Mojo Dojo Casas House: Boston Red Sox 2024

He’s a right handed Chris Sale

No, really

Tanner Houck vs. Righty Chris Sale, Sliders (individual pitches + overlay) pic.twitter.com/31tEWpLksb

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) July 23, 2021

I was thinking about that. If Giolito’s magically healthy tomorrow, who do you even move?

I mean Whitlock is probably out rest of the season? I bet you didn’t think we’d be saying thank God for the Criswell signing

he's been lights out!

Bello
Tanner
Pivetta
Kutter
Criswell

I don't know who I'd move tbh

https://i.postimg.cc/dQTbZ0td/IMG-1070.jpg

Oppo-taco tank. pic.twitter.com/6jYaYS6zo3

— Red Sox (@RedSox) May 21, 2024

Criswell would be very good in that Winck long reliever role who can do the odd spot start, no?

Probably so but I hate moving guys back and forth like that

I’m so happy they’re playing him in CF again

Ceddanne Rafaela is a human highlight reel. pic.twitter.com/i4QJyL6PSD

— Red Sox (@RedSox) May 28, 2024

That throw!!!!!

That’s our 95% percentile arm strength shortstop/CF hybrid!

I mean that is a no-hop throw to 1B from the deepest part of left center field.. astonishing

best throw i've seen since laureano's

The Braves just picked him up so I’ve seen that throw around today! Thank you for respecting Ceddy 🫡

It’s fucking insane how cursed this team is rn

Alex Cora just said Wilyer Abreu is landing on the IL with an ankle sprain and will see a specialist, per @jcmccaffrey.

Just an injury this team can’t afford right now.

And to think it happened going down the dugout stairs… this team is cursed.

pic.twitter.com/QlPdifMtIH

— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) June 4, 2024

3/4 of the starting infield laid low with injuries, unreal

not sure brayan bello deserves to wear mario lemieux's 66

I feel like a young pitcher struggling with his command since returning from injury isn’t really the problem, but regardless, I’m extremely glad I got to see him shit down the back of your boys in person ❤️

boston should have scored 10 yesterday

but instead the 1-4 hitters struck out seven times between them and failed to record a hit

Yeah exactly scoring one run against that pitching is pathetic

David Hamilton, who leads qualified rookies with a .296 average and .348 on-base percentage

Down is up and up is down

He’s hitting .355 over the last month, with power

Who knew?! He’s got a wrc+ of 128!

We all thought Dham was the odd one out here, how little we knew…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz_yG53XoAAPOPc?format=jpg&name=medium

I still like to think that photo was taken somewhere in Devers’ house

It was in Toronto!

Everyone is (rightly) talking about a Duran but Ceddanne is quietly starting to adjust and in his last 30 games he’s .309/.333/.455. His last 15? .346/.370/.423. The lineup turnover from him to Duran when Ceddy gets on is a force!

Ceddanne in June:

.351/.383/.439 , OPS of .822

OAA on the season:
-5 at SS
4 at CF

DRS on the season (a washed measure & OAA is better for shortstops imo but Fangraphs uses it too so):

-3 at SS
6 at CF

OAA rates Dham as marginally better at short (-3) and DRS for him at the position is roughly the same as Rafaela’s. It’s insane because Dham has made so many high profile blunders - they’ve slowed down and he looks so much better there now - but I never worry about a ball being hit to Ceddanne in the infield. But maybe I should!

Also, I can’t believe Dham became A Guy so fast.

just watching the last couple games, Ceddanne is def looking really good. should probably get moved up from the 9 spot at this point.

Tempting to make him the No. 2 but why mess with success

I like him in the 9 spot though. The lineup (when healthy) is ideally something like:

Duran (L)
Hamilton (L)
Devers (L)
Casas (L)
O’Neill (R)
Wong (R)
Yoshida (L)
Abreu (L)
Rafaela (R)

And the bottom of the lineup is really good when they’re going.

You’re starting off with the leadoff being a quick guy who gets on and hasn’t much pop, which has been the case all season. Dham has confounded everyone by raking and getting his glove together (he started out in triple A and we could not have predicted this!). He makes a lot of contact and is possibly the fastest guy on the team.

Ceddanne is the second youngest player on the roster and he’s hitting ninth to have the least pressure on him (he’s a free swinger), but also the emerging theme of recent series has been that the 9-1-2 string of speedsters on base is a real potent threat in this lineup and they’ve kept rolling with that.

Grissom is supposed to be the 2B but he can’t play short and Hamilton somewhat can, so this middle infield logjam needs to be resolved soon. I really like Dham as a bench utility infield guy, but at the moment that speed kills feedback loop is too sexy for Cora not to resist and I don’t blame him. They set a franchise record for base stealing on Sunday!

Please enjoy all 9 (yes, NINE) stolen bases from tonight. pic.twitter.com/IH5ek7R4Os

— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 17, 2024

So this team currently on a bit of a tear

Don’t jinx it!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQ4jp9EWsAEA5ks?format=jpg&name=large

Mojo Dojo Casas House: Boston Red Sox 2024

already feels like "fuck 'em" is going to be this year's "do damage" or "band of idiots"

That was Jarren Duran’s 100th hit and 10th HR of the season.

He is the first American League player ever to record all of the following before the All-Star break:

- 100 hits
- 10 triples
- 10 HR
- 20 stolen bases

The only NL player to do that is José Reyes (2008).

— J.P. Long (@SoxNotes) July 3, 2024

Connor extends his hitting streak to 17 games, MLB’s longest active streak. pic.twitter.com/8Xn9MUCY8b

— Red Sox (@RedSox) July 3, 2024

Roman Anthony gets on his horse!

Inside the Park Home Run for Roman Anthony pic.twitter.com/IOaeRjpxfa

— Portland Sea Dogs (@PortlandSeaDogs) July 5, 2024

Meanwhile, in big boy corner
https://i.postimg.cc/bNxT16x9/IMG-2925.jpg

It’s really funny that their lockers are adjacent. You just know they spend the whole time doing curls or talking about how much protein to consume for maintenance, bro.

A special night for the Duran fam. pic.twitter.com/tZETigd2Ht

— Red Sox (@RedSox) July 17, 2024

nice article about his late blooming and relationship w his dad here

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/19/sports/red-sox-star-prospect-jarren-duran-took-his-fathers-advice-hit-gym-became-different-hitter/

I feel this is in many ways the canonical piece about him?

https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-prospect-jarren-duran-could-make-an-impact-in-2021

As a 5-foot-6 student at Cypress High School, Duran said he was “the small guy who had to work twice as hard as everybody else.” A growth spurt helped. The guidance of his parents, Octavio and Dena, mattered even more.

“I owe so much to my dad,” Duran said of his father, who has advanced from field work to a management position at PepsiCo. “My dad was my discipliner and my mom was my caretaker. My dad would be tough on me and then my mom would (say), ‘Oh, it’s OK.’ Then, sometimes I’d have both of them critiquing me and I’m like, ‘Hey, Mom! You’re supposed to love me when Dad gets on me.’”

5'3" as a freshman!

Yeah.... there's a lot going on in that last quote

Trying to find a lonely island TO MAKE DAD LOVE ME gif and failing

Yeah it’s sad but it’s also extremely baseball player. Tyler Glasnow was talking about overbearing baseball dads and he was like, and I still couldn’t believe as a pro there are still fathers calling their sons and talking to them like they’re kids and they just put up with it

My third baseball-politics post today; promise this is a one-day thing. Letter a house member sent to Biden:

But the crux of the letter is a four-paragraph metaphor comparing the president to the Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martínez, a Hall of Famer who was left on the mound for the eighth inning of Game Seven of the 2003 American League Championship Series despite being tired. Mr. Martínez allowed three runs, tying the game before the Yankees won with a walk-off home run in the 11th inning that denied the Red Sox a trip to the World Series, which they had not won in 85 years.

“There is no shame in taking a well-deserved bow to the overflowing appreciation of the crowd when your arm is tired out, and there is real danger for the team in ignoring the statistics,” Mr. Raskin writes. “Your situation is tricky because you are both our star pitcher and our manager. But in democracy, as you have shown us more than any prior president, you are not a manager acting all alone; you are the co-manager along with our great team and our great people. Caucus with the team, Mr. President. Hear them out. You will make the right decision.”

(There's a 2006 Pedro thread with a title that's probably awkward today.)

why was jansen in just now?? lmao