2 hours ago2 hr 15 minutes ago, MexSoxFan#1 said:Between Rogers and Romo? Gimme Romo, so far what I've seen, Romo has a better feel of the strike zone, Rogers literally cost us the 9th. Rogers is even worse on offense than Romo too. Romo at least has home run potential. I see nothing on offense from Rogers and he isn't close to Pudge Rodriguez level defense to offset his shitty ABsRogers is the worst option the Sox have at catcher. I would rather have Romo or Quero or Teel on one leg. Some of the swings Rogers had were laughable....like he was swinging blind-folded.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, fathom said:Cali has convinced meLike the record is impressive and it's hard to argue against, but is he really that much better at calling a game and playing defense back there? I honestly don't see it. Baseball Savant metrics have him as a below average blocker (fits the eye test), and average at framing and throwing runners out (seems about right). And he sure as hell isn't contributing to that record on offense. I guess it really could be a case of all our other catchers are pure s%*# at defense and Romo being average is just that much better.
2 hours ago2 hr 24 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:TLR would have walked PCA even.Or gone to two strikes and then intentionally walked him.Better bring back that blonde girl to heckle him from the beachers lol.Except nobody will be able to hear her except for pre game.I’ll go as far as saying there isn’t another manager in MLB right now or probably ever that would have pitched to Armstrong in that situation period and to also pitch to him with a wet behind the ears kid that you just called up from the nursery takes this incompetent decision to a level that will be talked about through the ages for its absolute vulgarity.
2 hours ago2 hr 2 minutes ago, chw42 said:Like the record is impressive and it's hard to argue against, but is he really that much better at calling a game and playing defense back there? I honestly don't see it. Baseball Savant metrics have him as a below average blocker (fits the eye test), and average at framing and throwing runners out (seems about right). And he sure as hell isn't contributing to that record on offense. I guess it really could be a case of all our other catchers are pure s%*# at defense and Romo being average is just that much better.Definitely a best of the worst in terms of pitch calling. Also, how the hell didn’t Hicks throw another splitter to Happ?
2 hours ago2 hr 7 minutes ago, fathom said:It’s more the question of what happened to his fastball though? Considering this is out of the pen. I would have thought he’d be at 97-98. We live in an era where Anthony Kay can hit 97 as a starter.Yeah, the velocity is underwhelming. I thought he lived in the high 90s, at least that's the gist when we drafted him. Both him and Schultz have very underwhelming fastballs for guys who were supposed to throw hard.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, fathom said:I hate the Cubs more than anyone, and that’s ridiculousDo you really think JR will spend generously in FA if they make the post season?Well, some will undoubtedly point to those bloated 2021-23 payrolls with lots of relieved but no stars.Maybe Sox fans would be content with another 1983/1993/2000/2008/2020-21, not that sure about Guardians and Tigers fans, though.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, fathom said:Just saw a replay of tying hit. I think Peters gets him if he doesn’t bobble it.I'm not even sure they send him if Peters comes up with it clean.
2 hours ago2 hr 3 minutes ago, Lightly Folded said:I’ll go as far as saying there isn’t another manager in MLB right now or probably ever that would have pitched to Armstrong in that situation period and to also pitch to him with a wet behind the ears kid that you just called up from the nursery takes this incompetent decision to a level that will be talked about through the ages for its absolute vulgarity.TLR is the only one that comes immediately to mind...thinking he's smarter than everyone else, for some reason. All those playoff appearances, one supposes. Maybe Lou Piniella or Msddon.
2 hours ago2 hr 2 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:Do you really think JR will spend generously in FA if they make the post season?Well, some will undoubtedly point to those bloated 2021-23 payrolls with lots of relieved but no stars.Maybe Sox fans would be content with another 1983/1993/2000/2008/2020-21, not that sure about Guardians and Tigers fans, though.Sox making postseason would be one of the biggest surprises I’ve had as a sports fan.
2 hours ago2 hr 4 minutes ago, chw42 said:Yeah, the velocity is underwhelming. I thought he lived in the high 90s, at least that's the gist when we drafted him. Both him and Schultz have very underwhelming fastballs for guys who were supposed to throw hard.See Jon Rauch.
2 hours ago2 hr 2 minutes ago, chw42 said:I'm not even sure they send him if Peters comes up with it clean.Not a huge fan of pulling your best defensive outfielder when you have the lead.
2 hours ago2 hr In summary, main learning tonight was don’t let PCA beat you. It reminded me of the time when we were competing with the Indians, and we were saying don’t let Jose Ramirez beat you, and he kept beating us. I hope Will learnt this lesson.
2 hours ago2 hr I'm still with Will there TBH. The whole inning comes down to how do I keep a runner from scoring from 2nd with nobody out. You know the runner is most likely to score and if he does score, it doesn't really matter how. By far your best bet is getting strikeouts, which pushes you towards going to the strikeout pitcher. The strikeout pitcher that you have is left-handed and has serious issues preventing walks. The lefty hitter in question strikes out 30% of the time. And your pitcher walks right-handed hitters a significantly larger proportion of the time. So do you put men on first and second to face right-handed Seiya, who is an absolute beastly hitter against LHP? And has below league average K% against LHP? That's the guy who is your biggest obstacle to getting through that inning without contact. Of course as we saw, there were plenty of obstacles. There are a lot of ways to lose with those hitters coming up and a free baserunner on second representing the winning run. It's very annoying for the shithead PCA to walk you off but it's not really any different than any of the other ways you could lose. You're trying to figure out how can I make my 15-20% chance to keep them from scoring go to 30% or 40%.
2 hours ago2 hr 15 minutes ago, fathom said:Hudson opening tomorrowReally hate giving him up for later in the game.
2 hours ago2 hr Another observation tonight was that we need to improve our Manfred ball execution. We really suck in small ball and extras, and keep losing in extra innings.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, Jake said:I'm still with Will there TBH. The whole inning comes down to how do I keep a runner from scoring from 2nd with nobody out. You know the runner is most likely to score and if he does score, it doesn't really matter how. By far your best bet is getting strikeouts, which pushes you towards going to the strikeout pitcher. The strikeout pitcher that you have is left-handed and has serious issues preventing walks. The lefty hitter in question strikes out 30% of the time. And your pitcher walks right-handed hitters a significantly larger proportion of the time. So do you put men on first and second to face right-handed Seiya, who is an absolute beastly hitter against LHP? And has below league average K% against LHP? That's the guy who is your biggest obstacle to getting through that inning without contact.Of course as we saw, there were plenty of obstacles. There are a lot of ways to lose with those hitters coming up and a free baserunner on second representing the winning run. It's very annoying for the shithead PCA to walk you off but it's not really any different than any of the other ways you could lose. You're trying to figure out how can I make my 15-20% chance to keep them from scoring go to 30% or 40%.As you said, game was over once the Sox didn’t score. Just sucked that his ass homering was the worst way to lose.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, BigHurt3515 said:Really hate giving him up for later in the game.If it was better pitching an inning tonight or opening tomorrow, would have rather seen him face Happ tonight
2 hours ago2 hr 8 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:Not sure they knew but you'd think they either don't put much stock in it or ignore it. Supposedly the tweet with this info went viral but I think I've been the only one who mentioned it and I don't pay attention to X. I first saw it in MLB trade rumors in the comments section . Then I guess later it popped up in a tweet. I mentioned it a couple of days ago.The numbers are different though like yeah they said the same general result but I think the one in MLBTR had Romo 10 games above .500 not 20 so I don't know what the true results are.I actually looked it up. When he starts, they are 27-19. In all games he's played, they are 29-22.
2 hours ago2 hr 4 minutes ago, fathom said:Not a huge fan of pulling your best defensive outfielder when you have the lead.They definitely wouldn't run on Doyle.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, chw42 said:I actually looked it up. When he starts, they are 27-19. In all games he's played, they are 29-22.Castillo raved about him last week.
2 hours ago2 hr 15 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:But so does Hudson...who is much more effective with a 92-94 mph fastball.Hudson also has had a lot more time to perfect himself since he's 29 ?
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, Colome's Hat said:Castillo raved about him last week.Shoulda raved about him more to have him catch this one.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 minute ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:Hudson also has had a lot more time to perfect himself since he's 29 ?Then we should just bring back Carson Fulmer!
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