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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 20:49:20 GMT -5
At this moment Rafaela is leading the team in RBI has the same number of strikeouts as Casas. Has a higher batting average than; Casas, Story, Devers, Duran, Yoshida, and Valdez. Yet people want to give up on him after five games? The fact is his weaknesses have always been his weaknesses and as he has advanced through the minors at each level people have said, "Yes he hit in the DSL but will his approach work in the; GCL, in low A, in high A, in AA, in AAA and every time it's worked. In fact he's gotten better in most cases. These are the same people that gave up on Duran. Knowing statistics and knowing baseball are two completely different things. They see what they want to see. “gave up” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this very ironic argument.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 20:47:53 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.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 17:00:07 GMT -5
Ian and Chris discussed it on the new pod and it's true. The Woo-Sox are immensely boring. Well they didn't exactly say that. Even the guys who are ranked are older org-up-and-down types. Particularly the lineup. I feel like the AAA team has always been kinda boring since I’ve started following the minors, outside of a couple guys a year. It’s mostly just semi-functional MLB depth, if a guy is a bona fide prospect more often than not he won’t stop between AA and the bigs for long.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 11:59:25 GMT -5
Red Sox will have a total draft bonus pool of $10,521,600. By pick: 1(12): $5,484,600 2(50): $1,846,400 3(86): $878,800 4(115): $630,900 5(148): $457,900 6(177): $351,100 7(207): $274,600 8(237): $219,900 9(267): $194,600 10(297): $182,800 www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2024-mlb-draft-bonus-pools-slot-values-for-each-team/ So roughly the same pool as last year despite the two fewer picks, will be a smaller class this year but the money is there to move around for a few high level guys.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 9:29:04 GMT -5
the CHW game was delayed in the bottom of the 8th because the 1st base coach was MIA,,, 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
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 4:10:31 GMT -5
Great win against The Bad News Bears. Houck made it one strong start the first time around the rotation. Duran has become a dynamic leadoff man. I'm not even sure this A's team makes it to 50 wins or even plays .300 ball. They're as bad as some of the worst Orioles teams we've seen prior to their revival. Truly don't wish to be a down er on the nice end result of Houck's game, but we all must take into consideration he did manage to be around the plate consistently all 6 IP, which he doesn't always manage to do. Had really good command and drop of his splitter, which he doesn't always have, plus was facing which many have pointed out a team that just may lose more games than the 112 they lost in 2023.. They seem that bad. Yes, I have always thought houck was the perfect 2-3IP reliever, or once thru the lineup guy, but today he just kept mowing the same guys down. He did change tactics 2nd time thru, many probably noticed, rather than hitting them slider hvy 1st time round #2m he attack with FB and the splitter, which doesn't always work for him real well. Take it and move on. Rotation looks 90's Braves caliber thru 5 games does it not? Be a downer if you want, but I’m not really understanding the basis of your pessimism. He pitched well because he pitched well but he doesn’t always pitch well? I think the “he doesn’t always do this” argument kind of ignores that the optimism around him revolves around the brand new coaching being a reason to believe this could become a more consistent thing. Now the level of competition is absolutely a massive grain of salt to take all of this with, but I think if you look at that start and lean towards “yeah but he’s not always like that” over “hey maybe the work the new coaching staff has put in will pay dividends” then yeah, I’d say you’re probably being unnecessarily pessimistic. Either option is equally possible, so why not lean towards the fun one after a win?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 2, 2024 3:48:48 GMT -5
RedSox legend Dinelson Lamet getting the call for the Dodgers Dodgers went Paxton, Brasier, Joe Kelly, Lamet yesterday. They want to be the Red Sox so badly
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 1, 2024 20:51:18 GMT -5
The patience with Duran....credit to the Sox. ML ballplayer. I was firmly team sell high and will be very happy to be proven wrong.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 1, 2024 20:15:38 GMT -5
I am glad to see that even with a new cast in the FO, you continue to work from the assumption that they know something no other person or organization does. I call it the “Eric Van/Zach Godley Hypothesis.” I hope you are right, but I’d say, for example, a 30-year old who has never pitched in America and was dumped by the Rays hardly counts as reliable depth. Maybe he is the next Koji-level discovery… but I am nervous to test that. Dumped by the Rays like ... Cooper Criswell?
Did you get that I implied that Uwasawa would be either the #7 or #8 starter? How high is that bar?
Track record of so far with non-established pitchers:
Traded Luis Urías to the Seattle Mariners. Received Isaiah Campbell. Traded Alex Verdugo to the New York Yankees. Received Richard Fitts (minors), Nicholas Judice (minors) and Greg Weissert. Traded Ryan Ammons (minors) to the New York Mets. Received Justin Slaten (minors). Signed Cooper Criswell as a free agent.
they know something no other person or organization does
No, no. The best organizations have figured out ways to make certain types of pitchers better. They have methodologies. It's not a mystic, guy-by-guy thing; it's "this guy fits the profile of guys who would benefit a lot from [X]."
And these teams soon become teams that don't need to add much pitching. So there are likely a few teams saying, damn, that closes the gap some, but we are full up with guys that are as good or better.
A final note ... one thing I have learned of late is that pessimists have no idea how they sound to other, else they would STF up. It's tiresome.
I mean, seriously ... I spend all winter arguing that the alleged bad rotation will be great, and so far it's playing just out as I thought ... and you feel compelled to go after any optimism over the #7 or 8 starter?
Dude, my goodness. You occasionally post some interesting information but you have become entirely insufferable. You are not nearly as smart as you think you are and it’s extremely ironic that you’re talking about others having no idea how they sound to others. Get off your high horse and attempt to let your data do the talking as opposed to instantly jumping to condescension the second someone dares to disagree with you. And for the record, you are *way* too deluded by optimism if you actually believe they are seeing things that no one else is seeing. The early returns have been good for sure but we can acknowledge that without deifying them.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 1, 2024 8:29:31 GMT -5
This doesn't really feel like anything beyond aggregating a lot of the guys that have already been mocked to the Sox, really. The Morlando thing I'm just pretty out on, that's just not the type of archetype they should be chasing that high in the draft.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 31, 2024 19:16:36 GMT -5
Is anyone else having issues with getting automatically logged out whenever you close out of the forum tab? Usually it’s whenever I close my window entirely on a computer or when I clear my history on my phone, I’ve never had it to where every time I went back to the site I’m logged out.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 31, 2024 19:09:14 GMT -5
In a really good position to come off of this road trip with a winning record. Give me 6-4 and I’ll be happy. The losses were frustrating but this seems like a clearly competent team, and there is known offensive talent that has yet to fully coalesce.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 30, 2024 17:59:55 GMT -5
My favorite part is that Castellanos takes the step towards the dugout knowing he’s cooked and you can see the moment where he’s like “are they really about to bail me out?”.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 30, 2024 13:33:51 GMT -5
I feel like half of the angst from last night will disappear pretty immediately if Devers is in the lineup tonight
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 23:06:19 GMT -5
Meh, pitching was mostly excellent and the offense had a bad day in a situation where the lineup got jumbled at the last minute with the best hitter scratched. Especially given it was against an excellent starter, I’m fine forgetting this ever happened and moving on.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 23:02:17 GMT -5
Oh now he gives the bottom of the zone
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 22:59:02 GMT -5
Never in doubt!
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 22:36:09 GMT -5
Can someone tell O’Neill it’s Opening Day please
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 22:33:09 GMT -5
Stanek had the shortest spring training reliever spring trainings out of anyone thanks to free agency. Hopefully he's not fresh! This is the opportunity!!!
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 22:25:02 GMT -5
How many weeks of Romy Gonzalez production and Bobby Dalbec lack thereof (not saying either’s game today is a lock to continue, just throwing out hypotheticals) before they pull the plug?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 21:58:54 GMT -5
My dream is dying by the day (but also this dude is freaking awesome)
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 21:12:14 GMT -5
I’m only watching on Gameday (No NESN + March Madness), is the ump as bad as it’s showing up on the Gameday box?
Also, they’re running a beta of a player tracker that’s actually kinda neat
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 19:47:13 GMT -5
Luis Guerrero’s MiLB roster photo is excellent, it looks like he’s wearing one of those big novelty hats
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 18:56:10 GMT -5
Gambrell: 4IP 3H 0ER 2BB 7K (83 pitches, 51 strikes, 14 whiffs) One of the simple pleasures of sports fandom - seeing that Vermontsox is the latest poster in a Gameday thread and knowing that likely means something good happened.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 29, 2024 9:01:33 GMT -5
Moving the FCL season up was such a good idea, I'm honestly not sure why it hadn't come together sooner. Probably much easier to keep your short season/XST core in place when there's such a natural lead-in to games, and it allows players that stand out in short season ball more time to advance to greater tests and on the flip side, teams may feel less pressured to push a player up to full-season ball on Opening Day. I'm thinking specifically about Yoelin Cespedes here - I fully expect him to play games in Salem this year, but it's nice not to feel like he's missing out on half a season of development by starting in the FCL.
We could see more mid-season releases than before if the earlier promotion timeline creates roster crunches at the mid-levels of the system, which would be unfortunate, and it sucks that draftees get less time to dip their toes into pro ball (though a lot of them don't end up playing anyway, especially pitchers), but more good than bad for sure in my mind.
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