Red Sox/MLB 2023 Regular Season V - 58 games to go - Kiké Hernandez to the Dodgers for prospects

[CDJ]

Dalbec is doing the same thing he always does in AAA, which indicates to me that not much has changed. He’s striking out 34% of the time in Worcester this year. He’s rocking a 57% k rate in his 14 PA in Boston this year. As long as he continues to have that much swing and miss in his game he won’t be a viable big league option for a team that’s not a bottom feeder

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

Dalbec is doing the same thing he always does in AAA, which indicates to me that not much has changed. He’s striking out 34% of the time in Worcester this year. He’s rocking a 57% k rate in his 14 PA in Boston this year. As long as he continues to have that much swing and miss in his game he won’t be a viable big league option for a team that’s not a bottom feeder

I’d take a lotto pick prospect for him. That’s about as good as the return will get if he’s traded in a deal he’s the main piece. MAYBE you throw him in a deal like a Jerry Sands or something.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Casas has been improving? He’s trended upward since the start. He had a really bad April.

Agree with most here but Dalbec is:

1.) Not a suitable Casas replacement and doesn’t make Casas expendable in the slightest

2,) Isnt bringing much back in a trade

Ah, my two favorites.

So far in their careers:


Dalbec .231/.298/.452/.750

Casas .219/.337/.400/.737

 

[Fenway]

 

[CDJ]

10 game west coast trip to start the year means less rainouts at least

 

[McGarnagle]

Even the Red Sox start the year on the Disney Death March now

I'm just glad that they're finally playing the Angels on a weekend so I can get to those games. The last couple years it's just been weekday series with games starting at 6:30 local time that I literally cannot get to. And as a bonus they're coming to Dodger Stadium on a weekend in July, and I'd love to hit up a game there too.

 

[Fenway]

Finally

 

[RoccoF14]

Finally

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Impressive. I thought today was a hard one. I only got 6.

 

[CDJ]

Immaculate Grid 102 9/9:
Rarity: 123
IMMACULATE!





Had trouble with finding a less obvious tigers 500 home run hitter than the one that was most recent. Looked it up after and I missed the one I should’ve gotten. The answer I went with made up 92 of the 123 lol, got the other 8 with a total of 31% combined. 2002-2015 players are my sweet spot

I love how I can remember Yorvit Torrealba but I can’t remember to pay my excise tax on time

Also if the Sox go on a terrible losing streak and the season is lost I nominate making this the immaculate grid thread

 

[McGarnagle]

Immaculate Grid 102 9/9:
Rarity: 123
IMMACULATE!





Had trouble with finding a less obvious tigers 500 home run hitter than the one that was most recent. Looked it up after and I missed the one I should’ve gotten. The answer I went with made up 92 of the 123 lol, got the other 8 with a total of 31% combined. 2002-2015 players are my sweet spot

I love how I can remember Yorvit Torrealba but I can’t remember to pay my excise tax on time

Also if the Sox go on a terrible losing streak and the season is lost I nominate making this the immaculate grid thread

The hard decision is always should I go with the sure answer to fill the box or should I take a stab at high rarity and take a guess. In this case I got 8/9 simply because I passed up on the obvious recent Tigers' 500 HR guy because I thought that

Spoiler

Al Kaline

must've been in the 500 club, when he actually ended up just shy of 400.

 

[Fenway]

More than a century after the first batter approached home plate at Fenway Park, the blocks immediately surrounding Boston’s historic ballpark are set for major changes.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency board on Thursday approved Fenway Corners, a $1.6 billion mixed-use project that will bring offices, labs, apartments, a slew of retailers, and street-level upgrades along Jersey Street, Brookline Avenue, and Van Ness Street.

The BPDA board approved the project’s first 1.6 million square feet, with an additional 500,000 square feet slated for a later board vote following the completion of the Fenway-Kenmore Transportation Action Plan.

The project’s eight buildings are slated to range in height from two to 19 stories — anywhere from 40 feet to 265 feet — and feature nearly 730,000 square feet of lab space and close to 500,000 square feet of office. The project will also include 266 residential units, some 53 of which will be set aside as affordable, along with a host of new storefronts and street upgrades.

The project’s development team is a joint venture of WS Development, the Fenway Sports Group, and Twins Enterprises. John Henry, owner of the Boston Globe, is the principal owner of Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Twins Enterprises is owned by the D’Angelo family, which has owned and operated retail and souvenir shops adjacent to the park for nearly 80 years.

 

[Mione134]

Not a fan of lab space. It's been happening in a lot of areas and it's creepy.

 

[CDJ]

The hard decision is always should I go with the sure answer to fill the box or should I take a stab at high rarity and take a guess. In this case I got 8/9 simply because I passed up on the obvious recent Tigers' 500 HR guy because I thought that

Spoiler

Al Kaline

must've been in the 500 club, when he actually ended up just shy of 400.

Made that mistake on the same guy with a home run category not that long ago myself

Well since there’s a new game: Gary Sheffield was the one that would’ve saved my rarity score but I went with Miggy to be safe. My best hit was Jack Cust A’s/Rockies 0.4%


Todays I did well. 89 on 9/9

 

[Fenway]

Not a fan of lab space. It's been happening in a lot of areas and it's creepy.

@Mione134 - The junkyards of Somerville have become high-rise lab space.

 

[Mione134]

@Mione134 - The junkyards of Somerville have become high-rise lab space.

Revere as well. Animal testing. And other diseases. They tried to do it in Everett but residents shut it down.

A lab bought Floramos in Chelsea. Lots of residents were/are not happy and are still concerned with the lab being directly across the street from the high school.

It's just really strange and most of these labs are from corporations out of Massachusetts. It's a recipe for a possible disaster, imo. Creeps me out.

 

[DKH]

Some of Bloom bashers here referred to anonymous executives on the Yoshida signing

Execs may be anonymous but HFB posters aren’t

They own it ? Or not in DNA

 

[EverettMike]

More than a century after the first batter approached home plate at Fenway Park, the blocks immediately surrounding Boston’s historic ballpark are set for major changes.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency board on Thursday approved Fenway Corners, a $1.6 billion mixed-use project that will bring offices, labs, apartments, a slew of retailers, and street-level upgrades along Jersey Street, Brookline Avenue, and Van Ness Street.

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The BPDA board approved the project’s first 1.6 million square feet, with an additional 500,000 square feet slated for a later board vote following the completion of the Fenway-Kenmore Transportation Action Plan.

The project’s eight buildings are slated to range in height from two to 19 stories — anywhere from 40 feet to 265 feet — and feature nearly 730,000 square feet of lab space and close to 500,000 square feet of office. The project will also include 266 residential units, some 53 of which will be set aside as affordable, along with a host of new storefronts and street upgrades.

The project’s development team is a joint venture of WS Development, the Fenway Sports Group, and Twins Enterprises. John Henry, owner of the Boston Globe, is the principal owner of Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Twins Enterprises is owned by the D’Angelo family, which has owned and operated retail and souvenir shops adjacent to the park for nearly 80 years.

LOL imagine building more office space in any major city right now.

 

[yazmybaby]

Dalbec is doing the same thing he always does in AAA, which indicates to me that not much has changed. He’s striking out 34% of the time in Worcester this year. He’s rocking a 57% k rate in his 14 PA in Boston this year. As long as he continues to have that much swing and miss in his game he won’t be a viable big league option for a team that’s not a bottom feeder

Some team make take a flyer on him. His AAA power numbers are really impressive this year. His OPS is .643 and has a 1.005 SLG%.
Lots of players have played in the majors with power and crappy strikout rates, two that come to mind are Mark Reynolds and Gorman Thomas.
We should give him a chance to play everyday or cut the cord and get something for him.

 

[yazmybaby]

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If we can play .500 ball during the month of August, we will be fine. Its a tough schedule that month.

 

[CDJ]

Some team make take a flyer on him. His AAA power numbers are really impressive this year. His OPS is .643 and has a 1.005 SLG%.
Lots of players have played in the majors with power and crappy strikout rates, two that come to mind are Mark Reynolds and Gorman Thomas.
We should give him a chance to play everyday or cut the cord and get something for him.

They struck out a bunch in the bigs but they didn’t whiff as much in the minors as Dalbec did. The season Reynolds got called up he was striking out 20% of the time in the minors. Dalbec is within distance of doubling that

I do think a team should take a chance on him though, it’s worth a look. He has proven he can get nuclear hot in the bigs before, not everybody can do that

 

[McGarnagle]

Bobby is another Travis Shaw. He'll go to some mediocre NL team and hit 30 homers and everyone will be all WHY CAN'T WE GET GUYS LIKE THAT, then he'll wash out on the waiver wire and retire within 2 years after that.

 

[dabid]

I thought Dalbec was going to be so good solely based on his 80 at bats in 2020

 

[CDJ]

I thought Dalbec was going to be so good solely based on his 80 at bats in 2020

He was quite literally the best hitter in baseball for a span of a month, that’s an impressive thing to do!

It’s why he’s so tantalizing- we’ve seen what he can do at his best and it’s amazing. He just likely won’t make enough contact to realize his upside. Especially now that the league has seen him.

 

[CDJ]

Fun fact the Red Sox have the best record in the AL over the last month

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

Fun fact the Red Sox have the best record in the AL over the last month

15-8 since June 14th.