A Realistic View at 2024: Part I

[mvp 78]

Anyway, the answer is Burnes, Yamamoto and Giolito as the #5.

 

Burnes

Yamamoto

Sale

Bello

Giolito

 

5 Aces 2023... Print the damn shirts now.

[dgalehouse]

Fast forward to next July. Will we be seeing posts like this: " Maybe Yama just needs a little more time to adjust ". Ominous.

[Bellhorn04]

Fast forward to next July. Will we be seeing posts like this: " Maybe Yama just needs a little more time to adjust ". Ominous.

 

No, that's only for Japanese hitters.

[Elktonnick]

The Coordinator roles aren't an issue IMO. The problem is the 18 SVP and EVP's. That doesn't even count Sammy Wormtongue Kennedy.

 

Yea like the old baseball saying goes you can never have enough coordinators.

[mvp 78]

Fast forward to next July. Will we be seeing posts like this: " Maybe Yama just needs a little more time to adjust ". Ominous.

 

Why? Japanese pitchers have come over and performed really well recently. Why would the best version of them come over and do worse?

[mvp 78]

No, that's only for Japanese hitters.

 

Masa was hitting pretty well until the schedule and playing LF beat him up. The hitters seem to need a year to adjust but not the pitchers.

[Bellhorn04]

Masa was hitting pretty well until the schedule and playing LF beat him up. The hitters seem to need a year to adjust but not the pitchers.

 

It does seem that way. Senga had an excellent first season.

[notin]

Major League is better than Bull Durham because Kevin Costner is the worst.

 

You prefer Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen?!?

 

Costner as an actor has shown an uncanny ability to fail to convince me in any role. But he was somehow - likely by accident - actually ok in Bull Durham…

[notin]

Anyway, the answer is Burnes, Yamamoto and Giolito as the #5.

 

Burnes

Yamamoto

Sale

Bello

Giolito

 

5 Aces 2023... Print the damn shirts now.

 

Why 2023? There’s less than 2 weeks left in it…

[mvp 78]

Why 2023? There’s less than 2 weeks left in it…

 

That's how soon they are going to get this all done.

[notin]

That's how soon they are going to get this all done.

 

Can I take the over?

[mvp 78]

You prefer Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen?!?

 

Costner as an actor has shown an uncanny ability to fail to convince me in any role. But he was somehow - likely by accident - actually ok in Bull Durham…

 

Tim Robbins is great and Susan Sarandon is always fantastic, but Costner is just such a big suck that he negates the other two. Sad!

[mvp 78]

Can I take the over?

 

No, they don't need to sign Cesar Puello.

[moonslav59]

That's how soon they are going to get this all done.

 

You remind me of someone who can't even admit to a simple mistake.

[mvp 78]

You remind me of someone who can't even admit to a simple mistake.

 

You remind me of someone who doesn't understand a joke.

[mvp 78]

@tylermilliken_

Here are the 11 names the Red Sox announced for their Rookie Development program starting next month:

 

Marcelo Mayer

Chase Meidroth

Nick Yorke

Roman Anthony

Nathan Hickey

Kyle Teel

Isaiah Campbell

Richard Fitts

Wikelman Gonzalez

Luis Perales

Justin Slaten

 

Perales is the only one not in shouting distance of playing in Fenway.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

@tylermilliken_

Here are the 11 names the Red Sox announced for their Rookie Development program starting next month:

 

Marcelo Mayer

Chase Meidroth

Nick Yorke

Roman Anthony

Nathan Hickey

Kyle Teel

Isaiah Campbell

Richard Fitts

Wikelman Gonzalez

Luis Perales

Justin Slaten

 

Perales is the only one not in shouting distance of playing in Fenway.

 

HEY, LOOIE! MIX IN SOME PROTEIN SHAKES AND PUT ON 30 POUNDS THIS WINTER, SO YOU CAN BE THE NEXT DWIGHT GOODEN!

 

... wait, Gooden had already won a Rookie of the Year, a Cy Young, and two strikeout crowns in the majors by the time he was 20? And Perales will be 21 in April?

 

Fogedaboudit...

[mvp 78]

HEY, LOOIE! MIX IN SOME PROTEIN SHAKES AND PUT ON 30 POUNDS THIS WINTER, SO YOU CAN BE THE NEXT DWIGHT GOODEN!

 

... wait, Gooden had already won a Rookie of the Year, a Cy Young, and two strikeout crowns in the majors by the time he was 20? And Perales will be 21 in April?

 

Fogedaboudit...

 

Need to raise our prospects on a steady diet of milkshakes and cocaine.

[moonslav59]

You remind me of someone who doesn't understand a joke.

 

Yes, I often do not get bad jokes.

 

My bad.

[jad]

Just don't fall into the trap of over-paying MVP and Cy Young candidates, when you could be over-paying journeymen or those with off-field issues for a lot less.

[mvp 78]

Just don't fall into the trap of over-paying MVP and Cy Young candidates, when you could be over-paying journeymen or those with off-field issues for a lot less.

 

Yeah, call TB and inquire about Franco! He could come cheap!

[moonslav59]

Yeah, call TB and inquire about Franco! He could come cheap!

 

Sounds like a plan, along with signing Bauer and Clevinger.

[Bellhorn04]

Sounds like a plan, along with signing Bauer and Clevinger.

 

That's the secret plan.

 

Instead of "injury discounts", we're looking for "character discounts".

[moonslav59]

That's the secret plan.

 

Instead of "injury discounts", we're looking for "character discounts".

 

Our plan C's are drying up.

 

Our plan B's look less and less appealing, such as Burnes wanting a bundle for an extension.

 

Is it better to be the Raiders East or the Rays North?

[mvp 78]

That's the secret plan.

 

Instead of "injury discounts", we're looking for "character discounts".

 

Should be the Oakland Raiders of the MLB. f*** it, trade for Machado too...

[mvp 78]

I know a former high K Sox pitcher that could really help with the pitching program: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/ugueth-urbina/216/stats?position=P

[notin]

I know a former high K Sox pitcher that could really help with the pitching program: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/ugueth-urbina/216/stats?position=P

 

Isn’t he in jail?

[notin]

That's the secret plan.

 

Instead of "injury discounts", we're looking for "character discounts".

 

Well, no one liked looking for underrated talent. But if you’re not going to spend money (which we do not know yet to be the case), what are the better options?

[notin]

Should be the Oakland Raiders of the MLB. f*** it, trade for Machado too...

 

Machado costs money…

[Bellhorn04]

Well, no one liked looking for underrated talent. But if you’re not going to spend money (which we do not know yet to be the case), what are the better options?

 

Too much hypothesizing involved there. I know what I wanted them to do, but that's of little use.