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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 8, 2024 14:09:15 GMT -5
I had figured he was one of the young players being referenced before the season, makes all the sense in the world to lock up a guy that you are certain will provide value on one side of the ball.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 8, 2024 12:55:19 GMT -5
Luis Robert expected to miss 3+ months. I think the White Sox might be the worst team in baseball now. Like the A's, they will be ineligible for a draft pick better than 10th. Sad because they were so fun and promising in 2021 and boy things have not gone well since I’m only like 28% serious when I say the Sox should inquire about his cost in a trade right now
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 7, 2024 17:30:17 GMT -5
That’s when you want Trout burning you. In an 8-1 loss with your long reliever out there. It’s the perfect balance. The Red Sox fan in all of us gets a win, the baseball fan in all of us gets to see Trout murder a baseball
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 7, 2024 14:50:44 GMT -5
Kyle Teel bust confirmed
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 7, 2024 14:08:53 GMT -5
Most exciting 1-2-3 in baseball, Betts/Ohtani/Freeman or Anthony/Mayer/Teel? I'm very excited for the 1-5 add Blaze and Yorke to that. Portland is exciting! Paulino is no slouch, either! I also am still holding onto a shred of hope for utilityman Tyler McDonough but that’s just me being irrational
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 7, 2024 8:50:23 GMT -5
Stanley Tucker at third?? He got a little bit of time at 2B and 3B last year. In the Draft League he actually primarily played shortstop. They'll move him around. Ah interesting, I remember the shortstop note but not the other and he was exclusively a center fielder (I believe) in games I saw him in at A&M
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 6, 2024 23:37:28 GMT -5
Also didn’t Reid Detmers own the Sox last year too? He may just be a poor matchup.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 6, 2024 23:29:35 GMT -5
Just for perspective, this team will still be at worst 6-4 after a ten game west coast swing TO START THE YEAR despite the perceived strength of the team having yet to show up (and there is some precedent for slow starts last year, too). I’m still feelin fine
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 6, 2024 16:59:56 GMT -5
Stanley Tucker at third??
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 5, 2024 23:18:06 GMT -5
The 2023 bats are back, hurray!
The 2023 everything else is back, oh no!
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 5, 2024 22:47:15 GMT -5
Allan Castro with 5 walks. 5 of only 8 walks on the night too, so it’s not like the opposing pitchers were consistently super wild. Also the Garcias in the Salem box score are going to be very confusing this year
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 5, 2024 22:43:38 GMT -5
Soooo…. There’s def no way Grissom and Valdez can coexist in the MIF… right? *ducks* What I would *like* explored is Grissom getting time in left to allow Rafaela to play short while still maintaining a 4 outfielder rotation that doesn’t include Yoshida (in the field), doubt that happens though.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 5, 2024 13:57:35 GMT -5
Salem rotation is Duffy, Rodriguez, Cohen for the weekend Chris and Ian hinted on the pod at there being a story behind why he doesn’t go by Rodriguez-Cruz anymore and I don’t remember hearing it (though I may have fallen asleep on the bus) - did I miss it or did it never get told?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 4, 2024 21:30:22 GMT -5
Call me ignorant here but is that not the right call? He doesn’t fully swing but he is in the process of swinging and that directly leads to the ball making contact, it wouldn’t have hit him otherwise.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 4, 2024 12:52:04 GMT -5
Is Yorke is repeating AA despite having nearly 500 PAs there because he's blocked by Meidroth, or is there something they want him to work on more in AA? Chris and Ian talked about this a bit on the pod but he’s more than likely temporarily blocked by Grissom
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 14:49:05 GMT -5
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 13:59:07 GMT -5
Did I miss something? Beyond the missing coach, why is the rest of the stadium empty? As someone who just landed in Chicago, the weather isn’t great. As someone who has Cubs tickets tonight and White Sox tickets tomorrow, I hope it gets better lol Cubs game made it through (though it was freezing), White Sox game sadly postponed. Kyle Freeland’s career is surprisingly interesting for how boring a pitcher he is. I’m so fascinated by, in this world where MLB draft picks often flame out before ever reaching the bigs, a top draft pick making the bigs and then proceeding to have an extremely average career. Is that a bust? In any other sport getting an average player from a top 10 pick is certainly a disappointment, but in baseball he probably represents an okay outcome, especially given he had two very quality seasons. Anyway, all that came to mind because I was watching him get completely drilled last night. Seiya Suzuki hit an absolute rope that the stadium announced was 115 mph. Given how low the ball flew but still got out, I believe it. Sad to not be able to see Strider pitch against the White Sox today, but oh well! Going to see the Brewers Saturday, luckily that one is safe weather-wise. Last point - Wrigley pretty comfortably slides into #2 in my stadium rankings and if I weren’t a Sox fan it’d probably be #1, it’s such a perfect environment in my opinion.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 13:27:08 GMT -5
Sorry to be a little bit of a contrarian here, but I think Rafaela's catch last night was a fine catch, but not stupendous. I suspect there are a number of CF in the majors who would have made that catch, albeit with maybe a bit more effort. He made it look pretty easy, in fact; he actually slowed down and gathered his legs under him a bit before he did the little leap to make the catch. The most impressive part of the play to me was AFTER the catch. He didn't hit the wall; he worked the wall to reverse his momentum back toward the infield while pivoting and then hitting the cutoff man. Not only does the guy have tools - he knows how to play baseball. Not sure if you’ve ever been to a game in Oakland (wouldn’t blame you, if I didn’t grow up near there I wouldn’t be clamoring to go), but that outfield is MASSIVE, so I think the optics of his ease are probably underselling how much distance he had to travel, which I’d bet is why the xBA was so high on the contact.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 10:04:49 GMT -5
That’s fair, but really to me, moving him out of the majors causes other issues as this roster is not that deep. Take him from center, really the only other option is Duran who is mediocre at best in center. Put Duran in center, then Abreu or Yoshida is in left. Abreu also is struggling offensively, so if you put him in left you make the defense worse without helping the offense. If you put Yoshida in left you severely harm the defense, and there really isn’t another guy who is deserving of being the DH spot. When Refsynder really isn’t a full time player, so he doesn’t alleviate the issues. Frankly, having Rafaela in center. Is maximizing overall value. I suppose if you think Valdez is a full time second baseman, and Grissom can’t handle second and should be in left (as the Braves thought), then it is a different conversation. The Braves didn't think Grissom couldn't handle 2nd, they just happen to have Albies locked up and going nowhere and he's arguably the best 2nd baseman in the league. Certainly he is one of them anyway so Grissom if he was going to get consistent PT with the Braves it was going to have to be at a position other than 2nd. Yeah if the Braves actually thought Grissom should be a left fielder than they would’ve just made him one lol
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 9:49:58 GMT -5
I’ll start my disagreement here by saying that I’m not in the camp of those who want to send him down, and I generally don’t have strong reactions to his individual plate appearances, no more than I would any other as a snap judgment. Now the former is as much because I think this high variance hitter may just be who he is and I’m willing to ride with it given the value he provides on defense. Anyway, you present it as if the ant-Rafaela camp (I know no one here is actually “against him” but you get what I mean) is coming up with new and unrelated things to criticize him for every night, when I don’t think that’s the case. The criticisms have always been that doesn’t appear to have a plan at the plate and gets too chase-happy, which then manifests itself in different ways game to game, whether it be striking out or taking too few pitches. I can see how that would appear logically scattered on its face, but I think it’s generally consistent. And the scouting report and podcasts here have been talking literally for years about how Rafaela makes poor swing decisions, but the excellent bat-to-ball skills translates to him making a lot of weak contact on balls outside or on the edge of the zone. So "he strikes out too much" and "he pops up several times" fit into the same, very well-established concern about his approach.
Really, it's practically like the official position of soxprospects.com, and it seems strange to act as if it's just some ad hoc anti-Rafaela complaining for the sake of complaining or something. (It also has nothing to do with sabermetrics or whatever; we're all watching these PAs...)
Haha yeah I’ve always found the “watch the games” argument regarding Rafaela to be funny when this has been the report from everyone that has laid eyes on him, from our resident game-watcher Ian to neutral parties
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 9:48:57 GMT -5
The Red Sox have a 92 wRC+, .106 ISO, and 27.6% K Rate. They’ve faced some great pitching aside from game 5 so it’s not a big concern, but I would love to see them mash long ball prone Ross Stripling today. This is the other thing in the Rafaela discussion - if the rest of the offense starts humming, you can more easily look past his struggles, but they’re heightened when that spot is relied upon more to help keep the offense afloat. In my opinion, anyway.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 3, 2024 8:11:35 GMT -5
The glove is game changing. Unfortunately, the bate is nearly as bad in the opposite direction and mostly the fault of chasing anything and everything. him being so gifted defensively in the OF, ability to play 2b, so fast makes him a valuable roster addition regardless. knock on why Duran was removed late in the game with runs at a premium. Everyone is over-analyzing him. Let him play and make adjustments and figure things out. Everyone complains that he strikes out too much. Tonight he puts the ball in play 4 times and draws a walk. Now the complaints are that he’s not seeing enough pitches. People need to be a little more patient here. He’s been a big leaguer for about 10 minutes. There will be growing pains. His ability to impact the game defensively cannot be overlooked, however. I’m enjoying the show. He will improve at the plate too. I’ll start my disagreement here by saying that I’m not in the camp of those who want to send him down, and I generally don’t have strong reactions to his individual plate appearances, no more than I would any other as a snap judgment. Now the former is as much because I think this high variance hitter may just be who he is and I’m willing to ride with it given the value he provides on defense. Anyway, you present it as if the ant-Rafaela camp (I know no one here is actually “against him” but you get what I mean) is coming up with new and unrelated things to criticize him for every night, when I don’t think that’s the case. The criticisms have always been that doesn’t appear to have a plan at the plate and gets too chase-happy, which then manifests itself in different ways game to game, whether it be striking out or taking too few pitches. I can see how that would appear logically scattered on its face, but I think it’s generally consistent.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 22:36:34 GMT -5
I know there’s much more nuance to the discussion regarding Rafaela because he has service time considerations and there is reason to believe there is development left with the bat that may or may not be best served in AAA, but I think we’re starting to see the aesthetic byproduct of his game that we saw with JBJ (which, not tooting my own horn because it’s not that smart a take, I did predict that’d happen and it does affect my biased).
What I mean by that is that Rafaela can hit like this and still be a valuable player, but because it is so frustrating and awful to watch he won’t be treated as providing the value he still does.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 22:27:23 GMT -5
Am I reading it incorrectly or is that chart wrong? The teams are off, looks like they sorted a column and the rest didn’t go with it. I think the left column is individual pitchers and the right column (which overlaps the left slightly) is team stats. Oh yeah I just hadn’t clicked into the actual tweet lol good call
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 22:15:01 GMT -5
Ceddanne is such a joy to watch in the field and such a nightmare to watch at the plate Careful, the resident Ceddane defender will come around and tell you that, even though you’re specifically talking about watching him, you’ll need to take your nose out of the spreadsheets and learn the game!
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