RockRaines

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 06:50 PM) Really bad start by Johnson is basically what screwed us. Hopefully Danks has a better one tomorrow. I really think he's going to have a comeback year. Well, hopefully.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 06:49 PM) We got a lot of work to do, boys. It's going to take years so be patient.

Call this a game and reset tomorrow. Yikes.

Abreu not liking the road so far.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 06:25 PM) Chen's goin down tomorrow, and then Sale on Sunday. 3-3 or 4-2 road trip. Would be nice. I like the fight in this team but clearly there is room for a ton of improvement on both sides of the ball.

His fastball must be hard to pick up. Lots of bad looks there.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 04:57 PM) Nailed it. But you were 2 minutes late! No points! That was an awesome call.

82 pitches. Yikes.

Abreu sucks. Right?

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 04:30 PM) Sox need a legitimate long reliever in the pen. When you're going to lose anyway, you need one guy that's going to take one for the team, so you have a fresh pen the next day. Yeah need that rubber armed guy especially if you are breaking in new starters. It's a must. Which is why 2 DHs sucks IMO.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 04:15 PM) You can not teach instincts. You can work on positioning and taking good routes to a ball but the ability to react at the crack of the bat you cannot teach. Cal Ripken was a prime example of being able to read a ball off the bat immediately. I am not saying Garcia cannot improve he can, in certain facets and his speed will help but he will always have flaws and be inconsistent. The backpedal is a technique. Gordon was an infielder and learned how to play outfield in the majors. I don't get how you now can pin bad fielding on a guy who is 22 and athletic.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 04:07 PM) That is instinct and Garcia does not have it. You can not teach a player to be a better outfielder. His speed will make up for some short comings. The ball in the first he should have gotten to. It would have been a good play but he still should have gotten there. The fact this organization thought he could be a center-fielder is a head scratcher though. Gordon was taught that when he moved to the outfield though.....

See Gordon's initial backpedal. Garcia needs to learn that.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 04:00 PM) Got two years to worry about that, IMO. Adding a quick-riser like Hoffman should help the foundation of Sale/Quintana. After those two, it's anyone's guess about who could be in the rotation. Maybe that's where a free agent comes in. 2 years is a good estimate IMO.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:58 PM) I think he barely got in. As he took one off, he got the other on without time in between. If you slow it way down the fingers on his left hand come off briefly. Ump was shielded.

If this team ever contends we need several different arms including starters.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:57 PM) It's OK, the bullpen is well rested. And shutdown.

Looks like he was out when he switched hands.

Really sucks not to get actual starting pitching today.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:50 PM) I'm not sure he could have caught it, but it just seems like he's not getting good reads on anything hit out there right now. Like you said, why play him so shallow with wind flying out and Johnson trying to pitch Gordon inside? It's moronic. He should be played deep all the time. I'd rather him come in on the ball with his arm.

Oh s*** don't mention it's a spacious outfield. You are doing yourself a disservice Stone.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:47 PM) It was hit in the gap but far over to the right field side. To act like Eaton had a shot on that is silly. You're a great poster Rock but you do yourself a disservice when you fall in love with a player like Garcia and fail to look at his plays objectively. You have defended each and every one of his bad reads/plays/jumps in RF. Are you saying he's been adequate thus far? I remember going back and forth with you when you said he was going to have Magglio like impact. He's a specimen and a talent but he has a ways to go. Yes reality of not getting to a gapper is doing me a disservice. Uh huh. His defense has been putrid thus far this season, that play was not one of them.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:46 PM) Why would you play shallow in RF against Alex Gordon with a gale force wind blowing in that direction? He's the most dangerous hitter for the Royals, arguably. Or Butler. He's already showed an inability to get back on the ball...the one that got over his head from Collabello yesterday. Ask the coach who positioned him there then. I was shocked he got as close to it as he did with how hard he hit it.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:43 PM) No, it would have been very, very difficult. But a guy who has shown center fielder skills shouldn't have those skills regressing at 22. He doesn't have center field skills and to say he should have caught a rocketed gapper flying with the wind is comical.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:44 PM) Whaaaa that ball was definitely catchable By whom? Maybe if he had a rocket up his ass.