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My brain isn't figuring out WTH @flavum means by going 3-3 in the next 3 weeks . I keep thinking something is wrong with that statement . 3-3 in the next week ? Maybe he just got 3 happy with the 3 game sweep.

I wonder when the last time was that the Sox swept a 3 game series at home with only 1 HR ?

Kopech with a nice start , 7 IP ,3H , 2R , 9K ,1 BB

TA made my head explode swinging at that 3-1 pitch. I was like dude why swing, take strike 2 if you have to. Allow the chance for a wild pitch and walk. You know even if you hit it there's a good chance you're grounding into a DP. I swear why this stuff doesn't go through a players head stumps me. Even if you are supremely confident in your abilities you should be aware your low your launch angle is and the last thing you want to do is hit into a DP on one of those low curve ball you know you are going to get. Situational awareness was nil.

Every Day at Home that Burger wasn't in the starting lineup I whined. Now you see why ! Sox sweep ! Hendriks gets the W !

More runs please (by the Sox )

Kopech should've had the K against Maton, that was a beautiful pitch that had all of the strike zone on the corner.

Winning Ugly winner ! Circa 1983

Good job Romy . Walk Grandal ?

Ok Romy . No k's

Ok Let's go Vaughn at least get Moncada to 3rd or better yet just drive him in.

Putrid except for Beni

That was a quick inning . Tiger's offense just as pitiful. Well time to win it and maybe get an your 2nd extra base hit in 18 innings ?

I'd like to think the Sox can win this game at home in a battle of wild pitch offenses. But it is the Sox.

King Liam !

For a guy with a slugging % at home higher than most in the lineup OPS , I don't care.

No idea why you didn't go with the high FB to Baez instead of the non competitive slider.

Is Yoan dancing in the batters box? Whats with the jittery legs . Doesn't look like that's an effective way to keep your weight on your back foot and have an effective and timely transfer.

I'm getting sick of asking why Burger isn't in the starting lineup at home ? What else does the guy have to do ?

Times a wastin' then to spend the rest of it. Still would like Ricardo.

Since the Sox have about $1.5M left can they carry it over to the Jan 2024 class and have a shot at 16yr. Cuban SH SS Yandel Ricardo ?

I think Sheets has shown now he's an MLB hitter but yes I'd rather have Burger in there over him. SHeets is an ideal PH late in games considering the over abundance of RHP you generally face late. He's been very good in high leverage ,runners in scoring position with 2 outs situations. I'd just like to see Grifol using some of the stats available to him. There's no reason not to put Burger in the lineup when at home even if it's at the expense of taking out Sheets . Burger has a massively high Slugging at home and thats while most of his PA's are now against RHP. I'd be fine with Gavin starting some games on the road over Burger but even then in a lost cause kind of way Burger needs to start hitting on the road and leveling out his stats. I know many many players are better at home but his splits are just too ridiculously better at home. Burger is just a better power hitter and provides some speed regardless of the handedness of the starting pitcher at home . There's no way Burger can keep up the kind of stats he's putting up at home but it's silly to keep benching him in favor of SHeets. Hell Moncada is sinking to the point of his defense might not even be a viable reason to keep playing him. Even when he's in there Moncada can't be in the Middle of the order. Not when his Slugging has sank to its customary level of right around .400 and his OBP is now just .307. It's pretty sad when the old broken down Grandal is a better hitter than the young broken down Moncada. I've tried to be charitable to Moncada and his injuries but be it his oblique (then) or Back (now) he just never seems to heal but keeps playing poorly. So you have 2 guys you can take out of the lineup at home to get Burger in there, Moncada and SHeets. Grifol has only done it once in 4 games at home. I don't get it. I keep juggling lineups in my head to try to avoid Burger at 3rd base. Maybe Romy can play a better 3rd base ? Of course now the hole is back at 2nd base and you're back to either putting Moncada or Andrus at 2nd base. Platoon them maybe at 2nd base ? Deck chairs ... Titanic... yadda yadda ... just looking for something to put them on a little roll against the harder schedule upcoming. I wonder how often Grifol sits down with his coaches and thinks about these things. 1st and foremost would be Burger at DH at home but he can't even do that so no chance he does any of the other things I'm spitballing about. Now with Burger and Romy in and Sheets and Moncada out in my scenario the Sox are back to being a primarily RHH team again. Throw in that Grandal should be traded ASAP and that leaves 2 RH catchers in Zavala and Carlos Perez. Maybe you can find a team who would be willing to give up a youngish LHH catcher for Grandal who is near MLB ready . But basically come trade deadline it's apparent the Sox should be seeking out more LHH . Of course that's been the case forever with the Sox weakness being against RHP but Hahn's avoided it until this year. God I hope Colas can fix his issues and stay in the lineup.

How do you find how they do starting pitching vs relief pitching ? I don't see anything on Baseball reference that does splits that way. I see Gavin at a .769 OPS against all RHP in 2023. Burger at .833 Never mind I found it . Just means he does better late in games against the relief pitching. Although you would think that if they had a stat for performing against RHS they would have a stat for vs, RHRelief pitcher too. I see it now there's a little caveat :vs Starter batting splits are for the entire game when the starter was LH or RH. These splits include any subsequent plate appearances against a reliever regardless of their throwing hand. These splits are a proxy for platoon splits for seasons we lack play-by-play data. from GL team pitching splits indicate how batters did against the team and use the batter's overall batting handedness for this split. I prefer the overall OPS vs RHP a lot more than that stat you used. It's kind of a strange stat with the qualifier they use. Gavin is actually a better hitter on the road this year by a decent amount of OPS. Home .657 , Away .825.

Clevinger, Middleton, Lopez, Kelly Graveman TA 2 hits and a double for an RBI ( the only extra base hit of the game for the Sox) Romy looked good on defense. Jimenez RBI single and 13 game hitting streak

You shouldn't even be trying to calculate Benintendi's yet 2 months into it and Yas was only about $5.5M or less than 1 WAR from being worth his contract last time I saw a week ago.