Situational Hitting - runner on 3rd and less than 2 outs.

[harkness99]

Sox rank 28th in this category - at 45% success rate

This to me is something we have sucked at for going on a decade.

 

2022 Major League Baseball PH/HR/Situ Hitting | Baseball-Reference.com

[CentralChamps21]

Another byproduct of such a low fly ball rate

[Highland]

Yes, this has been a problem all year, along with the miserable average with the bases loaded. You can't leave that many on without it catching up with you, and this lack of success in these situations has been one of the things that has kept the team from leading the division. The offense has been frustrating all year. The Sox have good hitters, but they are not doing well in these situations. In KC, they had first and second and no one out, and didn't score. Next inning, bases loaded, no one out, didn't score. No wonder they lost that game and many others. 

[harkness99]

1 hour ago, CentralChamps21 said:

Another byproduct of such a low fly ball rate

lots of strike outs in those situations as well.

[The Kids Can Play]

Yep, thanks to our great manager and hitting coach.

[Colome's Hat]

The inability to hit the ball in the air is causing this.  You get a ball in the air to the outfield with a runner on third with less than two outs and more times than not, that runner will score.  It's infuriating.  It's really down to the horrible approach Menechino is taking with them.  I also maintain that the firing Menechino is way more important than firing La Russa.  The Sox problem is simple this year.  They aren't hitting home runs.  Our complaints about TLR  are nullified if the Sox offense was doing what it was built to do.  

[ShoeLessRob]

22 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

The inability to hit the ball in the air is causing this.  You get a ball in the air to the outfield with a runner on third with less than two outs and more times than not, that runner will score.  It's infuriating.  It's really down to the horrible approach Menechino is taking with them.  I also maintain that the firing Menechino is way more important than firing La Russa.  The Sox problem is simple this year.  They aren't hitting home runs.  Our complaints about TLR  are nullified if the Sox offense was doing what it was built to do.  

Not really, La Russa continues to make head scratching and asinine decisions on a daily basis. It’d be the same thing as last year, the team winning in-spite of TLR. 

[Colome's Hat]

10 hours ago, ShoeLessRob said:

Not really, La Russa continues to make head scratching and asinine decisions on a daily basis. It’d be the same thing as last year, the team winning in-spite of TLR. 

Winning games is the key word.

[CWSpalehoseCWS]

12 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:

The inability to hit the ball in the air is causing this.  You get a ball in the air to the outfield with a runner on third with less than two outs and more times than not, that runner will score.  It's infuriating.  It's really down to the horrible approach Menechino is taking with them.  I also maintain that the firing Menechino is way more important than firing La Russa.  The Sox problem is simple this year.  They aren't hitting home runs.  Our complaints about TLR  are nullified if the Sox offense was doing what it was built to do.  

I highly doubt that. Both Menechino AND LaRussa are big problems in their own right. LaRussa has easily lost this team games this year on multiple accounts with his questionable in game management. The game has leapfrogged him. Any properly run organization would have shown both these hacks the door months ago.

[GREEDY]

Below average team speed.  

Below average fly ball rate.

Below average want to sacrifice the plate appearance attempting the help the team.