Thread of future Red Sox superstar Triston Casas

Bobby Dalbec got the start at 1B yesterday, batting 9th. 0-4 with 3 strikeouts and 3 LOB 😭

Triston Casas is back in the #RedSox lineup.

Duran CF, Casas 1B, Dalbec 3B, Palka RF, Alfaro C, Goodrum SS, Allen LF, R. Hernández DH, Yorke 2B, Winckowski P

— Mac Cerullo (@MacCerullo) March 23, 2023

Out there with the spare parts!

Cmon, you know our guy doesn’t care about that. He just wants the bat in his hand and the sun on his forehead!

https://i.postimg.cc/6q0k6FwF/42-D2-E256-ACFF-4037-B376-D4314-D5-F1615.jpg

Dear Tracer, this thing just won’t go away?

Triston Casas might be your 2023 Boston Red Sox leadoff hitter pic.twitter.com/vtzJolK8xx

— Jared Carrabis Podcast (@carrabispod) March 23, 2023

Triston Casas off of Duane Underwood Jr.

EV🔥: 107.8
Launch angle📐: 5.0 degrees
Pitch type🎨: Cutter
Pitch speed🚄: 91.6 mph
Distance📏: 115.0 ft.
Outcome🙋: Double

Boston Red Sox(0) @ Pittsburgh Pirates(0)
Top 1 1 Out pic.twitter.com/wdmaQT6s03

— Well-Hit Bot (@MLBWellHitBot) March 23, 2023

hell yes

the betts/bogaerts era already feels nine million years ago

I mean don’t count your Casas before he’s smashed, but yes, he seems to be having a great spring!

Who knew he inspired the Daniels?!

Everyone wants to take photos of the back side of Triston Casas’ hands (nails). I was more interested in the other side. This is what no batting gloves in BP looks like. pic.twitter.com/vAF3DKaJs5

— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) March 21, 2023

Holy moonshot to walk it off for the Red Sox pic.twitter.com/GyLG2ZClP4

— Dillard Barnhart (@BarnHasSpoken2) March 25, 2023

I don’t love that swing.. he’s flying open too quick, opening his shoulders up too quick.. can’t argue with the result though

Another bomb yesterday off Charlie Morton btw

Triston Casas - Boston Red Sox (4)* pic.twitter.com/aWt6gTZyFm

— MLB HR Videos (@MLBHRVideos) March 28, 2023

Youk is such an upgrade on Eck in the booth it’s not even funny

sorry for posting to this thread when Triston isn’t playing ;_;

It’s ok, big boy sits for left handed pitchers

He came on to pinch hit and he did!

Rookie Triston Casas extends the lead for Boston pic.twitter.com/IHMQSS4oVF

— Pack the Brew (@PacktheBrew) April 2, 2023

It’s ok, big boy sits for left handed pitchers

I hope and expect for this to change

Extremely satisfying single there

My large meathead son

https://i.postimg.cc/PxRcd55P/5-CEECBF9-4-ED8-46-D7-ABA2-2-EC89-BCFC06-B.jpg

Has he quite possibly spliced a load of quotes from different properties and attributed them to a fourth? I believe he has!

Nail update:

Triston Casas Opening Day nails pic.twitter.com/CE5hSasBIn

— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) March 30, 2023

Literally rookie errors from our boy; learning curve! However that first home run of the season was pretty great. And it seems like his bat has started to wake up?

Hahahaha

Quite an at bat for Triston Casas, who fouls off eight pitches and draws a 14-pitch walk. Flips the bat at the end, which, honestly, he kind of earned.

— Mac Cerullo (@MacCerullo) April 13, 2023

I love this fucking moron

Triston Casas celebrating his 14-pitch walk, I LOVE IT.
pic.twitter.com/IZ3qu8Iyt1

— Boston Strong (@BostonStrong_34) April 13, 2023

was not expecting the scream there

There’s a great clip where they cut to the dugout and Cora is laughing, like, what an absolute freak but can’t hate

The lhp threw four straight balls to Bobby Dalbec and ended up having to come out right after, love a good ab duel like that

Triston struck out 4 times today ;_;

If he can't learn to handle breaking stuff or offspeed stuff when it's down and in his MLB career is going to be very cruelly foreshortened imo

I think that’s premature.

Well that’s the book on him and it’s working like a dream so far. This is his challenge. He either figures it out or hangs it up. He’s got a good enough eye that I think he does figure it out, but he needs to do it either 1) quickly or 2) in Worcester

BA still dire and still a pretty small sample size but there’s a lot of good signs - walking a lot more and has also had some bad luck with strike calls & catches. This walkless streak has now ended so his on base numbers are going up and he just has to get the hitting squared off.

https://i.postimg.cc/3JwWx535/2-F043-D1-E-4769-4-BB5-86-DB-14-F8-C19-CFBAF.jpg

Intrigued by this thread also

Over the last 2 weeks Casas has a 24% walk rate and these are his batted balls. Enough to drive someone crazy, but as long as he sticks with his process, he's going to be fine. pic.twitter.com/Ool9IYPKDl

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) April 24, 2023

A 426 foot beauty from Triston Casas. pic.twitter.com/fGPASZ3bu6

— Red Sox (@RedSox) April 24, 2023

Such quick hands. Crazy.

0-3 with a walk getting to be a very familiar stat line for our young himbo. I feel for him. He looks miserable!

Yeah you read that piece in the Athletic? It’s just pretty joyless grinding atm but they say they’ve seen enough to bench him if needed cos they want him to tackle major league pitching. I think he has enough confidence to work through this slump but it’s tough to watch.

Btw I saw a clip of him making a pick from short and he was almost doing the splits to do so 😵‍💫

lmao his face at the end in the replay. I hope the boys are looking after him

https://www.mlb.com/video/danny-jansen-grounds-out-shortstop-enrique-hernandez-to-first-baseman-tri

btw I love Kiké as you know but honestly he is all over the place with his fucking throws???? He made one soon after this that was into the lights, went about a mile over Casas.

Yeah it's like he's got the yips. For every one of those diving stops he gives away a couple on bad throws

Casas a very natural fielder imo, always feel good when he's out there

I think based on his PAs I’ve seen he’s getting closer to where he needs to be. He seems to make a lot of hard contact but it gets caught a lot - probably mechanical as much as deciding to swing. Have seen people say he always takes a while to adjust every time they come up a level and the team is clearly pressing him to work it out - can be rough to watch. As I mentioned upthread, he’s got a lot of confidence and young players need that to keep pushing themselves on. Plus also it seems like some of his problems are classic overthinking at the plate? Idk, I hope he starts doing better soon for his own sake, your fans seem kind of awful. Also for our sake so he can start using his Twitter account again ofc

Casas' bases loaded warning track fly out is a homer 87% of the time, with a .917 batting average. pic.twitter.com/dgT6ZpqsIt

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) May 4, 2023

The only king I care about is king of the himbos Triston Casas. 4 hits in his last two games, hopefully he has turned a corner.

Unreal pic.twitter.com/BHIWapDa8o

— Joey Copponi (@JoeyCopponi) May 5, 2023

I asked Casas about this. He said he was using the injury on the field as his time to visualize some things in the batter's box. With the pitch clock, he noted, you don't have time to do that.

He's the gift that keeps on giving. https://t.co/xsa4TawOfN

— Julian McWilliams (@byJulianMack) May 5, 2023

Which weirdos played for boston before spaceman lee? B”s”L->manny b manny->TC is a good lineage

Ted would talk to his bats i guess

oil can imo

RIGHT

Carl Everett could be squeezed in there somewhere imho

Tru

I can’t speak to Red Sox weirdos but i think they haven’t had a himbo proper since Gabe Kapler. The himbo/weirdo hybrid is rare!

I don’t think the other voice in the box was posted here

Casas on him hitting in the box and the little voice in his head: "That alter ego comes out in that box, there’s a little switch you have to flip, so that’s who I talk to. It’s very demanding, it’s very harsh."

— Julian McWilliams (@byJulianMack) September 24, 2022

poor jimmy piersall was a big ol bosox weirdo

Yappin' with Triston. pic.twitter.com/QvrnNdfVJt

— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 17, 2024

Triston Casas casually dropping a story on national TV about his dad getting arrested during his little league game pic.twitter.com/WIk6ywUjsA

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 17, 2024

Kenley Janson sent Brayan Bello out to tell Triston Casas to give up the microphone cause he's talking way too much😂

🎥: @SNBonESPN pic.twitter.com/4zW7EistFK

— ᴄʜᴀsᴇ🏴‍☠️ (@BolieveInNix) June 17, 2024

This was an all-timer of a back-and-forth with Casas. Here's the exchange in its entirety. https://t.co/EiMq4cev6u pic.twitter.com/cK98v9ihLh

— Mac Cerullo (@MacCerullo) June 26, 2024

oh my god

He reminds me of Manny, who couldn’t wait to get into bed so that he could start doing batting practice in his dreams

Manny said drinking Red Bull gave him the energy to take batting practice in his dreams longer

xp imagine not liking this guy

Soon.

Back like he never left. pic.twitter.com/0Sp3sva7U4

— Worcester Red Sox (@WooSox) July 30, 2024

Eddy Alvarez, WooSox Clubhouse News. pic.twitter.com/K38PAnay0b

— Worcester Red Sox (@WooSox) July 30, 2024

One of the few bright spots on this team since he came back. Posting decent numbers despite looking lost at the plate on occasion - clearly nowhere near 100%. .342/.413/.512 with an OPS of .925. Sad to think about what this season could have been for him.

if he’s a 6-7 WAR player then the sox are in the wild card

I mean he’s a first baseman so I don’t know that that’s really achievable? Vladimir Guerrero Jr has 4.5 according to Fangraphs & probably finishes with at least one more unless he stops hitting in September. Even guys having great seasons like Freddie Freeman & Christian Walker haven’t cracked 4. (Actually checked Bryce Harper cos he was slumping recently & he’s 3.8, which is interesting as he’s having a relative down year).

Regardless it’s great to see what he’s produced already & this team is depressing as fuck but who knows what happens if he goes off in September? They should be prioritising his extension in the offseason.

(watching him for fantasy purposes) the homer he hit the other day vs the d backs was an absolute bomb. i feel like he must be doing okay health wise to generate the kinda explosion he did on that swing

He’s a big boy. He’s said that he feels most pain when he fouls off pitches because he has to get back in the box after a couple of seconds as opposed to hitting or striking out. Are you the person who had him on the fantasy roster? Rough season.

I saw him hit his sixth hr of the season the day before he went on the IL & the hr was like they say on TV: sounds different off the bat.

Anyway, here’s what Red Sox Stats says.

Since August 16th, the day Casas came off the IL, he ranks 3rd/194 in MLB in quality of contact. pic.twitter.com/PcyYxbYHa0

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) August 27, 2024

After slumping hard along with everyone else he’s having the best game of his career against Pablo Lopez & a LHP reliever - 3 home runs in 3 ABs with 7 RBIs driven in. Made some lovely plays at first too. If they trade him I’ll be so angry but they’d be incredibly stupid so.

I watched The Franchise about the 2011 Giants and at one point Bruce Bochy talks about all the media requests he gets for Brian Wilson. Bochy said “He’s good for baseball,” referring to the fact his then closer interested people as a personality.

Today the Athletic dropped this Casas article. Casas is the same, and it’s one of the reasons I think he’s going to be a star in the game.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5798196/2024/09/27/triston-casas-red-sox-most-interesting/?source=user_shared_article

You'll want to send him a thank-you card and some flowers, I know:

Note to Red Sox: talk about trading Triston Casas for some pitcher is crazy. Don't do it.

That is all.

— Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) October 18, 2024

The chance that Triston Casas will be a Hall of Fame quality hitter is 30 to 40%. Most likely he will not be. But what he almost certainly WILL be is Boog Powell or Kent Hrbek. You just don't trade those guys away before they get where they are going.

— Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) October 18, 2024

Lmao. I saw people talking about this. I hate Bill James as you know. The trade talk is so stupid but the Red Sox are stupid, so. Incident of “heartbreaking, the worst person you know”

King of the himbos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0eIuXyZfRI

- talks about doing handstands
- blatantly lying about how long his toenails have been painted orange
- “That’s the other debate, like is it pants up or is it socks up?” - i feel like baseball players would seriously debate this

https://i.imgur.com/z1pqaze.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/muiJ1GB.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/OUzxijg.jpeg

More professional version of this from soxprospects:

Physical Description: Strong, imposing frame. Thick, fully developed lower half.