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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 6, 2020 17:23:00 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 6, 2020 17:33:43 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 30s Nate Eovaldi had a good bullpen session today.
#RedSox hoping to use the field in Philly on Wednesday for a sim game of sorts for him.
Sox are off Wednesday but staying in Philly for much of the day before going to Florida.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 6, 2020 17:35:54 GMT -5
Christopher Smith @smittyonmlb · 14m Plawecki's X-rays negative.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 6, 2020 17:44:53 GMT -5
Guerin Austin @guerinaustin · 3m Ron Roenicke: -Munoz will come in tomorrow to be reevaluated -Plawecki’s X-Rays were negative, he’ll also go in tomorrow to be reevaluated -Evoaldi’s bullpen went well, they will try to have a sim game in Philly
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 6, 2020 17:46:52 GMT -5
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 6, 2020 19:03:30 GMT -5
Sox have 2 damn off days this week. incredible bullshit Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 1m Ron Roenicke on Zoom now.
Routine days off for Verdugo and Devers. #RedSox I have said over and over and over. I can understand resting guys. I don't understand resting two of your best hitters on the same day.
Is Sunday like the official day to rest players? Roenicke is not the only manager that does this.
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 6, 2020 19:12:45 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 2m #BlueJays 10, #RedSox 8 in a tidy 4:23. Brutal. Plus all those pitches thrown. Brutal sums it up nicely. The Jays pitching is almost as bad as ours is.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 7, 2020 3:35:50 GMT -5
Triggs' work undone by strained bullpen
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne September 6, 2020
BOSTON -- The opener was about as smooth as could be. Andrew Triggs, making his first Major League start in more than two years, allowed one run in three innings on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park.
But not long after he left, any possible bridge to the back end of the bullpen collapsed in ignominious fashion.
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Attrition -- through injuries and Trade Deadline moves -- has eaten alive a Boston pitching staff that wasn’t deep to begin with, and there are going to be days like Sunday, when they just have to wear it.
In a 10-8 loss to the Blue Jays, Red Sox pitchers issued nine walks through the first six innings of the game.
“Yeah, we had plans for a position player to finish an inning and then we got close and didn’t want to do that. But yeah, it’s tough,” said Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke. “It’s tough when you try to protect your guys and you get in tight ballgames and it becomes a decision on how close does it need to be to use certain guys.”
With the bullpen overworked all season, Roenicke needed to be careful with who he used on Sunday.
“[Matt] Barnes, we wanted to stay away from unless we had a save situation or a tie game going into the 10th, so trying to stay away from him,” Roenicke said. “[Marcus Walden], we were trying to stay away from him. He told us he felt great and he could give us an inning, which he threw a real nice inning that was good to see. But it’s hard. No question it’s hard.”
Lefty Matt Hall was called up from the alternate training site in time for Sunday’s game, only to have a disastrous outing in which he gave up four hits, six runs and four walks in 1 2/3 innings. When Hall went to the mound for the top of the fifth, the Red Sox -- who got a three-run homer from Kevin Plawecki and a solo shot by No. 3 prospect Bobby Dalbec -- actually held a 4-1 lead.
By the top of the sixth, after Robinson Leyer’s forgettable performance (one out, four hits, three runs), Boston was pinned in a 10-4 hole.
“Yeah, it’s frustrating,” said Plawecki, who was behind the plate for all nine walks. “Hard to get in a rhythm. It’s always tough when we’re not getting ahead of guys. It just makes it so much harder on us to get quick innings, get back in the dugout, and get back to hitting again. It’s frustrating, but we’ve got to move on.”
Credit the offense for not getting deflated by the sub-par pitching. Backed by a solo homer by José Peraza and a two-run dinger by Xander Bogaerts, the Sox were able to pull within two. But the hill was just too steep to climb.
“The offense was really good today. But it’s tough when you get behind,” said Roenicke.
This was the seventh time this season the Boston pitching staff has given up 10 runs or more.
Making the day sting even more, the Sox had a couple of players leave due to injuries. Yairo Muñoz, who has been hot since his callup, had to leave after suffering a right hip strain.
Roenicke said the Red Sox will have a better idea on the severity of the injury when Muñoz gets re-evaluated on Monday.
Plawecki was drilled on the right hand by a pitch in the seventh, and was replaced on defense by Christian Vázquez in the eighth, forcing the Red Sox to give up the designated hitter spot. He was in agony after the pitch, but X-rays came back negative.
“I thought I broke it, to be honest with you,” said Plawecki. “Big man upstairs was looking out for me, thank goodness, but, yeah, I dodged a bullet and thank God.”
Plawecki will also be re-evaluated Monday.
“A little bit sore,” Plawecki said. “We’ll get some treatment done the rest of the day and tomorrow and hopefully be ready to go by Tuesday.”
The Red Sox, who are 14-28 with 18 games left, have days off on Monday and Wednesday. Those off-days are well-timed in that it will give an overworked bullpen a chance to regroup.
“Oh, for the pitchers, no question,” Roenicke said. “We talked about it. That staff has really worked hard and to have this day and then play the two [on Tuesday in Philadelphia] and then the day after is going to be important too, so if they can get a break, a little bit of a break, it’s really important right now.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 7, 2020 3:50:25 GMT -5
Red Sox notebook Red Sox rally comes up short in loss to Blue Jays By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated September 6, 2020, 7:55 p.m. 9
The Red Sox collected 10 hits Sunday afternoon and hit four home runs — including a solo homer by Jose Peraza and a two-run shot by Xander Bogaerts in the eighth inning. And yet, they still lost, 10-8, to the Toronto Blue Jays, who took three out of five over the weekend and evened their season series vs. the Sox at 5-5.
In the eighth inning, it appeared the Sox (14-28) were destined for another comeback win after their 9-8 walkoff victory on Saturday night.
The Sox squandered a 4-1 lead, and watched the Jays put up nine straight runs for a 10-4 lead, It was 10-5 when Peraza chipped into Toronto’s lead with his solo homer, his first of the season. Bogaerts stepped to the plate and hit a two-run homer off Toronto righthanded reliever A.J. Cole to bring the Sox within two.
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But the bullpen woes proved too much to overcome after Sox reliever Matt Hall was charged with six runs in a fifth-inning implosion. Hall and Robinson Leyer surrendered a combined nine runs. The Sox also walked 10 batters. Get 108 Stitches in your inboxEverything baseball every Monday-Friday during baseball season, and weekly in the offseason.
“Yeah, it’s frustrating,” said catcher Kevin Plawecki. “It’s hard to get in a rhythm. It’s always tough when we’re not getting ahead of guys. It just makes it so much harder on us to get quick innings, get back in the dugout and get back to hitting again. We’re trying really hard to get ahead of hitters.”
Plawecki hit a three-run blast in the first inning off Jays starter Robbie Ray. It was Plawecki’s first homer of the season.
“We’re scoring early, which is great,” said Sox manager Ron Roenicke. “You always want to do that. And then we’re not giving up. We get behind and we keep coming back. So, that’s a really good sign. I’m hoping we can continue this.”
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In the ninth, the Sox went down in order against Blue Jays closer Rafael Dolis. Bobby Dalbec, who homered in the fourth to give Boston a 4-1 lead, struck out to end the game. Bradley extends hit streak
Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his hit streak to nine games with his single in the sixth off Wilmer Font. The nine-game streak is tied for the second-longest of his career. Bradley is hitting .254 with five homers and a .744 OPS this season.
“[Hitting coach] Tim Hyers and [assistant hitting coach] Pete Fatse are working on his load,” Roenicke said. “And trying to make sure he’s on time.” Tellez owns Sox
Rowdy Tellez continued to pound the Red Sox, going 3 for 6 with a homer Sunday. In his 25 career games against Boston, he is batting .377 (29 for 77) with 11 HR and 23 RBIs. His 11 homers are tied with teammate Teoscar Hernandez for second-most by a Sox opponent dating back to 2018. Yankees slugger Aaron Judge leads the way with 12 homers vs. the Sox.
“Some guys feel great against different staffs no matter what you try to do,” Roenicke said. “We’re not making great pitches to [Tellez], but he is not missing any mistakes and he’s not chasing out of the zone. So, you have to give him a lot of credit for what he’s doing.” Eovaldi getting closer
Nate Eovaldi (right calf strain) is getting closer, Roenicke said. He came out of a bullpen session Sunday feeling good and will have another scheduled bullpen session Wednesday in Philadelphia during the team’s off day at Citizens Bank Park. He could come off the injured list for the series vs. Tampa Bay or the series against the Miami Marlins . . . Yairo Munoz departed in the first inning with a right hip strain. He came up limping after hitting a single to left field. He will be evaluated Monday . . . Plawecki was hit by a pitch on his right hand in the seventh inning. X-rays came back negative. He, too, will be evaluated Monday . . .The Red Sox will have an off day Monday and then will travel to Philadelphia for a doubleheader against the Phillies on Tuesday. The Sox then have a four-game set against the Rays starting Thursday at Tropicana Field.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 7, 2020 4:00:54 GMT -5
Kevin Plawecki had a good day until he didn't: 'I thought I broke it, to be honest with you'
By Rob Bradford 7 hours ago
Kevin Plawecki has a some experience with it comes to broken hands.
Back in 2018 with the Mets the catcher fractured his left hand after being hit by a pitch. So when his right hand was struck with a 95 mph fastball Sunday he had an inkling this might be deja vu.
It wasn't. X-rays confirmed Plawecki there were no broken bones.
"I thought I broke it, to be honest with you," Plawecki said after being hit with the seventh-inning heater in what would be a 10-8 Red Sox loss to the Blue Jays."Big man upstairs was looking out for me, thank goodness, yeah, dodged a bullet and thank God.”
The injury immediately ended what had been a memorable day for Plawecki, who blasted a first-inning three-run homer and ended up going 2-for-3.
Plawecki has been somewhat of a revelation for the Red Sox, who signed the catcher to a one-year deal worth $900,000 to replace Sandy Leon. Leon had left to replace Plawecki as the Indians' backup backstop.
Heading into the season the former first-round pick had been known more for his glove than bat. But the script has flipped a bit this season, with Plawecki hitting .354 with a .904 OPS in 52 plate appearances.
Defensively the results haven't been up to his usual level -- at least numbers-wise. He has only thrown out one of 10 baserunners, while totaling a catcher's ERS of 7.74. The Red Sox are also just 1-14 games in which he has played.
But the reality of Plawecki's defensive output has a lot to do with the pitchers he has to work with, a group which has been, to be kind, challenging this season. Sunday was no exception, with the Sox hurlers not only allowing 10 runs but also walking nine batters in the process.
"It’s frustrating," he said. "Hard to get in a rhythm. It’s always tough when we’re not getting ahead of guys. It just makes it so much harder on us to get quick innings, get back in the dugout, and get back to hitting again. It’s tough when we’re falling behind and we’re walking guys and stuff like that. I know these guys are busting their tails. We’re trying really hard to get ahead of hitters and get quick innings and get us back in the dugout but today just wasn’t one of those days. It’s frustrating but we’ve got to move on."
All things considered, Plawecki -- who has one more year of arbitration-eligibility -- seems like he could be more part of the solution rather than the problem.
"Like I said at the beginning of the year, I prepare every day like I’m going to play, whether I’m playing or not," he said. "I stick to my same routine so that when I’m in there, I can perform to the best of my ability and have no regrets in doing that. I try to go out there and perform to the best of my ability and give our team the best chance to win each and every day. It’s obviously good to have some results. I’ve been working my tail off for the past not only offseason but the past couple of years with numerous people so it’s good to have some results kind of go along with that. I just try to stay prepared each and every day whether I’m playing or not playing so that when I am in there, I feel comfortable and confident."
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 7, 2020 10:03:30 GMT -5
You’re not imagining Rowdy Tellez’s domination against the Red Sox
He literally might be the best ever, by one measurement. By Matt_Collins@MattRyCollins Sep 7, 2020, 10:30am EDT
There’s a lot of ways to contextualize what the Red Sox have done this year. You can simply show somebody the standings, which show that Boston is currently tied for the worst winning percentage in all of baseball along with the Rangers and the Pirates. You can show them pretty much any pitching statistic, which would likely put them in some historically bad context. You can just pick a random inning from any random game this season and chances are there will be one moment that makes one throw their hands in the air, and not like they just don’t care. For me, though, I think the best way to illustrate how bad this Red Sox team has been is that the most interesting story of the season just may be how badly a player on another team destroys them.
I speak, of course, of Rowdy Tellez. Tellez is not a bad baseball player. He is a big slugger at the plate with legitimate power. He has a 146 OPS+ this season. He plays a substantial role on a team that is coming on strong and is looking like a good bet to make the postseason. They may even finish ahead of the Yankees! The point is, he’s not some scrub. Tellez is a legitimate major-league player.
That said, if you ask Red Sox fans about Tellez, their opinion of him may not match up with any other fan base in baseball. The Blue Jays’s big beefy first baseman turns into one of the best hitters in baseball against the Red Sox. Toronto just played five games at Fenway, of which Tellez started four. In those four games, he had three hits in two of them, two hits in another and smacked a pair of homers. A couple weeks ago he started one of two games the Red Sox played in Buffalo and in it he went 3-4 with a pair of homers. Boston Red Sox v Toronto Blue Jays - Game Two Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
The simple come back to all of this is that the Red Sox pitching staff can make anyone look like Barry Bonds. In a way, this is their super power. I mean, just this past week they allowed three-homer games to two different players on back-to-back days. The issue is that for Tellez, it hasn’t just been a 2020 thing. This has been his entire career. Overall in his career, the Blue Jays first baseman has hit .251/.311/.492. Against the Red Sox in his career, he has hit .377/.451/.857. Baseball-Reference has a stat called tOPS+ which compares a player in any given split relative to their overall batting line. So, for example, a tOPS+ of 110 would mean that in the given split Player X is ten percent better than they are overall. Tellez’s tOPS+ against the Red Sox is 219. That means Tellez is 119 percent better against the Red Sox than anyone else.
I don’t need to tell you that this is ridiculous. I also don’t think it’s that much of a surprise, either, because we all know Tellez always kills the Red Sox. If you’ve watch enough Red Sox baseball the last few years, you know this. I was curious to know where Tellez ranked in terms of destroying Red Sox pitching. So, I looked at things in two ways. First, I just looked at straight OPS. Now, we need to add a caveat that OPS can be era-dependent, and Tellez’s only full season was 2019 when MLB was using a golf ball that flew out of the park at an astounding rate.
That said, among players who have at least 50 plate appearances against the Red Sox, literally nobody has a higher OPS than Tellez. It is worth noting that Brandon Lowe, current Rays second baseman, is number two on this list. I think this reflects both the run environment in recent years as well as the Red Sox pitching staff in recent years. But, just looking at pure production without worrying about league context, Tellez is literally the best hitter against the Red Sox of all time.
The difference between Tellez is Lowe, though, is that the latter is a very good hitter against everyone. Tellez is fine, but in his aforementioned lone full season he was still below average with a 95 OPS+. This is where tOPS+ comes in. I wanted to see where Tellez fit in the history against Boston in terms of performing above their baseline production level. Again setting the minimum to 50 plate appearances, Tellez’s tOPS+ is the fifth highest against Boston ever.
However, if we parse the list a bit, there is an argument to put Tellez back at number one here as well. Numbers three and four were Denny McLain and Sam McDowell, respectively. They both hit the Red Sox more than any other team, but they were also pitchers. Their OPS’s against the Red Sox were both below .600. It wasn’t so much that they were crushing the Red Sox. It was just that they had a couple extra base hits and their baseline performance was so bad that’s all it took to stand out. I’m not particularly impressed by that.
Numbers one and two on the list, meanwhile, were Gene Freese and Ron Clark, respectively. Freese was a solid player who carved out an every day role for a few years, but almost all of his career was in the National League. This basically just comes down to one full season in 1960 that he spent with the White Sox and then a couple partial years in ‘65 and ‘66. Clark, meanwhile, was mostly a bench player, so it wasn’t as consistent domination as Tellez.
Your mileage may vary on how much you want to discount the factors for Freese and Clark, but if we all agree to get rid of the pitchers here, at the very least there’s only been two players ever who have raised their performance so dramatically against the Red Sox more so than Tellez. And, by pure OPS production, nobody has ever hit better against Boston pitching than the Blue Jays first baseman. As sports fans, I think we have a tendency to over inflate the performances of guys we perceive to destroy our favorite teams. With Tellez, though, this is no illusion. We’ve basically never seen anybody hit the Red Sox like this.
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