the 2019 Boston Red Sox have lost four in a row

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.

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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)

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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.

so i guess they'll be scoring nine runs every game this year? is that the plan? not a bad plan if they can continue to execute on it!

the plan will fall apart if the opposing teams catch on and plan to score 10 runs

The starting pitching though 🫣

well the last two games they only came to bat eight times so they're scoring even more than 9 a game 🤓

Pitching help is coming. Bello and Whitlock will be ready in 2-3 weeks. Kelly and Ort get sent down, Houck and Cutter become long guys.. This will be a pretty deep pen. But.... yeah. A lot hangs on the fragile appendages of two former aces now in their mid-30s. If this team hangs in there, and management really want to make a run, they have to deal for an elite starter imo

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Yeah not great!

The defence... yikes

1 - Casas botched the bunt; he should either have just charged it or headed for the bag, instead he got hung up in no man's land, waiting for it to come to him

2 - In the seventh, Casas' very risky throw to third which put runners on the corners, rather than just taking the out at first

3 - Devers inexplicably not cutting off Yoshida's off-line throw home, allowing Bryan Reynolds to take THIRD

That said even though they were losses it's good to see some low-scoring games. Quality starts from Klubes and Pivetta

I think one high quality starter will be needed this season, and a catcher upgrade. Otherwise.. I'm not so doom and gloom as the chicken little Globe commenters

pirates have been waiting like six years for a dominant mitch keller start, and i guess this was it, if only because that game-tying three-run homer went just foul

at this point there may be little difference -- they both got rocked in their first starts -- but why did kluber get the opener last week and sale the second game?

xxp wasn’t there a three run homer that got ruled out as well

apparently Cora thought the bright lights of Opening Day would mess with Sale's head

which, if you think about it, probably messed with his head

what’s the use in startin
all you get is pain
when i needed strikeouts i got raked

xpost yowza

the fifth was out to get me
or that’s the way it seemed
hanging sliders, feeling loose at the seams

Cheer up, weeping team
Oh, what can it mean
To a leaky reliever
And an ERA of fifteen?

from the associated press story on sunday's win over the guardians:

_Sale... got an out in the seventh inning for the first time since Aug. 8, 2019._

The Red Sox are #3 in runs behind only the Rays and Rangers, and #2 in extra base hits

And #1 in swag

Boston's much-maligned (by me) catching tandem of Connor Wong and Reese McGuire have more hits than any other team's catchers do

I really like Gausman but he is getting absolutely mauled by this lineup rn

Boston's much-maligned (by me) catching tandem of Connor Wong and Reese McGuire have more hits than any other team's catchers do

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, May 4, 2023 3:51 PM (six minutes ago)

Maybe in the AL? The Red Sox Cs have 35 hits, and I know Atlanta's Cs have 39.

I was just blithely repeating the NESN commentators, I should know better I guess!

Atlanta Cs are on 29 I think? the gloriously named Chadwick Tromp with 2, Sean Murphy with 27

Wong and McGuire have 37 between them

d'Arnaud has 11 but I don't know how that breaks down between C/DH.

9 at DH and 2 at catcher.

Damn the race is on

ty gyac!