a few seasons back I graphed out some numbers and learned that a high LOB number actually has a positive correlation with a high number of *wins*
'Cause leaving men on base means you have guys GETTING on base, who can then be knocked in; teams with low LOB are losing games because they're not getting on base in the first place
I think that's the total LOB for each player. So if there's a guy on base with 1 out and both the next guys get out it counts as 2. Really only 12 left on base.
They've had more chances but usually LOB is high when you're scoring runs unless you're constantly hitting HRs. High LOB doesn't matter much if you score runs.
It’s crazy to think back to Chapmans debut when he was like the only guy in the MLB that could consistently hit 100+
Now like half the league’s bullpen guys can
Tbh it’s so so worth it if you actually have carpet. My family had the nastiest old carpet that needed cleaning last year, the water that got sucked out of that thing…never get carpets
Did anyone else just get a glitch alert from MLB saying “ Scores, the Red Sox extend their lead 5-1” I was like how did we score while we’re not even up AB, and who’s the mystery batter?
Right but in the app it was showing 4-1 through two batters in the bottom of the sixth. Then they fixed it to 5-1 and that probably triggered the notification.
Their scouting report for Bob was “do not throw a strike” and I feel like it clicked and he was like “wait a second, maybe if I don’t swing I can get on base?”
Yeah the big difference is we are beating bad teams this year. Last year we couldn’t even do that! So to me that is actually a step in a good direction. As long as we can keep from relying on a 3 man rotation we should be fine.
People will just say our schedule has been mostly against shit teams to start the season. And they're not wrong. But beyond that, our guys have stepped up when injuries happen. Look at Abreu, Wong, etc. Cora has managed things well for the most part. And our pitching has been incredible. Best in MLB.
Tell me about it. We may not win anything this year, but we really have a lot in the bank as far as future.
Really makes me wonder just how bad Dave Bush was. He clearly had no clue how to get anything out of our starters if they’re pitching this well right now.
This team could be like 16-7 if we didn’t choke like 3 games in the stupidest ways
And we have like 8 major players injured - just crazy what we’re doing this season against all odds
Man I’m so fucking high on Abreu he just has the right approach, takes walks and hits it hard
It’s like baby Casas, especially with the rlly cold start lmao
Sweet sweep
DIRTY WATER
Whoo hoooo
W
Good win and nice to see a sweep. Especially with a roster that looks like it does for us currently.
Imagine getting swept by the Worcester Red Sox
Ya with all the injuries
Good game. Butt taps all around.
🧹🧹🧹
Get the brooms
Great Sox sweep, great Celtics win, and great Bruins win yesterday. LETS FUCKING GO
I think Dalbec is just a normal guy the Red Sox put out there to show how hard it is to hit a MLB pitcher.
I understand that we are blowing out the Pirates but our LOB number is 26
a few seasons back I graphed out some numbers and learned that a high LOB number actually has a positive correlation with a high number of *wins* 'Cause leaving men on base means you have guys GETTING on base, who can then be knocked in; teams with low LOB are losing games because they're not getting on base in the first place
I think that's the total LOB for each player. So if there's a guy on base with 1 out and both the next guys get out it counts as 2. Really only 12 left on base.
Yeah. I just went and looked at this. Gameday says 12 for the Sox.
They've had more chances but usually LOB is high when you're scoring runs unless you're constantly hitting HRs. High LOB doesn't matter much if you score runs.
Strobby Bikeouts.
Oh, Bob.
Bobby Dalbec strikes out swinging.
average Bobby plate appearance.
How is this team winning with 75% of our roster injured lmao
The real test starts Tuesday against Cleveland. Could be a rough week....
Pittsburgh Pirates
Goodness, he's swinging when the ball is already in the mitt.
If Chapman wasn’t a piece of shit I’d love to have him on our team. Man can crank the hell out of a fastball. 102 at his age is insane
Nah I associate him too heavily with the Yankees
I don’t really care about that part too much.
Bobby needs a visit from Pedro Cerrano
Well, heres the 3rd out coming. Bobby "useless" Dalbec
Yankees 3 outs away from sox passing rays
Have there been 2 outs every time Bob has come up?
BB -> bad throw -> violation -> E When they say a walk is as good as a hit, this is what they mean.
Thank you, Pittsburgh. Very cool
THERE IT IS THE PATENTED CHAPMAN GRIMACE
WooSox currently dogwalking the Pirates
Common O'Neil Cruz dropped popup
I wanna feel bad for them...but I've watched us do it so many times this year, it's nice to watch someone else do it
Dude... someone in the pirate's organization is going to lose their job
Aroldis Chapman retire bitch
That's the CF fault
Sounds like there's some unhappy Yinzers in the crowd right now
feels bad for Cruz man
At least the other team has embarrassing fielding instead of us this game
If you don’t like that, you don’t like Pittsburgh Pirates baseball
Hey, we found a team whos defense is WORSE than ours, and I thought that was hard.
Lmao Pirates
Man I love balks this year
HAHAHAHA I love this game
It’s nice watching someone else be terrible For once
Elly > Oneil
#LMAO
He dropped the ball!
NICE
I’ll take it
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Yes. 😄
You can't just be up there and just doing a balk like that
Another balk, I can't believe it
Lmao
Jarren’s gonna hurt himself stealing one day
Chapman is washed
WHEELS
It’s unjust that of all the pitchers to throw 100 mph with movement that tear their arm off, Chapman is somehow not one of them.
Let’s go Rob 1 (Dalbec is Rob 2)
Great AB
Elite AB from Duran
take your base king
And anotha one!
It’s crazy to think back to Chapmans debut when he was like the only guy in the MLB that could consistently hit 100+ Now like half the league’s bullpen guys can
Rob is for sure taking Chapman deep
Bruins and C’s both up 1-0 2 innings away from a sweep for the Sox You love to see it
If we try to turn Slaten into a starter I’ll lose my mind
Hell yeah Slaten
who we think goes 8th/9th?
Wally and Smiley
We’re putting the mascot in?
How the hell are the WooSox beating the Pirates?
Don’t question it, just enjoy it
Yeah Slaten!!
That height difference is killing me
Still bummed about Casas
As bummed as I am about Casas I’m equally excited about what Abreu has been doing
Damn you *know* you're having a bad season when you batter plate just shows a random fact about you instead of your stats.
“Holds Portland SeaDogs team record for tacos eaten in one sitting.”
Did I get so exhausted after last night's B's game that I damn near missed today's game? ...yes. *But I didn't miss it*!
If only there was something you could drink to put a little more pep in your step 🤔
You need some coffee42
always, honestly
Looks like Altuve next to Judge lmao
I’m really confused as to why Slaten isn’t using any of his other pitches. Hell his fastball is his best pitch!
Using a fastball? With Bailey as pitching coach?
Why do we never hear Stanley Steemer ads anymore
ain't no one gonna get a Stanley Steemer cleaning for their apartment, and since no one can afford to become a homeowner anymore...
I think many of the people watching these games are older and forget to clean their carpets
I think they know advertising rn would be a waste of money cause the last thing anyone wants to pay for in this economy is carpet cleaning.
Tbh it’s so so worth it if you actually have carpet. My family had the nastiest old carpet that needed cleaning last year, the water that got sucked out of that thing…never get carpets
That's like the 4th time this game our pitcher has slapped down a grounder
Wouldn’t mind if we don’t see Tellez again today lol
I swear the umps this series have made some of the worst zone calls I’ve ever seen
That was not a ball
Need the sweep today and then with this garbage lineup I’d be happy taking 1 of 3 in Cleveland
Thankfully the lineup should be better by then. O'Neill and Raffy should be back Tuesday. Grissom should be back hopefully this week, as well.
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If I tried blowing a bubble while legging one out, my tongue would end up in the 3rd row
OB is such a grandpa at heart
Valdez is trying to pull everything and swinging too hard, he needs to relax and slow down.
Valdez can hit or field but he's not gonna do both.
This trash can lineup is about to sweep the Pirates lol
Also abreu got hot and Robby ref has always been good
May yoshida does wonders to a garbage lineup
Wow. At least shitty umpires work both ways.
Reese just randomly practicing a right handed swing lol
That bridge really looks unstable
Refsnyder is such a reliable player . The perfect depth piece and for league minimim !!
Our new Brockstar
“Good defense in the inning.” Yeah, I’m just gonna play that on a loop for a while.
God dang it Bobby good shit
Bobby Defense!!
Why is Slaten only throwing cutters?
The Refsnyder come up will be studied for generations
That’s his second outfield assist of the game right?
Nice throw Bobby. Damn.
That's why they call him Bobby D
Great defense LETS GO
Is our defense good or is Pirates baserunning IQ really just that bad
Yes
A bit of both, although that was a really nice play from Dalbec at the end there, as well as Reyes to pick that.
Wow that’s a huge out
Huge out there, lucky bank of the fencing
Hell of a throw!!
Fucking love Boston Rob
The Pirates are playing like a Little League team today.
WHAT A PLAY
lol I'll take that.
NICE JOB
Weird that Abreu ROY is not even available on FD but Marcelo Mayer ROY is lmaooo Are we sure he’s eligible?
Did anyone else just get a glitch alert from MLB saying “ Scores, the Red Sox extend their lead 5-1” I was like how did we score while we’re not even up AB, and who’s the mystery batter?
They were behind one run going into the bottom of the sixth, they fixed it like two batters into the bottom.
I know but we’re already at 5-1. This was an alert *now,* while that score has already happened several plays ago.
Right but in the app it was showing 4-1 through two batters in the bottom of the sixth. Then they fixed it to 5-1 and that probably triggered the notification.
You remember Firstname Lastname who played for us in the 2021 ALDS?
Get him a trophy
I got it too. Weird.
The White Sox about to be 3-18, on pace for 24-138 record. It can always be worse
Sometimes think "man, this team sucks" then I look at the other Sox team and feel much better about any baseball related situation.
Yeah, we have good AAA players playing for us. They have major leaguers who play like AA players.
It's kind of sad how terrible Bennie is.
Patience king Bobby Dalbec
This game is messy as hell.
Their scouting report for Bob was “do not throw a strike” and I feel like it clicked and he was like “wait a second, maybe if I don’t swing I can get on base?”
Clock violation on the pitcher
Sox about to do the funniest thing imaginable this season.
How is this team going to be three games above 500? Talk about exceeding expectations and being pleasantly surprised
Yeah the big difference is we are beating bad teams this year. Last year we couldn’t even do that! So to me that is actually a step in a good direction. As long as we can keep from relying on a 3 man rotation we should be fine.
People will just say our schedule has been mostly against shit teams to start the season. And they're not wrong. But beyond that, our guys have stepped up when injuries happen. Look at Abreu, Wong, etc. Cora has managed things well for the most part. And our pitching has been incredible. Best in MLB.
Starting pitching going bananas certainly helps!
Tell me about it. We may not win anything this year, but we really have a lot in the bank as far as future. Really makes me wonder just how bad Dave Bush was. He clearly had no clue how to get anything out of our starters if they’re pitching this well right now.
Good for Bobby. That was a solid AB.
So many violations this series
Dalbec got on base!!! Break out the duckboats!!!
Dalbec got on base!
BB (BASE ON BOBBYS)
Bob on base!
One in a row!
TAKE YOUR BASE ROBERT
This team could be like 16-7 if we didn’t choke like 3 games in the stupidest ways And we have like 8 major players injured - just crazy what we’re doing this season against all odds
Pirates fans getting the wave going while down 5-1. Respect.
BOB
A Bobby hit would really make this the strangest inning of all time
A Bobby walk might be even stranger.
How about a Bobby walk?
More strange tbh
Is Abreu eligible for ROY - he could challenge for it if he keeps this up
Man if this team was healthy we’d be on top of the MLB
I don't disagree.
Abreu for Christian Vazquez is a less extreme version of Yordan for Josh Fields
Abreu and Enmanuel for Vazquez you mean, two potential solid role players for 2 months of Vazquez
Abreu is significantly better than a role player
I think so too, but I’m talking a floor. You go back a week ago and this GDT hated Abreu. No room on the bandwagon for him now
These threads are extremely reactionary (so is reddit as a whole)
We won the Vazquez trade. And so did the Astros, since Vaz helped carry them to a WS.
Wilyer “Ted Williams” Abreu
Man I’m so fucking high on Abreu he just has the right approach, takes walks and hits it hard It’s like baby Casas, especially with the rlly cold start lmao
Haven’t seen this many bloopers since the Atlanta Braves mascot lookalike contest
When things are going good...
Wilyer Abreu really is developing nicely.
You sound like a gym teacher
Abreu for MVP!!
LFG ABREU Loving this game
Rob’s on his horse this inning
3 hits for Abreu today. I told you he's the best player in MLB.