4.6 - Angels in the Outfield

[Bigpupp]

lol

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Oh my god. We’re back in 2023.

Feels like home, huh?

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Dude

 

[Sprowl]

Our poor, unfortunate pitching staff...

 

[brandonchristensen]

Fuck

 

[CR67dream]

MELTDOWN.

 

[RS2004foreever]

Wow,

 

[twibnotes]

I’ll never understand why the Red Sox FO think Devers can play third. He’s fucking awful over there, and that’s never going to change

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Story being out just brings the whole infield down.

 

[NWsoxophile]

Look forward to the day Raffy is s permanent DH

 

[budcrew08]

Kid making 313M can’t make those mental mistakes.

 

[reggiecleveland]

Gonna pay him a lot of money to dh

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

Youk rightfully excoriated Devers for that pathetic effort.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

The instincts to stop charging that ball, just so bad. And to not even glove it at all I mean holy shit dude.

 

[patinorange]

Pretty depressing.

 

[Dr. Gonzo]

Four straight balls. Lovely

 

[shepard50]

...and that's why we needed the Casas homer to go ahead in the 7th...

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

This won’t end well.

 

[Moviegoer]

Losing a ss makes everyone else on the field play like ahit. Fucking baseball.

 

[Big D]

Brutal that the pitching staff has to be prefect for us to win in most of these games

 

[normstalls]

For 30 million, you gotta be able to play defense.

 

[reggiecleveland]

The instincts to stop charging that ball, just so bad. And to not even glove it at all I mean holy shit dude.

He could hit 35 hr and be a 1war player

 

[shepard50]

Yes! Walk it full for Trout! Exac...wait...

 

[radsoxfan]

Devers makes an occasional good play on D, but we might just have to accept he is a VERY bad defensive 3B.

He needs to DH and we need to ship Yoshida out (and pay some of his salary of course).

A rough end to the Chaim era, but it is what it is.

 

[Reggie's Racquet]

We need a completely new infield. Just awful.

 

[YTF]

The instincts to stop charging that ball, just so bad. And to not even glove it at all I mean holy shit dude.

If he's not charging it he needs to get in front of it.

 

[Dr. Gonzo]

Getting out of that down one is encouraging

 

[Harry Hooper]

Losing a ss makes everyone else on the field play like ahit. Fucking baseball.

The D went to shit in Oakland.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

This won’t end well.

Glad to be wrong.

 

[Fishy1]

Well, they only got two?

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

I thought he hit that ball 700 feet.

 

[Sprowl]

Angels announcers were so much in the bag for Trout that they truped themselves on a fly ball to LF.

 

[shepard50]

We need a completely new infield. Just awful.

Casas resents this comment.

 

[twibnotes]

The instincts to stop charging that ball, just so bad. And to not even glove it at all I mean holy shit dude.

I really wanted them to move Yoshi so Devers could play first and dh with casas. Team defense would be immediately improved

Sox have been so stubborn re Devers. It’s never happening. He’s awful over there

 

[patinorange]

Devers makes an occasional good play on D, but we might just have to accept he is a VERY bad defensive 3B.

He needs to DH and we need to ship Yoshida out (and pay some of his salary of course).

A rough end to the Chaim era, but it is what it is.

He was born a DH. We had dreams of him moving to first but that isn't going to happen.

 

[YTF]

I hope this doesn't result in Raffy going to shit on offense for a week and 1/2 as he tries to make up for it with his bat.

 

[riboflav]

Devers makes an occasional good play on D, but we might just have to accept he is a VERY bad defensive 3B.

He needs to DH and we need to ship Yoshida out (and pay some of his salary of course).

A rough end to the Chaim era, but it is what it is.

Took two years off from the Sox. Why ship out Yoshida?

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Another Chad Bradford wannabe, but he doesn't get low enough.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Devers makes an occasional good play on D, but we might just have to accept he is a VERY bad defensive 3B.

He needs to DH and we need to ship Yoshida out (and pay some of his salary of course).

A rough end to the Chaim era, but it is what it is.

This all somehow ties back to the bad decision to trade for Adrian Gonzalez, move Youkilis to 3rd and decide to let Beltre walk.

Don’t ask me how but it’s connected.

In other news this ump fuckin sucks man.

 

[twibnotes]

Took two years off from the Sox. Why ship out Yoshida?

bc the team has three DHs and we’re not trading devers or casas

(though I would trade for a legit haul)

 

[Al Zarilla]

Masa is going to run?

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

bc the team has three DHs and we’re not trading devers or casas

(though I would trade for a legit haul)

Casas is not a DH. He's going to be totally fine at first base, and is already showing good improvement this season.

 

[riboflav]

bc the team has three DHs and we’re not trading devers or casas

(though I would trade for a legit haul)

Gotcha. Three ineffective fielders masquerading as "fielders."

 

[twibnotes]

Casas is not a DH. He's going to be totally fine at first base, and is already showing good improvement this season.

I hope so but he’s giant - seems his ceiling is adequate, no?

 

[DeadlySplitter]

I don't like pulling Rafaela back but I get it to an extent

 

[teddywingman]

I hope this doesn't result in Raffy going to shit on offense for a week and 1/2 as he tries to make up for it with his bat.

He's going to swing his shoulder off. Mark my words.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

I hope so but he’s giant - seems his ceiling is adequate, no?

Yes. But adequate is just fine.
There have been plenty of very large adequate first basemen over the years.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Maybe Casas should’ve taken whatever the Sox offered him.

 

[Moviegoer]

So you compromise your outfield d for that marginal at best improvement in a two out at bat?

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Abreu is due.

 

[twibnotes]

Yes. But adequate is just fine.
There have been plenty of very large adequate first basemen over the years.

would be great if he settles in over there

part of my thinking is bc I feel like raffy, in the FO’s eyes, needs to be more than a dh…and I hate him at third. It feels like a twilight zone episode where it’s so obvious he’s awful but the FO doesn’t see it