Worst bunting team in my recollection (and I saw Williams play at Fenway).This barrage of almost-bunts is bizarre.
Compare Williams's bunting skills to anyone on the current roster, and Ted comes out a head.Worst bunting team in my recollection (and I saw Williams play at Fenway).
OMG!Compare Williams's bunting skills to anyone on the current roster, and Ted comes out a head.
They don't face any of Toronto or New York until June, but I can see a collective sub .400 winning percentage against these teams coming.So the Red Sox are falling into a somewhat predictable pattern. They mostly beat the bad teams and they mostly lose to the good teams.
With all the injuries and stuff, the truth is that it could be a whole lot worse. If it can stay that way all summer, I'd take it.
Probably afraid of falling behind and striking out there for the sombrero.I wish Duran would use his skills to make pitchers work a little more. Try to get ahead in the count and sit on a fat pitch now and then.
Likely, but in general, I think it would be a good approach for him to be peskier up there. Who knows?Probably afraid of falling behind and striking out there for the sombrero.
Who is expected back and when? For example: Pivetta? Grissom? Whitlock? Gonzalez?Lets hope for a solid home stand and some reinforcements soon.
Well, the team isn't static. And right now, it's probably OK to be in this pattern. You don't get more games against weak teams later to make up for the early-season ones you screw up on.So the Red Sox are falling into a somewhat predictable pattern. They mostly beat the bad teams and they mostly lose to the good teams.
With all the injuries and stuff, the truth is that it could be a whole lot worse. If it can stay that way all summer, I'd take it.
Pivetta May 7Who is expected back and when? For example: Pivetta? Grissom? Whitlock? Gonzalez?
That was the attempted bad joke.Well, he certainly ended up a head.
Not to be a nitpick but that says late April/early May for Grissom. His rehab stint expires May 1st. So not everybody is so far off!Pivetta May 7
Bello May 7
Whitlock Mid May
Grissom Mid May
Casas TBD
Campbell TBD
Romy TBD
https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/red-sox-injuries-and-roster-moves
Getting Grissom back a week sooner is not a nitpick.Not to be a nitpick but that says late April/early May for Grissom. His rehab stint expires May 1st. So not everybody is so far off!
Ted is credited with 5 sacrifices while playing and 5 years sacrificed while not playingOMG!
Did Ted ever bunt, even once?
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I suppose he sac bunted with Jimmy Foxx coming up. Can’t imagine it otherwise. Did you know that sacrifice flies were not counted as no AB in 1941? He would have hit .409 or something if they were.
History of the Sac Fly, WikipediaFor some baseball fans, it is significant that the sacrifice-fly rule was eliminated in 1940 because, in 1941, Ted Williams was hitting .39955 on the last day of the season and needed one hit in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia A's to become the first hitter since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400. He got six hits, finishing with an official .406 average, the last player in over 80 years to bat .400 or more in the American or National League. In his book Baseball and Other Matters in 1941 author Robert Creamer, citing estimates, points out that if Williams' 14 at-bats on sacrifice flies that year were deducted from the 456 official at-bats he was charged with, his final average in 1941 would have been .419.
.419… probably unreachable. Well, .406 probably is also.You got me curious so I dug a little....
History of the Sac Fly, Wikipedia
Can't totally remember, but wasn't Nomar hitting .400 into early August in 2000 when he got hit on the wrist, then predictably struggled the rest of the way?.419… probably unreachable. Well, .406 probably is also.
My favorite rest of that story about Ted hitting .3995 before the last day of the season was that manager Joe Cronin told Ted he could sit out the doubleheader and they’d round it off to .400. Ted said something like expletive, expletive, expletive, if you’re gonna hit .400, you have to hit .400 for the whole season, not the whole season -2 games. He then went 4 for 5 and 2 for 3 in the doubleheader.
We need a gamethread for today, and hopefully the next 10 games. You up for it?Nomar touched on .400 a couple of times in July that year, but “fell off” and finished at a league leading .372. I thought the wrist injury was at the beginning of the postseason, wasn’t it?
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=garcino01&t=b&year=2000
Not going to be around (going to Half Moon Bay for the day) and I like to start game threads when I can watch the game and participate. Someone else today, please?We need a gamethread for today, and hopefully the next 10 games. You up for it?
If not, anybody?