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Abreu and Grandal tanked this game.
JUSTgottaBELIEVE replied to Greydawgfan1's topic in Pale Hose Talk
Your unwavering defense of Grandal is nauseating. You do realize his batting average in a Sox uni is .219 right? I’d be more surprised if his career batting average with the Sox ends up in the .240-.250 range than the .200-.210 range. I’m sure you’ll cite some WAR numbers proving how great he is but if you actually watch the games and his play you realize this is one of the most overrated players in fangraphs history. And that’s not an exaggeration. -
Muncy got 248 PA in 2020 and 589 in 2019. That's a starter, not a bench player. Blum played several positions. I don't even know who Scott Broadus is.
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Not panicking, but Moncada doesn't work in the 4 spot. He isn't providing protection for Abreu. Try him 2nd or 5th. I guess try Yermin 4th for now. He and Eaton are the most dangerous hitters right now.
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I totally get what you're saying. But the Sox have more to prove. Many other teams have history of heating up as time goes on. The Sox... don't. And unfortunately simply having talent is not enough.
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One really good thing our scouts and analytics departments targeted the right players in Burnes and Musgrove. Just too bad we didn’t capitalized on it.
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Abreu and Grandal tanked this game.
joesaiditstrue replied to Greydawgfan1's topic in Pale Hose Talk
also would be interesting if somebody looked at Abreu's hitting lines per game and then listed the game time temperature with each one, lol -
Abreu and Grandal tanked this game.
joesaiditstrue replied to Greydawgfan1's topic in Pale Hose Talk
both guys who are typically slow starters I reckon. sucks but we don't currently have anyone in the lineup other than Yermin and Eaton who can pick them up until it starts warming up, just try and hover around .500 like has been said -
that's true but Eloy seems more athletic and probably runs faster and is a bigger guy honestly it's probably a wash between them in LF, though Vaughn probably won't make as many boneheaded mistakes
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Maybe I’m already used to seeing Eloy flub plays like that and break his pinky every other day.
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Lotta cheap shots at Eloy for a Vaughn thread. His routes weren't that bad. All right, coming in on a short ball you may have a point.
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Yeah it wasn't super difficult to get there as he was playing deep already and the ball was hanging up a long time but the wall was well timed.
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Abreu seems to be pressing at the plate. Maybe not, just seems that way. Unfortunately he may not heat up til the weather does. I'm just gonna stay patient. As long as team doesn't fall five under .500 or something. That would be really bad. Better only be 1 or 2 under .500 or 1 or 2 over til Sox get hot. None of this five under .500.
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Bruh. One thing in Nick's favor is that he's the rare bird that takes walks despite swinging a wet noodle of a bat. I don't know if he can sustain a 360-370 OBP with a .30 ISO. I guess we'll find out.
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He has 0.5 bWAR through 40 games, a pace of 2.0+ per 162. As long as he makes improvement enough to get to 2.5/162 I’m good. I think he can get there.
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Benneti has pointed out a few times that if you look at standings, only a couple games really separates all the teams (minus Red Sox and Dodgers). Everyone is close. Just continue playing close games, .500 ball until the offense heats up (hopefully soon).
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No man, I’m saying look at the standings. Pretty much every team that was supposed to be really good this year is about .500 or under. Only the Dodgers and Padres seem to be walking the walk. Seriously take a look. Seems to me that the Twins, Sox, Tribe, Jays, Yankees, Rays, Astros, Braves, Mets, Phillies and the entire NL Central must all be blowing some games too. Seems like most of the league is working out the kinks to start the year, including us. I wouldn’t trade our roster with any of those. Ownership, yes. But I said roster. If you can’t see that we’re stacked compared to almost every team I don’t know what to tell you except...maybe take some drugs to relax 😂
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Lol why did I laugh so hard at that.
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Sox resign Rodon 1 yr /3m official, Vargas DFA
RagahRagah replied to bmags's topic in Pale Hose Talk
Jake Arrieta? -
Other teams are bad, therefore we shouldn't be bothered about being bad. Um, no. Doesn't work, sorry. And again, the Yankees have a history of great scouting, development, investing, and winning. Who cares about their roster this year? There's not a fan alive that wouldn't switch ownership with the Yankees. If we were the Yankees we would all be quite happy.
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Who do you consider the team leader, face of the franchise, heart of the team, whatever you want to call it, however you define it. We had Frank Thomas, then Paul Konerko. Who's that guy for you, currently?
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Sox resign Rodon 1 yr /3m official, Vargas DFA
caulfield12 replied to bmags's topic in Pale Hose Talk
Quintana was amazing for most of 2012 and helped carry their unexpected charge at the Tigers. He was one of the best #2/3 starters in baseball until 2017, when things started to go south. Arguably, on some bottom 10 teams, he would have been the ace or best pitcher. But a solid #2, definitely. His weak points were not always going long in games (past the 5th or 6th, especially near the end of his Sox career), and not being able to put away hitters because he lacked one true "plus" strikeout pitch that he could always call forth in pressure situations. Always overlooked because he was never a dominant stuff pitcher, but got by on guile, location and was in many ways similar to Mark Buehrle (or a Glavine with less control), except for sometimes slowing down the game a bit more with runners on base. -
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There's some straight up haters in this thread.
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What the fuck is a "3 year hot streak" lmao
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Abreu and Grandal tanked this game.
chitownsportsfan replied to Greydawgfan1's topic in Pale Hose Talk
We really need a "I'm pissed about this loss and want to spout off" thread. 1/162 fellas. Act like ya 'been there before.
