the 2019 Boston Red Sox have lost four in a row

which they didn't do all of 2018

Sale with the first qual start of the year

unfortunately with a fastball that barely cracked 90mph

Cora et al are fond of saying they'd prefer having the velocity in September than now, but Morbs as u know, 1-4 in April is just as harmful to one's playoff chances as it is at any other time, so i don't know what they're smoking

I predict at least two more 4-game losing streaks

Boston starters collectively throwing a 9.60 ERA, worst in the majors and a full two runs higher than the next worst team

Cooler heads did not prevail. pic.twitter.com/eIeSwI9Lo1

— MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) April 6, 2019

Very unlike him.

hell of a game last night. incredibly satisfying. i was of course out of the room for the homer.

stitching on the sox caps looks very... yellow? it's not the white balance; their uniforms look fine.

Sale looks... shitty? Maybe not totally hurt but feel sorry for people who drafted him in the 1st round in fantasy (and also Red Sox fans to a much lesser degree).

extremely ordinary

Sale looks... shitty?

...

Asked if anything was wrong with Sale’s shoulder, Cora said, “No, sick.”

Did it affect his velocity?

“I mean when you can’t work in between it’s tough,” Cora said. “He spent a lot of time in the bathroom.”

Bradford Doolittle, ESPN:

"So far, the 10 pitchers who appeared in the World Series for the Red Sox last season have combined to go 2-10 with a 8.09 ERA and a 1.77 WHIP. This includes Ryan Brasier and Matt Barnes, who have only allowed a combined one run in 10 innings. Craig Kimbrel, of course, has not appeared in a big-league game so far because he doesn't have a team."

Bragging about Barnes there, reminded me how uh... mediocre he looked today fwiw:

HBP on first pitch about 2 feet out of the zone
Wild pitch to the second batter, who then hit a double to score HBP runner
K looking
Stolen base (3rd) allowed
K

taken out of game

every time i see Ryan Brasier i feel like I'm looking at, like, a long-lost album cover from Scott Seward's secret stash. like a Stealers Wheel side project. like a pub quiz answer to who the most short-lived member of The Band was.

This team is just a wreck... surprised there's not more panic pieces yet.

tune in this week for a yanks vs. sox wreck-off

don'y look at the standings til 50 games in

second-worst run differential in the majors

They’ve got the World Series hangover gang over

blake swihart dfa

i guess he's really that bad at calling games? amazing

feels weird because he's been the catcher of the future for so long, and the red sox seem to have jerked him around a lot, but . . . he's been pretty bad

according to cora it's "one of those baseball decisions"

ouch

dombrowski says "we're absolutely not putting this all on Blake"

translation: RIP Blake

can you imagine how sandy leon feels? put on waivers, no one claims him, goes to pawtucket to start the season.. now he's catching sale at yankee stadium

Eovaldi, snip

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26582000/red-sox-eovaldi-elbow-surgery

luv 2 love jbj but I'm not sure how long you can hold onto a CF with a .390 OPS

cmon make me eat my words Jackie

😞

David Price, who’s starting tonight, just made a point to say that Fortnite is not banned in the clubhouse, and that banning it has not been discussed. And that he’s about to go play some Fortnite.
Carry on.

— Michael Silverman (@MikeSilvermanBB) May 2, 2019

I don’t like Price personally but that he should say this opens the door on that clubhouse, doesn’t it? pic.twitter.com/f9JiC9YKRB

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) May 6, 2019

oh YIKES

^

on the bright side i guess porcello's available tomorrow

nuney dfa'd

ffffuck what??

he was having an absolutely brutal season, but i'm not sure sam travis is really an upgrade

indeed. plus y'know speed. sometimes you need a dave roberts on the bench. (though maybe i am overestimating nunez's wheels?)

lol price is complaining about the two-year-old incident with eckersley again

one-hit by the orioles, whose starter began the day with a 6.49 ERA in 34 career games

After his huge game last night, Mookie's July: .395/.465/.709.

Fangraphs playoff odds down to 24.1%

Mets are at 21.5%

still slightly confused about this 'players only meeting' - is that shade on cora? surely not

Chris Sale caught wind of Mitch Moreland’s kid being banned from the locker room

doesn’t seem to have helped

this is really something!

now at 15.9%

Rename thread: The 2019 red sox have now lost eight in a row

man i like darwinzon hernández

he might even be a starter?? sox got lucky with workman this year imo. the bullpen is 90% trash. keep walden & i guess workman. porcello is cooked. cashner's a joke. price is past his prime. e-rod's my man. position players seem fine. marco hernández looks GREAT.

god i love hernández

‪"Comfortable kind of breezy afternoon in San Diego," remarks the Red Sox play-by-play broadcaster Dave O'Brien.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81TGXWueHzL.jpg

i like speier and i know he's not really responsible for the marketing, but give me a fucking break

'homegrown' = mookie, bogaerts and benintendi. jbj was all defense. devers was replacement-level. none of the pitchers were 'homegrown'

they led the majors in payroll and spent almost $100m on simply price/jd/hanley/porcello -- and that's before we get to sale and kimbrel

how about we call it a really rich team that spent its money well instead

ta

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/sites/csnne/files/styles/article_hero_image/public/2019/06/26/bsb-dombrowski-10-12-17.jpg

dombrowski out!

I’m still laughing at the Eovaldi contract.

And yet DiPoto still has a job

the cano/diaz deal is making dipoto look like a genius. until you look at the rest of his deals

This is kind of a shock, but Cherington was fired about a year and a half after winning a title, and wasn't Dombrowski's contract up at the end of this year anyway?

p sure he had a year left

*really* pushing the whole mike yastrzemski thing last night; guess they do need some sort of distraction

I honestly thought Pedroia had already retired, but I guess not.

http://www.si.com/mlb/2020/01/27/boston-red-sox-dustin-pedroia-contract

congrats to john henry and the people of new england for getting under the luxury tax line. also, yikes (and soon deleted)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eg2DlZLXsAM1GlS?format=jpg&name=small

who are these people pitching tonight for this team that appears to be called the boston red sox? r. leyer? m. kickham? a. triggs? r. brasier? (ok, i mean, i know who brasier is. how bad did he have to be this summer to *not* get traded? does *he* know who leyer, kickham and triggs are?)

pretty sure they run a comedy law firm

that was m. kickham's first MLB appearance since 2014

respect the grind, i guess

Literally lol’d at the comedy law firm

kickham when they're down, as don henley once sang.

Red Sox on a big tank job.

That 10th inning was glorious.

triston casas' career numbers to date: 41 at bats, 4 hits, 3 home runs.

display name determinism here

12 Ks as well 😬

and now another homer

and he's got 12 BB to go with with his 14Ks.. this guy's like the dictionary definition of the "3 true outcomes"

At least he could hit the ball unlike b***y d****c

his ops (.702) is five and a half times his batting avg (.130) which is really really not easy to do.