Red Sox Defensive Gifs
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The power projected in his swing hasn't yet fully shown up, but it seems to be there in his his ability to throw off-balance.
Holt's clearly shocked Bogey got to that.
Do any of us truly appreciate how amazing a defensive 2B Dustin Pedroia is? His pick last night was simply absolutelefuggingrigaddamdiculous.
Edit - Oh, and he knows to get out of the way.
http://m.mlb.com/bos/video/topic/8878860/v1115510883/tbbos-pedroia-pulls-off-an-amazing-pick-for-the-out/?c_id=bos
Do any of us truly appreciate how amazing a defensive 2B Dustin Pedroia is? His pick last night was simply absolutelefuggingrigaddamdiculous.
Edit - Oh, and he knows to get out of the way.
http://m.mlb.com/bos/video/topic/8878860/v1115510883/tbbos-pedroia-pulls-off-an-amazing-pick-for-the-out/?c_id=bos
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Absolute rope. So straight and laser like you'd think Pedroia hit it.Commemorative gif
Xander is probably the best athlete of the young guns. Or is it Mookie? Jackie? Yoan tbd? Benintendi tbd? As Manny used to say: Unboleibable.And this wasn't half-bad:
Hanley "in the endzone" deserves a little love, too. Sorry, I can't figure out how to GIF this:
http://m.mlb.com/video/v1128216783/bosoak-ramirez-makes-the-catch-in-the-endzone/?game_pk=448866
http://m.mlb.com/video/v1128216783/bosoak-ramirez-makes-the-catch-in-the-endzone/?game_pk=448866
I like that Price realized that it might be caught and went to back up third base.
All we need now is a gif of the two gifs synched up. It takes a long time for them to sync up.
And then the Koji one gets ahead of the Ziegler one. I need to get a life. No, actually, this is fine.
Not if you get here at the right time.All we need now is a gif of the two gifs synched up. It takes a long time for them to sync up.
From men on second and third with one out to the inning over without a run scoring thanks to Pedroia (plus some help by Leon) and Holt (plus some help by Hanley)
Not shown was Betts cutting the ball off in right holding Dickerson to a single, against a lot of outfields he would have scored from second on Franklin's double.
Not shown was Betts cutting the ball off in right holding Dickerson to a single, against a lot of outfields he would have scored from second on Franklin's double.
Betts makes a semi-awkward slide, still makes the catch, and the slide causes the runner to hesitate allowing Mookie to double him off first
Just Mookie doing Mookie things.
There's unfortunately no highlight of it, but in the 10th Mookie cut off a ball heading towards the wall and threw it in on the fly without being able to plant his feet properly, holding Tommy Joseph at 3rd. Against basically any other right fielder the runner scores and the game ends with the Phillies winning. He's always had the speed, but the way he's transformed his arm into a weapon is amazing.
There's unfortunately no highlight of it, but in the 10th Mookie cut off a ball heading towards the wall and threw it in on the fly without being able to plant his feet properly, holding Tommy Joseph at 3rd. Against basically any other right fielder the runner scores and the game ends with the Phillies winning. He's always had the speed, but the way he's transformed his arm into a weapon is amazing.
His ability to read a baseball immediately following contact is like nothing I've ever seen. He was just born to play that position. And his ability to read the ball probably hurts his defensive rep because he makes flashy plays just seems so easy. He's just always under the ball.
My dad says that Joe DiMaggio was the same exact way. Never seemed flashy or spectacular because he always read it correctly right off the crack of the bat. Brilliant fielder that makes tough catches look routine.
That catch was amazing, and so important, taking away a home run in a game that was scoreless into the 11th. I score that a +1 Win catch. 
Not a Red Sox player, but this deserves some eyeballs. Video is in a tweet. Sorry mobile users.
His brothers, Dom and Vince, were probably a bit better as center fielders. While today's methods of evaluation are not available for players of that era, if you look at their respective Range Factors, Held and Kill percentages you find:
Range Held Kill Center Field
2.74 45.3% 4.3% Vince
2.92 44.3% 2.9% Dom
2.79 42.8% 2.7% Joe
