maxjusttyped
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Just now, fathom said:
Eloy and Robert look great
Best hitter and player on the team and looking every bit of that right now
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Robert has looked so good at the plate since he got back
no issue at all with timing or rust, that I can see
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The results aren't always there, but Goodwin consistently takes good AB's.
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So, uh... maybe there was a reason Sox pitchers were getting so much of their spin back.
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Gotta love the Lance Lynn smile
gif worthy every time
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I hope Tony is prepared for a quick hook on Lynn if things start looking shaky in the 5th.
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Feels like we were deprived of a 50+ HR season with Eloy getting hurt
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Just now, EloyJenkins said:
Eloy may be the best hitter on the team. Actually..yep, yep he is.
I don't think it's even debatable.
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Everything Eloy is hitting right now is just crushed
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3 minutes ago, chw42 said:
With our track record against starters with 5+ ERA recently, I don't feel as good about facing Blackburn as I probably should.
You of all people know that an offense this good struggling against mediocre pitchers isn't going to keep happening
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Yaz also hit a bomb and had a nifty play behind the plate fielding a bunt. Great night for him so far.
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The Yaz bat drops are such a beautiful sight
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Just now, flavum said:
OT- that Karinchak not so tough after the crackdown
He seems to have been affected more than any other pitcher in baseball
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Just now, hankchifan said:
Sox unleashed their new atomic weapon tonight, the three run homer, and two of them.. It is devastating and usually leads to a win, particularly with good Sox pitching.
Ball go far, team go far
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That was an awesome AB for Zach considering who it was against.
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5 minutes ago, Marqhead said:
Is there something he or we are crediting to his turnaround since being up here? Some sort of adjustment?
Shortened arm path is something Katz had him working on since Spring Training. Fegan has written about it quite a bit. Lopez said it took him a few months to get used to his new mechanics, initially his old velocity wasn't there, but now it is (obviously) and he feels great.
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Just now, fathom said:
Yeah I have a hard time being upset about their farm system depth when they’ve called up the caliber of talent they have the last three years.
That's fair. I understand it can be pretty intense nitpicking. But you see teams like the Dodgers, Rays, Yankees, Padres etc build very good good teams and keep their farm system strong, the Sox seem like so much will need to go right for them to get the system strong again. I know this was a transition year for the system, but I don't think anyone can say it's been a positive year for them at the minor league level, either.
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Just now, southsider2k5 said:
The Sox spent the last 5 years aligning their minor leagues to getting star players to the majors by last year. That's what's wrong with the system. In the last year they have shifted back to younger players to build back for down the road. This has been by design.
I completely agree, but they aren't the only team in baseball that's followed a similar approach but they are one of 2 systems in the conversation for the worst system in the game. I don't think that happens without something going wrong, personally. We see competitive teams graduate guys to the majors, make a ton of trades, never bottom out etc and never have their system at a point where it is for the Sox right now. If there wasn't some type of issue, it'd be possible to squint and see anyone besides Jose Rodriguez getting any top 100 consideration this winter.
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33 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
You are talking a raw high school pitcher who essentially lost a year of development and then got an injury pretty quickly this year.
I was speaking as much about the farm system as a whole. The entire minor leagues lost a year of development last year. None of Kelley, Dalquist, or Thompson (likely) taking a real step forward this year is a disappointment. If you look across the league, there are age equivalent pitchers to them having a lot of success in low-A. It isn't unreasonable to expect one of them to be performing well.
Something is going wrong in your minor leagues when you're a bottom 2 system and don't have any prospects that are likely to appear on any top 100 lists. We can find reasons to explain away why that is, but it's also a fact that the system as a whole has been extremely underwhelming this season.
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1 minute ago, BigHurt3515 said:
See the shift does work
It seems like the Sox have dialed up the shifts lately, which has been great to see
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Just now, Harold's Leg Lift said:
The former is not player developments fault and the latter is not their concern.
I think when you look at organizations like the Yankees or Dodgers turning mid round picks, cheap international signings, throw ins from previous trades, etc (Duran, Josh Smith, Josiah Gray, etc) into highly coveted prospects they can acquire star players for it highlights where their player dev departments really excel. That isn't something the Sox have been able to do, even after overhauling their player dev/minor league coaching staffs.
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I really don't understand how you can look at this lineup and decide to bat Cesar 2nd
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I'm surprised we haven't seen more extreme opposite field OF shifts against TA
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18 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:
Kelley is 3 years younger than the avg player in Low A while Dahlquist and Thompson are 2 years younger. Chill
I think it's fair to vent frustrations about the player development when they're a consensus bottom 2 farm system and the minor league teams as a whole are like 90 games below .500.
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