Greg Hibbard

Nice play by Eloy. He seems to be improving in his reads / lines / jumps

Love him so much

Nothing like a guy making the last out at third needlessly

Let’s DH a guy hitting .190 why not

I just want to point out that Jose’s total WAR over 5.5 seasons is now 19.5. Paul Konerko doesn’t have any 6 consecutive seasons where his WAR surpasses Jose’s current total. Also, the Red Sox only had 5 players above 2 WAR offensively during their 2018. I don’t know where this myth comes from that we need to have 3+ WAR players at every single position. It’s perfectly fine if Jose Abreu costs 9-10 million and delivers 2 WAR at DH. He doesn’t have to be the best player on this team anymore.

Got to put it in this thread NO YONDER NO CRY

Evaluating whether Palka has enough of a power tool to be a decent LH platoon DH is not a terrible thing. If he doesn’t, I would rather waste 40 ABs and find it out this year while it’s meaningless and never see him again. It’s like Rondon. Thank god he is sealing his fate now rather than leaving us with some borderline call.

There goes the neighborhood

I DON’T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW

Imagine for a moment being such an utterly miserable human being as to only be able to take pleasure from continuously trolling a white sox fan board about 2/17 slumps Jose Abreu is having, only to immediately duck for cover when he gets hot. i know, I can’t really imagine it either. It’s despicable and sickening behavior.

A manager with a brain might have plunked Mazara in that situation.

I would have put a right handed dog in the batters box over Alonso

Top 10 dumbest thing Ricky has done

Fine. It looked like it was hit hard to me based on the play that occurred.

I think you missed my point. BABIP is a stat that accounts for the variance of results. This was kind of a freak double play that was amazing defensive performance than it was a referendum on Abreu’s playing ability. for all of you citing exit velocity, what was the exit velocity of yoan’s single, and if Jose’s ball is three inches more away from Odor I wonder if we are having this exchange about being “disgusted” by Abreu.

Jesus guys, Abreu blistered the ball and Odor turned it into web gem. Let’s not be overly results-oriented.

Except that’s not the way baseball goes, as we know. Look at what happened with Giolito and Lopez. It’s not like the NBA where you can count on production with a smaller range of variance. Baseball players (outside of superstars) have a huge range of variance in their performance from year to year

The Steve Sax Experiment Redux

But some context is required for that statement as the Sox are in a unique position in their rebuild. Before Machado came on the radar as a serious acquisition we were always going to go after veteran stopgap guys. One of those guys happened to also be James McCann.

We seriously need to stop placing a false equivalence on $9 million of bad money to Alonso and Nova each vs. $300 million to Machado. Almost every major league team spends a bad $10 million on one to two players every season.

Mazara looking like Babe Ruth in this series

The day he is gone I will bring a sign to the game that says THANK YOU FOR DFAING ALONSO ❤️

And the Alonso error leads to “ballgame”

Alonso, baby

I want Alonso to be the worst hitter in Sox history at this point out of spite. also “Roughed up by Rougned: the Ivan Nova story”