Red Sox/MLB 2025 Regular Season II

[JRull86]

Rafaela is terrible at fundamental baseball. Might want to risk moving him before Cora or I have a coronary.

Not pinch hitting him in that spot is just absolutely stupid baseball.

I don't care what the advanced stats say with his expected BA, he cannot hit.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Not pinch hitting him in that spot is just absolutely stupid baseball.

I don't care what the advanced stats say with his expected BA, he cannot hit.

The guy was hitting .350 with men in scoring position.

 

[JRull86]

I'm not going to get on Mayer at all for his first game, but man taking 97 straight down the middle with a man on, to then swing at two awful pitches is just....blah.

This lineup is in serious trouble.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

MM: Welcome to the show, kid.

Guess we know why Guerrero was in the minors.

Handley 2-2 pitch from Bernadino was strike three in the 8th. Biggest pitch of the game.

Without Bregman, this is going to be a very bad team for a while.

 

[Mione134]

Not worried about Mayer. Hes good. He'll adjust.

Losing Bregman for any amount of time sucks. Easily our best player. Hopefully he heals fast and can get back sooner than he did when he had this injury a few years ago.

I hate the Pete Fatse experience. There's no situational baseball. No small ball. Ceddane blew it. If he can't bunt, teach him.


Our pitching is..I don't know.


Lots of issues. No solutions yet.

 

[BradPark22]

Not pinch hitting him in that spot is just absolutely stupid baseball.

I don't care what the advanced stats say with his expected BA, he cannot hit.

He swung first pitch, at a ball no less... then tried to bunt down 0-1 tells me he's a dumb player.

 

[CDJ]

You should only bunt if you have a truly feeble hitter at the plate and- here’s the important part- your team is good at putting the ball in play and playing situationally.

The Red Sox are not that. They should not be giving away free outs, and that’s before getting into the fact that there just aren’t many good bunters left

Feeble game 2 effort. They desperately needed Narv in the 4 hole I guess

 

[Mione134]

You should only bunt if you have a truly feeble hitter at the plate and- here’s the important part- your team is good at putting the ball in play and playing situationally.

The Red Sox are not that. They should not be giving away free outs, and that’s before getting into the fact that there just aren’t many good bunters left

Feeble game 2 effort. They desperately needed Narv in the 4 hole I guess

Considering this teams issues, especially with hitting, we should be bunting more. If Ceddane does the job and moves the runner, we get an opportunity to put the ball in play.

We can't score more than 1 run on a very bad Baltimore game is pathetic.

 

[DKH]

Time to bring Anthony up and get Rafaela, Mayer, and Campbell out every day taking ground balls and working on throws, situational baseball all over the infield

Mayer will likely end up at SS, Campbell at 2B, and Rafaela at CF but it’s the majors and it will only make you better as well as get you in majors

Reggie Smith started at 2B and Patrice Bergeron rookie year was a RW

 

[CDJ]

Considering this teams issues, especially with hitting, we should be bunting more. If Ceddane does the job and moves the runner, we get an opportunity to put the ball in play.

We can't score more than 1 run on a very bad Baltimore game is pathetic.

They don’t make enough contact. What is the point of getting a guy over to 3rd with 1 out when the next guy is going to strike out like 35% of the time lol

Hell the last time they did this “successfully” with the same guys Duran struck out! Like we’ve seen this exact scenario play out recently and it didn’t work. Hilariously enough they did it so Duran could face a lefty (.630 OPS, 30% k rate). It was braindead managing. I even called it out at the time and for some reason a lot of yall are obsessed with bunting, even when it’s clearly a bad idea and was proven to be a bad idea.

If the team sucks offensively then they should definitely not be giving away free outs. Bunting isn’t a good idea, there’s a reason why 30 different billion dollar organizations have mostly gone away from it. They’ve crunched the numbers. They know probabilities.

And again this is before getting into the fact that bunting is a lost art that not many do well

Bunting only really made sense in the national league without the DH. Today you’re just giving up a free out and putting pressure on the next guy to make contact against stuff monsters (most bunt attempts happen late and close against relievers throwing 98 nowadays). It made more sense to bunt when pitchers were rocking strikeout % in the teens, not guys at 25 or 30%. There’s a lot less contact these days than there was 30 years ago.

So bunting 30 years ago when players actually knew how to bunt and pitchers struck out 5 guys per 9? Sure thing. These days when players aren’t good at it and pitchers are striking out 10 per 9? Makes way less sense, especially now that it’s a lost art. An unsuccessful bunt is an absolute f***ing disaster, you basically kill most of your chance at having a good inning and even if it’s successful you’re greatly reducing the innings upside