Mojo Dojo Casas House: Boston Red Sox 2024

(unable to throw strikes against the *checks notes* bottom of the A's lineup)

Kenley is playing through a back strain atm iirc and also closed out the first game last night which was like 16 hours between outings for him. It was ugly but the man got it done. I don’t think they put him in there if they didn’t use most of the pen yesterday.

I have no idea how people suffer a full season of baseball. I couldn’t even look at gameday during the bottom of the ninth; I was sitting on the bed checking my phone’s lockscreen for a message from my friend telling me the game was over, while my husband* was following on his iPad and gleefully going “oh no he’s walked someone, double play? Oh no force out…” It’s rough, man, but an ugly scraped out win still counts just the same.

* he also watched my Spanish flu era king George Kirby get knocked around by the Guardians before turning to me and going “What is this, an all-hitter?” Who’d follow this fucking game?!

I love this trend, keep going Craig

Red Sox are in agreement with Ceddanne Rafaela on a contract extension, source tells MassLive.

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) April 8, 2024

interesting look at the red sox consciously reducing fastball usage: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/not-so-fast-red-sox-cut-fastballs-in-new-approach/

Didn't reduce quickly enough to prevent Pivetta from hitting the IL. :-(

I’m glad you’re happy, Steve

:-( <> :-)

story out for the season

We know

I’m at opening day! I accidentally bought a ticket to tomorrow’s game first, so I guess I’m going to that one too

lol

This game is very boring to watch, I’m just glad Grissom will be back soon and I hopefully never have to see Valdez play 2nd again. If they move Rafaela to short they might be cooking. Nice to see Bello doing well, especially in the day.

*Sox commentator talks about Columbe having a teal glove and whether or not it goes with the Orioles’ black and orange.*

User Sharivari, as bored by this game as I am: teal and orange is a classic combo, man doesn’t know what he’s talking about

teal and black...the color combo that launched 1,000 expansion team unis in the 90s.

Tbf they then brought up in a latter inning the teal glove is because his child is autistic and he is active in autism awareness and education(teal being associated with that), which I liked learning.

I love Story so much, this hurts. I wanted a great year for him more than anyone.

Trevor Story just spoke for about 5 minutes. He was in tears, and had to pause several times to collect himself.

— Gabrielle Starr (@gfstarr1) April 9, 2024

teal and black...the color combo that launched 1,000 expansion team unis in the 90s.

― j.q higgins, Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2:37 PM bookmarkflaglink

San Jose Sharks have entered the chat.

Scenes from the postgame clubhouse: Trevor Story in tears at the thought of missing the year, Jarren Duran punching his locker and pronouncing repeatedly that he (expletive) sucks for dropping the flyball.

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) April 9, 2024

We're all like Jarren Duran sometimes fr fr

Hard watch. I feel so bad for him.

Anyone who rips players for getting hurt or is ripping Trevor Story today ... watch this. If you're still unsure after, you'd score a N/A on an EKG https://t.co/dM4lmWoIDp

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) April 10, 2024

just in case tracer didn't see dayo post this on the broadcasters thread:

IT'S HERE
IT'S FOUND

21 yrs ago I was a NESN truck intern watching Jerry relentlessly roast Don over what a lunar eclipse is. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard to this day. Enjoy the best six min of your week. (Enormous h/t to @sidsethupathi)

--> https://t.co/OCzRzDL0ak

— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) April 9, 2024

aw thank you

JUSTIN
SLATEN

JUSTIN
SLATEN!!!!!

JUSTIN SLATEN

this young moose

Cash considerations and a minor league arm for this guy, what a steal

xp when you write moose I just assume you mean Casas

not sure if I'll be able to post pre-game so now will have to do...

Happy Patriots Day!

wink and kenley: just not good enough

hamilton, joely and bobby d: not even major league baseball players

everybody else i’m pretty happy about. despite what happened today abreyu is a sick player, love him

I love Abreu too. Special guy.

bobby dalbec is now 1-for-30 with 18 strikeouts

could i do better? no. but i wouldn't be *much* worse

He was getting absolutely rinsed by Massholes. Feel he didn’t really help himself with his “It’s not a slump” comment

pic.twitter.com/qCSok6kpz8

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) April 19, 2024

Cotillo prediction from January looking very good rn

15. Wilyer Abreu exceeds Alex Verdugo’s production in right field. As difficult as Verdugo was at times, the Red Sox wouldn’t have traded him if they weren’t supremely confident in Abreu’s ability to step into the right field position. As of now, that’s the plan. Abreu will have a better offensive season than Verdugo did a year ago.

He’s a fuxking MLB baseball player that’s for damn sure

He was such a guy today. We were thrilled watching him and he is only going to get better. Elite eye and he’s got pop and a great arm too.

left maybe not his natural position - he got fooled on a couple of reads - but always managed to recover

Cora is playing him in right but said they put him in left cos of the size of the outfield there

Carpenters who rose again in their early 30s pic.twitter.com/e84LENx1bP

— Liam Fennessy (@LiamFennessy_) April 21, 2024

Rafael Devers:

"I don’t know how people outside the organization see us but I think we’re a very capable group. We have very young talent here. They’re doing their job, stepping up and it’s very positive for us to win despite all the injuries."

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) April 25, 2024

I intended to post this anyway but I’m definitely doing it to annoy Tom D (who I love!) now

OH MY, ABREU! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/jl4d9XbGtK

— Red Sox (@RedSox) April 29, 2024

even with all the bullpen meltdowns, the red sox lead the MLB in team ERA by almost half a run

Plus four starters on the IL. Can we do some drooling over rule 5 superstar Justin Slaten itt please? He is A Guy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMdWuwTWAAAVU8K?format=jpg&name=large

He looks like he's from the 1970s and his name is like Jeff Beerbohm

I definitely giggled at the tone shift from Devers’ hugely professional answer (about Tyler O’Neill being walked to get to him) to LMAO YEAH I WAS SURPRISED

"We've been trying to make the adjustment. We know we haven't been able to bring a lot of runs in but, that's baseball and today was a different story."

Rafael Devers on today's win over Washington | #RedSox pic.twitter.com/V95XMg6Lmz

— NESN (@NESN) May 11, 2024