Dirty Water - the tale of the 2023 Boston Red Sox

No fucking way hahahaha

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4D9Yg_WUAArxI4?format=jpg&name=large

that all seems very mild compared with what i saw on my TV. but even if we take that at face value... is that saying that they estimate he handed a run to the Yanks?

That’s usually what the scorecards mean. I think that probably comes from one of those Penvetta innings where he had to throw a bunch of extra pitches because of not getting the strike zone…Let me check.

so if that play at the plate hadn't been overturned he would have handed TWO runs to them

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I’m guessing it’s this one - two of those are debatable strikes and one of them is on the scorecard. Volpe homers right after that and it’s three runs. The other two runs were solo shots and no issue. Gotta be this AB cos it was the only time he got on all day.

And yeah obviously the pitcher & catcher change their approach up depending on the calls. Thankfully Connor was in for that play at the plate cos Reese McGuire isn’t making it.

I do appreciate the M’s tenderizing Houston’s bullpen a little before the Boston visit

Pausing to lol at Winckowski-Martin-Jansen being described as the “three-headed, four-headed monster in the bullpen”

"I missed on the good side of the ball and it went pretty far and it gave us the lead and we didn't look back"

Triston Casas on his home run and the victory@WebsterOnTV | #RedSox pic.twitter.com/IPDuQkgA8X

— NESN (@NESN) September 4, 2023

2022 Red Sox HR leaders:

Rafael Devers - 27
Trevor Story, JD Martinez - 16
Xander Bogaerts - 15
Bobby Dalbec - 12

2023 Red Sox HR leaders:

Devers - 29
Triston Casas - 23*
Justin Turner - 22
Adam Duvall - 19
Masataka Yoshida - 15*

* Homered today

— Gabrielle Starr (@gfstarr1) September 5, 2023

Last night was the template. Just took 130 games. The lineup hasn't been settled all season and finally with Casas at cleanup it feels like it's getting there. Cora going 'only mashers in the building' tonight

1 Rafaela SS
2 Devers 3B
3 Turner DH
4 Casas 1B
5 Duvall RF
6 Yoshida LF
7 Abreu CF
8 Wong C
9 Valdez 2B

I kind of prefer Urias at 2nd, you know? But yeah, just need to see Story hopefully unlock something at the plate cos he’s a momentum killer atm. Just take pitches and you can walk, Trevor!

Bloom out

Classy stuff

You bring him in to trade Mookie (which Dave D bears a lot of responsibility for), rebuild the farm system, get the next young core together and complement that core with some veteran pieces on short term contracts - and he does exactly that - and loads of people get injured - and then you fire him . ??? Profit!

Great job for the next guy, but I gather this is typical FSG class wrt their GMs. Didn’t they run all the other guys out of town?

Someone at the press conference ask if they are going to root out the anonymous front office sources that were in the Globe stabbing Bloom in the back.

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) September 14, 2023

Passan cooking the fraud Henry

Over the 15-year stretch during which they won four World Series, here were the Boston Red Sox's payroll ranks in those years: 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 1st.

Over the last four years, they have been under the CBT three times and their payroll this year is 11th.

But it was the GM's fault.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) September 14, 2023

bloom did a bad job but he wasn’t set up to do a good job. ownership is pretty much absent at this point.

Ownership hired him to eat shit basically and he did that. Next guy will benefit

According to @BNightengale, Sam Fuld has emerged as one of the leading candidates to replace Chaim in the Red Sox front office.

Fuld was a finalist in the Red Sox managerial search the last time around. Has worked as Dave Dombrowski’s right-hand man and GM with the Phillies.… pic.twitter.com/drhUKRtI3i

— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) September 25, 2023

Can 'Superman' save Sox??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UaxlOoxAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9QpRnO6nM

Season so far:

+Story at short
+TRISTON CASAS
+ Chris Martin
+ the bullpen 99% of the time (what’s that stat? 51-3 when leading after six innings)
+ Chris Sale when healthy
+ Bello mostly
+ Abreu & Rafaela
+ Jarren Duran most of the time
+ Justin Turner
+ Masa 90% of the season
+ Kutter Crawford
+ first half Verdugo

- Houck/Sale injuries
- Paxton second half
- Cora not playing Pablito at short enough before Kiké trade
- Duran/Casas injuries
- RISP problems
- JT getting injured and performance falling off a cliff as he tried to play through it
- Duvall cold stretches
- Masa being gassed in August
- Day game Bello
- second half Verdugo :(

Have I missed anything?

+ Connor Wong behind the dish
+ Bernardino (and his story)

- The entire bench staff. Dave Bush. Febles. How come Brasier is good for the Dodgers now? How come Kiké is good. What is going on.
- the fuckin barbells
- Kenley not being the same guy after his 400th save
- the Houck starting experiment
- the Matt Dermody game
- the Kyle Barraclough game
- the baserunning
- the defense

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

https://i.postimg.cc/NMkx9rmM/IMG-9979.jpg

Brasier is a classic Dodgers pitching lab job, supposedly he showed up and Mark Prior was like “Will u throw a cutter” and now he’s elite I guess? Chris Martin credits the Cubs pitching lab with improving him last year so it’s not 100% but yeah the approach is impressive.

Oh yeah Dermody was disgraceful! Every time I see that José Ramirez three homer highlight on mlb.tv I’m like GOOD FOR YOU JOSE!!!

Kenley has been good post-400! Where he’s been bad is due to Cora doing bullshit like running him out in back to back games or two games of a double header. The walk off in SF was insanely bad luck, giving up a homer to JD Davis (the D stands for DFA this guy) in the bottom of the ninth was like a one in a million thing cos that guy can’t hit for shit this year.

I will have a little stats dive in a minute but just watching the games, he puts too many guys on

His recent splits haven’t been great but he’s been sick and playing less so the sample is a bit skewed iirc

His season splits seem to largely follow our known info about him: he pitches badly on short/no rest but also when he’s rusty (which is why Cora has used him in non save situations before)
https://i.postimg.cc/T1LP11ks/IMG-9980.jpg

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And crucially he pitches badly in non save situations
https://i.postimg.cc/3rVR6jNQ/IMG-9982.jpg

His two worst OPS against are in 1-run or tie games!

Check the ahead/behind split though - more closely correlates with pitching in a loss or going into the top of the ninth behind (ie a non closing situation)

Lmao…uh…?

Alex Cora said he’s “not ready” to be a GM, that if he felt he was, he would’ve wanted to be a candidate - but made clear to ownership he’s not in that position. He received assurances from owners last week he’ll be back as manager and will be part of the GM search/hiring process

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) October 1, 2023

https://www.sporcle.com/games/zFordesi/every-2023-red-sox-player
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m o n d e s i - incorrect

40/56 😩

I scraped 49 - and one of them wasn’t Yoshida

i forgot about arroyo 🫢

Besides that five hit game of his and that weird double play against the Braves I understand that

says something dunnit.

also i have no shame in forgetting the parade of ineffective relievers

I got most of the relievers! Blanked out Dermody the homophobe, Walter (!), Lamet, Barraclough (!!) and someone else

i mean… “nick robertson”? obviously made up

zack little? tayler scott? come on

Zack Little I missed. Tayler Scott I remembered from the cubs series, he came in with a big lead and almost blew it and they had to warm up Kenley 😭

Nick Robertson pitched the other night! I think he came over in the Kiké trade

Stats has a questionnaire up:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_UYLdjkRjI1MV00mbtL_44ekmbUsbiW5azd7MNzFQVQy-SQ/viewform

I saw that but haven’t done it, any good?

Ok I’ve done it now, some interesting questions in there. What SP did you think they should go for

i want Shota!

He seems good, Yamamoto is clearly The Guy but who knows if John Henry will crack open the wallet?

I personally like Montgomery. Tough lefty, pitches deep into games, increasing the himbo quotient, what’s not to like

I just checked his Instagram and the first three words on the profile are “follower of Jesus”. His doctor wife is right, he really is dumb

Ya know, I really should have known religious discrimination wasn't beyond you, but there you go

I thought about seriously responding to this, as a Catholic from a family that was always socially liberal in a country that was not so when I was growing up, and then I realised I’d be wasting my time.

as opposed to when you post religious discrimination

It’s not obligatory to interact with my posts, so how about you don’t?