May 15 Let's go Tannah!!!!
- Thread starter Norm loves Vera
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This pitching staff is just not good. Seems impossible for this team to win when they aren’t scoring 6+ runs
I’m beginning to think we’d have preferred Matt Barnes. (And I really don’t like Matt Barnes. )
That was what was so stiking to me watching the post season last year.
After watching ~80 Red Sox games, it was a revelation to see how much better all those other teams were. Like--if you're only watching the Sox--it's hard to appreciate how much better a chunk of the league is.
For a team that can’t score runs, they sure did tonight. Maybe we have JTB start tomorrow’s thread? Any mojo would be better than this.
I mean, look at what they have on the field at the moment. The SS, 2B, LF and CF are bench-level guys, the 1B and C are young players trying to figure it out. The RF is starting in the wrong position defensively (at least for Fenway).
Every team has injuries and every team has dry spells, but when you wish/hope/pray that role players and rookies will come through more than can be expected, you got issues.
I am mostly concerned with the pitching staff- starters who can’t keep the ball in the park and relievers who don’t get strikeouts. The best FIP out of the Sox pen is 3.30, which doesn’t seem good enough.
Given that the last two games (9-1 and so far 9-1) are the worst of the season (in terms of the gap in scoring) I am inclined to go WAY out on a limb and join Gray Eagle and others in saying that there is a possible, remote connection between these games and the Jansen fiasco. Not sure. Just saying.
Old baseball proverb: Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. Kluber and Houck.
Like it. Here's another old baseball proverb: Hitters have slumps, and sometimes collectively, which can be exacerbated by "baseball hangover" (which is baseball for being depressed).
OK -- I admit I just made that up.
They sort of have to, don't they? I mean, they could put Turner at 1B, Masa at DH and move Verdugo back to LF ... but what does that accomplish?
Seriously. That was embarrassing.
Gives me a bad feeling going forward.
How many ABs into Pedroia's career before he figured it out?
(Not that they're similar players. But similar poor starts for a high regarded prospect.)
