The guy got hit in the hand with a line drive, a freak accident. I'm sorry you find it tiresome but if the only emotion you felt it disgust, you are a bitter, bitter person. Perfect for the internet.
I'll tell you what's tiresome - it's poster using fluke injuries as some sort of Rorshach test about their feelings about a player. Chris Sale is kind of a weirdo and he's an anti-Vader, so his injuries are some sort of moral failure on his part, but somebody like, say, Dustin Pedroia, who was a beloved gamer, could get fluke injuries that make his contract an albatross too and nobody held it against him.
double by LeMahieu
Also worth noting that while the line drive was hit hard, Jeter was positioned perfectly behind Sale and probably makes a play on it if it didn't hit off his hand. Just bad luck all around.
This. As I recall they hit one ball out of the infield, and it was off the end of the bat.
We really should be blaming Devers. If he throws the ball to 1B on a soft grounder like any other shortstop, Sale would have been out of the first and pitching to Hicks from the windup in the second.
Between 2012 and 2018 the fewest regular season starts he made in a year was 26, and the fewest innings he threw was 158, so this would be, not surprisingly coming from you, not at all true.
You've been mostly AWOL while the Sox were playing better and when things turn to shit you return with a vengeance and today seems to be your Christmas morning with the "Sale's made of glass" crap. Seriously, you're one of the guys who should be telling you to do better.
That doesn’t really make me feel any better. That extension was a gigantic organizational failure. I’m glad that the likelihood of repeating said failure is probably reduced with Bloom here now.
Do we have any knowledge that this is part of why he was let go, or is it just speculation? Because I've never bought it.
I was on vacation out of the country when they went on that run. Sorry I couldn’t take time from real life to comment at your command.
And he was built like a guy who could slip down in the shower drain and had a long history of pitching poorly late in seasons and has been on a long and torturous decline since Aug 2018 and hasn’t been right since. Four years is an eternity in baseball and that’s what it’s felt like watching him try to stay healthy.
That’s the way I took it as well. The owners changed focus and wanted to rebuild from within and that’s not what DD does. It seemed strange at the time because the whole world knew that DD would build a good team at the cost of the farm system so ownership shouldn’t have been surprised, but maybe they got spooked over payroll.
Again, not factually correct. Worse yes, poorly no.
None of his pitches were crisp, and he knew it. The number of changeups was evidence of the absence of both his slider and fast ball.
That was likely part of the underlying rationale, but it doesn’t explain shitcanning him in early September. Something went wrong, internally. My guess has always been bad communication by DD, possibly some rogue decision making in the prior offseason, with ownership taking a “this better work or it’s your ass” approach. Or maybe ownership was fickle and callous. But the whole process never added up.
I am trying to look at it the way I view Davis Price. Would we have won the last two World championships the Sox won without Price or Chris Sale. My guess is maybe not so if the cost is what we are paying now so be it
I'm pretty sure they would have won at least one of those two with no contributions from either Price or Sale.
What does that mean? What change is made if they consider it a sunk cost? Sure they shouldn't plan on 200 innings from him but all that means is they potentially throw $12 million at a flotsam pitcher to eat innings, a massive move like DeGrom is just a matter of if they have the payroll flexibility to do it, it wouldn't be a Sale contingency move.
Hey now, Price contributed to both the most recent championships. He served up those meatballs to Ortiz in the LDS like nobody's business.
But, like a lot of good pitchers do he would've been out of the inning unscathed regardless of his early stuff.
maybe, we will never know, but my point is that the cost of a world championship is sometimes. mortgaging a part of the future. in these instances, contracts that tied the Sox hands somewhat. having to lose Mookie hurt a tom, if we have to lose Bogey and Devers, due to the Sale money it is sickening. However, at least we got the two World Series wins. IMHO, it will be a miracle for this year's club to win it all. I would see what I can get for Martinez and Eovaldi and maybe Vazquez if we won't sign him. Try and sign Bogey and especially Devers. If the Sox are unwilling to pay the price to sign the left side of the infield, they need to trade it away and stink. The moral of the story is never fall in love with a player, don't but merchandise with a player's name on it. I thnk the first base experiment is over if anybody wants what we currently have there let them take it.
I don't think they're quite at the point where they'll consider him a sunk cost, but we'll see if he needs surgery on the finger which might keep him out the rest of the year.
To my layperson eyes, it does not look like he'll be back this season.
Yeah, that doesn't sound good at all. It look from the pics that he swelling in the joint on the finger, so there might have been a break in there
