QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 08:52 PM)
You're assuming Lough would have fielded it cleanly on a hop which is very unlikely considering he went all out for it.
You don't know he's going to dive while the ball is on the way to him.
QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 08:49 PM)
I could probably think of 50 if we limit it to worst contributors . But wow really Rios ? Playing baseball your whole life, you know you can walk home on a hit and you run down the line with a ball in the air ???
Let's be fair. He can't walk home on that hit if he's standing on third when it hits the ground. Juan Pierre could throw him out with the way that was hit right to the outfielder.
That play was a little tougher than we're making it seem. If he stays at third and the ball hits the ground (especially with no dive), he can't score. He basically had to decide in mid-air if it was more likely to be caught or not caught. He thought it wouldn't be caught, because of course it shouldn't have been.
This has been discussed at length already. There is a belief in MLB that elite starters should be stretched to around 120 pitches. This is what we are doing with Chris.
QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 08:15 PM)
Phegley is hitting somewhere in the low .200s now.
That shouldn't have surprised anybody. Sample size is small though, he's a 2-for-3 performance away from having nice looking numbers. IMHO, Semien was and is a better prospect though.
QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 06:33 PM)
It's clear that he was being handled with kid gloves when they knew he was going.
Yeah, if you get rid of your bootleg stats like "pitch count" and "innings pitched" and "appearances," you can tell.
QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 06:04 PM)
Koji Uehara pitched 4 innings in two weeks before he was traded to Texas for Chris Davis and Tommy Hunter.
We're talking about an appearance difference from the rate Crain was pitching.
QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 03:54 PM)
Didn't some thread say that Rios wouldn't approve a trade to the Yankees and they're on his no-trade list?
Yes (Joel Sherman, of the NY Post reported that) but Rios said that he has not and would not block any trade to the Yankees and is rather upset that people are making it up and reporting it.
QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 01:27 PM)
Peter Gammons @pgammo 1m
If what GMs say the pricetags on Peavy, Norris, Lee and Santana hold, Wednesday is going to be very quiet.
crying
QUOTE (beautox @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 12:16 PM)
thats why the sox should be moving Reed this deadline or offseason for someone like Adam Eaton or Jackie Bradley Jr. if the bosox reup with Ellsbury. I think Jones or Daniel Webb could handle closing games.
If those guys were available for Reed, he'd be gone by now