15 hours ago15 hr 1 minute ago, caulfield12 said:Or it reached its limits against close to elite pitching...wellx maybe not Griffin, although even he made the All Star team with WSH first half.I loved their approach against Messick (both times) and Williams, the first time they faced him.
15 hours ago15 hr 10 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:Or it reached its limits against close to elite pitching...wellx maybe not Griffin, although even he made the All Star team with WSH first half.I don't think the Guardians threw many elite arms at us in game 3 and we still struck out 19 times.
7 hours ago7 hr 8 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:I never stated a preference.I just pointed that that the only result of striking out less is not double plays. In fact, it is still one of the lowest percentage outcomes in the world of potential outcomes.I would also add that you could reduce GIDP by putting our faster runners in motion on straight steals or hit and runs whenever feasible.
47 minutes ago47 min 6 hours ago, hankchifan said:I would also add that you could reduce GIDP by putting our faster runners in motion on straight steals or hit and runs whenever feasible.Here's what I actually wonder. I understand that in modern runs expected parlance, the Sox are going the "right" thing by playing for the big inning in swinging for the fences constantly. But also hearing that Murakami had a 45% whiff rate against 96 plus fastball, and Colson had 48%, it gets me thinking about what actually goes into that number, along with average and median expectations. Keep in mind an "expected" total is an average. All of those zero run innings are picked up by the outlier 10 run inning that is generated once in a blue moon when everything works. Think of it this way. If my distribution looks like 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/10, versus 0/1/0/1/2/0/3/0/1/0, my expected run total is better in the first scenario, but I am giving myself a better chance to win more games in the last scenario. Obviously that is very skewed on purpose, but you kind of get the point. I do wonder about distribution of runs, and how we might revisit this as something more of a "selective" aggression versus all gas and no breaks.
28 minutes ago28 min Just thinking about some of the base clogging Sox teams in the past that would take 3 hits to get a runner home from 1st base. Edited 27 minutes ago27 min by Falstaff
27 minutes ago27 min Why doesn't every player on the team have a 2-strike approach instead of swing from their heels? Edited 22 minutes ago22 min by Falstaff typo
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