Red Sox fans have been waiting roughly a half decade to see whether 2018 first-round pick Triston Casas would eventually become a fixture in the lineup. The hulking 6’4″, 252-pound slugger was selected with the No. 26 overall pick that year and has ranked among baseball’s 100 best prospects in each of the past four offseasons according to both Baseball America and MLB.com.
As recently as this April, however, the early returns were looking questionable. Casas got a cup of coffee last season, hitting five homers and walking at a 20% clip in 95 plate appearances — but also hitting the ball on the ground at a whopping 56.8% clip. Not an ideal trait for a slow-footed slugger. Add in a sluggish start to this season, which saw Casas pare back that ground-ball rate but experience a large uptick in strikeout percentage (30.2% through 96 plate appearances), and it was hardly a promising start. Through his first 192 big league plate appearances, Casas batted .162/.319/.344 with an elite 18.8% walk rate and above-average but not elite power. He fanned in 27.2% of those plate appearances.
In the three and a half months since, however, Casas has not only turned things around — he’s emerged as a genuine middle-of-the-lineup bat — at least against right-handed pitching. In his past 301 trips to the plate, Casas has produced a mammoth .293/.379/.540 output with 16 home runs, 13 doubles and a pair of triples. His walk rate is “down” to 12.3% in that time, and he’s fanned at a 23.6% rate that’s only slightly north of the league average.
The biggest change in Casas’ first couple months of big league experience and this productive stretch has been one of passivity — or rather, lack thereof. From last year’s debut through early May this year, Casas swung at just 62.9% of the pitches he saw within the strike zone (and 40% of pitches overall). During his this streak of mashing at the plate, he’s swinging at 72.2% of pitches in the strike zone and 45.2% of the pitches he sees overall. He’s now swinging at in-zone pitches at a higher-than-average rate (league average is 68.7%) but still swinging at a lower total percentage of pitches than the league-average 47.3%. That’s because Casas is rarely enticed by pitches out of the zone; he’s chased off the plate at just a 25.6% clip — more than six percentage points beneath the 31.8% league average.
As far as the quality of Casas’ contact, it’s been excellent. He was making consistent hard contact even before his early-May turnaround began, but the increased aggression within the strike zone now just means he’s making a lot more of it. Casas has averaged 91.5 mph off the bat this season (league average is 89.1 mph) and put 46.1% of his batted balls in play at 95 mph or more (league average is 39.3%). Statcast has classified 14.5% of his batted balls as “barreled” (16.1% during his peak productivity).
Granted, some of the breakout has been a function of Casas being shielded from left-handed pitching. Casas has clear platoon issues in his young career, hitting just .193/.343/.325 against southpaws versus .257/.357/.503 against righties. This season, he’s 219th in the Majors with just 77 plate appearances against left-handed pitching. The Sox haven’t completely eliminated his playing time against southpaws, but compare his total plate appearances against southpaws to fellow lefty-swinging teammates like Rafael Devers (148 plate appearances), Masataka Yoshida (123) and Alex Verdugo (140) — and it becomes clear that the Sox have at best been selective about the opportunities they’ll give him versus same-handed opposition.
Time will tell whether this year’s usage signals intent for long-term platooning or is just a means of building some confidence in the burgeoning young slugger. If the Sox want to platoon Casas moving forward, there’s at least one natural candidate down on the farm in 28-year-old Bobby Dalbec. Once a fairly heralded prospect himself, Dalbec has been squeezed out of the mix on the big league roster but responded with an outstanding .278/.384/.589 batting line and 30 homers in Triple-A this year. Against left-handed pitching, he’s posted a ludicrous .347/.438/.640 line. Dalbec’s future in Boston — he could potentially be a trade target for a club with eyes on giving him an everyday look this winter — is a topic worth diving into on its own, but suffice it to say he’s at least played his way into consideration for such a role. If not, the free agent market this offseason will feature right-handed bats like Garrett Cooper, C.J. Cron, Donovan Solano and Darin Ruf.
The Sox started Casas against southpaw MacKenzie Gore last night and left him in to face lefty reliever Jose Ferrer. (Casas went 1-for-3, singling off Ferrer.) It’s probably in their best interest to continue giving Casas opportunities against southpaws down the stretch, both to get him additional experience in left-on-left matchups and to help evaluate whether they’ll need a platoon partner for him in the long run.
Casas is still a work in progress defensively (-4 Defensive Runs Saved, -11 Outs Above Average), and it’s an open question just how productive he’ll end up being against left-handed pitching. If he can narrow his platoon splits and/or make some strides on the defensive side of his game, he has star potential in the middle of the Red Sox lineup. He already looks the part against right-handed pitching, however, and Casas’ dedication to the science of hitting (check out his recent Q&A with FanGraphs’ David Laurila) should serve him well as he looks to become a more complete hitter.
Image courtesy of USA Today Sports.
Needless to say, with a stat line as Ludacris as that one has to question whether Dalbec is merely BABIP-ing all over the world.
Thanks, I’ll see myself out now.
There’s a poster who I shall not name, who comments on pretty much every single Red Sox post, who kept saying Casas should be sent to the minors early on this year.
It was funny then and even funnier now.
Casas is just 23 years old and under team control for years.
35/100 guy next year.
I got full confidence those splits will get better with time if he gets at-bats. This being his first full year in the majors the platoon is great for his confidence.
king – I’m more concerned with his defense, it’s atrocious. Hopefully he can improve on it.
I think once Turner is healthy enough I’d put Turner on 1st for the stretch run and let Casas DH. For his age JT has remarkable range. In the off-season I’d consider trading Casas for MLB ready starting pitching. With Rafaela, Valdez, and Dalbec smoking the ball this year in AAA, Casas is expendable for the right deal. We need starting pitching.
I suggested that pre-season. Casas is better than I expected, but a team like Miami has a heck of a lot more young pitching that us, and they need a 1B. And SD gets very little out of 1B or DH.
Bright future – could be the next Balboni if he works out , gets rest and eats his veggies
Cool, that means I’ll meet his family.
Theo…. Come on you’ve been out of baseball to long Balboni was a righty… and a nice neat head of hair Steve had!!!….FOLKS!!!
Aww, you’re mad a Red Sox player is doing well.
Balboni only had an OPS over .800 once in 11 years, but it sounded good
You could be the next trollfree if you wrote another 100o words per post.
Off topic but you mentioned troll so… I just rewatched South Park when they had the trolling episodes. That conversation between naked Gerald and the Danish guy has had me cracking up all day
Anyone interested I think it’s season 21
And saying the same thing in every post
Sinister – Don’t worry I caught this one and added it to my troll log!! Talk baseball not trash!!! you should get a t-shirt with that on it.
You gonna change your name again? I know it’s scary.
He has a tendency to get on specific internet related terms like troll. A while back it was influencer. He’s proud of himself every time he figures out how to use them in context
I had forgotten about that. A few of the haters use to call the more rational fans “influencers”.
Watched a few at-bats last year, saw the potential. Knew it was just big-league jitters. Who wouldn’t get them. Another stud athlete from the Sunshine State.
Casas has arrived but so have the hungry Nationals. Pathetic how we can’t beat them.
You should probably save “can’t beat them” lines for sweeps (or large loss numbers over a large sample of games). Otherwise, maybe cite losing the series or something, because Tuesday’s result makes the claim sound pretty silly.
.293 batting average… Remember when batting averages meant something?
@Melchez17
Nerds don’t care about BA because they couldn’t hit a ball so wanted someone to reward them for getting hit by the pitch.
Nerds always wanted to be part of the cool jocks crowd so they use baseball stats to achieve their goal.
There is a reason for the term dumb jocks. There is also a reason that nerds own and run the teams.
Wow…based on this writers article, I would have thought Casas was hitting better than .255….and what about those “mammoth” 13 doubles (16 total for the season, and 2 triples amongst 16 HR’s in 301 at bats…mostly against RH pitching…….come on Steve…..he was batting .155 or so and while he may turn out to be a pretty good player and he seemingly has gotten better at the plate than earlier in the season, but you make this guy sound like Ted Williams…….barrel rate, hard contact rate exit velocity etc. included…..
If you weren’t aware, clicks matter.
You refer to his season-long batting average in an article that is built around his “arrival” coming after a rough start to the season. How does that make any sense? It isn’t about what he’s done all season long (his April having been blown up by an awful BABIP) but what he’s done since his performance has risen up. This stuff shouldn’t be obvious, and begs the question of why you would so badly overlook something that is so straightforward.
This sounds like a team beat reporter on MLB.com or a player agent writing. If we are talking about Acuna or Ohtani, I get it, but a look at his stats disappoints me. His defense brings down his value even further.
He’s been one of the 10 best hitters since the beginning of July. Go on baseball savant and look at his page. It’s all red
I think averages do matter. As much as fans may want to say “Semien hit .300/.400/.500 after (insert random date),” that doesn’t undo the past. If a guy hit like a pitcher for a while, that matters too. Getting hot for a while die to being more aggressive may not always last, as pitchers always adapt. Becoming more aggressive is rarely a good development that gets guys out of slumps; usually, it is the opposite. I’d like to see a few years before I can say some guy is this good. Even Cody Bellinger/Yelich before this year had a quite long stretch of excellence, but I would not get too carrier away by short sample sizes.
You went off the rails with :hit like a pitcher for a while”. He had a .133 BA in April, yes, but that was on the back of a .155 BABIP, which is a pretty clear positive regression candidate (especially when backed by a lot of positive contact measures). He also walked 16 times with 6 XBHs over his 92 PAs that month, so there was some pretty good stuff happening even as the balls in play weren’t falling in.
In the 305 PAs since then, he has a .911 OPS among many other positive performance measures. Are you seriously going to pitch a single BABIP-dragged month that wasn’t even bad in many other ways as the baseline, over the 3.5 months since then? For a 23 year old? No, the 3.5 months are “hot for a while”? Yikes, I think you’re the one getting carried away by the smaller sample size part of his career thus far.
Did you even read the article? It’s about a very young player seemingly coming into what was hoped from him, even as it spoke about the work to be done on defense and same-handed pitching. You say you don’t get it, but then wrote a comment that didn’t reflect the actual message of the article.
Yet Cora still bats this guy 6 and 7 consistently
Like everything else, Casas’ numbers being lower than they should be is on Cora and his inability to build a logical batting order..
Good Call Jake!!
I’ll eat crow on this one and admit I give Cora credit for sticking with Casas. He could have benched or demoted him and replaced him with Dalbec or Turner. Well played, Alex.
Can’t get used to major league pitching in the minors.
Syco – Most of the pitchers Cora has used this season came directly from the minors.
Yes, of course, your’e right.
Red Sox innings leaders are here espn.com/mlb/team/stats/_/type/pitching/name/bos/t…
Bernandino is the first guy “directly from the minors” and he’s 12th in innings pitched.
I feel dumber for even looking that up.
@Milt. Share the fork. I cant stand Cora, it’s the cheater bias in me, but he has been solid with the new hitters. I posted in May that I hoped the Sox would give Casas until the All Star break before sending him down. When you listen to Cora talk hitting, he knows his stuff. He said a while back that Casas was working on pulling less and targeting right center to right. Then he will need to learn to go Oppo when he is ready.
At first glance at Cora’s lineups I want to cringe. Then I realize that Cora is batting Casas lower 3rd of order to protect him. It is his first full season, he is going to tire.
I don’t like Cora, he is a cheater. I think he is a bad manager. But he would be an awesome hitting coach.
So, do we save salt for the crow?
Correction, “left center to right”
Guessing that his .437 BABip since June 16th is not considered relevant? That has nothing to do with his resurgence at the plate?
His -4 DRS and -11 OAA just instill tons of confidence in his future at 1B as well.
Guessing that his .437 BABip since June 16th
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Why would you guess at his BABIP? These can be looked up in 5 seconds.
So what has his BABip been since June 16tb?
More importantly, why even use fabricated estimates when real stats exist?
BABip is not an accurate reflection of anything. It’s a bogus estimation created by people who don’t really understand their limits on fairly summarizing information and then suggesting that it’s a stat to the data unsavvy public..
So what has his BABip been since June 16tb?
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.357, not .437.
Trollfree
More importantly, why even use fabricated estimates when real stats exist?
BABip is not an accurate reflection of anything. It’s a bogus estimation
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Troll,
It is not an estimate. It is a formula.
And like every number, it is best not to use in isolation. It is simply a number to estimate what a player’s true production. If there was real money on the line, I would also include HRs/FB & EV. And there are probably a dozen other statistics one could include.
But for the sake of quick discussions, BABIP is a very useful stat.
Joe,
You just proved my point. You said it is not an estimate. It is a formula which is one form of an estimation.
Then you wrote, It is simply a number to estimate what a player’s true production. Sounds like you are saying it’s an estimate using other numbers. That’s exactly my point.
BABIP suggests past occurrences will happen in the future and that’s simply not true. If you flip a coin and it comes up tails then tails being estimated as the next result is no more accurate than heads. In the same vein, what a player did last week, last year or in his entire career isn’t an indication of what he will do in the future. You can trend BA and OBP and it too isn’t a reflection of what will happen in the future, it’s an estimation.
So to suggest an estimation is accurate is silly because you have no way of knowing than other than using hindsight and predictions don’t use hindsight they are evaluated in hindsight.
Thus, suggesting BABIP is useful should be qualified. You THINK it is useful to you but it’s no more accurate predicting the future than any other projected stat.
If you have a math background you should know this.
All formulas can be used as estimates.
– Mathematician and Actuary
Whyhayzee – Thank you. I rest my case. Modern metrics are estimations not statistics. They don’t reflect actual events they interpret them using estimators.
Thanks for adding some insurance to my argument!! 🙂
LOL! So a guy goes 30-100, and people say he is hitting .300, you’re saying that is an estimate?
Let me help you out. Here is what you want to say:
“The formulas are generally an exact science. Average & OBP are objective. 30/100 = .300.. One’s assessment of their relative values are subjective. As in the real world, is is usually best to rely on multiple numbers rather than one.
Modern metrics ARE statistics. They are based on events that have already happened. However, they can be used to predict future performance. You could easily predict a batting average for someone next year, predict their on base percentage, their slugging percentage, as well as all of the other modern metrics that seemingly grow on trees these days. All of those things can be predicted using past performance and other relevant factors.
But, getting to the true value of a player? That might just be unanswerable by merely using statistics. People call those things intangibles or in the business world, soft skills. You know it when you see it but you can’t place a number on it. That’s what makes it fun.
Also, baseball is a competitive game between pitcher and batter and subject to some degree of chance and a good degree of performance. But it’s not running a race, taking a test, etc. Again, I can predict my next 5K time or next test score, but no one’s trying to tackle me on the course or throwing tomatoes at me while I’m taking the test. At least, I hope not.
.367 according to Fangraphs. But wanted to see if either of you knew what you were taking about.
Wow. That was truly stupid Troll.
Since you obviously don’t understand and don’t want to understand baseball, just going to say goodbye here.
No reason to talk baseball with the willfully ignorant.
BaseballisLife
.367 according to Fangraphs. But wanted to see if either of you knew what you were taking about.
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The .367 v .357 probably depends on the parameters. A one-day difference could mean ten points.
More importantly, glad to see that you admit you were wrong. We already have enough people in here that will say something ridiculously stupid, but not have the self-esteem to admit they made a simple mistake.
I was right. Both of you were wrong. But nice to see you being consistent.
Unless a hitting coach gets him to stop opening his hips early against LHP and swinging all arms, trying to pull every pitch, he’s a platoon player at best.
How he hasn’t tried harder to adopt a Juan Soto like approach vs LHP by staying closed and hitting the ball hard to LF/LCF is a shame.
He only hits LHP now when they make a mistake and leave the pitch middle in. Anything to the outer third of the plate Casas is only waving at while his front foot and hips are pulling open towards the 1st base side dugout.
In the end maybe he learns by watching video or watching other successful lefties on lefties (Soto/Seager ect..) but maybe he doesn’t and gets only 400PA/year.
Time and his actions will tell.
Just say you don’t watch baseball dude. Went 430 off a lefty to opposite field today lol
Was that his 2nd or 3rd HR against LHP this season?.
Did you notice where that pitch was located? A belt high 93 mph FB on the inner third. Hit it to LCF.
If you don’t crush that, you really shouldn’t be playing major league baseball.
Thanks for proving his point about Casas.
“If you don’t crush that, you really shouldn’t be playing major league baseball.”
Yet he is.. How bizarre.
I notice you don’t address the rest of my comment. Wonder why that is?
I guess your name says it all.
Oh Em Gee, A screen name zinger.
Your’s is adorable. Good job.
I was really bummed out watching the game today. Then I remembered how much of a great job Bloom and company are doing .WTF. I guess I am the hater that still be hating or a troll. Anyone have any of that koolaide you have been drinking?
Dude step back from the edge. They have a winning record in the hardest division in baseball. Hey you could be a Yankees fan and under .500
Sounds like you need xanax, not koolaid,
Is Casas good enough for ROY?
Is Casas good enough for ROY?
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IMO, no. But his 2nd half stats are off the rails. I think Henderson, Volpe & Jung are all better, but you can never tell who BB writers are going to vote for.
Jung
Gunnar
Tristan
Volpe
in order
Maybe Gunnar has a chance is Orioles win division and Rangers miss playoffs, but I just don’t see Rangers not at least claiming a wild card bid
Seeing the five players, the optics go to Jung then Gunner just as you suggested but Casas improved greatly. Over time, Jung, Gunner and Casas all have all-star games in their future.
Jung is out for the season, so he likely will finish below Casas. Volpe suffers from some of the same BABIP that Casas suffered from, but is a huge talent. The NYY need to give him a 10-year contract like today.
Joe – Right now Jung is out until SEP 18. BABIP is an estimation that is no more valid than BA or OBP or any other stat as a predictor of the future.
Volpe in my opinion isn’t going to have the career that the other ROY contenders will have. His size, his skills and being in NY make him a distant contender for ROY and a future all-star type career. Jung and Henderson are hugely more talented and Casas is simply more talented than Volpe..
Like always, the future games in 2023 haven’t been played so there is no way to know if one player will completely outshine the others but the odds on favorite with Jung out is Henderson. The others are long-shots.
Jung is hurt… I believe he is out for at least 4 weeks….. he is not winning the ROY… Gunnar Henderson will win it…. Casas will stupidly lose votes to Yoshida.
@ stats guy . I guess you are right. I got a little excited in the early 21st century when the where we winning titles . I remember the 20th century waiting until next year .
That was mostly steroids so if the Stros have to give their 2017 title back then I think all those yankee titles are coming back too
As a Yankees fan, it’s so frustrating just how bad our minor league development is. Casas is the kind of guy Yankees should target (LHH with OBP and pop). Red Sox fans were so frustrated with Chaim, but there’s no way anyone can say the Red Sox don’t have a bright future.
My wife just yelled at the screen, “what a bunch of crap. That guy is the worst fielding 1B the Red Sox have ever had. He’ll be a DH before he turns 25”.
She knows her Red Sox.
Your wife sounds cool.
She is. Knows baseball and may be the biggest Red Sox fan I know. And she has sailor vocabulary when it comes to her Sox.
Baseball – Please tell me she is even more vocal about Devers the Butcher of Boston!!! Casas is light years better with far less experience.
LOL! He isn’t even the worst 1B we’ve had in the past two years. I thought Dalbec was bad, even though he could play a passable 3B, but I had to turn the TV off when Franchy played 1st.
Dick Stewart
Stuart.
@baseballislife. You guys seem depressed.
The Sox should take a page out of the Braves play book and buy out his arb years now and get a year of his free agency. Get cost control now. The Sox need to get better at doing that instead of going year to year. Offer him like 7/90 or even go 7/100 and see if he bites. Sometimes sign
Always a great idea to extend a guy that has not even played league average baseball yet.
Maybe, just maybe, they wait until he can do that for a season.
I don’t agree with all extensions, but from a philosophical POV, you want to sign a player before they get to their full value. I just posted that the NYY should sign Volpe for ten years, probably more. If they wait, like they did on Judge, it will cost you $100M more, and you won’t get the age brackets you want.
That said, all extensions should be based on the character of a player, not their stats. Some will quit early. Some will show up in the stadium at 10:00, at age 33, to get in some extra work.
Character doesn’t fill out the stat line, performance does.
Right now Casas performance is below league average and bad against LHP.
The Red Sox need to wait until he puts up above average performance because regardless of an unmeasurable character of the player, his performance is what they are paying for.
Lots of prospects have “unassailable character” and play hard but can’t perform at the major league level.
Life – Not only that, Casas has a reputation for not working hard and focusing on non-baseball things such as his nail polish and suntanning. Work ethic factors into character.
Once again, kindly explain why nail polish has anything to do with baseball. You’d surprised how many guys will use a razor instead of an electric shaver, because they think it makes them look better.
Personally, I iron my shirts, but I don’t think it detracts from my job.
Bloom did not pick up any substantial help at the trade deadline and it shows. Sale is iffy now and they needed more pitching help. All Bloom did was pick up a .143 hitter and call his team underdogs! That must have impressed the players a lot.
17% walk rate with a .172 ISO and just a .278 BABIP versus LHP, all from a young guy who hasn’t gotten much exposure versus that handedness at the MLB level yet (and hasn’t been at the MLB level long, period), Sure seems like a huge stretch to say that “has” to be platooned, versus the obvious “has work to do against LHP if he isn’t going to end up a platoon sort of guy”. But you already knew that.
Sure seems like a huge stretch to say that “has” to be platooned,
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The average lefty v lefty OPS is .685
Casas OPS v lefties is .747.
The haters are going into gyrations trying to find something to be critical about. It is almost like they don’t realize that lefties usually have bad splits against lefties, and it has been that way for thousands of years.
JoeB:
Casas’s splits are bad. You have to look a little further than just “OPS” to see his problem.
1) Casas reaches base by walk a lot whether batting Lefty or Righty. So when a guy has 14 BBs in 66 ABs, that makes a .197 BA transform into a respectable .338 OBP. — That polarization (.197 to .338) says he’s got a great eye for a walk, but hitting lefties poorly.
2) 27 Strikeouts in 66 AB, against lefties, is horrendous.
3) All through his minor league career, Casas has very similar numbers, showing he cant hit lefties. So this isn’t an anomoly.
LHB first basemen vs LHP is a .247/.325/.420/.745 slashline.
Casas vs LHP is a .197/.338/.409/.747 slashline
He doesn’t hit very well, but he walks at a much higher rate than the average LH 1B. So maybe if he just comes to the plate and never swings against LHP.
Casas isn’t going to be high babip guy and .278
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I’m curious why you would say that. Is there a model that predicts which players will have higher or lower BABIPs?
“sure seems like a huge stretch to say that “has” to be platooned”
Manfred didnt say “has” to be platooned. He said “needs” to be platooned. As in ‘Whitlock “needs” to go to the bullpen’. Whitlock doesnt have to go bullpen, in fact, he’ll be okay in the rotation, but “needs” to for optimal effect.
Changing other people comments to make them sound worse, thus making your argument better, is tacky, and happens far too often at MLBTR.
now dont go getting sore on the Orioles just because they managed to put a winning team on the field. I’ll be rooting for them, once the Yankees are officially eliminated.
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You bored, or drunk?
MLBTR: stop with these pieces. They are half-hearted attempts at statistical analysis that come off as you desperately trying to be Fangraphs because all you do is regurgitate stats. Casas is not a trade candidate and this article makes no mention of an extension; the article has no transaction bend to it, which is where you actually make novel original content. A piece like this either screams that an agent is giving you payola to juice his client’s arb numbers or that you’re trying too hard to remain relevant in the sports media landscape. It looks bad. The analysis and article as a whole are milquetoast. Stop it. It looks pathetic.
Who complains about free content? I thought the article was interesting and is the type of stuff I come here to read.
You gotta love people entitled for free stuff. My complaint was always not proofreading their work which any writer or creator should do naturally
Just because something is free, doesn’t mean it can’t withstand criticism.
Do you even know how English grammar works, Devil Rays? Since you still cling to racist nicknames as well, I’m willing to bet you have a 6th grade education.
Lmao, you’re so dumb you don’t even know the third and fourth words in your own screen name. Can only imagine how miserable your life is spending all day complaining about woke people online. Do us all a favor and off yourself.
But since you’re threatening me, and ALL these other people you want to fight on here, going offline by taking this in person, let me know where and when, you incel. I’ll be there with a bunch of trans people just to piss you off even more.
David Laurila is the best writer over at Fangraphs.
Argh. 2 busy days at work so I miss two topics full of posts, replies, arguments, and counter arguements. Just my luck!
Gods I love all of you people! Tim could create topic titled, “It is Friday in Red Sox Nation” and all of us would find something to debate.
‘Friday should be pushed back to Wednesday’ ‘Friday’s ISO isn’t what it used to be, told you that would happen’ ‘Haters hate that Friday starts with a capital F’ and the Pompom brigade would tells how Bloom is the smartest guy on the planet for signing Saturday to protect Friday in the line up.
I am serious. I effing love you people!
There is else NOTHING like Red Sox Nation on the planet, and you all make it fun to be a citizen.
You wanna throw down senor?
Lol. Ok, Stanly. First one down buys the round?
LMAOOOOO
You are in here dissing people calling people tough guys on the internet and cowards, then you MUTE people after you physically threaten them. It is the equivalent of telling someone you’ll kick their behind and then running away. Cowardly af. You’re the biggest coward on this site. Talking like “I want to ring his bell” then just running away by not allowing people to reply to you. Too much sand up in that V.
I picked Triston Casas to be the best rookie 1B. So far, I’m going with Spencer Steer but Casas is closing the difference.
Over the past 30 games, the Nats are tied for the 7th best record. How is it that you are not aware of these things?
Nice excuse Joe.
It’s not an excuse. We lost 2-3 on the road to a team that is playing well. Then we won 3-3 on the road to a team playing badly.
Y’all need to recognize when teams are playing well or playing badly. Momentum counts.
Rotflmfao. Uh, huh. Sure.
you can beat Atlanta yet lose against oakland
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It’s called variance, or randomness. Do they not teach elementary statistics anymore?
you all need to stop saying its the best division in baseball
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1-Add up the records,
2-Compare that to the records of the other divisions.
If the ALE has the best record, that makes them the best division.
Have they stopped teaching arithmetic?
his at-bats remind me of (healthy) nick johnson which is high praise
(Healthy) Nick Johnson is like (skinny) Kelly Clarkson.
Didn’t last long.
what might have been!
Maybe… but we’re you a fan in the 70’s -80’s-90’s— sure it doesn’t fly but 4 in my life … pretty damn good… I can be patient a while… but I will say this … I hope the curse of Brasier doesn’t take us another 86… I don’t have that much patience
I’ve been standing at the airport with his name on a sign and he’s nowhere in sight. Arrived indeed.
I don’t get it. Llovera works 2 inn. on Sat and figures to be in AAA for Houck.
Casas is unavailable today. Why not call up Dalbec for one or 2gms for depth at 1b.