Thread of future Red Sox superstar Triston Casas

I mean don’t count your Casas before he’s smashed, but yes, he seems to be having a great spring!

Who knew he inspired the Daniels?!

Everyone wants to take photos of the back side of Triston Casas’ hands (nails). I was more interested in the other side. This is what no batting gloves in BP looks like. pic.twitter.com/vAF3DKaJs5

— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) March 21, 2023

Holy moonshot to walk it off for the Red Sox pic.twitter.com/GyLG2ZClP4

— Dillard Barnhart (@BarnHasSpoken2) March 25, 2023

I don’t love that swing.. he’s flying open too quick, opening his shoulders up too quick.. can’t argue with the result though

Another bomb yesterday off Charlie Morton btw

Triston Casas - Boston Red Sox (4)* pic.twitter.com/aWt6gTZyFm

— MLB HR Videos (@MLBHRVideos) March 28, 2023

Youk is such an upgrade on Eck in the booth it’s not even funny

sorry for posting to this thread when Triston isn’t playing ;_;

It’s ok, big boy sits for left handed pitchers

He came on to pinch hit and he did!

Rookie Triston Casas extends the lead for Boston pic.twitter.com/IHMQSS4oVF

— Pack the Brew (@PacktheBrew) April 2, 2023

It’s ok, big boy sits for left handed pitchers

I hope and expect for this to change

Extremely satisfying single there

My large meathead son

https://i.postimg.cc/PxRcd55P/5-CEECBF9-4-ED8-46-D7-ABA2-2-EC89-BCFC06-B.jpg

Has he quite possibly spliced a load of quotes from different properties and attributed them to a fourth? I believe he has!

Nail update:

Triston Casas Opening Day nails pic.twitter.com/CE5hSasBIn

— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) March 30, 2023

Literally rookie errors from our boy; learning curve! However that first home run of the season was pretty great. And it seems like his bat has started to wake up?

Hahahaha

Quite an at bat for Triston Casas, who fouls off eight pitches and draws a 14-pitch walk. Flips the bat at the end, which, honestly, he kind of earned.

— Mac Cerullo (@MacCerullo) April 13, 2023

I love this fucking moron

Triston Casas celebrating his 14-pitch walk, I LOVE IT.
pic.twitter.com/IZ3qu8Iyt1

— Boston Strong (@BostonStrong_34) April 13, 2023

was not expecting the scream there

There’s a great clip where they cut to the dugout and Cora is laughing, like, what an absolute freak but can’t hate

The lhp threw four straight balls to Bobby Dalbec and ended up having to come out right after, love a good ab duel like that

Triston struck out 4 times today ;_;

If he can't learn to handle breaking stuff or offspeed stuff when it's down and in his MLB career is going to be very cruelly foreshortened imo

I think that’s premature.

Well that’s the book on him and it’s working like a dream so far. This is his challenge. He either figures it out or hangs it up. He’s got a good enough eye that I think he does figure it out, but he needs to do it either 1) quickly or 2) in Worcester

BA still dire and still a pretty small sample size but there’s a lot of good signs - walking a lot more and has also had some bad luck with strike calls & catches. This walkless streak has now ended so his on base numbers are going up and he just has to get the hitting squared off.

https://i.postimg.cc/3JwWx535/2-F043-D1-E-4769-4-BB5-86-DB-14-F8-C19-CFBAF.jpg

Intrigued by this thread also

Over the last 2 weeks Casas has a 24% walk rate and these are his batted balls. Enough to drive someone crazy, but as long as he sticks with his process, he's going to be fine. pic.twitter.com/Ool9IYPKDl

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) April 24, 2023

A 426 foot beauty from Triston Casas. pic.twitter.com/fGPASZ3bu6

— Red Sox (@RedSox) April 24, 2023

Such quick hands. Crazy.

0-3 with a walk getting to be a very familiar stat line for our young himbo. I feel for him. He looks miserable!

Yeah you read that piece in the Athletic? It’s just pretty joyless grinding atm but they say they’ve seen enough to bench him if needed cos they want him to tackle major league pitching. I think he has enough confidence to work through this slump but it’s tough to watch.

Btw I saw a clip of him making a pick from short and he was almost doing the splits to do so 😵‍💫

lmao his face at the end in the replay. I hope the boys are looking after him

https://www.mlb.com/video/danny-jansen-grounds-out-shortstop-enrique-hernandez-to-first-baseman-tri

btw I love Kiké as you know but honestly he is all over the place with his fucking throws???? He made one soon after this that was into the lights, went about a mile over Casas.

Yeah it's like he's got the yips. For every one of those diving stops he gives away a couple on bad throws

Casas a very natural fielder imo, always feel good when he's out there

I think based on his PAs I’ve seen he’s getting closer to where he needs to be. He seems to make a lot of hard contact but it gets caught a lot - probably mechanical as much as deciding to swing. Have seen people say he always takes a while to adjust every time they come up a level and the team is clearly pressing him to work it out - can be rough to watch. As I mentioned upthread, he’s got a lot of confidence and young players need that to keep pushing themselves on. Plus also it seems like some of his problems are classic overthinking at the plate? Idk, I hope he starts doing better soon for his own sake, your fans seem kind of awful. Also for our sake so he can start using his Twitter account again ofc

Casas' bases loaded warning track fly out is a homer 87% of the time, with a .917 batting average. pic.twitter.com/dgT6ZpqsIt

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) May 4, 2023

The only king I care about is king of the himbos Triston Casas. 4 hits in his last two games, hopefully he has turned a corner.

Unreal pic.twitter.com/BHIWapDa8o

— Joey Copponi (@JoeyCopponi) May 5, 2023

I asked Casas about this. He said he was using the injury on the field as his time to visualize some things in the batter's box. With the pitch clock, he noted, you don't have time to do that.

He's the gift that keeps on giving. https://t.co/xsa4TawOfN

— Julian McWilliams (@byJulianMack) May 5, 2023

Which weirdos played for boston before spaceman lee? B”s”L->manny b manny->TC is a good lineage

Ted would talk to his bats i guess

oil can imo

RIGHT

Carl Everett could be squeezed in there somewhere imho

Tru

I can’t speak to Red Sox weirdos but i think they haven’t had a himbo proper since Gabe Kapler. The himbo/weirdo hybrid is rare!

I don’t think the other voice in the box was posted here

Casas on him hitting in the box and the little voice in his head: "That alter ego comes out in that box, there’s a little switch you have to flip, so that’s who I talk to. It’s very demanding, it’s very harsh."

— Julian McWilliams (@byJulianMack) September 24, 2022

poor jimmy piersall was a big ol bosox weirdo

https://i.postimg.cc/SxwJbvV5/30-BF0-DCE-66-CE-4286-9-AC9-A0-FEFB318428.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/tgW7qNMg/1-C596-A9-C-4-CB6-42-B9-93-FD-9174-A7-CEDB49.jpg

links no worky

let me at that casas content

I messaged to you on sapp, imgur doesn’t work on my phone v well sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La15eWBCzdY

He’s the best 🥹🥹🥹 though apparently ESPN asked him “What does Mother’s Day mean to you?” (as his mother died as a child), what the fuck.

BA continues to climb, slash line is .345/.444/.586 with an OPS of 1.031 for May. He got hits in the last three games, on base streak is 23(?) games?

Wow that question about his mother is fucked up, he handled that well though.

Also, in The Athletic:

• Triston Casas has slowly started to turn a corner at the plate, going 10-for-29 (.345) with two homers and a double in 10 games this month. On Sunday, Casas extended his on-base streak to 23 games, the third-longest active streak in the majors behind Yordan Alvarez (34) and Jurickson Profar (25). While the walks he’s drawn have been good, the Red Sox are glad he’s being more aggressive at swinging at pitches in the zone. The Red Sox felt Casas was too patient and was wasting hittable pitches in an attempt to draw a walk. “I’d rather him not work the count to walk,” Cora said. “They walk you, they walk you. If you’re ahead in the count and you get pitches to hit, let it fly.” Cora added a little humor by referencing another comment made to the gigantic, slow-footed Casas, “Somebody said something like, ‘If you walk, what are you gonna do? Steal second?’”

Joe Sheehan has him as the 5th best 1st-baseman in the game, behind Freddie Freeman, Matt Olson, Bryce Harper and Vladdy Jr

gyac thinks he might be better than Vladdy Jr and all I have to say about that is, it'll be interesting to watch :)

I mean maybe?????

What exactly did Sheehan say? I remember he was annoyed with some Sox fan who was complaining about Casas having a low average in May or something, after he’d started hitting, but before it showed up in his numbers. Sheehan: do Red Sox fans bother watching the games?

lol he basically just pasted what he wrote before
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I wrote this in an email May 31, 2023 and published it in a mailbag June 21:

Casas was hideous in April, but in May he’s at .257/.338/.429 after last night’s 0-for-5. That’s also not great, but it’s progress. The K/BB is 22/9 and the K rate is 28%, not unreasonable for the profile. May xBA is .264, xSLG is .560.

I’d have understood these questions a month ago. It’s weird to get them when he’s basically playing about as you’d expect. He’s absolutely earned some patience.

Casas hit .299/.397/.556 from June 1 through the end of the season.
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🤞🏻 for a good healthy second season (and that his hair grows back ASAP)

It’s good that Florida man wears sunscreen, but does he seriously not understand that you’re supposed to rub it in.

https://i.postimg.cc/7Z0rDWGr/IMG-6515.png

https://www.mlb.com/app/atbat/video/triston-casas-joins-mlb-tonight

Also, I love Jake Peavy so much.

"What part of that [pregame breakfast] makes you feel light for the game?"

Triston Casas: "The trip to the bathroom right before the game. That'll make me feel light. I think it's the chia seeds and flax seeds running right through me. That's the light part." pic.twitter.com/zxgpOt2wEt

— Sox & Shoes (@soxandshoes) March 7, 2024

https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/sunbather-oakland-coliseum-triston-casas-routine-19380171.php

lol. I assume that’s an April Fool’s Day headline cos Jessica Kleinschmidt the A’s reporter (who is great!) posted it on her Twitter.

Triston Casas made it to Oakland just fine: pic.twitter.com/dBGgUxmCcl

— Jessica Kleinschmidt (@KleinschmidtJD) April 1, 2024

Where does outfield yoga rank amongst pregame routines? #RedSox pic.twitter.com/nHR8NMJZ02

— NESN (@NESN) March 30, 2024

Casas is so bored at dh he’s playing first from the bullpen lol pic.twitter.com/C9m6bYQeRK

— CasasTruther (@CasasTruther36) April 3, 2024

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024/04/meet-the-river-monster-the-red-sox-new-on-base-celebration-for-2024.html

At some point shortly before the season on the team plane, a group of veterans were playing poker on the back of the team charter when, after someone won a hand with a favorable river card (the fifth and final community card in a flop game), gestured like a monster and said the “River Monster” had come for one of his teammates.

“It’s something to do with poker,” said first baseman Triston Casas. “I don’t play but apparently there’s something called the ‘river.’ Sometimes it frustrates players when something happens there that they lose and the other person wins. Somebody made that gesture when they were playing one day. I wasn’t there.”

…“The back of the plane card game got it going, so (Nick) Pivetta and Raffy (Devers) were doing it,” Casas said. “Someone was like, ‘I’m doing that when I get on first base.

“I don’t know how there can be a river in a card game. Those run through land, with water. I don’t understand.”

He’s an idiot i love him