Red Sox/MLB 2023 Regular Season VI: Hunt for the Wild Card is on
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OBF: Red Sox are MLB’s Bermuda Triangle
Only the calamity that used to be the New York Yankees keeps the Red Sox from being the best last-place team in sports. The words “Yankees Suck” have never conveyed as much truth as they do in Augu…
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FrankerC
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I may be moving to Greenville in a couple years for work. Didnt realize thats the home of the Drive.
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Here here, I got lost with WAR and launch angle, and perhaps OPS(I grew up when Pete Rose was on the cover of Time, when that meant something). I didn't even know Kyle Teel was a Red Sox catcher, this from a guy who can distinguish A.J. Greer from Jakub Lauko. Shank would put a hit squad on me.
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Just means how fast the ball goes from his glove to 2nd
Whitlock rehab outing on NESN at 1230 I believe
MLB average pop up time is around 1.97 seconds, so that's nice to see our guy is above average.
Connor Wong is at 1.90 , JT Realmuto is the best at 1.83.
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What a joke this recent stretch has been. If the DL was today, Bloom would be selling (11% chance according to fangraphs). I am disappointed that he didn't have the courage to do so last week (unless he was forced by ownership which I am not going to rule out).
Deadline acquisitions change pretty much nothing. Recent examples are the Angels (it rightfully backfires, Giolito sucks and they have failed for so many years to field a winning team with two generational players on decent contracts (!)) and Mariners, who are on completely different trajectories despite entirely different DL-approaches. The Astros were always going to make a run even without Verlander, because they have gotten some key players back.
Next year counts, if Bloom fields another average team with half the fielders being DHs and running the bases like zombies then he should be canned quickly. This is his last chance, the good farm development has saved him for now.
Deadline acquisitions change pretty much nothing. Recent examples are the Angels (it rightfully backfires, Giolito sucks and they have failed for so many years to field a winning team with two generational players on decent contracts (!)) and Mariners, who are on completely different trajectories despite entirely different DL-approaches. The Astros were always going to make a run even without Verlander, because they have gotten some key players back.
Next year counts, if Bloom fields another average team with half the fielders being DHs and running the bases like zombies then he should be canned quickly. This is his last chance, the good farm development has saved him for now.
I am excited to see Barraclough. His numbers have been very good.
Lamet shouldn't of even been pitching yesterday
Why Red Sox are giving away Kiké Hernández bobblehead two weeks after trading him to Dodgers
The Red Sox traded Kiké Hernández to the Dodgers on July 25. On Wednesday night, they'll give out his bobblehead at Fenway. Here's why.
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he doesn’t throw hard and he doesn’t throw strikes but he’s pretty good at missing barrels, Bear-Claw will be a fine stopgap until the rehabbing arms return
McGarnagle
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Donnie Shulzhoffer
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Pretty typical of the 2023 Red Sox. Bobblehead night for a player that no longer plays for them.Why Red Sox are giving away Kiké Hernández bobblehead two weeks after trading him to Dodgers
The Red Sox traded Kiké Hernández to the Dodgers on July 25. On Wednesday night, they'll give out his bobblehead at Fenway. Here's why.
McGarnagle
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Tom Werner probably told the marketing department that he spent $350 to mass produce those bobbleheads and he's not letting that go to waste.
Donnie Shulzhoffer
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Pretty much. Cheaper to give them away to people still willing to pay to go to the ballpark and watch this fiasco than dispose of them.
It's a bobblehead. Why waste it? People like memorabilia.
Of all the things we can get angry or frustrated about, getting mad about a planned bobblehead night isn't one of them.
Of all the things we can get angry or frustrated about, getting mad about a planned bobblehead night isn't one of them.
McGarnagle
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Apparently it was a fan vote to select which players would get bobbleheads this year and Kike was one of the winners.
This happens all the time on official team calendars where the guy they traded in March is on the picture for the month of April, etc.
I didn’t even realize that, it makes it even more ridiculous if there is fan blowback lol
Donnie Shulzhoffer
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FrankerC
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Theyre lowballing Rafaela in my opinion. How would Yorke be ranked ahead of him?
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