Sale Price not Abad deal: your 2017 Boston Red Sox

don't really like manny, but yeah -- you don't get to keep throwing at him every time he bats. were i him, i might have walked around the bases after homering off sale

otoh, they haven't actually managed to hit him, so maybe he should chill slightly

could be entirely unrelated, maybe Sale thought Machado was critical of Drake LaRoche.

you don't get extra shots for missing him, that's my understanding of the Unwritten Rules

lol nomar

https://thebaseballcodes.com/2017/05/03/obsess-much-time-for-red-sox-to-let-go-of-machados-slide

@NPR
The Red Sox are considering a possible lifetime ban for anyone caught making racist remarks at their ballpark.

@MikeBeauvais
That sucks for Curt Schilling.

Between the Machado home run and his rants, the racism incident, we missed a pretty strange triple play. Some series have everything.

"possible" lifetime ban for yelling racist shit at players?

i have no idea what MLB security policies are like, in terms of 'past offenders' who've been ejected from games being barred in the future.

remember when the sox had too many starters?

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2015/03/06/whos-the-red-sox-ace-theyre-all-the-ace

uh sale is the ace

sale's been the best pitcher in baseball this year, i'd say he's the ace

article is from 2015 my guy

yeah there is no question. sox have not had a stopper like this since i don't know when. josh beckett's one good year? not even that.

lmao my bad

thatsthejoke.jpg

wow, sale ties his own (and pedro's) record with his 8th straight 10-K game

Not that it's easy to do, but surprised mid-'70s Ryan or 2000-era Johnson didn't do this.

Ryan and Johnson both had stretches where they struck out 10+ in 10 out of 11 starts. (Koufax didn't.) Johnson's 2001 log is pretty amazing (372 for the year, highest single-season K/9 ever). His 35 starts break down like this:

23 starts - 10+
8 starts - 7-9
4 starts - 4-6

it's Sam Travis

http://www.overthemonster.com/2017/5/23/15681894/sam-travis-red-sox-roster-moves-hector-velazquez

travis was hitting .414/.485/.724 against lefties in triple-a, so i suppose he'll at least platoon with moreland

hey guess what

It sounds like Boston Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy learned nothing from the Mike Schmidt controversy that dominated baseball news Tuesday. Because about 12 hours after the Phillies legend created headlines for his criticism of Odubel Herrera not speaking English, Remy was on the air for NESN saying non-English speaking players shouldn’t be allowed to use translators on the field.

“Learn baseball language,” Remy said.

This came in a discussion about New York Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka, whose translator came to a visit on the pitcher’s mound during Tuesday night’s 5-4 loss to the Red Sox. Remy, who is 64 and played 10 seasons in the big leagues, said such a thing shouldn’t be legal.

https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-announcer-wants-translators-banned-learn-baseball-language-014613750.html

ok fuck the remdog forever

he sounded half-dece at the beginning of this season but there was one game where eck sat in and it was like, my god, so this is what it's like to have a knowledgeable, passionate, entertaining color guy

I sincerely apologize to those who were offended by my comments during the telecast last night.

— Jerry Remy (RemDawg) (@Jerry_Remy) June 7, 2017

oh, Boston, those replies.

If it was the other way around we wld have 2 learn there language

He should of learned english by now

jesus christ those replies!

doug fister to the rescue

and jhonny peralta!

I'm relatively new to watching the Sox, but I wish Eck would learn a phrase other than "That's ridiculous!"

i think he's pretty good, but yeah he has his phrases -- eg 'losing it' for hitting a homer -- and he'll drive them into the ground

PABLO SANDOVAL DFA

still in shock, i can't believe how fast he sank. Giants dogged a bullet with him.

what is a win worth in 2017?

-2.0 / $95m =

Devers getting called up. figured this was coming once Frazier went to NY.

poor holt. he hasn't been the same since the concussion :(

sheriff david price

http://deadspin.com/heres-why-david-price-blew-up-at-dennis-eckersley-1797187651

lol @ saying a Eckersley doesn't know how hard pitching is.

I liked Price personally until I read this. You respect a Hall of Fame player. Shut up and play. https://t.co/G5eTrYPvGk

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 24, 2017

strong words from the fake richard nixon twitter account

Mentioned before. He was surly when cameras were off. Wouldn't even acknowledge my questions for while after I asked one he didn't like. https://t.co/ql4rVU6rAv

— Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) July 24, 2017

Rafael Devers crushed his first HR... 109 MPH! pic.twitter.com/kBCHc5GD9B

— Daren Willman (@darenw) July 26, 2017

yeah that was awesome. i tuned in right as he came to the plate.

Ross
There is a rumor among Boston people on Twitter that David Price is faking his elbow hurting again so he doesn't have to pitch at Fenway tonight because he was apparently going to be booed for the Eckersley thing, and I would like your thoughts on this funny rumor.

Jeff Sullivan
I love Boston, but Boston sucks

Jeff otm.

Chris Sale comes off like a big dumb kid in the ESPN magazine feature I read waiting to get a hair cut a couple days ago. Funny thing is that there was like a couple people asked were they surprised that he cut up that jersey and pretty much all of them said 'no, not at all.' Heh.

At least by that article, what Eck did/said seems pretty mild compared to some stuff I have seen other home announcers say.

nimble sandy leon

did they throw like cremains in nunezs face btw

he's working out ok, isn't he?

Geez, almost put up a marquee-match-up post today.

lars anderson sighting:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lars-anderson-discovers-japan-part-one

They were straightup lucky to win the division.

Ausmus is presumably D's guy.

c'mon morbs they played out of their minds in September, just staying ahead of the Yanks by a nose

the backbiting boston media seem to feel that price is the real problem
http://www.weei.com/articles/column/tomase-red-sox-manager-john-farrell-sacrificed-because-david-price-was-terrible

That's an amazing read for any Jays fan. Price did nothing but say and do the right things for the few months he was here, and he's on the short list of Jays where the city just immediately fell in love with him. I believe he left without an offer from the club, so there wasn't even any fallout there--most fans were mad at management.

Quite a distance from there to here.

tbf that article is a bit of an outlier and i don't know tomase's history

tomase is not really the best guy to read but he's not the only guy writing versions of that story either.

there's a general narrative, probably true, that price doesn't want to be here and never did. and it's seriously poisoned things.

andy will know more than i do, but i've seen detroit writers express non-surprise at price being a dick to eckersley/the boston press

to a certain extent i'm skeptical of writers' complaints -- it's not the player's job to write your story for you with amazing quotes and insights -- but it seems like price's method of ingratiating himself with the team is to be an asshole to all outsiders. and people who *aren't* assholes don't need to do it that way

All I recall is Price firing off a bunch of tweets when Lynn Henning referred to him as self-absorbed.

mookie bowled a 300 this weekend

wow sick brags in 3rd person...you've changed man

u_u

"lol"

while i'm braggin' 2017 -- part of boras' spiel for jd martinez today was that a) defensive stats suck because they're all over the place from year to year and b) that mookie is so fucking good that he's wrecked the curve, making all but a few look comparatively terrible