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QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 23, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) I wouldn't say consistently. He wastes a decent amount of ABs looking at one or two pitches and then grounding out. It happens, but I wouldn't say he's all that patient. He's got like a .360 OBP as a Sox, he does a good job getting on patient or otherwise. If the other guys had a collective .360 OBP we'd be on hog heaven.

Eaton is the only guy on this team that consistently puts together great at bats.

Went to the gym for two hours, expected to have scored 1-2 runs only. Was not disappointed. Sick of this lineup. Too many black holes once again. They are one good hitter away at least from a mediocre offense. Honestly LaRoche might have helped them.

pathetic. Should have at least lit him up for a single on one of those meatballs. This offense man.

another one! Jesus, hit the f***ing ball.

omg, they are missing so many hittable pitches. Right down the middle slightly elevated should have been a blast.

good god Jose is f***ing awful right now. He's not even close on anything offspeed and his bat is way, way late on fastballs.

come on jose, how about a bomb.

QUOTE (lsufan52224 @ Apr 23, 2016 -> 01:17 PM) Nice to see Carlos not falling behind in the count He's not flying open early. Finishing nicely.

Benetti is pretty good overall but his constant "baseball 101" questions for Stone are getting old already.

Fans are apathetic about this team and I don't blame them. Even the wins are hardly punctuated with much offense.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Apr 21, 2016 -> 11:10 PM) What, pray tell, is the "historical norm season" of which you preach "there is enough to compete" of the: - non-PED Cabrera - unproven Lawrie - post-2013 Jackson - post-concussion Avila - 37 year-old Rollins - Avi Garcia EVER I do not f***ing understand this one. Tyler needs to be playing more than once a week. Rollins is old, man.

It really seems to me that too many of our guys are trying to pre-determine their ABs. They should be zoning in guys when they are wild but instead they are either taking with no purpose (like Jose and Avi and Avila) or swinging with no purpose (like most the lineup). You gotta hit with confidence look for your pitch and drive it. I mean today, a good hitting coach should just be saying "look fastball", am I wrong? What else are you f***ing doing if you can't hit a 86 mph fastball at the MLB level? Why was anybody looking for anything but fastball out over the plate especially early in the count? Just frustrating Weaver is not a good pitcher they should have lit him up 2nd time through and on. _____ Like Danks. Danks got f***ing rocked. He got rocked almost every single time he left a pitch up and out over the zone -- which was often. Hell, it didn't even matter what he was throwing when he was behind in the count, which was almost every hitter, they were hitting him hard. You cannot tell me that Weaver had better stuff than Danks today and the Sox barely even touched him.

This thread should be stickied every early march as well. Spring doesn't mean s***.

He should have been seeing 80% or more of his ABs against LHP. Instead it's the other way around. Why the f*** they didn't bring in platoon option, any platoon option, is beyond me. He's bad and he's not going to get better anytime soon. Probably is time to give him another two weeks and if he is still hitting like s*** you send him to AAA and tell him to hit his way back to the big leagues. I think a few AAA bus rides might light a fire under his ass mentally. He's obviously a hard worker but mentally I'm not sure he's MLB material. If he can not sulk and actually put in the effort in AAA maybe he can have MLB future again.

robots.

Rollins is playing way too damn much.

83 mph meatball and jose takes it right there.

67mph rolling breaking ball and rollins shanks it foul. Unreal. This is literally BP that is thrown to get guys into a groove in the cage.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 21, 2016 -> 02:43 PM) Are we really upset with danks going 5ip with 2 ER? could have easily been 5-7 without all that BABIP luck. Those balls were hit hard.

Saw that coming.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Apr 21, 2016 -> 02:21 PM) That's into the territory of not being able to hit some middle of the rotation college pitcher. He'd be drafted as a favor to someone near the 30th round with this stuff James, "Jim Dieters" drafted in the 7th round by the Cleveland Indians. Nasty lefty threw 86-90 and I struck out in my only three at bats against him. He was tough on lefties like myself. He blew out his arm in AA and never made it higher. I'm pretty sure his stuff in DIII as a senior was at least as good as this version of John Danks.

Danks owes a lot of chicken dinners.

Man it's nice having Todd over there.

behind every single hitter.