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June 20th Game Thread: White Sox @ Boston 6:10 CT


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Marlins beat the Rockies 5-3, ALL EIGHT runs were scored on solo homers...now that's baseball for you.

 

 

Great job by Abreu....he's proving he can hit fastballs again, even if he's still swinging at too much pitches outside the zone.

 

Dubious pitch calling there by the Red Sox. Offspeed stuff off the plate and he's a dead duck.

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The Ventura obsession here is a little excessive. Sure he makes some strange decisions (particularly with the lineup order though the importance of that isn't huge) but so do a lot of managers, the standard isn't exactly high. Ventura actually ranked in the top third in terms of good use of your best relievers in high leverage situations last year: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb...ny-joe-girardi/

 

Inspiring the players and creating a good atmosphere in the clubhouse is less tangible but it seems like in the last month anything bad the players do is on Robin and not on the fact that we have a lot of bad players.

 

By far and away the White Sox's biggest problem has been talent evaluation. Nobody's really doing anything dramatically different than what you'd expect given their career numbers and random deviation. I like Hahn but his poor decisions have effected this team more than Robin's in my opinion.

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QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 20, 2016 -> 08:36 PM)
Red Sox manager in the 9th over managed.

 

 

Normally, you expect Pedroia to win the game there...after that, it wasn't a surprise because of the inexperience.

 

But using Kimbrel his 3rd straight day.

Non-save opportunities, 4.35 ERA. Nearly unhittable in save situations. 17 consecutive scoreless outings at Fenway.

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QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 20, 2016 -> 09:38 PM)
The Ventura obsession here is a little excessive. Sure he makes some strange decisions (particularly with the lineup order though the importance of that isn't huge) but so do a lot of managers, the standard isn't exactly high. Ventura actually ranked in the top third in terms of good use of your best relievers in high leverage situations last year: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb...ny-joe-girardi/

 

Inspiring the players and creating a good atmosphere in the clubhouse is less tangible but it seems like in the last month anything bad the players do is on Robin and not on the fact that we have a lot of bad players.

 

By far and away the White Sox's biggest problem has been talent evaluation. Nobody's really doing anything dramatically different than what you'd expect given their career numbers and random deviation. I like Hahn but his poor decisions have effected this team more than Robin's in my opinion.

The anti-Ventura crowd largely agrees there's a talent evaluation problem too though. It's not one against the other. The manager is the first thing that could be replaced and be done over night, though.

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