Broken record here, but Sandoval can put the weight back on in no time, and he has every time that he's lost weight as a major leaguer. It's been, what, 4 cycles of that already? Also, if a person has an eating disorder, should it be treated like an alcohol or drug dependency? He obviously hasn't been able to control it on his own.
Wasn't that pretty much the bench everyone anticipated for this year back in spring training? Maybe Hannigan for Vaz, but Holt, Young, Shaw. Until Pablo broke and Rusney sucked.
Small point, Pablo lost the starting gig and was on the bench before he broke.
His hands were getting in the way of his high leg kick? Trying to imagine that. Hands pretty low, kick pretty high, duh! Tried it. On low pitches, OK, I can see it. Happy to hear things like this and Bannister's work with Buchholz.
Thanks, Savin! Hanley has been particularly valuable to the Sox at a time when their younger guys seem to be running out of steam.
Hanley was our best hitter before he hurt his shoulder in early May last year. He was rounding back into form again in early July and then he got hurt again. The remainder of the year was painful. (To Hanley, to us, and to pitchers every time a fly ball went to left.)
This is this. That is that. Such perfect forgiveness is impossible for humans to achieve on this Earth.
I was the opposite. Hanley was not the same player since he left Florida. His Dodger years really weren't impressive (certainly not elite)and I thought it was an odd signing.
I think this is the key behind most of the "improvements" we've seen this year. It's actually been a long time since there was any actual evidence of an attitude problem, assuming that it wasn't exaggerated to begin with. For example, the idea of him not trying hard enough last year can easily be explained away by him hurting and barely being able to stay on the field. That he seems happier can also be because he's feeling good physically. And of course, his performance at the plate is what we were hoping for when he was signed, also probably attributable to his health.
Going from -1.8 last year to +1.9 and counting fWAR this year is a ridiculously huge jump. My hopes were that he'd be at least replacement level coming into the season.
Wait, what? His slash line for his two seasons there was .308/.382/.525. What does it take to impress you?
Granted, I didn't see a ton of his Dodger games, but it seemed he had tailed off from his Marlin days and I didn't feel he was the player he once was. I was wrong.
I won't belabor the point about single seasons of WAR again (though I will link to the article from the dot com in case you care to dig deeper), but I will point out that playing hurt likely had a huge impact on that 2015 figure.
I missed that, but I'm surprised Ortiz didn't have that many in any of his 2003-2006 seasons.
Trying to find it, but it was the first Sox come-from-behind walk-off HR against the Yankees since Bill Mueller in 2004, first walk-off HR since June 2014.
Yes, everyone knows THAT one.
Pretty sure these kinds of stats are always the regular season. Same reason why Papi has 17 less HR than he actually has hit on the books.
Technically, October 17, 2004 wasn't a come from behind walk-off. The game was tied at the time, as opposed to the Hanley and Mueller HRs which occurred with the tying run on base.
