Rowand44

Me every time I see a TLR lineup:

Ya, I have plenty of worries about this team but the bullpen ain't one of them. That group will be one of if not the best pens in the league.

Lifetime Contract?

OPS last year against lefties was .887, against righties it was .749 and that's with Eloy having an .898 ops against righties. It's still not the biggest sample size in the world but it's absolutely something people were worried about going into the season after Eloy got hurt and so far it's showed through.

Who the hell cares about the Cubs in this scenario? This is a team that had/has World Series aspirations, the Cubs didn't. Everything Fathom saying is true here, we murder lhp and don't hit right handers that well. Even last year when everyone thought we had the best offense in the world, we were very average against righties and that's with Eloy around who was one of the guys who mashed them.

Well we haven't in how long now? So to answer your question: at this point the answer is no.

This is one way to handle your top prospect... This shit is infuriating.

That game was also still tied. I feel like when people talk about the AJ play in particular people talk about it like the Sox were losing and were going to automatically lose that game if that specific thing didn't happen.

I don't think anyone thought he was going to be amazing right off the bat because most people hated the damn hire to begin with. The sky isn't falling, the season isn't over but these type of games early when you're most likely going to be scratching and clawing for a playoff spot could absolutely come back to bite us and I'm not going to write it off to "meh he'll get better."

Yup, agree with both of you.

What’s the date when we finally beat a right handed starting pitcher this year?

Ya, I obviously have 0 idea if he can continue to hit in the majors but his track record of hitting in the minors is not short. Dude has been doing it for a ton of years now.

It's 4 games, I get that and most others do too. What does make me a bit nervous is everything I was worried about coming into the season has already kind of showed through. This offense might be very average against right handed pitching, Cease might still not be very good, Tony might be stuck in 1995 and this team has 0 depth anywhere besides the bullpen where apparently Ruiz is going to pitch in the 9th inning. Like I said, I'm not freaking out, it's ridiculously early in a very long season but there are worries with this team.

My bad, my bad. Let me clarify: The hall of famer baseball person, Tony, not the hall of famer soxtalk poster, Tony.

Absolutely. But the thing is if the Sox think highly enough to have him on the roster it's because they think his bat is as advertised. If it's as advertised then he's your best bet there to tie the game up. Him not starting is obviously a whole other bag here because that annoyed me to begin with but ya, I just think the whole situation was handled wrong.

In Tony's opinion(I guess) that isn't a good matchup for Vaughn. There's nothing out there to suggest that Vaughn can't hit those type of pitchers.

Vaughn should have been hitting for Leury imo. But that's down the list of things that went wrong last night so I'm not going to harp on it too much.

Ahh the early 2000's Oakland games. Memories...

Maybe nobody, maybe everybody. I know everyone is excited about those 2(especially Dylan) after the spring but none of us have any idea what either of them are bringing to the table this year.

Well that's my issue with sporting events I care about...it's not that I'm up until midnight watching the game but I'm always amped up after and can't fall asleep for a few hours as well. Just makes for a long night.

It was last night...

I'm the opposite end of the coin here. I stayed out until after the game was over and now I'm just dying at work today. Not fun.

He was over throwing it looked like to me. When Gio gets amped you can literally see it on his face.

Struggle isn't fair but they were very, very average against RHP last year and that's why the Eloy injury scared the crap out of me as he was one of the guys that hit them very well.

He's easy to pile on because of the passed ball stuff which is absolutely frustrating but ya saying he's a bad pitch framer is obviously silly.