Jake

Edgar ranks 88 out of 91 for runs he costs the team by challenging (i.e., he's third worst). He's second worst if you ignore the game situation and focus solely on how many challenges he wins vs. loses given the opportunities he's had. The only way you can make him look "good" is if you just look at the sheer number of challenges won, which he ranks modestly high at, but that's only because he challenges a higher percentage of pitches than any catcher in MLB. The portion of his challenges rated as "reasonable" (based on the pitch location and the count/game situation) is near the worst as well.

Every game Ozzie goes on TV and gives advice that, if Colson listened to it, would cause him to become the guy who was striking out at a 50% rate in AAA in early 2025. His whole breakthrough was driven by accepting his limitations and not trying to be a complete, all-fields, high-contact hitter.

Horrific job by the umpire in Braden's AB. Missing two completely different locations by a clear margin in 3 pitches.

More confirmation to me that Pereira is in Kelenic mode trying too hard to prove it against his former team. Explains his poor ABs

In case you were wondering, in spring training Teel graded out as a good challenger using ABS.

Nice contact from Gonzalez but Sox aren't getting those today.

Sox are going to have to use everybody in the pen just to get through this one. And that will have ramifications down the line.

You see a 9 to 3 score and it would give you a very wrong idea about how this game has gone. Hope the offense continues to put some traffic on the bases

Still appears they know what's coming either due to scouting, tipping, or whatever else. They have had a lot of success on pitcher's pitches.

Yeah the risk-reward on that play is not very good. He'd have had to play it real aggressively before the throw and risk getting caught up if they backpicked.

Another flare

even that ball from Jazz wasn't hit very hard. Losing Newcomb hurts a lot both in the short and long term.

One of those days that you're outplaying your opponent and losing anyway

Yeah that was crazy. And it wasn't even that short on the fly, it just had incredible carry somehow. 360-some feet as I recall.

Give me a break man

Rodon has been very lucky today. Lots of very well struck balls for outs. Meanwhile the Yankees are coasting on the cheapest home run I've seen in a while

Absolute pitcher's pitch he hit out too

So far this one is a shoulder shrug from me. You can only learn so much from 11 innings of baseball. Yankees are a really good team and you're not supposed to beat them. Doesn't mean you can't, of course. Hopefully we see some life from the bats.

Two straight nights that the Yankees clearly know what pitch is coming at times. Caballero clearly knew when Kay was throwing over, even (as soon as he came set). I'm guessing it's just scouting/tipping. I first noticed last night when I saw Bellinger on second base signaling to the batter.

I knew this team was cooked after the Milwaukee series!

In case you were wondering, Michael Turner's Statcast numbers look bad. I do not expect Chris Getz to be fooled by that.

Nah just pulling the core guys to keep them from getting hurt in a blowout, I think

Umps haven't done the Sox any favors today.

You look at the pitching staff and the org pitching depth chart and you just don't see much investment there. And not too surprisingly, the talent and production aren't jumping off the charts. You have a couple first round picks in the form of Schultz and Hagen. Book is out on them. Thorpe was a major trade return. After that, not much money or trade capital spent on any of these guys. And I think in the past couple years, Getz has made a philosophical shift against spending much on pitching while you're in a rebuild. I actually agree with that, quantity over quality is probably the way to go with pitching. When your team is finally good, that's when you can change your focus to getting guys who are good right now.

Yeah I just doubt it means anything besides the small sample sizes for each and possibly some unrelated things like better road opponents and things like that.