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JUST ONE MORE SINGLE AND WE HAVE THE LEAD

Coors only helps balls hit in the air, we look to hit the ball on the ground.

strikeout groundball ?

Nice atbat Vaughn, really nice

over/under groundballs by Sox this inning: 1.5

thought that was out of here

Rockies starter had a 5+ ERA coming into today, and the Sox decided to continue their slap hitting singles way at Coors

Great game from Leury so far, 1 GIDP, a strikeout, a baserunning blunder.

We got Leury'ed again

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

keep hitting groundballs and singles

This offense is so bad, only 1 flyball so far

had a bad feeling about this game

GROUNDBALL OFFENSE

of course Burns has an awful outing against the twins

Leury in center, absolutely love watching Leury play

I am hoping they listen to all things Eloy, because I just don't see him being a good fit anymore. I have to believe we will resign Abreu (whether its the right thing to do or not), and then we have Vaughn. Grandal will probably mostly DH next year. Eloy, Burger, Sheets need to go. Unfortunately Eloy's worth has cratered I am assuming. What do I know.

To me it looks like Pollock had his child and then realized he didnt want to play pro baseball anymore

This would have been the perfect week to rest Eloy, have him DH, PH. Oakland and Colorado do not have easy outfields.

The reporter losing it when he was asking Earl the last question about the tomato plant ?

They traded for, signed, and drafted players that have some of the highest exit velocities in the game. It makes no sense for them to pivot and choose a hitting approach that deviates from their strength. None. Even with all the injuries we are still a team that has a high exit velocity. Such a wasted offense and no doubt confused a lot of them. Its as if Menechino gave up on his hitters when he saw they were struggling with outside breaking balls, so instead of continuing to work on pitch selection he told them not to not swing as hard so they could hit those bad pitches? I just don't get it, but thats the story the numbers are telling me. Looking for answers. I would rather them shrug off any issues with bad contact outside the zone because a strike is better than an out in my book. I would rather see Robert attempt to tee off and miss rather than see him hit a single the other way, weak chopper, or popup. The next pitch might be a cookie, who knows. They should have doubled down on their strength rather than change them. Looking at the 2019s of our guys I am just scratching my head on why they decided to do a 180 on everything.

I am merely saying TA taking a breather here and there is hurting this club in pretty big ways and he needs to step up like Abreu has and play banged up. These games aren't cherry picked, they are all the starts by Leury at shortstop. At best he matched a replacement player in 2 of his 9 starts at short. Our record would have been way worse if Mendick didn't do what he did when he came up to replace TA while on the IL. A hurt or allstar weekend exhausted TA is still better than a fresh Leury Garcia.

Great post, great analysis, its a great successor to the "fire menechino" threads. To add, they are swinging at pitches more out of the zone and making contact more than last season. This is deliberate. They are going up there looking to drive the ball the other way and are just looking to make contact. How the FO is ok with this approach is beyond me, i tell myself that they are just not aware of it because well we don't have an analytics department.

They need to make some serious ground here, thats a cakewalk of a schedule.

I like to get lost in boxscores here and there, not much work if you enjoy it