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QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 10:30 AM) Lineups: SOX 8 Eaton 7 Cabrera 3 Abreu D LaRoche 9 Garcia 6 Ramirez 5 Gillaspie 2 Soto 4 Johnson 1 Danks KC Annoying BABIP Magician #1 Annoying BABIP Magician #2 Annoying BABIP Magician #3 ... 1 Volquez

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 10:32 AM) Ground ball pitcher + move to bigger park + good IF defense = low BABIP = another fluke year. Yeah his thing is walks and homers, it certainly does seem like if he's going to repeat, KC would be a good place to do it.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 10:28 AM) Sox win today. It's hard to sweep a major league team. Not nearly as hard after you've already won the first two

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 10:02 AM) Volquez is a much different pitcher now than he was back then. He's a sinker-baller ground ball pitcher now. He pitches to contact instead of trying to miss bats like before. With how good the Royals infield defense is, I'm expecting him to have a nice year. On paper, he's one of the most glaringly obvious negative regression candidates in all of baseball. I'm going to be very disappointed in the gods of baseball if he has a good year.

Typo in the title -- "OVAH!" is misspelled

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 03:57 PM) Let us strive mightily to win. Smite those heathens

The thing Bonifacio does better than anything else is hit lefties -- he should be in there SOMEWHERE against lefties.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 02:09 PM) I have to say. I am really pissed at this lineup tonight. Is there no factoring in of timing and consistency to allow young guys like Johnson and Gillaspie to stay in rhythm? Conor was one of the only dangerous looking hitters in the first game. Meh, platooners need to get used to being platooners. QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 02:09 PM) Would have rather kept Viciedo and let him play vs LHP Wait, what?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 02:06 PM) Yes this is me overreacting but if Bonifacio isn't going to be playing against lefties then what a useless signing. Yeah he should be in there somewhere if we're doing a bench day.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 01:40 PM) I can't wait until a baRRit joins the site. roBBot

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 08:24 AM) And Hawk will go ape s*** screaming about it. As long as it doesn't injure him, I actually think Hawk will justify it.

Thread of year so far?

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 07:08 AM) How does this blame manifest? Floggings, primarily.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 7, 2015 -> 10:05 PM) Don't get me wrong. I worship Abreu. He's one of the best hitters in baseball. My question, though, is ... is there a problem with him playing first base? Is he so bad defensively, that coupled with Gillaspie being average defensively at best; Micah average at best and Lexi excellent but known to bounce in a throw or two, that it is going to be a huge problem? Should the Sox turn Abreu into a full time DH because of defensive concerns? It's possible, but they're going to give him every chance to be a defender first, and they should.

Literally no conclusions regarding the outcome of this season or its players*, positive or negative, can be drawn from this one game. *Except that we won't go 162-0 in 2015.

Everything looked pretty bad. The team swung at a ton of bad pitches, Samardzija was up in the zone way too much.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 11:43 AM) Alright, someone needs to hook me up with a streaming link while I decide if purchasing MLB.tv is worth it. You gotta get it.

Do not fear Yordano.

Conor Gillaspie is near worthless, loses starting job.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 08:01 AM) - Bill Melton steps in for Hawk and repeatedly calls Rodon "Mothra"

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 09:25 PM) If it's time to talk about Danks it's time to talk about the rest of the rotation. Who cares about tonight? Abreu went hitless. A couple of relievers were terrible. THE GAME DIDN'T COUNT.Relax. Because tonight was the ONLY indicator of Danks being bad.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 02:56 PM) Another good sign management wants to contend this season. Keep bringing in bodies in case it's like last year and guys are effective for 1-2 appearances then get lit up. Hope Coop is enthused and ready to manage some bodies. Agreed

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 02:17 PM) *both middle fingers extended towards Jose Paniagua* I'm not sure why, but Scott Linebrink might be my least favorite Sox player of all-time. In my head, it feels like he single-handedly robbed us of two or three World Championships. No idea why his impact is so hyperbolic and overstated in my head.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 02:58 PM) Micah if he wins the job and opens 1-for-35 or some such horrible start. Seriously ... Flowers of course. Third would be the new guys (at least that's been my style in the past) if they pull a Dunn and start oh, so slowly. I don't think we'll hate on Micah -- I think that most of us have accepted that he may simply not be ready yet, and there's no reason to believe they'll keep him up and let him fail all year like they sort of did with Semien.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 02:42 PM) Regarding the first issue, where does Rodon fit in here? I agree that if we're relying on Danks and Noesi for the whole season we're probably doomed, but if Rodon can come in and hold down the #4 spot we should fare much better, at least that's the hope. I see that ZIPS projects Rodon to strikeout everybody but to have a ton of control issues. How should we take projections on guys that have no ML experience? IMO, we should take them as really high variance guesses. I think that, in a way, things like the Rodon projection are the "x factors" in that they can skew the team wildly in each direction. He could really be the difference between being dragged down by a bad back-end or being vaulted to the post-season by an unexpected ace that gets use two or three extra wins in a tight division. Awkwardly timely, here's this article about the "most vulnerable rotations," essentially an attempt to quantify rotation depth this year: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-most-vu...tations-in-mlb/