Rodon though!!

Yeah Petricka is pathetic. Renteria goingng back to those guys a day after they imploded is ridiculous as well. Nice loss

Sneaky Hahn has starters & offense clickin' then the bullpen blow every game. Love it

Bummer continues to help the tank. Sucks Burdi got hurt, would have loved to see him as closer

Obviously Tommy John is never good, but if it was going to happen eventually, this was about perfect timing. I'd rather have the bullpen be the reason we lose games than the lineup or rotation.

By this logic, I guess you wouldn't have wanted Kris Bryant a few years back as he K'd 28.6% of the time in AAA. Funny how that's gone down in the majors. Maybe because he has elite bat speed & a great batter's eye and he's been able to make the necessary adjustments.

 

Moncada's K rate was 28.3% in AAA this year. He's got tremendous bat speed & a plus batter's eye. He's a special f***ing talent just like Bryant and your view on him is simply short-sighted & lazy.

 

Kris Bryant's OPS was 275 points higher that year than Moncada's this year. Strikeouts aside, his AAA stats in 2014 were insane. Moncada is not Kris Bryant.

Doesn't matter. We're conceding games with this current bullpen so chalk up another L. Again ... fathom could get a hit off several of our bullpen guys at this time. Who cares? L.

Sneaky Hahn has starters & offense clickin' then the bullpen blow every game. Love it

 

Impressive job of blowing this game with a win in sight

when you sell every member of your bullpen.. including a piece of suck recently required...

 

Well you going to lose and lose some more...

 

And in the end its fine...

Impressive job of blowing this game with a win in sight

 

It's a win in my book. Couple young guys look good. Rodon looks good. Stay even with Philly

when you sell every member of your bullpen.. including a piece of suck recently required...

 

Well you going to lose and lose some more...

 

And in the end its fine...

 

We won't be bad for long.

We won't be bad for long.

Define "long." Hopefully Sox will be good the last six weeks of the 2018 season.

I'm gonna be honest- I have no idea what wRC+ is. I also don't care.

 

You like peripherals? Try this one. 22% K rate at A in 2015. 25% at A+, AA in 2016, 28% at AAA in 2017.

 

I can understand Blake Rutherford might need to fill in his boots a bit to reach his full power potential. I can understand that Zach Collins has been focusing on his D and his bat is still pretty advanced, stats be damned. I can be plenty patient with the young ones. But I don't see how a guy who has had serious contact issues his entire career will suddenly fix them to be a decent ball player.

 

And Dombrowski still kept Devers and Benintendi and traded Moncada. Why would one of the game's best GMs be so certain as to which highly touted prospect to trade?

See Kris Bryant's K rates at those levels (hint they're worse).

 

As for Dombrowski, he traded Moncada over the other two because had obvious long-term holes in LF & CF while 2B was blocked for the foreseeable future. He was trading from a position of strength, which is what all good GMs do. Same reason Theo traded Jimenez for Quintana, who also happens to be one of the best GMs in baseball. And the early returns on that trade are incredibly promising.

It's a win in my book. Couple young guys look good. Rodon looks good. Stay even with Philly

 

Yep pretty great day for the rebuild outside of Yoan. Hope offense thrives in Texas

Good ol' Petricka.

Define "long." Hopefully Sox will be good the last six weeks of the 2018 season.

 

They won't, I will spoil it for you now

Good ol' Petricka.

 

Fun to think how long that inning goes if it's not the 9th

It's a win in my book. Couple young guys look good. Rodon looks good. Stay even with Philly

-Yea but it still sucks nevertheless. Helps when the Sox beat a juggernaut like the Dodgers. TWTW is real. Don't want that will to win taking lumps even if they do understand the process the team is going through.

Fun to think how long that inning goes if it's not the 9th

 

As soon as he brought him in, I turned to my buddy and said "Ricky is helping the tank with this move". Sure enough.. I'm still waiting on him to actually let his players with speed steal bases. Cody freaking Bellinger has more steals than Tim Anderson. (yes he gets on base more, but that's just sad)

Yeah Petricka is pathetic. Renteria goingng back to those guys a day after they imploded is ridiculous as well. Nice loss

 

Hopefully when this rebuild provides results in being more competitive I hope they invest in a serious managerial search.

I hate a loss like this. This Sox played great until the pen comes in.

 

Isn't there some guys in AAA that will never make it that they could bring up that may not get shelled as bad?

 

As soon as he brought him in, I turned to my buddy and said "Ricky is helping the tank with this move". Sure enough.. I'm still waiting on him to actually let his players with speed steal bases. Cody freaking Bellinger has more steals than Tim Anderson. (yes he gets on base more, but that's just sad)

Bellinger might be as fast as Anderson. More than likely faster getting to 1st base out of the box since he is lefty.

Isn't there some guys in AAA that will never make it that they could bring up that may not get shelled as bad?

 

Probably not. Even on a rebuilding team Petricka sucks really, really bad.

 

Probably not. Even on a rebuilding team Petricka sucks really, really bad.

I dunno, he throws 95. This is a perfect time to run out the suckterds and see if any of them can get Coop'd for good.

Hopefully when this rebuild provides results in being more competitive I hope they invest in a serious managerial search.

I hate a loss like this. This Sox played great until the pen comes in.

 

Isn't there some guys in AAA that will never make it that they could bring up that may not get shelled as bad?

 

Managerial search? Have you seen this pen? This is picking from a hat, they are all bad, Ricky didn't have any good choices