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.
― ydkb (gyac), Monday, 21 August 2023 15:04 (eight months ago) link
so if that play at the plate hadn't been overturned he would have handed TWO runs to them
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:06 (eight months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/xTB3dnnh/IMG-8035.jpgI’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.
― ydkb (gyac), Monday, 21 August 2023 15:09 (eight months ago) link
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.
― ydkb (gyac), Monday, 21 August 2023 15:11 (eight months ago) link
I do appreciate the M’s tenderizing Houston’s bullpen a little before the Boston visit
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 17:47 (eight months ago) link
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 - 27Trevor Story, JD Martinez - 16Xander Bogaerts - 15Bobby Dalbec - 12 2023 Red Sox HR leaders:Devers - 29Triston Casas - 23*Justin Turner - 22Adam Duvall - 19Masataka Yoshida - 15** Homered today— Gabrielle Starr (@gfstarr1) September 5, 2023
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 14:27 (eight months ago) link
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 SS2 Devers 3B3 Turner DH4 Casas 1B5 Duvall RF6 Yoshida LF7 Abreu CF8 Wong C9 Valdez 2B
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 22:26 (eight months ago) link
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!
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 22:32 (eight months ago) link
Bloom out
Classy stuff
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 September 2023 16:48 (eight months ago) link
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!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 September 2023 16:52 (eight months ago) link
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
― ydkb (gyac), Thursday, 14 September 2023 16:53 (eight months ago) link
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
― ydkb (gyac), Thursday, 14 September 2023 17:23 (eight months ago) link
bloom did a bad job but he wasn’t set up to do a good job. ownership is pretty much absent at this point.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 September 2023 17:27 (eight months ago) link
Ownership hired him to eat shit basically and he did that. Next guy will benefit
― ydkb (gyac), Thursday, 14 September 2023 17:33 (eight months ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 September 2023 08:23 (seven months ago) link
Can 'Superman' save Sox??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UaxlOoxAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9QpRnO6nM
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 September 2023 08:30 (seven months ago) link
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?
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 09:56 (seven months ago) link
+ 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
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 11:24 (seven months ago) link
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.jpgBrasier 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.
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 11:36 (seven months ago) link
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.
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 11:39 (seven months ago) link
I will have a little stats dive in a minute but just watching the games, he puts too many guys on
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 11:54 (seven months ago) link
His recent splits haven’t been great but he’s been sick and playing less so the sample is a bit skewed iirc
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:03 (seven months ago) link
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👀https://i.postimg.cc/prwLFv4L/IMG-9981.jpgAnd crucially he pitches badly in non save situations https://i.postimg.cc/3rVR6jNQ/IMG-9982.jpg
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:11 (seven months ago) link
His two worst OPS against are in 1-run or tie games!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:55 (seven months ago) link
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)
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:39 (seven months ago) link
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
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:09 (seven months ago) link
https://www.sporcle.com/games/zFordesi/every-2023-red-sox-player😮💨😮💨😮💨
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 10:25 (seven months ago) link
m o n d e s i - incorrect
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 11:49 (seven months ago) link
40/56 😩
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 11:50 (seven months ago) link
I scraped 49 - and one of them wasn’t Yoshida
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 11:52 (seven months ago) link
i forgot about arroyo 🫢
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 11:54 (seven months ago) link
Besides that five hit game of his and that weird double play against the Braves I understand that
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 12:02 (seven months ago) link
says something dunnit.also i have no shame in forgetting the parade of ineffective relievers
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 12:03 (seven months ago) link
I got most of the relievers! Blanked out Dermody the homophobe, Walter (!), Lamet, Barraclough (!!) and someone else
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 12:22 (seven months ago) link
i mean… “nick robertson”? obviously made up
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 12:26 (seven months ago) link
zack little? tayler scott? come on
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 12:27 (seven months ago) link
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 😭
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 12:59 (seven months ago) link
Nick Robertson pitched the other night! I think he came over in the Kiké trade
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 13:00 (seven months ago) link
Stats has a questionnaire up:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_UYLdjkRjI1MV00mbtL_44ekmbUsbiW5azd7MNzFQVQy-SQ/viewform
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:02 (seven months ago) link
I saw that but haven’t done it, any good?
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:04 (seven months ago) link
Ok I’ve done it now, some interesting questions in there. What SP did you think they should go for
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:09 (seven months ago) link
i want Shota!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:43 (seven months ago) link
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’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:48 (seven months ago) link
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
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:49 (seven months ago) link
Ya know, I really should have known religious discrimination wasn't beyond you, but there you go
― H.P, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:05 (seven months ago) link
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.
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:14 (seven months ago) link
as opposed to when you post religious discrimination
― H.P, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:16 (seven months ago) link
It’s not obligatory to interact with my posts, so how about you don’t?
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:17 (seven months ago) link
yeah please don't shit up multiple threads H.P ffs
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:18 (seven months ago) link
Also not obligatory to post religious discrimination so how about you don’t?
― H.P, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:19 (seven months ago) link