how do you watch - MLB TV? blackout rules are annoying as hell
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 9 May 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Yup and I'm international so ... no blackouts :D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
lol sox are legit starting a dude named sean o'sullivan tonight,who I cannot confirm WASNT just pulled out of a booth at cask & flagon just before the game
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
these guys are hitting the shit out of the ball
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
looking more and more like a classic sox home offense
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
if the trend continues against the As the run differential will go up by like 25 just due to these 3 games
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
^^^predictive
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 May 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
:D
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 12 May 2016 01:49 (eight years ago) link
speaking of "international", Tracer...
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/05/11/report-the-red-sox-are-being-investigated-by-mlb-for-questionable-international-signings/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
JBJ's last 11 games: .475/.512/1.025
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 May 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
jfc this offense :] :] :]
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 13 May 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
Matias: How is it possible that Bradley Jr went from being “trash”, talked about a potential trade for a mediocre Mariners reliever, to this exciting player that is putting great numbers, with some pop? Between the last months of last season and this start, we cant say its small sample size, right?
Klaw: Well, he was never trash, right? People buried him based on what was still a small sample but didn’t look like one. The part that’s surprising to me is that he’s hitting for average AND power. I thought he could do one or the other. I still kind of think with his low contact rate, he’s going to see the average drop, and he kind of has to sell out a little bit to get to this power. I’d rather see him cut down on the swing a little to improve his contact rate, but that’s kind of a stupid criticism when the guy is hitting .322 and slugging .610.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
well
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-red-sox-offense-has-been-better-than-the-1927-yankees/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
jbj 20 game hit streak
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 May 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
maybe ortiz should keep playing
― mookieproof, Sunday, May 8, 2016 9:26 PM (6 days ago)
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
A couple of years ago, before the 2014 season started, I posted that Ortiz wouldn't go into the HOF as long as Edgar Martinez didn't get there first. NoTime argued that no, he'll go in. I'll stand by what I said at the time, but I'm thinking that the Edgar Factor is barely visible on the horizon at this point.
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 May 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Something I never knew: Ortiz was first signed by Seattle in 1992--Edgar Martinez's breakout year (he'd been good in '90 and '91, but not yet the dominant hitter he'd become).
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 May 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Bradley batted .469 (15-for-32) with six runs scored, two doubles, three home runs and 15 RBI over seven games to earn his first career AL Player of the Week Award.
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
killer b's baby
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 May 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
i was at saturday's game and it was SO MUCH FUN. ortiz had to be at his daughter's quincañera that night and i have a feeling he was just like 'ok, if nobody else does this, i will.' 600th double was the cherry on top
― maura, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
simmons said yesterday that Ortiz is now m/l as big a boston icon as ted williams
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
my 7-year-old agrees
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
unless the PED thing is a bigger deal for him than I think it will be, Ortiz is definitely getting into the HOF at this point. the DH thing and the WAR thing are pretty good counterarguments but i think the postseason performances and his iconic status will push him over the top.
― nomar, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
even if he falls off considerably in the second half he'll probably end up with a wRC+ around 140-150 by the end of the season, pretty incredible. wonder what the record is for a final season?
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
wonder if Bradley will play both games of the doubleheader w his streak
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
imagine if Papi was a complete baseball player
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
he'll probably end up with a wRC+ around 140-150 by the end of the season, pretty incredible. wonder what the record is for a final season?
without looking, i'm going to guess it belongs to Bonds.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
turns out there's a fangraphs post about it from yesterday: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/best-final-seasons-part-two/
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
although that one uses WAR, not wRC+
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
let's see, here's final season wRC+ for some of the players listed in the article with the highest WARs
Williams 184: (in 113 games)Joe Jackson: 167Bonds: 157Will Clark: 146Mantle: 145Clemente: 135
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
papi is huger than ever (pardon the pun?). it helps that the sox are pulling out all the stops for his last year. kevin millar announced his first at-bat the other day, and his daughter sang the anthem at the opener (as a surprise), etc. 'we want papi' chants definitely cropped up during sunday's long-ass back-and-forth with the astros.
― maura, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
lol had to be juan friggin uribe to break up the no no huh
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 21 May 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
you didn't want kelly going any longer anyway
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 May 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
JBJ streakwatch: 27 straight
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
so fukin awesome
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
just got a notification to tune in because papi needs a triple fot the cycle
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
got stupidly close to one, but the hit ended up a ground rule double
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
will totally take 4 for 4 with a homer and 3 RBIs tho
Interesting seeing Mantle on that list of greatest last seasons. You'd always hear about how broken-down he was at the end, but indeed, in 1968, 18 homers and 106 walks was pretty damn productive.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
i just got tix for bos-ari at fenway in august :D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 May 2016 09:20 (eight years ago) link
JBJ's improved approach
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/what-jackie-bradley-jr-figured-out/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjVAY6XWYAADaBZ.jpg
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Fun Fact from my FB feed: "DiMaggio faced 55 pitchers during his 56 game hitting streak. As of yesterday, Jackie Bradley Jr had faced 63 different pitchers during his."
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 May 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
when you get this deep into a streak is when it dawns on you how fucking monumental it was what dimaggio did. just insane. it's like .400, it simply will not be done again.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
somewhat more likely than .400, not that i expect it.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
dimaggio struck out 13 times in 621 plate appearances in 1941; jbj has fanned 20 times during his streak. which is not a knock on the latter, it's just a completely different world
btw the X-man has an 18-game streak going too
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
both require excellence and luck sustained over a very long stretch... and nobody micromanaged pitching matchups back then the way they do now. it would be interesting to see how many of the great joe d's hits during that streak came against arguable gassed starters in the 7th, 8th and 9th innings..
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 May 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
papi with another dong and another double today (game still ongoing), 35 XBHs in 43 games.
― nomar, Friday, 27 May 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
obviously farrell's fault for moving him to leadoff
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 May 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
p. much
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 May 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link