Fire Bloom .

[moonslav59]

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A Red Sox Fan named Hugh

Maxbialystock

 

If your brain remembers that kind of nonsense, you have bigger problems than I do.

[mvp 78]

If your brain remembers that kind of nonsense, you have bigger problems than I do.

 

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[mvp 78]

But then they just look like everyone else. Does he need to type out a pod person shriek?

 

Posters can be CHUDs and not have the mark of the beast.

[moonslav59]

Community>Member List>Sort by Join Date

 

Yup, caring about this and going through all this effort is more proof you have bigger problems than I do.

[mvp 78]

Yup, caring about this and going through all this effort is more proof you have bigger problems than I do.

 

You've been here half the amount of time I have been and have more posts. Which one of us is using this for therapy?

[moonslav59]

You've been here half the amount of time I have been and have more posts. Which one of us is using this for therapy?

 

Not me. I don't know about you.

 

I know I don't.

 

I come here to talk about the Sox and not start dates of posters- like it matters.

[harmony]

Brock Holt, the Red Sox representative at the 2015 All Star Game, has announced his retirement:

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkOWqTNLXbZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=de86e132-b265-49ab-b3b6-96f2a99ef1c9

 

The Red Sox released Holt six days after hiring Chaim Bloom to be chief baseball officer.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holtbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=&utm_medium=referral#all_transactions_other

[moonslav59]

Brock Holt, the Red Sox representative at the 2015 All Star Game, has announced his retirement:

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkOWqTNLXbZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=de86e132-b265-49ab-b3b6-96f2a99ef1c9

 

The Red Sox released Holt six days after hiring Chaim Bloom to be chief baseball officer.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holtbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=&utm_medium=referral#all_transactions_other

 

I enjoyed watching him play, here. He always seemed to try his hardest and was a good utility player for most of his time in Boston.

 

That 2015 season he played these amounts of games at these positions

58 2B (49 GS)

33 3B (24)

21 RF (20)

14 LF (8)

11 SS (7)

8 1B (5)

2 CF (2)

1 DH (1)

[Bellhorn04]

I enjoyed watching him play, here. He always seemed to try his hardest and was a good utility player for most of his time in Boston.

 

That 2015 season he played these amounts of games at these positions

58 2B (49 GS)

33 3B (24)

21 RF (20)

14 LF (8)

11 SS (7)

8 1B (5)

2 CF (2)

1 DH (1)

 

And not too many guys can say they hit for the cycle in a playoff game.

[notin]

And not too many guys can say they hit for the cycle in a playoff game.

 

One can. I mean, without lying…

[mvp 78]

And not too many guys can say they hit for the cycle in a playoff game.

 

Brock was a fun player, a good teammate and a good man. He's the kind of player that makes it fun to root for a team.

[notin]

Brock was a fun player, a good teammate and a good man. He's the kind of player that makes it fun to root for a team.

 

And he actually turned out to be a good player to grab in late rounds of fantasy drafts…

[Old Red]

Brock was a fun player, a good teammate and a good man. He's the kind of player that makes it fun to root for a team.

 

The Brock Star was invented.*

[notin]

The Brock Star was invented.*

 

Follow him on Twitter?

[moonslav59]

The Brock Star was invented.*

 

But wasn't he "just a utility guy?"

 

LOL!

 

(Just razzin' ya.)

[mvp 78]

And he actually turned out to be a good player to grab in late rounds of fantasy drafts…

 

He had a 123 wRC+ the first half of 2015. Still probably didn't deserve the All Star spot, but was fun nonetheless.

[moonslav59]

He had a 123 wRC+ the first half of 2015. Still probably didn't deserve the All Star spot, but was fun nonetheless.

 

Did he make it, because of the rule on one player from every team makes the roster?

 

I think that was the year 4 Royals started the game.

[Old Red]

But wasn't he "just a utility guy?"

 

LOL!

 

(Just razzin' ya.)

Not the night it was invented.

[mvp 78]

He had a 119 wRC+ the first half of 2015. Still probably didn't deserve the All Star spot, but was fun nonetheless.

 

He followed it up with a bad 2nd half of 76 wRC+ too.

 

First Half, Ortiz had a 1107 OPS, 22 HR, 185 wRC+. I know you want to spread it around to other guys, but Ortiz should have gone. He was a good veteran ambassador at that point anyway.

[Behindenemylines]

This is year four for Bloom. His life would be much easier if the Sox could have pitchers come out of the system. That being said he has found some arms: Whitlock, Schreiber, and Wacko doing it the Ray's way. I'm hoping Bello is the real deal and that Mata is right behind him. Nice off season is the make or break for Bloom. He is on the clock.

[Bobe2]

What’s going on with Noah Song did the Navy make a decision yet about him

[Bobe2]

On masslive in sports section there is a new interview with DD about his firing from the Redsox, I would have left link but I’m on an iPad (you try and use copy and paste with it)

[notin]

On masslive in sports section there is a new interview with DD about his firing from the Redsox, I would have left link but I’m on an iPad (you try and use copy and paste with it)

 

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2022/10/dave-dombrowski-on-red-sox-firing-i-dont-think-i-was-treated-right-report.html

 

 

 

I’m on a cell phone and I copied it…

[Bobe2]

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2022/10/dave-dombrowski-on-red-sox-firing-i-dont-think-i-was-treated-right-report.html

 

 

 

I’m on a cell phone and I copied it…

 

iPads don’t do copy and paste very well at least not for me

[notin]

iPads don’t do copy and paste very well at least not for me

 

Well I helped you provide this link for all.

 

I suppose it depends on the iPad. But my outdated one seems to C&P links just fine. Selecting text to copy is a specific skill that requires the same dexterity level as open heart surgery, however…

[Bobe2]

Well I helped you provide this link for all.

 

I suppose it depends on the iPad. But my outdated one seems to C&P links just fine. Selecting text to copy is a specific skill that requires the same dexterity level as open heart surgery, however…

 

Well I’m not doing any surgery today so I guess the world is safe, thank for putting up the link

[Bellhorn04]

An article in the Globe suggests Astros GM James Click may not be back next year. His contract hasn't been renewed and the scuttlebutt is there are bad feelings between him and Astros owner Jim Crane.

[moonslav59]

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2022/10/dave-dombrowski-on-red-sox-firing-i-dont-think-i-was-treated-right-report.html

 

I’m on a cell phone and I copied it…

 

I think it's pretty clear why he was let go, and this sums it up:

 

Henry cited philosophical differences with Dombrowski about the future of the organization when asked about the decision and the Red Sox hired Chaim Bloom a month later.

 

They knew DD was not the type of GM for a near complete rebuild. He would have balked at a forced Betts trade and massive budget cut going into 2020. I'm thinking DD might have quite under the circumstances Bloom was hired into.

 

We'll never know, for sure, but the team philosophy took a sharp turn after 2019, and I do not think it was Bloom who made the decision to trade higher paid players, trade for prospects, and significantly cut the budget for over 2 1/2 years.

 

Could DD have gone from mid 2019 to March 2022 not being allowed to sign any big FAs?

[notin]

I think it's pretty clear why he was let go, and this sums it up:

 

Henry cited philosophical differences with Dombrowski about the future of the organization when asked about the decision and the Red Sox hired Chaim Bloom a month later.

 

They knew DD was not the type of GM for a near complete rebuild. He would have balked at a forced Betts trade and massive budget cut going into 2020. I'm thinking DD might have quite under the circumstances Bloom was hired into.

 

We'll never know, for sure, but the team philosophy took a sharp turn after 2019, and I do not think it was Bloom who made the decision to trade higher paid players, trade for prospects, and significantly cut the budget for over 2 1/2 years.

 

Could DD have gone from mid 2019 to March 2022 not being allowed to sign any big FAs?

 

The funny thing is, DD may have become that guy.

 

In Boston, he was all about big contracts and trading for big names. He brought us Price, Sale,Kimbrel, Martinez and gave every one of them nine figures with an AAV over $20mill. He traded away a slew of prospects, including 4 in the BA top 100.

 

In Philly, he dialed down to the 8-figure 4 to 5 year deals. He kept his upper minors prospects. And for some reason, he ignored the bullpen altogether…

[Bobe2]

I think it's pretty clear why he was let go, and this sums it up:

 

Henry cited philosophical differences with Dombrowski about the future of the organization when asked about the decision and the Red Sox hired Chaim Bloom a month later.

 

They knew DD was not the type of GM for a near complete rebuild. He would have balked at a forced Betts trade and massive budget cut going into 2020. I'm thinking DD might have quite under the circumstances Bloom was hired into.

 

We'll never know, for sure, but the team philosophy took a sharp turn after 2019, and I do not think it was Bloom who made the decision to trade higher paid players, trade for prospects, and significantly cut the budget for over 2 1/2 years.

 

Could DD have gone from mid 2019 to March 2022 not being allowed to sign any big FAs?

I have to agree with you at least on the Betts trade and I think it had more to do with getting rid of Price, than with Mookie. Price pitched well for the Sox not $300 million worth of well but well. Price was a bit of a problem child for Henry, arguing with the press causing controversy but the final straw was the fight on the team plane with Eckersley, over what Eck said on tv about a player (not Price) it escalated into an issue and Eckersley even stopped traveling on the team plane for a while, did I mention Eck and Henry are friends, Henry had Betts traded because of contract but also an excuse to get rid of Price and his problems