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8 minutes ago, mmmmmbeeer said:
Scouting report against the Sox pen is clearly wait for the heat and go the other way. Just every game, we see teams doing it. Need to attack the top of the zone with the heat more often and throw more breaking balls for strikes instead of chases.
Which is even more maddening when you look at how Tony is calling shifts…they’re playing the 2B up the middle while righties go the other way. It makes absolutely no sense.
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We have to stop talking about this as bad BABIP luck against the pen.
The shifts and pitch calling has been atrocious all season. You cannot run the shifts the Sox had on for Bummer there and have your catcher calling outside sliders all day. They had Cesar pinching up the middle! What did they think the Jays wouldn’t take the ball the other way??
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Fair on the cold, was happy to see him hit 96 there that inning.
Encouraging thing to me is outside of the occasional batter Cease doesn’t seem to be missing as drastically as last year. Nothing quantitative but felt like he would totally lose the zone for long periods of time.
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Anyone worried about Cease’s velo?
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1 minute ago, YourWhatHurts said:
Even in Yermin's outs, the majority of the his ABs where he made those outs were competent at worst and at best, worked and challenged the pitcher.
There isn't a hitter in baseball including Trout who a pitcher cannot retire by making enough good pitchers. He is a defender himself, and he has another defender in front of him and 7 more defenders behind him. The problem for the pitcher usually is, the more pitches the pitcher has to throw, the less likely he is to make enough good pitches in the AB to stop the hitter from reaching base. Yermin actually challenges these guys. Not just in batting average, but in terms of competitive ABs, he's leading the team and the entire organization. And the next guy is probably Adam Eaton.
That AB he had against Bieber was by far the best Sox AB of the night. He didn't look overmatched at all.
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I’ll go as far to say that Tony is the worst manager in baseball.
Crazy you say? How many other managers do you think would give significant playing time to Nick Williams despite being 0-13.
The guy hasn’t had major league success since 2018 and it wasn’t that great. 13 at bats isn’t a small amount of chances at this point in the season - that’s a lot in the first 10 games for a bench guy!
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He’s an absolute idiot at this stage unfortunately.
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I’m actually worried about Tony’s brain. Comparing Gio to David Eckstein...what dude??
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4 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:
Today is April 13th 2021 and the Sox are 5-6 in a 162 game season. We have played 6% of the games this year (less than 1% for you meatheads who seem to lose 5 years off your life in each game thread).
I will continue to post this. How so many of you can be so angry, and mad not only day by day but pitch-by-pitch baffles me. As many have said the baseball season is the longest grind in professional sports. Tony has made GOOD gut calls, and bad. Our defense has started to look better last few nights. our pitching --- OUTSTANDING recently.
Simmer down. Weed is legal now in Illinois. I implore some of you guys to try it.
Stop justifying the insane lineups of a deluded old man that’s going to run the team we love into the ground.
We get that it’s early. But we’re entitled to be concerned as fans. If you can’t see why these moves make no sense then you’re way too blindly confident in this team.
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Fuck Tony La Russa. And fuck anyone justifying this stuff. He’s cost us at least 2-3 games we could have had a chance in with some competent managing.
He is much worse than Ricky.
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Thank god Jake Lamb is in the game!
I hate TLR
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Especially unhittable if you have Nick Williams batting 5th.
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Honestly though guys...if I have to see another Nick Williams soft groundout. Like come on man.
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Hahah yes. Sorry just frustrated with this man and find that name way too funny.
Won’t happen again. Or maybe it will idk.
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Just now, YourWhatHurts said:
Whatever brain cells Captain Morgan, Bud Weiser, and Jack Daniels haven't already killed, Old Man Time and Mother Nature have pretty much taken care of. Whatever his rules are at this point, they should be determined by his primary care provider and administered by a registered nurse.
Hahaha this was great.
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2 minutes ago, YourWhatHurts said:
I can see from the lineup that the strategy TLR is employing must be one of the following: 1) he is attempting to lure the opponent into a false sense of security so that he can use his brilliant HOF baseball person manager guy brain later on in the game in a manner which will befuddle the opposing manager; or 2) out of genius, he is trying to lose the game on purpose, because he knows that there is some other, greater reward which will come of this loss later, which will actually make the team better and result in a higher win total at the end of the season.
....Or maybe he's just unfit for the job. Who knows?
La Booza plays by nobody’s rules but his own
He’s a hall of famer, brother.
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These TLB lineups are definitely worse than Ricky’s.
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So Tony La Booza doesn't want to play Yermin now ahead of Lamb, after 2/4 days off...great. Just great.
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His nickname is now Tony La Booza. End of Story.
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TLB strikes again man. No explanation for this. Get OFF THE SAUCE TONY.
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Tony La Booza strikes again. This is pure insanity.
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So painful to watch. WHAT is going on man.
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1 minute ago, South Side Hit Men said:
He's literally their best hitter tonight.
Dude dribbled a grounder to the oppo side, it’s still Billy Hamilton. To act like he should be in is absurd.
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1 minute ago, fathom said:
He has our only hit.
Blind squirrel...dude is a joke at the plate
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MLB 2021-2 off season thread
in Pale Hose Talk
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I am legitimately worried about that yes