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Gio looks like s***.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 08:43 PM) Pittsburgh is an absolutely awesome park. It's location, proximity to the Ohio River, the city as a backdrop is dead set one of the finest baseball experiences I've encountered. on TV it looks absolutely stunning. before my dad passed he went to a game there and raved about it as well.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 08:40 PM) Has Benetti never been to Pittsburgh, Seattle, Milwaukee or Boston? Those 4 parks, for my money, are the best in baseball (I?€™ve never been to this park) not sure. I've been to about half the parks in MLB but only safeco out of those . of the one's I've been to camden, safeco and AT&T are my favs. least favs are probably comerica and rogers centre.

never been there but on TV this park looks generic AF with mediocre sight lines.

great job by yolmer staying back on that hook that didn't really do much.

fastball right down broadway popped up. what a poop start.

jesus, that was a chris sale slider, wow.

this team swings through an insane amount of piped fastballs. at any velocity.

90-91 for Gio, so much for the improved velocity. sigh.

that is a sick cuban links platinum and gold necklace berrios has.

avi garcia is an earth worms worst enemy.

this guy is pounding the zone. get up there and get ready to hit.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 08:12 PM) Benetti remarks that Yoan is tops in baseball in average exit velocity. I'm half suprised they didn't insert a fart/potty joke in there.

that said, holy f*** he's striking out a lot.

speaks a lot to Yoan's talent that he's had bad luck and looks really bad at the plate and he's still got a 651 OPS. He's #1 in exit velocity, which is impressive.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 01:40 PM) Rain tomorrow, 5-7" of snow Sat-Sun. Making up 3 games should be fascinating. Sox win tonight 5-4, BTW. goodness. hopefully they win tonight and just fly back to Chicago.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 07:10 PM) Yup. I find it amusing that people (not on this board, but on Twitter) are acting like this is some anomaly of a spring that won't happen again. This is the rest of our lives. Not to get too off topic (and honestly the AGW discussion here has been really reasonable) but yea this is probably the new normal for most of the upper midwest and east coast. my family still has property in N. MI and at least this year they didn't get a crazy snap of 70s in early march (like actually happened a few years ago) causing all the fruit trees to blossom and then frost after that. Something like 1/2 of the Michigan apple crop was wiped at that year (believe it was 2015). I've been talking with my mom, who lives up there, weekly about it and she's lived there for over 40 years now and anecdotally she knows the weather is changing. things are just more volatile. 50s in January and 20s in April -- s*** that makes planning human events harder -- like baseball, and fruit crops. I played so much baseball in cold, 40 degree weather but nothing like those HS kids are going through up there this year. It's still in the 20s! They are getting a snow storm this week with up to 5 inches forecast. Some of these kids' baseball seasons are going to be 1/3 wiped out. The HS season is only 2.25 months up there -- April, May and early June. Feel bad for the teams up there.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 10:14 AM) This weekend MIGHT get one game in. Supposed to get close to 5 inches on Saturday. At this point you can't even blame MLB for the season starting early or Twins not having a dome.. average high is 60+. We're just stuck in a freak Spring. get used to them.

It's not just his approach he was absolutely pulling off the ball today, as badly as I've seen him in Chicago. Front side flailing open and a lot of head movement. I really do think he should give up switch hitting. I don't think he can get into a good rhythm up there constantly switching sides. He's a natural lefty swinger. Just face lefties as a lefty.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 04:15 PM) Great game, very entertaining and not frustrating at all. Never in doubt. had it all the way.

Great performance from the pen today.

Parkman you are a really negative guy man. You think Kopech is a closer and Eloy is a DH at 24? Crazy. I mean, maybe it happens but that is certainly not the consensus of the rating community.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 03:54 PM) Should be a free run if you have a guy who can actually get the bunt down. it's certainly not a free run with the catcher running from 3rd. And you're still giving away an out. Just a stupid decision from Renteria.

it's just bad managing from Renteria. As noted, why are you doing a squeeze with the slowest guy in your lineup? Moreover, why are you asking a kid, with limited experience that is already swimming up there at the plate, to execute something he probably has done less than 3-4 times in his entire baseball career? It's not putting guys in a position to succeed. You can expect players to 100% execute or imo you can be pragmatic and realize their weaknesses. Bad on Ricky imo. Very bad. Disheartening that he is still so bad tactically imo.

it's a long season thank god.