KipWellsFan

If you don't want Yoan, you must not want to win this season. We are almost dead last in walks. Can't make up for that with positive attitude and fun spirit.

Oddly enough, Burger being out improves our defense.

The biggest problem with this team is that we don't seem to use even the most basic analytics tools. Ozzie might actually make that worse. No.

Moncada saw a lot of pitches last night, which was a bit encouraging. But he also seems to be fouling off a ton of pitches.

Why has Burr pitched less than 10 innings this year across minor and majors? Seems a bit strange. Did I miss an injury?

I have yet to see proof of anything... just a bunch of jibberish on Instagram. But maybe I'm just an old man now...

The text in that tweet is bordering on jibberish... I feel like we got almost the exact same rumour last season, with the same crappy quality. Have no idea how to rate the credibility of it. Maybe not worthy of Soxtalk? Just saying.

This is a good post. This team is going nowhere if we are 30th in the league in walks. I feel like we need to keep running him out there until he figures it out. This one day off, one day on stuff probably isn't helping. Unless there is something bothering him, or going on, that we are not aware of.

Sousa is not good. So point taken... But I remember Steve and Jason saying that Sousa falls off the mound to the third base side. So making it back to first is hard for him.

Well in his last 9 games he has an OPS of .355... However, in the 15 games before that his OPS was .810.

I have nothing to add. Grandal and Moncada's struggles are mystifying to me. Although Moncada's sample size is smaller. Hope they figure it out!

Take a shot every time Jason Benetti subtly suggests that LaRussa is doing something strange.

Sorry I have been away. What is the deal with Moncada? Hurt?

The grass is always greener...

Baseball is suffering... you are right.

Oddly enough, Rosario botched a somewhat similar play later.

Last year Grandal caught 12/62, or 19%, which is a pretty significant decline for his career. McGuire has caught 30% of runners for his career.

If you were wondering... Grandal and McGuire have nearly identical framing numbers according to Baseball Savant, but both are good. McGuire has one passed ball and 9 wild pitches in 126 innings. Grandal has two passed balls and 6 wild pitches in 114 innings. Grandal has yet to catch a base stealer. McGuire has caught 3 base stealers. Would be interesting to see the FIPs of the pitchers they receive, but not sure how to get that stat.

If I don't have Apple TV (I have a Roku), and I have a Microsoft Surface, I can't watch on those platforms eh? I have to watch on my iPhone?

You are not crazy. He visually looks dejected anytime little things go wrong. I'm sure this occurs with other players who lack success too, but maybe they just don't show it as much as him. Other players (e.g. Liam), can walk a guy, get angry, and get right back to it on the next hitter. It's a mental thing. So maybe some sports psychology can help. Otherwise you gotta give him the chance to get better. Maybe lower leverage is the right idea. I actually think TLR does a decent job of working people up and down leverage levels.

Madrigal was not our best OBP guy. His OBP was like 4th or 5th highest.

Pffft...

I think Moncada is the big difference. Not only was he exceptionally patient last year, he has been replaced mostly by Jake Burger who is in the following percentiles: K% - 15th percentile BB% - 9th percentile Whiff% - 6th percentile Chase Rate - 6th percentile Also, José Abreu is actually being MORE patient at the plate this season. José's underlying statistics actually look pretty good, so I'm not too worried about him.

I wouldn't be excited about it. But you can never have enough depth.

Who's that dude in the new banner? lol