Using that theory, every major league team could save some money by eliminating the first and third base coaches. Dumb base running a fielding is something that good coaching can correct.Originally Posted by SoxHop
Using that theory, every major league team could save some money by eliminating the first and third base coaches. Dumb base running a fielding is something that good coaching can correct.
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Farrells blue Jays teams ran the bases and played defense like retards too.. its the coach, he's time and time again proven hes a fucking dumb ass.
Players should have at least good fundamentals by the time they are in the big show. When they hit Farrell, players should at least know and be able to execute the fundamentals of both fielding and running without even thinking about it. At the top level they shouldn't be going over basics, and we aren't even seeing basic stuff done well. Farrell shouldn't have his staff talking about when to tag up, or when to hold the ball, or how to take a lead. He should be talking about how to maximize that stuff.
We aren't even seeing the basics done well from these players. I can't blame Farrell for that.
If you want to talk about why these players are not remembering the basics when under pressure, I would consider that.
But blaming Farrell for people thinking a pop fly is going to be called an infield fly rule, or Hanley not seeing Benny at second, or some third baseman throwing away a ball instead of holding on to it, just doesn't make sense to me.
Last edited by SoxHop; 05-06-2017 at 12:27 AM.
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I thought they should have canned him during the off-season they let Lovello go. Team looked awesome under Lovello. But they also won the division last year under Farrell, so I think he has at least one more off-season of credit to use up.
Can't say I'm too happy about it, for reasons that have probably already been covered in this thread and elsewhere.
If the Red Sox are still playing .500 baseball at the beginning of June, does Farrell get the axe? Can he survive the entire season playing .500 baseball? I don't know--I don't have a good feel for it either way.
He should. The real question is, if we're playing .500 how far behind the Yanks and Birds will we be.
lol
not possible based on where these guys were standing. moreland should have been able to take one giant step back to the bag. pedroia was standing on first base. They weren't where they should have been but at most if hardy catches the ball it is one out.
So you are asking me what they should have done. i like this because it deals with a real baseball question so understand before you blast back at me that i'm just telling you from my own experience what I would have liked to have seen done. First of all you can't just assume that the infield fly rule is going to be invoked on any given play. maybe it should have in this instance but it wasn't. moreland has to be a little off the second base bag, as he was, because you know he isn't tagging up on that ball. Pedroia should have been at least a third of the way up the line. Maybe he gets thrown out going back to the bag if Hardy catches the ball and maybe he doesn't. i'm thinking that maybe JBJ should have just run down the first base line. In any event, when that ball hits the deck, moreland should have been on his way to third - Pedroia on his way to second- Bradley standing on the first base bag. Baltimore gets one out but not two. I don't agree with you that it is way down the list in terms of baserunning mistakes and if people want to blame the coaching staff for this then i guess if we have a group of players who need to be told to run when the ball hits the deck we might be in some trouble.
I dunno. Ugh. IMO we're putting too much blame on our players for this and not enough blame on the umpires.
That ball became an Infield Fly the moment the ball was at the peak of it's flight and Hardy called everyone off. The only people on the field who didn't acknowledge that were the umpires.
These guys have played a lot of baseball and they know an infield fly when they see one. There are some things a player just takes for granted and he doesn't have to look to the umpire for verification - If a ball gets to the base on a force play before the runner does, the runner is out. He gets to go to first base after four balls and he doesn't have to look to the umpire to be sure that's true. My best guess is that these players don't even hear the umpire unless they feel there's some question about what the call will be. I know I didn't when I was playing. That ball was obviously an Infield Fly and they behaved accordingly.
Holy Hell... I'll even stick up for JBJ. When's the last time you saw a player hit what they knew was an infield fly and then go to first base and stand there, just in case the umpire botched the call?
I'm not forgiving these players for some of the other gaffes, but I do think those mistakes have made fans more critical of their baserunning skills than necessary.
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Jeez, enough about that play LOL
Why - beats the hell out of talking about what the ideal batting order for this team might be. i actually like reading and talking about something that deals with what is going on on the field of play.
i must have been a bigger a-hole of a coach than i thought I was. i would have gone nuts on this one in the locker room of course. lol
plus the fact, I'm bored. What else you got? lol
Other than Sale and Kimbrel and a few others, this team looks like shit. I think there's a pretty good chance Farrell gets the axe if it keeps looking that way much longer. But who is a possible replacement?
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