. how many remember Calvin Schiraldi? it was once said he'd sweat hand grenades on the mound once anything began to go wrong. Watch few games this year early on, including his melt down earlier today? Just what are the sox doing to work with his issues regarding this? Say exact same thing regarding Gonzalez. some teams must do better at this than others, proof is they contnually have a chain of pitching develop into mlb quality pitchers year after year and others? Well.. they have senior pitching instructors sitting in the stands rather than actually in the dugout working with pitchers. Understand many who work on this site wish to protect chain on info they recieve, I know how that works all to well. don't pull the wool over my eyes and tell me and everyone that everything is fine and dandy, has been all these years pitching development wise. my 2c is something has and still is wrong. Yes, some changes were made at the top with breslow and bailey brought in. 100% positive change. believe the rot runs much deeper tho. Lots to unpack here. Presuming "chain" was supposed to be Chaim, no, we don't "protect" anyone. I've literally said there were reasons to fire him on the podcast, and we kind of crushed him for the prior two trade deadlines and intervening offseason, although it's now fair to question to what degree his hands were tied by budget/ownership when the same stuff happened this offseason. We've also never said the pitching development is "fine." Ian wrote GM entire piece this offseason showing how a failure to invest in amateur pitching (instead focusing on players on the other side of the ball) appears to have been the primary culprit is the lopsided player development of the past 5 years or so. Now, that said, you saw Hoppe have an inning in which he "came unglued" and say that's on coaching. Why is that? What exactly do you think they're not doing that they should be? Is it a failure to say "Hey, Alex, calm down"? With good coaching he strikes three guys out instead? I'm not saying it's not coaching, I'm just saying I don't understand why THAT is the indication of "rot" or whatever it is you're trying to say the problem is here. As for stands versus dugout, you du realize the pitching coach is in the dugout, yes? And the team has extra coaches at every level who are in the dugout? They do both. A Ralph Truel usually is in the stands, which is a much better angle for evaluating what's happening than the dugout btw, but there are guys in the dugout too. Again, not saying everything is fine and every pitcher in the system is a future ace or closer or something, but I've got no idea what you're getting at with much of your post.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 25, 2024 16:40:15 GMT -5
Isaac Stebens up to Greenville, per the Salem twitter account. Diego Viloria to the dev list. Danny Kirwin and Michael Sansone signed and assigned to Salem. Viloria move bodes well for Garcia's health.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 25, 2024 11:04:29 GMT -5
My guess would have been Decker but not if it is more difficult. A Latin player? Decker, Marrero, Shugart and Politi are the longest tenured US players, being drafted in 2018. Order is technically Politi, Decker/Marrero, then Shugart if you go by signing date.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 25, 2024 10:28:57 GMT -5
Assuming you're not counting 40-man players (Mata), I think it is Felix Cepeda. Correct. July 2017 signee. Here's the crazy thing. Second longest tenured? Royman Blanco of your Low-A Salem Red Sox.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 25, 2024 10:26:50 GMT -5
Trivia for the day: Who is the longest tenured minor leaguer in the Red Sox organization? By this I mean time in this org, not total time in the minors. You will not get this without looking. If you do look, don't spoil it. I'd guess Mata but he's on the IL and the question is in the Gameday Thread so that doesn't fit. Mata is technically on the MLB roster.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 25, 2024 9:56:23 GMT -5
Trivia for the day: Who is the longest tenured minor leaguer in the Red Sox organization? By this I mean time in this org, not total time in the minors.
You will not get this without looking. If you do look, don't spoil it.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 25, 2024 9:08:22 GMT -5
Mayer will be promoted right after 6/9. Last time I went to Portland to see a game Devers was there. 2 days later he was promoted. I expect the same to happen here as I have tix to the Sunday 6/9 game. I'm bringing the promotion force with me. I miss the days at Hadlock when you knew a promotion was going to happen because Theo was at the game. Look Theo is here, who is he coming to get !!! It's made amateur scouting rumors tougher too. Used to see the GM scouting the first round options. Now it's all on video. Can remember when we knew Kolbrin Vitek was on the first round short list because Theo went to see him in his conference tournament or something.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2024 17:16:39 GMT -5
1) Chance of getting Mata back sooner than that (he's throwing bullpens) 2) Same with Walter, plus giving him MLB service time 3) Jacques isn't really any great shakes compared to what they already have. I'd have the MLB LHRPs plus Benitez all ahead of him just for LHRPs, plus Luetge could always pull it together. Not that I agree with all of the above, but that's the reasoning. Didn't realize walter was throwing, couldn't find any news on him Wasn't saying he was throwing. Just the reasoning. Wasn't clear, admittedly.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2024 14:49:13 GMT -5
The defensive shuffling probably hasn't helped him at the plate - the burden of carrying a lousy infield defense when you've spent a lot more time in recent years in the outfield has to be tough, and it's probably a distraction at a time when he needs as few as possible to work it out in the box. I kind of disagree. I think his defensive versatility is the only thing giving him any confidence right now and he looks comfortable in the field. I think he’s just swinging out of his shoes and trying to correct the course of his season in every swing. Yeah I don't get the people who are saying this (it's not just Seamus). Rafaela has continued to play shortstop roughly once a week in order to keep this club in his bag, so to speak, the entire way up the system. He was signed as an infielder. It's not like they're asking him to learn a new position. It's also not like he went from DH'ing regularly to suddenly having play the field every inning. He went from the most important OF position to the most important IF position. Is the logic that he's at the plate and he's like "oh man, what if I get hit a really difficult ground ball in the hole next inning"?
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2024 14:45:44 GMT -5
Not that I think Jacques is a big loss but a little confused at why we DFA him instead of sending one of walter/Mata to the 60 day IL 1) Chance of getting Mata back sooner than that (he's throwing bullpens) 2) Same with Walter, plus giving him MLB service time 3) Jacques isn't really any great shakes compared to what they already have. I'd have the MLB LHRPs plus Benitez all ahead of him just for LHRPs, plus Luetge could always pull it together. Not that I agree with all of the above, but that's the reasoning.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2024 14:42:14 GMT -5
Ehrlicher, Tucker, and Jhostynxon Garcia all placed on the Salem 7-day IL. FWIW, they've been on the IL since Sunday. For whatever reason it didn't get entered into the system. Also seems clear Johanfran is hurt too. He's missed 3 since leaving Saturday's game, which is probably why they've kept 3 other active catchers.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2024 13:12:47 GMT -5
Miguel Bleis came out of the game in the 7th, not sure what happened It's weird his last play was fielding a base hit. Prior to that had struck out swinging. 🤷
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2024 13:10:31 GMT -5
Exciting day for starting pitchers! Any idea as to who'll go in Greenville? Cooper Adams
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 23, 2024 22:24:04 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 23, 2024 15:36:54 GMT -5
Bryce Bonnin activated. Adam "The Invisible Hand" Smith signed and assigned to Greenville.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 23, 2024 14:51:25 GMT -5
I love a good indy ball success story. Hoping he does well and we get a chapter on him, Penrod and Booser in Homegrown pt 2. For whatever it's worth, I don't think he ever actually wound up playing indy ball. He graduated last year and then played in the draft league.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 23, 2024 13:40:12 GMT -5
Looks like Freili Encarnacion may be en route to join Salem. This move is official. Also Max Carlson is back down to Salem. Probably means the Greenville pitching staff is getting healthy. They also activated McElveny. I'm guessing Montero or Viloria goes to dev. Zanetello probably finally headed to IL you'd think as well. Then maybe a pitcher to dev.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 22, 2024 11:21:35 GMT -5
As stated elsewhere, you could put him on the 60-day and have him start a 30-day rehab on Saturday to line up with when his 60 days would be up.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 21, 2024 14:09:27 GMT -5
Wikelman out of the pen 3IP 1H 0R 1BB 4K 68% strikes Pitch count only got to 48, wonder what the plan is for him going forward. Nothing to read into here. He only got 2/3 of an inning in his last start. I get wanting to get him back on the bump before Tuesday. 6-man rotation and Monday off day lets you do this.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 21, 2024 10:47:21 GMT -5
And just think, Chaim Bloom went to bed thinking he'd reached an agreement to sign Abreu last offseason.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 20, 2024 21:34:09 GMT -5
Jason Alexander got hit fairly hard today. Woosox scored 3 runs in 2nd without a hit. 8 baserunners thru 6, but Grissom's 5th inning single is the only hit. Eddy Alvarez has been playing SS, meeting the quota of 1 error per game. When he gets the call up, it should be for 2B. Grissom with another single. Stolen base. Sox lose game 2. It was his third start of the year at short and his first error there?
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