Kimbrel gave up 3 hits to AAA players. Fucking sad.

there is nothing more fun than watching a good club when they are rolling and nothing more painful than watching a good club when they are struggling.

 Why is it everyone in the pen takes a turn at choking?

simply put, you don't trade for the best closer in baseball and not make him the closer.  He has very little experience as a set-up man.  His velocity is down without the added adrenaline.  He also excels by throwing curves when hitter is expecting a fastball.  Romine needed to see a curve on 2-2 or 3-2.

We got fleeced! 

Just now, fathom said:

simply put, you don't trade for the best closer in baseball and not make him the closer.  He has very little experience as a set-up man.  His velocity is down without the added adrenaline.  He also excels by throwing curves when hitter is expecting a fastball.  Romine needed to see a curve on 2-2 or 3-2.

He was hanging them. If he doesn't fix that we're in for an awful stretch. 

Just now, Baron said:

Oh wow! What great timing! I didn't see you the last two times he didnt give up runs 

He just blew a freaking 3 run lead in the 8th inning guy. The entire point I've made is that one or two bad outings literally degrade the value of the trade given the limited amount of games in which he makes a serious impact over his replacement. That's why trading a boat load for a reliever is terrible, and his ERA Is now over 9 with the Sox which again... is why trading a shit ton for a reliever who is already paid 16 million and pitching in a set up role is something no other team has done.

Kimbrel will be fine, but guess what? He blew one of the chances that a replacement likely would not have.

 

This team fucking sucks . No more excuses!

Team has massive loser energy lately, just looking beaten all the time.

1 minute ago, Chris Sale said:

same. i was honestly depressed all day after i heard about that trade. i know he was hated by so much of the fanbase but madrigal was my favorite. he's gonna be great tho ngl i am really liking hernandez, and he already typifies the type of player i expected to watch nick grow into (a gamer who fields and runs well, hustles, plays smart and hard baseball.... obviously cesar will never have nick's batting eye because nobody does, but at least he has some power and we won't have to suffer nick's growing pains). 

but i've always hated kimbrel even tho he's had a HOF career, and i kinda thought this year was a fluky last hurrah.... hope i'm wrong but jfc what a start 

Nothing flukish about a wxOBA in the 100th percentile

kimbrel with a reality check....

eventually when you dont have control they are going to get you.

Just now, fathom said:

simply put, you don't trade for the best closer in baseball and not make him the closer.  He has very little experience as a set-up man.  His velocity is down without the added adrenaline.  He also excels by throwing curves when hitter is expecting a fastball.  Romine needed to see a curve on 2-2 or 3-2.

You dont trade for a closer when you already have a closer. You trade for the best set up man you can find.

Maybe it will work, but it generally seems not to. 

Kimbrel hasn't allowed 4 hits in one appearance in over 10 years.

Lol, of course.

1 minute ago, fathom said:

simply put, you don't trade for the best closer in baseball and not make him the closer.  He has very little experience as a set-up man.  His velocity is down without the added adrenaline.  He also excels by throwing curves when hitter is expecting a fastball.  Romine needed to see a curve on 2-2 or 3-2.

GTFO with this garbage. He's paid 16 million dollars to get people out. If he can only pitch in one situation then he's a clown. This was a high leverage situation that he made even higher.

2 minutes ago, HOFHurt35 said:

LMAO, for one outing? 

WTF is wrong with you people.  Get a fucking grip folks. 

 

Seriously

I always here this claim that we have one of the smartest fan bases in all of baseball. 

There's a lot of fucking dumb ass shit on this thread. 

Be better Sox fans.  Don't live and die on every pitch. 

 

Just now, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

He just blew a freaking 3 run lead in the 8th inning guy. The entire point I've made is that one or two bad outings literally degrade the value of the trade given the limited amount of games in which he makes a serious impact over his replacement. That's why trading a boat load for a reliever is terrible, and his ERA Is now over 9 with the Sox which again... is why trading a shit ton for a reliever who is already paid 16 million and pitching in a set up role is something no other team has done.

Kimbrel will be fine, but guess what? He blew one of the chances that a replacement likely would not have.

 

Dude you are actively rooting against him because you got absolutely shit on in the trade thread. Don't make this about more than it is. 

Man you guys are pathetic. 

Hey guys it’s ok we have a 9 game lead we can just sleepwalk into the playoffs and be good. You know, just like last year. 

Just now, fathom said:

simply put, you don't trade for the best closer in baseball and not make him the closer.  He has very little experience as a set-up man.  His velocity is down without the added adrenaline.  He also excels by throwing curves when hitter is expecting a fastball.  Romine needed to see a curve on 2-2 or 3-2.

Wait. I thought these type of guys shouldn't just pitch the 9th. Everyone wants them to pitch in the high leverage situation even if it's in the 7th. 

You can't have it both ways you can't say that he should only pitch in the 9th bit then want him in the 7th if it's high leverage. 

Codi about to come in and K the side

Last time I checked, we had a 99.6% chance of winning division. I think I see the 0.04% bleeding thru

Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

Nothing flukish about a wxOBA in the 100th percentile

fair enough. i meant more just that it was an outlier from his previous two years, and i didn't understand why his performance improved so drastically despite getting older and not making any obvious changes. i'll concede his underlying metrics from this year were really good though

Glad we don't give a shit about base runners 

1 minute ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

GTFO with this garbage. He's paid 16 million dollars to get people out. If he can only pitch in one situation then he's a clown. This was a high leverage situation that he made even higher.

You always hear about closers that can't pitch without the adrenaline.  I think it's stupid also, but it's a mental thing for these guys.