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His splits vs. LHP are quite good though.

Yeah and fulmer can go more than one inning (unless he's bad) (that does happen a lot) (hmm...starting to rethink this)

Sox oughta just bunt every time against snell,

Last year of course was ripe with HS pitching talent, and sox picked a college outfielder in the second round.

After one of the hottest hitting teams in baseball visited over the weekend, now the sox get one of the stingiest pitching staffs, led by Blake Snell. It's a beeeeeeee-auty of a day for the 6 people that can attend the game. And to make the sox heavy RH against Snell, that's right, we have a two catcher lineup.

To be fair he has been the low man on him this year.

Just for record, while saturday was uniquely bad this has been an ongoing issue for me at sox games. I get that it's hard to project, but that's not completely exhonerating to me because part of the decision to go to more games is when you decide on a whim to go. That happens less when you think it's going to be a pain (especially with kids, where the times you get up to get food is multiplied). But there was a lot of good insight here, and as I have said, this usually is the worst early in the year and they figure it out as they go.

Good perspective.

Lopez has actually increased his four seamer usage to 64% this year. Mixed results Id say!

Wow

Zevala has quietly started off well in CHa. A double today.

Robert hit by another pitch

Singles home two

Now Madrigal up bases loaded

Kd swinging.

Robert up bases loaded

Birmingham has 3 runs on 1 hit

I still worry with Vaughn. Yes, I am one that complains about body scouting being too inaccurate/too relied on, but it worries me that Vaughn doesn’t appear to have anything more that he can tap into. In this draft, at three maybe that’s still one of the best profiles available. But you really don’t get that many chances (hopefully!) to get a player with the types of athleticism/power of Witt or athleticism/speed/potential of Abrams.

This also sounds spot on. The lines can seem more intimidating for the Vienna stands but they move way faster. I don’t know what the deal is with the outer ring. Perhaps it’s the staff constantly dealing with new food items so the early on is rough. I will say the stadium is always much better in August for some obvious staffing reasons.

Ding ding ding. The contact rate is what matters now.

To me AA is out most important developmental level. If you can thrive in Birmingham I’m putting down your placemat isn’t the bigs.

Yes football games are always terrible. But baseball stadiums maybe due to the extra space and lower capacity I haven’t found as difficult.

Your last paragraph makes a ton of sense. In the fourth seemed like the whole main level was in their seats, I get up and the concourse was like a rain delay. But you are right, Sox especially early try way too hard to optimize staffing with their stands. They seem to figure it out in June/July for weekend games, but sometimes even 15k weeknight games are hell because they’ll have like two stands open. Tickets cost the same, but you get worse treatment.

I’m interested in if I’m being a grumpy old man or if others feel this way. I haven’t been to a ton of other ball parks, but I’ve been to wrigley, Fenway, Anaheim, and brewers parks when they were all either sold out or 30k +. One thing that always seems to stick out when the Sox games are crowded when I’m there (as opposed to like 24k or less) is how freaking long everything takes. Food and drinks take a good inning you will miss, so you better get it all at once. Fees like every line is 8 plus people deep and it takes FOREVER. The other stadiums it feels like we’re way more manageable. I don’t quite even get why, but am I crazy? Is it actually bad there too and I was just too distracted by the novelty?