Mojo Dojo Casas House: Boston Red Sox 2024

Also, please let Trevor Story be great, he’s been making plays like this since he came back from injury

.@Tstory2 makes it look easy 😎 pic.twitter.com/rjtu6VQ1R8

— MLB (@MLB) March 19, 2024

That 'thing' on Isaiah Campbell's face is a thing of beauty. Can't even focus on his pitching when he's got that thing staring at you. That's a +1war stache

Doesn’t look like Bello had his best stuff last night but he still pitched five innings and gave up 2 earned runs (off a Haniger home run). No walks.

Stats was talking last year that Bello’s fastball was unusually hittable:

Last season, Bello threw 362 four seam fastballs to left-handed batters. They batted .333 with 8 2B, 2 3B, 6 HR, and a .704 SLG against that pitch.

In his final spring training start, 1 of his 91 pitches was a four seamer.

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) March 29, 2024

No four seamers from Bello tonight. pic.twitter.com/QZmW2x2z8v

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) March 29, 2024

The season is officially back pic.twitter.com/34Y3CX5pXv

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) March 29, 2024

Also, Joely remains TERRIBLE, I have no idea why he made the roster over Bernie and I hope they cut bait on him sooner rather than later.

yeah i do not understand that either

i was reading that about bello’s fastball a couple of days ago. on the one, great that he’s adjusting, on the other hand, major league pitchers without a fastball are kind of a rare bird these days. the 0 walks is probably my favourite stat of the night

https://x.com/alexspeier/status/1773536959840834013?s=20

We need a full ⁦biomechanical analysis of Tyler O’Neill’s throw from RF. pic.twitter.com/UZnJUCzk4j

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) March 29, 2024

I saw that, hilarious. He made a similar acrobatic throw in his spring training micd up video.

that's beautiful

yeah i do not understand that either

i was reading that about bello’s fastball a couple of days ago. on the one, great that he’s adjusting, on the other hand, major league pitchers without a fastball are kind of a rare bird these days. the 0 walks is probably my favourite stat of the night

Watching it back both NESN and WEEI were saying Duran was distracting Casas and he didn’t look happy if you watch the bottom of the ninth back. Story’s like, you’re on your own bro, if he wants to eat you I can’t do anything about that.
https://i.postimg.cc/QdkyfGMK/IMG-8213.jpg

And that Rafaela triple! Ceddy/Story/Duran/O’Neill are going to be menaces on the basepaths and it’s fun. Especially impressed cos Cal Raleigh really is good at throwing runners out.

Yes, this. pic.twitter.com/CEQYoA07Sx

— Red Sox (@RedSox) March 29, 2024

- get Joely Rodriguez off this team and Bernie back ASAP
- Casas & Story both have timing slightly off, feelsbadman.jpg (though it’s literal March)
- need Grissom off the IL ASAP
- Cora’s continued inability to manage a bullpen in high leverage
- Devers pls don’t be out too long
- Abreu nightmare game :(

However:

+ can this team actually defend now? The starters look good!
+ the pitching. The pitching! 3 ER over 16 innings.
+ Trevor Story in the field
+ Ceddy just incredibly special
+ the speed on the basepaths is night and day
+ provisional YES on Tyler O’Neill

However

The Dunedin Police Department’s scanner on February 7, 2020 pic.twitter.com/IwJ8uzFjX7

— Pod On Lansdowne (@PodOnLansdowne) March 31, 2024

This is so cute, sorry if this offends. Masa is so loved, I’m always seeing guys hugging him

what is happening lol pic.twitter.com/YaQ2bw8o17

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) April 2, 2024

Kenley doing Kenley things

(unable to throw strikes against the *checks notes* bottom of the A's lineup)

Kenley is playing through a back strain atm iirc and also closed out the first game last night which was like 16 hours between outings for him. It was ugly but the man got it done. I don’t think they put him in there if they didn’t use most of the pen yesterday.

I have no idea how people suffer a full season of baseball. I couldn’t even look at gameday during the bottom of the ninth; I was sitting on the bed checking my phone’s lockscreen for a message from my friend telling me the game was over, while my husband* was following on his iPad and gleefully going “oh no he’s walked someone, double play? Oh no force out…” It’s rough, man, but an ugly scraped out win still counts just the same.

* he also watched my Spanish flu era king George Kirby get knocked around by the Guardians before turning to me and going “What is this, an all-hitter?” Who’d follow this fucking game?!

I love this trend, keep going Craig

Red Sox are in agreement with Ceddanne Rafaela on a contract extension, source tells MassLive.

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) April 8, 2024

interesting look at the red sox consciously reducing fastball usage: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/not-so-fast-red-sox-cut-fastballs-in-new-approach/

Didn't reduce quickly enough to prevent Pivetta from hitting the IL. :-(

I’m glad you’re happy, Steve

:-( <> :-)

story out for the season

We know

I’m at opening day! I accidentally bought a ticket to tomorrow’s game first, so I guess I’m going to that one too

lol

This game is very boring to watch, I’m just glad Grissom will be back soon and I hopefully never have to see Valdez play 2nd again. If they move Rafaela to short they might be cooking. Nice to see Bello doing well, especially in the day.

*Sox commentator talks about Columbe having a teal glove and whether or not it goes with the Orioles’ black and orange.*

User Sharivari, as bored by this game as I am: teal and orange is a classic combo, man doesn’t know what he’s talking about

teal and black...the color combo that launched 1,000 expansion team unis in the 90s.

Tbf they then brought up in a latter inning the teal glove is because his child is autistic and he is active in autism awareness and education(teal being associated with that), which I liked learning.

I love Story so much, this hurts. I wanted a great year for him more than anyone.

Trevor Story just spoke for about 5 minutes. He was in tears, and had to pause several times to collect himself.

— Gabrielle Starr (@gfstarr1) April 9, 2024

teal and black...the color combo that launched 1,000 expansion team unis in the 90s.

― j.q higgins, Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2:37 PM bookmarkflaglink

San Jose Sharks have entered the chat.

Scenes from the postgame clubhouse: Trevor Story in tears at the thought of missing the year, Jarren Duran punching his locker and pronouncing repeatedly that he (expletive) sucks for dropping the flyball.

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) April 9, 2024

We're all like Jarren Duran sometimes fr fr

Hard watch. I feel so bad for him.

Anyone who rips players for getting hurt or is ripping Trevor Story today ... watch this. If you're still unsure after, you'd score a N/A on an EKG https://t.co/dM4lmWoIDp

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) April 10, 2024

just in case tracer didn't see dayo post this on the broadcasters thread:

IT'S HERE
IT'S FOUND

21 yrs ago I was a NESN truck intern watching Jerry relentlessly roast Don over what a lunar eclipse is. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard to this day. Enjoy the best six min of your week. (Enormous h/t to @sidsethupathi)

--> https://t.co/OCzRzDL0ak

— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) April 9, 2024

aw thank you

JUSTIN
SLATEN

JUSTIN
SLATEN!!!!!

JUSTIN SLATEN

this young moose

Cash considerations and a minor league arm for this guy, what a steal

xp when you write moose I just assume you mean Casas

not sure if I'll be able to post pre-game so now will have to do...

Happy Patriots Day!

wink and kenley: just not good enough

hamilton, joely and bobby d: not even major league baseball players

everybody else i’m pretty happy about. despite what happened today abreyu is a sick player, love him

I love Abreu too. Special guy.

bobby dalbec is now 1-for-30 with 18 strikeouts

could i do better? no. but i wouldn't be *much* worse

He was getting absolutely rinsed by Massholes. Feel he didn’t really help himself with his “It’s not a slump” comment

pic.twitter.com/qCSok6kpz8

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) April 19, 2024

Cotillo prediction from January looking very good rn

15. Wilyer Abreu exceeds Alex Verdugo’s production in right field. As difficult as Verdugo was at times, the Red Sox wouldn’t have traded him if they weren’t supremely confident in Abreu’s ability to step into the right field position. As of now, that’s the plan. Abreu will have a better offensive season than Verdugo did a year ago.

He’s a fuxking MLB baseball player that’s for damn sure

He was such a guy today. We were thrilled watching him and he is only going to get better. Elite eye and he’s got pop and a great arm too.

Can I upload that video you sent? It actually gives the clearest view of your vantage point plus iirc one of you is being rude about George Springer

Sure..."Makin' the first out"--I think that's me (meaning "Great, you've got Casas on video making the first out").

It's a strange sensation going from having, like, no guys - to the extent that Tyler Heineman was DHing for us at one point - to having a surplus of guys at essentially every position apart from 1B and C.

We should start a 2025 thread but I was holding off on that until things quieted down. Title needs to be “The Roman Empire” obvs