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He throws his breaking ball 36% of the time on average. So he always throws it a lot.

Burke's worst start in months.

I stopped paying attention after I saw the ground out to Lindor lol

He's throwing 50/50 in terms of breaking ball/fastball. Do the Sox need to have a better approach? Yes. But it's not as easy as just telling hitters to layoff the curve.

Mets got out of a bases loaded jam

Yeah but he throws his other pitches for strikes.

That's what it feels like.

He throws enough strikes to make it so that you can't just go up and take.

Did they take Contreras out?

Quero is just much worse at the catching part.

Foolish Baseball did a video on how the Brewers were bad against good pitchers but great against bad ones. A byproduct of that video is figuring out the Sox are also terrible against good pitchers and good against the bad ones. We had the 2nd highest wOBA difference between our performance against the top 25% of pitchers and bottom 25% of pitchers. This includes last year as well as this year though, but I think it also applies this year.

We're playing like Boston did earlier in the season against them.

They just can't layoff the curve.

He's also late on fastballs.

That's a pop out in just about any other park.

Can't throw middle/middle to a hot hitter like Abreu and get away with it. That's twice now.

Burke really hasn't had a good curveball today. Mostly getting by on his fastball so far.

He went on that

It's basically his to lose unless he slumps like he did last year. Ohtani isn't pitching again, so there's no way he can keep up in WAR as a DH.

Sam, what are you doing?

The fact that they didn't challenge that makes it seem like they wanted to just pitch around him.

Just about everything going right for Boston right now.

What a poor use of the salary space that trading Robert freed up.

I know he pitched in Coors, but he just gave up 7 runs to the Rockies.

That's not the flex he thinks it is.