1 hour ago, Green Line said:

I'd like to see Sandlin get a shot this series at some point. Replicating Taylor's 4 inning beauty against the same team a couple days later seems doubtful.

Love me some Sandlin, but lefties have an .821 OPS against him. He dominates righties but gets hit hard by lefties. I'd be nervous using him against the Guardians for multiple innings.

1 minute ago, ron883 said:

Love me some Sandlin, but lefties have an .821 OPS against him. He dominates righties but gets hit hard by lefties. I'd be nervous using him against the Guardians for multiple innings.

What about Fedde

Kay/Burke/Newcomb/Fedde

That's the combo I'd look for tomorrow.

If the Sox can win Game 2 without burning Hagen and Taylor, that's a massive advantage heading into game 3.

3 minutes ago, Green Line said:

What about Fedde

Fedde has reverse splits. .699 OPS against lefties, .808 against righties.

Give Fedde some burn!

14 minutes ago, TheFutureIsNear said:

Kay(2)-Burke(5)-Hagen(1)-Taylor(1)

That would be pretty ideal

Fedde coming in and ripping 99 for an inning would also be okay.

34 minutes ago, TheFutureIsNear said:

Kay(2)-Burke(5)-Hagen(1)-Taylor(1)

That would be pretty ideal

I think the play is to rest Hagen and Taylor so they can run back the Game 1 plan on Game 3. Fedde and Newcomb can fill those roles in Game 2.

It's funny how a happy, young team will mean everything to everyone.

2 hours ago, chitownsportsfan said:

highly doubt it. they clearly have zero trust in him right now. he's the mopup guy at this point.

He had one bad start. Will has said they are being uber cautious with him due to the calf injury.

22 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

It's funny how a happy, young team will mean everything to everyone.

One of the journalists criticizing the Red Sox the other day said that the Red Sox are no longer on the cutting edge of analytics due to overlooking things like happiness and chemistry. Believe it or not, these intangibles are starting to make their way into the study of advanced analytics. White Sox, Rays, and Brewers have been in the cutting edge of this stuff in recent years when it comes to looking at these intangibles through metrics and analytics.

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4 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

One of the journalists criticizing the Red Sox the other day said that the Red Sox are no longer on the cutting edge of analytics due to overlooking things like happiness and chemistry. Believe it or not, these intangibles are starting to make their way into the study of advanced analytics.

There was some snarking when Sox hired a "mental performance" coach, but there seems to be something there. Think the guy they hired was poached from the Mariners, whose vibes have gone in the opposite direction.

Getz also cites makeup and chemistry for almost all of his player acquisitions now, and you of course need a manager capable of reading the room and building a culture.

28 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

One of the journalists criticizing the Red Sox the other day said that the Red Sox are no longer on the cutting edge of analytics due to overlooking things like happiness and chemistry. Believe it or not, these intangibles are starting to make their way into the study of advanced analytics. White Sox, Rays, and Brewers have been in the cutting edge of this stuff in recent years when it comes to looking at these intangibles through metrics and analytics.

Many cling to the Zeno's Paradox myth of onboarding statistical analysis. Like, The Sox are 15 years behind. By the time they catch up, everybody will have moved onto to the next frontier. That is, unless you hire their guys, quickly put the resources in place without having to make the years of mistakes and adjustments the early adopters had to, then pivoting to embracing the cutting-edge stuff simultaneously.

It's easy to have fun when you are winning. Could you imagine this -- "we just lost our 99th game, we need more fucking dancing in the dugout. We're hiring a choreographer." would you believe a truce when we lost 120 games?

2 hours ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

There was some snarking when Sox hired a "mental performance" coach, but there seems to be something there. Think the guy they hired was poached from the Mariners, whose vibes have gone in the opposite direction.

Getz also cites makeup and chemistry for almost all of his player acquisitions now, and you of course need a manager capable of reading the room and building a culture.

I know they used extensive screeners before they bring anybody into the organization. Both them and the Rays use a metric system for personality and character traits. There are some really cool tools that these teams are now using which can essentially construct the perfect clubhouse by predicting player groupings which can predict how players will interact in a clubhouse. It's easy for some of us to roll our eyes but then you look at the Red Sox or even Cubs and it's pretty obvious that there is some unrest in the clubhouse.

Edited 10 hours ago10 hr by Colome's Hat

If we win this game I feel like this team will have nearly no pressure in Game 3 at home and will come out playing hot out of the gate, if we lose Game 2 it puts a lot more pressure on us to keep home field advantage and not have to go back to CLE

35 minutes ago, BigHurt3515 said:

If we win this game I feel like this team will have nearly no pressure in Game 3 at home and will come out playing hot out of the gate, if we lose Game 2 it puts a lot more pressure on us to keep home field advantage and not have to go back to CLE

Can you imagine the pressure on Cleveland coming into the Rate down 2 games?

9 hours ago, Green Line said:

Rod is a lifelong Cubs fan. The Pope is converting everyone.

Sox fan went to the White House while Rod went to the Big House.

2 hours ago, Texsox said:

It's easy to have fun when you are winning. Could you imagine this -- "we just lost our 99th game, we need more fucking dancing in the dugout. We're hiring a choreographer." would you believe a truce when we lost 120 games?

winning is fun and fun is winning. I know which one I'd try and do first.

22 minutes ago, Chick Mercedes said:

This team is capturing the hearts of neutral baseball fans very quickly.

Off topic but how important is Teel to our little run?

4 minutes ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Off topic but how important is Teel to our little run?

Oh my god. It's night and day. He's a pitchers best friend back there with the way he challenges and also calls a game.

7 hours ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

Kay/Burke/Newcomb/Fedde

That's the combo I'd look for tomorrow.

If the Sox can win Game 2 without burning Hagen and Taylor, that's a massive advantage heading into game 3.

If Kay can get us through 3 then burke can handle 6. And if we need an inning from someone you can use whoever you want depending on the score out of fedde, Taylor, hicks or newcomb.

Just get up 4 or 5 midway through the game.

I don't feel good using Kay to open for Burke, he hasn't looked good, hard hit balls, doubles, walks. I'm guessing Venable is looking at this like they are up already 1-0 in the series and the next 2 are in Chicago, but I would have rather used Schultz, he's looked great at the end of the season. Sox were fortunate that Cleveland went 0 for 2 with the bases loaded, the two pitches they recorded outs on were literally center cut, one by Hudson one by Kay

Sox need to win today to really put Cleveland into desperation mode

13 hours ago, ron883 said:

I think the play is to rest Hagen and Taylor so they can run back the Game 1 plan on Game 3. Fedde and Newcomb can fill those roles in Game 2.

Just remember Ramirez and Adell absolutely kill lefties…

9 minutes ago, joejoesox said:

I don't feel good using Kay to open for Burke, he hasn't looked good, hard hit balls, doubles, walks. I'm guessing Venable is looking at this like they are up already 1-0 in the series and the next 2 are in Chicago, but I would have rather used Schultz, he's looked great at the end of the season. Sox were fortunate that Cleveland went 0 for 2 with the bases loaded, the two pitches they recorded outs on were literally center cut, one by Hudson one by Kay

Sox need to win today to really put Cleveland into desperation mode

Don’t think Venable has developed that trust yet in this recent version of Schultz…or he would have been in there instead of Kay.