chitownsportsfan

Same reason you don't see many of the type of injuries that Robert and Buxton had in the NFL and that is baseball is a stop and go sport with a daily grind whereas in football the muscles are always warm in game and you get 6 days to recover. I didn't play football psst HS but I played like 90% of our snaps and I would say it's a completely different athletic grind than baseball. Similar in difficulty but completely different. One thing I'd say that was similar was that something is almost always bothering you in both sports. In baseball, especially in college when we were playing 40 games in a two months, my hands were always beat up and my arm was almost always sore. In HS football it was usually a mild ankle sprain or similar "get rolled up on" type injury like a knee sprain. Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I think baseball should do more to have guys staying warm between ABs. Maybe more guys will start riding a bike like you see in the NBA. I feel the same way about soccer. I never understood how in soccer a sub can warmup for literally like 3 minutes and then be expected to go balls to the wall for 20 minutes or whatever. That's just not enough time to get loose and get the blood flowing into the muscles and joints.

Steamer projects a 93 wRC+ for him, which isn't bad for a utility IF. K rate is concerning but based on that ISO he posted in AA he laces the ball around the park. Not easy to put up a .234 ISO in Birmingham.

one of the worst nicknames conceivable.

yoan's bat is looking a lot quicker. maybe he's feeling healthy for once.

this pirates team sure has a bunch of yappers for a bottom feeder.

nice play by their 2B.

good lord AV. Be nice if he got hot.

gamel didn't lose that in the lights he just misread it, how would you lose a ball hit that low in the lights?

that was a helluva swing on a good pitch.

lol yaz.

how hungover is Gio?

stock moves the chart, chart doesn't move the stock.

Man I used to play in Chinatown, nothing like getting on that crowded ass D train from Brooklyn and then back. Same field Manny Ramirez is said to have hit one onto the Manhattan Bridge. Miss those days a bit now thinking about it. NYC has such great energy. Don't really get that feeling here.

lol, see, there you go again!

no offense but I feel rec league soccer players never shut up about it. Like I never hear beer league softball players going on and on online about their shit.

Man just IL TA if he's going to be sitting 2 out of every three days.

Just get him some PRT and a twelve pack and he'll be as good as new in a couple weeks.

Bo is lucky he played before statcast and fangraphs.

His tools were loud. So were Joe Borchard's. He doesn't get extra credit for only playing baseball part time. He was at best a solid regular before he got hurt. I get it, I like Bo, he's a cool guy, big into golf now, but he had major holes in his swing and had a horrible eye. He was a much better football player.

They have a good team, Sox, when fully healthy, have a team that can compete with any. Let the best team win, or failing that the team that gets hot at the right time.

They are 18-1 against the Orioles. Makes me more confident should we see them in the ALCS. Talk about your bum slaying.

I'd demand, DEMAND a refund in a strongly worded letter.

he was able to "play CF" the same way Palka could "play RF". But that gave us the "general soreness" meme which will forever live in our hearts and he made one of the most clutch throws in WS history.

One Griffey tore his hamstring it was all downhill. He continued to have problems with it and tore it again later in his career, I think the year before he came to the Sox. What could have been.

I just don't see it. He was a 3 WAR player at 27 and it was by far his best year. For all his athletic gifts he could not hit breaking balls to save his life and defensively he was bad by every advanced metric. Maybe he could have put it together and had a couple 5 WAR seasons, but that's a very optimistic projection given the swing and miss in his game and the not just mediocre but outright bad defense. It's hard to be negative run values in CF but he was that on both Fangraphs and B-Ref. Maybe those metrics are just wrong, but I'll take them over the eye test.