Dirty Water - the tale of the 2023 Boston Red Sox

I remember that. When Kapler was coaching an LA farm team? iirc Verdugo wasn’t accused of anything but the situation was terrible and Kapler should have called the police.

lol i don't know what's happened to me

I don't know whether I'm coming or going!

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Alex Cora just now with @GreshFauriaWEEI announced they will be moving Corey Kluber to the Pen in the wake of Houck’s strong last performance

— WEEI Red Sox Network (@SoxBooth) May 24, 2023

He could blow saves

he’s not great first time through the order or any time through the order

He’ll be blowing dust off his cleats.

might simply have been too embarrassed to DFA their opening-day starter after less than two months

Yeah. I think they were probably gentler with him given that Cora was talking about “mechanical adjustments” that needed to be done like three days ago. If an SP is genuinely trying to get better - and Kluber’s a pretty professional seeming guy, so assume this was the case - they probably merit a slightly gentler pushoff. But who knows?

Btw - BELLO. Genuinely a shining ray of light on this team.

It's early but he really seems like he might be pretty special.

Can we discuss this play, Tracer Hand?!

Kutter Crawford. Athlete. 😳 pic.twitter.com/TuUxx3Nnv4

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 28, 2023

it’s worth noting what a good read that was from casas s well to stretch himself into foul territory and give kutter a clean target to throw to

Yeah this is the conversation I was having with you the other day re first base fielding right? Does his handedness impact on that play at all?

idk if anything I think being a rightie actually helps him there? mookieproof to thread

I watched the Bello innings and then the scores of last night’s game. Pretty rough outing for Bello but he only allowed one run, despite the best efforts of that guy who is not a shortstop. His skyhigh pitch count in the first two innings with all the sloppy breaking balls reminded me of a classic bad Zito outing in the 2012 NLDS against the Reds(!). And Joely Rodriguez isn’t Tim Lincecum.

Actually, just looking through his pitching sequences, it looks like Maguire kept calling for his slider, which was a ball 99% of the time? Wtf?

I should really look at it in more detail but yeah, I don’t think Maguire is much of a catcher.

I am here because I do not want to talk about the Mariners. 🫣🫣🫣

The Red Sox are .500 and have a run differential of -3 when President Biden takes a tumble

June 18, 2022
🇻🇮falls over on bike
⚾️ BOS loses to STL 2-11

June 1, 2023
🇻🇮tripped on flat ground
⚾️BOS beats CIN 8-2 pic.twitter.com/QpDhKP5RR3

— Coop (@coop_leon) June 2, 2023

seems like chris sale might be out for awhile, depending on what the MRI says. he'd been on fire of late too, peak level performance.

Is there actual news? I’ve been enjoying watching him all season, love this slender psycho

Shoulder soreness which I guess could maybe just be soreness, I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but cora didn't seem optimistic.

Possible IL stint for Chris Sale, Cora said. He’s still sore and at least been ruled out for his next start. Doctors are reviewing MRI and Cora said the Red Sox will know more later on.
If placed on IL, Kluber (paternity list) will take his spot and Sherriff will stay

— Christopher Smith (@SmittyOnMLB) June 2, 2023

one last rodeo for the klubinator

Alex Cora just confirmed on @NESN that Chris Sale will go to the IL. Said he hopes he didn’t hurt the shoulder any more by ramping it up on the couple of fastballs he threw to the final batter.

— Tom Caron (blue checkmark redacted) (@TomCaron) June 2, 2023

This quite frankly sucks!

Dermody is a hateful dipshit, but there are a lot of hateful dipshits. Chaim Bloom's quotes in this piece, however, are enraging. https://t.co/iVPk0ufzKh

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) June 8, 2023

Scrolling though his tweeter, the homophobia is one of many, many things wrong with this dude.

Hopefully he gets booed so loudly it gets in his peabrain and then he gets promptly shelled back to whatever minor/international league he came from.

(sorry Sox fans)

I personally hope he gets lit up and then DFAed

uhhhm so was the tweet a "mistake" or a "statement of his beliefs" that the red sox should respect????? fucking hell

It’s so bad

Going through the likes tab of tonight’s starter for the Red Sox! Very normal behavior on display here! pic.twitter.com/HKdAVdyRZF

— Fitzy Mo Peña (@FitzyMoPena) June 8, 2023

what a f’n loser

I personally hope he gets lit up and then DFAed

:D

Will they do the same with Kluber though

if devers got caught with something like this, i could at least understand why the sox/bloom would go to great lengths to excuse it. but this guy is the absolute definition of replacement player! why wouldn’t you just get another quad-a guy (being generous) who *isn’t* an obvious bigot?

Right?????

https://t.co/Mr85r1oyVM pic.twitter.com/0V9uEGyEAa

— sam (@redsoxsam_) June 9, 2023

Chris Sale on the 60 day IL 😩

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The “flex” on base celebration is pretty cute, but it’s even better when they cut to the dugout and show all the guys there doing it back.

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INCREDIBLE

Alex Verdugo’s dad is having a FANTASTIC Father’s Day lmao pic.twitter.com/54kOgd8zmg

— Arcand (@ChristianArcand) June 18, 2023

"thank you for the edibles"

His brother had to post a photo of it lol

“The edibles” 😂😂 @espn pic.twitter.com/ID064zIAvJ

— Chris Verdugo (@sirdugo520) June 18, 2023

Oh yeah let me not ignore this catch by Duran! 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

WHAT A PLAY BY JARREN DURAN! 🤯🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/gU3kTu0pZb

— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 18, 2023

Btw my searingly hot take is that the City connect uniforms are the most photogenic of them all!

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Nice piece about Yoshida in The Athletic today.

Isolated by language, culture and unfamiliarity, Yoshida remains a unique presence inside the Red Sox clubhouse, but he’s made unmistakable connections with his teammates and coaches. Translator Keiichiro Wakabayashi is ever-present to facilitate conversations, and Yoshida has learned enough English to engage his American teammates in basic discussions, especially when baseball terminology will suffice. Yoshida often laughs in the locker room and around the batting cage, and the other players like him.

Cora said he tried earlier this year to guess which team was the runner-up in the Yoshida sweepstakes, but Yoshida again surprised him by saying at one point that he thought he was going to end up with the Blue Jays. Yoshida’s left-handed bat would have been a nice fit in that Toronto lineup, and it wouldn’t have made things any easier in the American League East.

“I’m glad that it was us,” Cora said.

Stats always gets the best screenshots

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I’m so impressed with Bello. He developed a cutter and is already using it! Also, watching his game last night back, he’s looking so much more assured with men on base, they leave him to get out of trouble and so far he’s been able to do it. Perhaps most importantly, he wasn’t even at his best and still ground out the win.

he’s turning into a certified stud, incredible stuff

Devers said in his postgame he sees Bello as a little brother and tries to help him all he can. Regardless of where this team goes, watching Bello come on in leaps and bounds is really incredible stuff.

I can’t believe he literally developed and has been using a new pitch in the week!

how tf are these pitches all clustered so tightly, this is insane

Bello threw a new pitch tonight, a cutter. pic.twitter.com/RCCfNzGz11

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

Yeah I was shocked by that stats graph too cos his command didn’t look that great but I was wrong. He’s also throwing to his non-personal catcher!

The bats are asleep, the rotation picks up a new injury every week, and they’re one game above .500, but the vibes are undefeated.

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

Breslow in

Craig Breslow will get the chief baseball officer title. That comes with full autonomy... including when it comes to naming his No. 2 in command, it seems. On what comes next (and a pitching coach note, too):https://t.co/EjSZg9pgmz

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) October 25, 2023

he seems like an interesting dude but has he ever done a deal in his entire career?

No idea, but the Cubs and Theo Epstein were very hot on him and promoted him several times? Guess we’ll see who the GM job goes to.

Right he did some whizkid pitching analytics stuff for the Cubbies, but has he ever recruited a player? Negotiated a deal? No, is I think the answer, so yeah his No. 2, and the rest of the team will be pretty important I guess

He was still pitching just 6 years ago!

The pitching coach note is promising

yeah his pitching expertise should pay dividends longterm but my impression was that ownership (and certainly fans) want to start winning now - hope he can do both

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just don’t trade Triston Casas for Kolten Wong and Bello for the corpse of Lance Lynn? Honestly though it depends if ownership gives him money. Might be moot if they don’t.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGG0o5P1HFw

ok that made me extremely uncomfortable

Breslow intro presser at 3pm GMT

Join us live at 11am ET for Craig Breslow's introductory press conference: https://t.co/kEp0PGLISy pic.twitter.com/eFhzVzi3jE

— Red Sox (@RedSox) November 2, 2023

Kiké really isn’t good now, classic change of scene job. He’s reverted to his earlier year performance

Breslow’s experience as a major league pitcher and his ideas for rebooting how the franchise develops and improves pitchers were noted. Case in point, watching Ryan Brasier, released by the Red Sox in May, thrive in the Dodgers bullpen didn’t sit well.

”That obviously was disappointing,” Werner said. “We didn’t love the fact that he actually had a very productive season.”

Oh yeah I totally forgot about the Dominican series in ST, let’s see, they’ve got beloved Red Sox Dominican players Raffy Devers and…Triston Casas?

#SpringTraining: Dominican Republic edition!

The @RedSox will face @RaysBaseball March 9-10 at Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo.

Tickets are on sale December 12! https://t.co/PnAXIxy3yF pic.twitter.com/alvdoWpjxu

— MLB (@MLB) December 5, 2023

Cruising through Samaná. 🇩🇴 pic.twitter.com/krCDPnVEdU

— Red Sox (@RedSox) November 30, 2023

On the subject of the most hench outfield:

HE’S READY
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HE’S READY
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HE’S READY
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