Jake

I remember the early-season hype about DeLauter having 4 homers in his first 3 career games. Now he's on his 101st game and only has 12. A fine rookie season nonetheless.

That's one of those Cleveland deadline acquisitions btw. Who's running that team???

Hagen's velocity over time in that outing. Whether he runs out of gas or just lets off the throttle to try to combat the poor command is unclear

Given the construction of the lineup and just generally how the game is played nowadays, I don't think there should be quite as much of a prohibition on making the first out at third. Mune isn't exactly a get him over, get him in type of guy. Of course you'd like him to come up with ducks on the pond. I wonder whether they would have IBB'd Mune with a man on 2nd and nobody out.

Hard to see...might be safe but will we get the right angle?

How in the world did they get him

Two scoreless from Hagen and you're all mad!!

In AAA, Hagen's best pitch for being in the strike zone was the cutter by a small margin. I think that's why he keeps going to it after the 4-seamers sail.

IDK what he was trying to throw there. Shape was more similar to his 4-seam than anything else, but it had a lot more drop than his 4-seam. And less spin, but not enough less to look like his changeup. Maybe a sinker. But I've seen him be pretty inconsistent with his movement so it might just be a particularly poor case of execution.

Hagen kind of breaks the rules because he gets rather good results on the heater even when he's not letting it loose in terms of velo. Just a matter of throwing strikes. Noah different in that even when he gets his best velo, he doesn't normally get that many whiffs because the shape isn't good.

Sam has all the traits of a speed player except for the speed

Welcome to the Hagen Smith experience

Took my now-wife to this doubleheader in June 2013 that was wet throughout, including a half hour rain delay between the games. Not including the rain delay, the combined near 8 hours of gametime made it the longest doubleheader in history (probably still stands?). https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA201306281.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA201306282.shtml Shortly after they announced there would be no postgame fireworks because it had gotten too late at night, Addison Reed blew a 3-run lead, capped off with a go-ahead Nick Swisher HR by the bad guys. It's always nice to have a day at the ballpark but that Sox team along with mother nature did their best to try to make it miserable. IIRC a lady got smoked by a foul ball and had to be ambulanced out of there too...but maybe she was the lucky one.

Some things I know from personal experience as a guy who pitched with a bad shoulder... It can be hard to get fully warmed up. There's "I'm loose" but you're still feeling like there's something gumming up the works. After you've really been laboring for a while, it feels like you finally have full and smooth use of your range of motion. You do not believe you're hurt. You know something's off, but you're telling yourself it's conditioning, your routine, your mechanics, etc. And sometimes it's true! By the time you're hurt, you've had numerous times you've troubleshooted problems with the way your arm felt via all those things. You think if you're hurt, you're going to be completely unable to pitch. Since you can pitch like 85% good, you must not be hurt. So it can drag on until your effectiveness is so down that nobody lets you pitch anymore.

Sox may have noticed a trend with his expected statistics such that his season had mostly turned around by those metrics, although the Dodgers beat his ass so thoroughly that it had the effect of strongly bending the curve upward just from the one game. Since mid-May, his worst start by xwOBA was .339 ... other than the nearly .600 xwOBA start against the Dodgers. One thing that is for certain is there are no teams paying attention to bWAR for player acquisition because they aren't really paying attention to ERA. I think there's probably some diversity as to what exactly they do put weight on. Every metric was pointing towards a little bit of bad luck for Castillo, but whether the luck was a run of ERA or a quarter run of ERA depends on your system. I think there's plenty of ways to feel pessimistic about Castillo without looking at his ERA, although a few ways to see signs that he's going to give you some useful innings.

Jairo is out there throwing almost all fastballs and not getting a ton of strikeouts as a result. He's keeping the walks mostly in check which was a problem for him in the low minors. But the low strikeouts also limits his upside. And it's not obvious why he's getting way with such a fastball heavy approach. He has an unusual release which is something Bannister talked about when Jairo was acquired. Both low angle and very high extension so it seems to come out of the middle of his body which is a weird thing. Not sure what the upside is unless he comes up with a swing and miss secondary pitch, though. Between the release point being almost center cut and the fact he seems to like his changeup, he has almost reversed splits, propelled by the fact he strikes out lefties a lot more than righties.

I think the way he gets the ball from his glove and throws it back to the pitcher is really weird (always, not just this inning). Looks like some kind of weird routine that a guy uses to overcome the yips.

Korey is hitting at about a park-adjusted league average clip in AAA, a tick below that on the Statcast expected metrics. Reasonable to think he would out-hit Romo (it's a very, very low bar). Most signs point to Lee being a pretty brutal defensive catcher, besides his throwing arm being so strong. Last I looked, he was among the worst framers in AAA which is the biggest contributor to defensive value for catchers. And he has a bad track record for blocking in MLB, which is the next biggest contributor to defensive value. You get the impression that the Sox think he's bad at calling games, but I don't know how to evaluate that very easily from the outside. Eric Haase is right there though. He's also not really a very good defender, but his bat is a little more proven (albeit unexceptional to say the least) and he's managed to have a MLB job a long time so I assume the intangibles must not be too bad.

Looks like the rule as revised a couple years ago is that if he's touching the infield grass at the wrong moment, he's out. I can't roll it back right now but I'm assuming he was indeed on the grass.

AJ was right initially. What's the letter of the law there? Chase was in line with the base, he didn't need to move towards foul territory to touch the base. What are his obligations?

When is the last time you saw that called?

I remember the first 2 or 3 weeks in the big leagues, before the first homer, it was a parade of weakly hit singles. I was worried he wasn't going to make it until he started hitting like the Rob Deer I always knew he could be

My heart sank watching the ball on the way there because I thought he was toast.

I've really marveled at the way Colson has been fouling balls off his legs. That's just a crazy amount of pull tendency. Back in high school, I had never done that before as a hitter — more of a liner up the middle guy because I hadn't partaken in the sabermetrics kool-aid yet. First time I got a varsity at-bat, I was totally amped up and worried I'd look overwhelmed by the higher velocity so I wanted to try to catch something out in front more than I normally would. First pitch I see is in the zone about waist high and BOOM I ripped that thing off my own knee and could barely finish the at bat from the pain. Anyway, I just think about how out of sorts I had to be in order to make that happen and yet Colson seems like he could do it on command.