Dirty Water - the tale of the 2023 Boston Red Sox

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

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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)
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And crucially he pitches badly in non save situations
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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?

yeah please don't shit up multiple threads H.P ffs

Also not obligatory to post religious discrimination so how about you don’t?

Thanks tracer! Happy to when gyac stops posting garbage

H.P. - as one of the original moderators of this board, fellow baseball lover and - afaict - only other woman on this board, I am asking you nicely, can you please not engage in this creep behaviour of following gyac around multiple threads and picking/reviving beefs and threatening to continue until she meets your demands?

It's incredibly unpleasant, controlling and typical harassing behavior that I promise you every woman online has experienced and is sick of.

Dude, I am sorry for whatever is going on in your personal life, but if you love baseball at all, can you please take a good look at what you are doing? Maybe try to incorporate some sportsmanship and good character into your own posting?

You've earned a FP from me. Please drop it.

Weird narrative you've spun? If this is the board where religious discrimination is cool and a good thing to post then sorry, I missed that memo. Stoked to see many posters backing up that type of behavior.

Love the personal life stuff being put in too (which has no factual basis). I consider calling out religious discrimination good character, but maybe we just have different value systems and we'll have to live with that.

HP, I don't know if the threadban function works, but I've just given you one for this thread, so we'll find out. Please stop chasing gyac around ILB and picking fights.

Thank you WmC.

TH, the survey results are in and RSS published here

73% of people want Brayan Bello and Triston Casas to both receive long-term contracts from the Red Sox this winter, with only 6% wanting to extend neither. 17% are ready to extend Casas, but want to hold off on Bello.

92% say there needs to be changes made to the Red Sox major league pitching coaches.

higher chance of that than kennedy having any interesting answers but i will try to stay open-minded

Abreu included by SK in discussion about extending young players

What I would dearly love in 2024 is for Cora’s guys to actually have a set role for more than about 5 minutes. Who’s playing center? Who’s a starter? Am I batting 8th or second? It changed all the time, drove me crazy. I know, injuries, but still

JT is such a guy

Turner, who played with the Orioles and Mets in the early years of his career, credits players such as Nick Markakis, Adam Jones, Ty Wigginton and David Wright for instilling the idea of a mutually respectful relationship between teammates, regardless of age. Rather than following the concept of “making them earn it,” Turner believes in embracing rookies and making sure they’re comfortable.

“I always say I’m like the bumpers on a bowling lane,” Turner said. “I don’t want to interfere with them or stop them from doing anything, I just want to keep them moving in the right direction, make sure they don’t wind up in the gutter.”

Back in 2019, @jcmccaffrey wrote an article about how the starting pitcher typically chooses the jersey for the day. I wanted to know if that was still true. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it looks to me like certain pitchers have clear preferences.

James Paxton is a real one pic.twitter.com/WbZgUOih8G

— Sox & Shoes (@soxandshoes) October 5, 2023

No City connects no care

Did you see the new piece about Alex Verdugo?

He was so great early in the season. I honestly don’t like how Cora’s treated him. He was striking out a lot towards the end which was very atypical for her.

Offensively, Verdugo took a step back after a strong start to the year. Through the first three months of the season, he was hitting .301 with an .836 OPS, but by the end of July his average had dropped 30 points and his OPS was down 60 points. He finished the year with a .264 average, his worst since arriving in Boston in 2020, and a .745 OPS.

Sources: Red Sox fire pitching coach Dave Bush https://t.co/7IeL9xfW4j via @BostonGlobe

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) October 9, 2023

The best running joke of the season is the Dave Bush mound visit. I swear it results in an RBI 100% of the time

— cesar flebotomo (@thrischomas) August 30, 2023

That's my Bush!

FEBLES OUT

Posted on Jacoby Ellsbury’s Instagram story
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The pic doesn't come up for me

Is it the shot in the bar with Youk et al?

Yes! I’ll send you it