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dbecks

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  1. Above .500! After a historically shitty start, the Red Sox: - Have won each of their last 3 series - Are 8-2 in their last 10 games - Lead the AL in runs (52) and OBP (.368) in May - Own MLB’s 2nd-lowest ERA since 4/24 (2.76) - Have a 3.22 starting pitcher ERA since 4/12 (4th-lowest in MLB) - Lead the AL with 9.99 SO/9.0 IP (stats not counting tonight’s curb stomping)
  2. Fuck Chelsea.
  3. Chris Sale was immaculate last night.
  4. Wow. Just... wow.
  5. Holy fuck
  6. Successful scope surgery for Eovaldi... he should be back in six weeks. Dallas Keuchel is apparently open to a 1-year deal. $20 mil... who says no? (Probably Keuchel's agent)
  7. That was quite the ending, even more so given the title of the episode. Kinda confused as to why Fuchs all of the sudden has a change of heart and tries to help Barry, though. This season has - as expected - been exceptional so far.
  8. Helluva win last night. (I was at the game, btw. Seeing the Trop in person is just as underwhelming as you’d think.) Mikey Chavis is gonna be a player. Cool that he could contribute to a win. Good read on him: https://es.pn/2V9oqfa Bad news about Eovaldi, sounds like surgery is likely, but hopefully it isn’t TJ. Going for the sweep today. Hey, they already won a series (for the first time this year)!
  9. This is embarrassing.
  10. Still not panicking... yet. Swihart is DFA'd, Leon is recalled from AAA. Apparently Swihart was making the pitchers suck, too.
  11. Hey, a win! What are the odds for Mitchy 4-bags at AL MVP? Asking for a friend.
  12. Home opener... finally. No more West Coast games until August!
  13. Woo-hoo! It feels like i just got upgraded to first class on Spirit Airlines (if that's a thing).
  14. Courtesy of Pete Abraham: * They're 1-5. Haven't been 1-6 since 2011. * They've lost 8 of their last 10 games in Oakland. * They're lost 4 straight and have not lost 5 straight since an 8-game losing streak July 12-23, 2015. * Eovaldi no-hit Oak over 6 IP last time he faced them.
  15. It was quite enjoyable. I normally don't care for breaking the 4th wall in movies, but it worked in this case. Definitely won't win any awards, but was good, mindless fun. Those dudes knew how to party. I had heard the story about Ozzy snorting ants before, but the 'pee licking' part was disgustingly new for me.
  16. Not panicking... yet.
  17. 7 years, $132 mil... not bad. They still have money for Mookie, right?
  18. Xander about to sign an extension...
  19. Sounds familiar. Glad he’s still mashing. I guess Barnes is the closer for now. He was arguably their best reliever last year.
  20. From Alex Speier: Sale’s Opening Day start was the worst by a Red Sox starter since 2002. The culprit that year? Pedro Martinez, who allowed eight runs (seven earned) in three innings in a 12-11 loss to the Blue Jays. That game seemed to wave all kinds of red flags. Martinez, after all, was coming off a 2001 campaign in which he was typically brilliant when on the mound (7-3, 2.39 ERA, 12.6 strikeouts per nine innings) but was limited to 18 starts by an injured rotator cuff. And so, his Opening Day-egg against the Blue Jays, in which he gave up nine hits in those three innings and walked two batters, seemed ominous. Over his remaining 29 starts that year, Martinez went 20-4 with a 1.97 ERA and 10.8 strikeouts per nine innings. He was the American League Cy Young runner-up. Put another way: If Sale’s struggles – most notably, a four-seam fastball that he threw 25 times at an average velocity of 92.3 miles per hour, resulting in just 12 strikes (48 percent) and, for the first time in his Red Sox career, no swings and misses – weren’t the product of injury, then what gives? Red Sox pitching coach Dana LeVangie suggested that Sale did not stay in his delivery, flying open too soon in his upper body rather than remaining closed off while on the rubber. Sale’s changeup was his most effective pitch on Thursday. On that offering, LeVangie saw the mechanics Sale needs on his entire mix. At a time when the Sox want the lefthander to control his effort level and build gradually into his velocity (“driving the Mustang, not the Ferrari,” in LeVangie’s terms), the Sox need Sale to have his delivery under control so that his three pitches can play off each other more effectively. If that happens, LeVangie believes the pitcher’s normal velocity will follow.
  21. Last year’s Opening Day sucked too, btw. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. Good news about the Sale deal: -Doesn’t affect luxury tax for 2019 -Deferred money makes AAV under $29M from 2020-24 -Sox project right now to be spending beyond Tiers 1 ($206M) and 2 ($226M) of luxury tax threshold in 2019, but not beyond Tier 3 ($246M), where 75 percent rate and draft pick penalty take effect Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  23. 5/150 are the numbers being thrown around now. Mookie is gonna get paid regardless, but I have a hard time believing the Sox didn’t just drive up his price a little on their own (assuming the Sale numbers are true). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  24. Also weird how he’s starting the season on the DL, yet still playing Spring Trainig games... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  25. Sounds like Sale is about to be extended. Kinda surprised, actually. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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