"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him." Franchy & Tanner ARE your 2021 Boston Red Sox

RIP Dr Morbius. I know you'd probably hate this title.

Gonna say it: the Mookie trade busted me up like nothing else has, but this team has played really well and has been very fun to watch. I fully expect the wheels to come off the pitching and there is a lack of serious threat in the batting order that some timely hitting has obscured - for the moment - but they're playing tight right now. Playing hard. If Sale comes back and they're still playing this way I could see them winning a postseason series or two.

these last two games have been extraordinary

deGrom 😱

going into last night the Bosox led the majors in: BA, SLG, OPS (naturally), runs scored

The bosox have yet to lose a game in which they’ve been leading by 2 runs or more.

first sweep in the bronx since 2011

Just looking again at Verdugo vs Mookie. Verdugo hitting .290, Mookie .252. Verdugo has 9 homers, Mookie 8. Verdugo’s scored 43 times, Mookie 42. Verdugo has 33 strikeouts - Mookie? 44. It’s walks where Mookie has the edge. He’s got 37, Verdugo only has 21.

Which says to me a couple of things. Mookie is having a down year so far. The other thing it says is that if Verdugo can hold back a little sometimes and take the walk he will be a really complete hitter.

Ottavino, 35, discovered Earthing last year while doing some research on the Internet. The 11-year veteran who has also played for the Cardinals, Rockies, and Yankees, does it before every game, home or on the road, in empty stadiums.

i don’t want to jinx it but tanner houck is a don

this team

lads

Boys!

Tanner is what, today, an opener? Not great but not terrible either - 6 Ks in 4 innings, one run

good for tanner but also the yankees are now like seven games closer in two weeks

i mean i actually like the sox but if they cannot bury the yankees they need to fuckin get out of the way

BOS is 10-3 against NYY! it’s all the other teams they suddenly can’t seem to beat

i think i’m now officially considering boston “out of the way”

just brutal. i stayed up last night through renfroe's homer. to that point they looked like a playoff baseball team. e-rod just brilliant. striking everybody out. great plays defensively. good at-bats. then - what had been their main strength in the first half of the season - the bullpen - just drove off the cliff and the bats went to sleep again.

really this is just returning to the mean. my dad said - i'm sure he got this from somewhere - they were never that good. but they're not this bad.

i find it odd that they did nothing at the deadline to address 1B. it's not like they even had to go get rizzo, anyone half decent would do. surely c.j. cron could have been had for a few bags of balls

i think marwin gonzalez and danny santana can both play first but they’re liabilities at the plate and yeah, for all the talk of schwarber “learning first” a guy with both a hamstring AND groin injury (??) isn’t who you want stretching out to dig out one-hoppers at first, i’d have thought

Red Sox are angry!

feel bad for valdez, i’ve always liked him, but yeah that was pretty fucking satisfying

diff between 4 and 6 back feels pretty big

nothing has the healing power of three at home against the orioles

send them to florida to play icu patients

seriously. :( their last two starting pitchers are like 1-13 combined or something.

i looked it up, 3-20.

akin gave up three runs in 4 innings - which lowered his ERA.

two hits off andrew fucking heaney in seven innings

they’re not a bad team. they’re a pretty good team playing badly which is much worse.

TIL from WEEI tonight about Bobby Dalbec. His walk-up music is the Doors. his dad is an exec at Atlantic. he has an extensive guitar collection and used to hang out with Rob Thomas.

tbf after i obliquely shit on him three weeks ago, bobby dalbec hit .339/.431/.774 in august. on a par with

at a loss as to why fangraphs thinks the red sox are 15 games better [than the orioles

― mookieproof, Monday, April 5, 2021 12:05 AM (five months ago)

for my wisest takes of the year. but i will not stop!

i’m still not convinced that Large Adult Son can mash against actually good pitchers but yeah, i’m as surprised as anybody

Red Sox lineup on the day of Brady's first start:

1. José Offerman, 2B
2. Darren Lewis, LF
3. Trot Nixon, CF
4. Brian Daubach, RF
5. Morgan Burkhart, 1B
6. Scott Hatteberg, DH
7. Shea Hillenbrand, 3B
8. Doug Mirabelli, C
9. Lou Merloni, SS
SP: Frank Castillo

— OverTheMonster (@OverTheMonster) January 5, 2020

wow that's a lineup to conjure with. shea hillenbrand was the future once. funny that trot and mirabelli crossed over with guys like offerman, feels like such distinct eras to me.

tanner houck is sad that, as an unvaccinated asshole named 'tanner', he won't be able to make his upcoming start in toronto

it is, of course, what it is

VIDEO: #RedSox pitcher Chris Sale upset after giving up a bases loaded walk & being taken out after 3 & 2/3 innings in a rehab start for the @WooSox (📸: @bri4homes) @NBC10Boston @NECN pic.twitter.com/1j1ga5kJaT

— Alysha Palumbo NBC10 Boston (@AlyshaNBCBoston) July 7, 2022

Dorktown: Red Sox! pic.twitter.com/6B8C3azKem

— Secret Base (@secretbase) July 23, 2022

holeee shit

w t fffffffff

Wow

if i did this right, their pythagorean record went from 50-41 (.547) to 47-47 (.500) in three games

Dorktown: Boston Red Sox! pic.twitter.com/WgDG5I95D3

— Secret Base (@secretbase) July 24, 2022