*One of the most disturbing developments of the first two weeks of the Red Sox season is the team’s defensive decline.
Directing, on Saturday, the Red Sox had made 19 mistakes, far from any team of the match. (Athletics, with 10, was next to all the teams of Al). Worse, as was the case a year ago, opponents are making the most of Red Sox’s exits when they pass, the SOXs have already allowed an impressive 14 runs without years; Only another MLB team had given up to 10.
Statistically, it is the worst start of a season since 1996. The team left Chicago on Friday night, when he made five mistakes, the biggest for any team in one game this season.
(To be clear, four of the 19 errors have so far reached the CATCHER interference calls, which are a bit of a freakish nature and influence the total at least a little. However, a mistake is a mistake and the beaters are awarded to the first base, so that the net result of an additional base is a problem).
This is supposed to be a thing of the past. Subject to Alex Bregman to Rafael to the third, having Trevor story completely healthy and available in the short and inserting Kristian Campbell on the second on the 11 seconds parade different from a year ago, the team defense was expected to be updated.
Instead, he has been the same. Not even the defense of the field, designed as a force of the team, has been as good as expected. Jarren Duran beat and left two flying balls for mistakes in the first house; Made only six mistakes last season.
The poor field can be corrosive. For a launch staff that should be better on paper with the additions of Garrett Crochet and Walker Buhler, defensive ineptitude can lead to non -experienced runs and at least force pitchers to launch more launches and unnecessarily add their workload.
Last winter marked the second consecutive year that the SOX shot a base coach who had served as the club’s Infield instructor: the former base coach of the Base Carlos Fens was dismissed after 2023, and the former Base Coach First Andy Fox took the drop following last year. Nothing of them has helped.
Some of the mistakes have been random. Remove the interference from the capturer Falls and Bregman and Duran have been combined by a third (five) of the team’s remaining errors (15). Bregman was a winner of the Gold Glove last year and Duran was a finalist for one, so his struggles are likely to continue.
However, mistakes are errors and the last one a team struggles to achieve some coherence with the bat is a breakdown in the field. And yet, here we are. Again.
*It has been said before, but the NBA really has to drop the phenomenon of “load management”. Fans, both at home and outside, buy tickets with the expectation that certain players and a list of representatives will see. But the Celtics put a team on the plant in Orlando last week, which resembled the Maine Celtics of the G League.
None of the first five players in a few minutes that played this season appeared. Sorry, but this is a consumption fraud. (To be clear, this practice has become sadly common; I am not singing the Celts here).
*Mike Trout entered the weekend tied for the leadership of the League in Homers, and this is good after it was limited to injuries over the last four seasons. The game is better when the tortilla is healthy and plays its ability.
*The following option for the Patriots Fame Hall is not very difficult: Adam Vinatieri, easily, on Julian Edelman and Logan Mankins.
*During the second half of the season, Elias Lindholm has played quietly near the player who should be. Maybe there is still hope. This does not mean, however, that the Bruins still do not have a desperate need for a new 1C.
*If the MLB can design a calendar that has more anticipated and end-of-season matches for the Tampa Bay Rays this year, why cannot the reverse of the season in northeastern team or higher in the middle west? There are enough teams in the cities of warm climate and/or pairs of retractable land to make it a reality.
The fact that there is a strange number of teams in each league – says a interliga game every day – surely complicates things when it comes to programs. But there is no good reason why, for example, the Red Sox should be in the middle of a section that sees them play 30 of 48 games at home before the memorial day.
*There is a lot to criticize when it comes to Don Sweeney’s time in GM chair, but Fair is fair: Discovering Morgan Geekie, who has evolved to a scorer of 30 goals, as a low -cost free agent, was a coup. Now all that Sweeney has to do is to sign it again this summer when Geekie comes to RFA state.
*Liz Moore is a bright novelist, and she Long bright river It was a joy to read a few years ago. Now, the book based on the book, available in Peacock, is also a delight.
*Who had Chase Meidroth beating to Kyle Teel in the big leagues? Not me.
*All the Joe Milton saga is a strange. Patriots apparently offended Milton by expressing confidence in his own ability and saw him as a threat to Drake Maye. Competition is not good thing?
*While a little tent on the equity of the basketball payment, there is something unimportant about the Toronto Blue Jays, which classifies almost two thirds of the Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Income tax, saving dozens of millions of warrior.
How long before someone “officially” causes the main league to be minimal during a long -term agreement, with the vast majority of the agreement pay as a signature bonus?
*At this time, it is quite obvious that the attention to the attention between Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick was a complete shameless one. Don’t believe everything you see or listen to at a press conference.
*Finally, happy (late) 80th birthday to the Grand Peter Gammons, the best baseball writer in history.