Article: In Defense Of Chaim Bloom

[mvp 78]

Bloom: 
Whitlock

Guerrero

Dobbins

Drohan

Penrod

Elmer

Monegro

Paez

Early

Mullins

Dean

Gambrell

At the moment, nobody projects to be more than a backend starter ceiling. A lot of relief arms. Bloom seemed to really go for the high floor/low ceiling arms in the draft. Lots of orgy guys. Maybe Monegro can put it together under the new pitching system?

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Bloom: 
Whitlock

Guerrero

Dobbins

Drohan

Penrod

Elmer

Monegro

Paez

Early

Mullins

Dean

Gambrell

At the moment, nobody projects to be more than a backend starter ceiling. A lot of relief arms. Bloom seemed to really go for the high floor/low ceiling arms in the draft. Lots of orgy guys. Maybe Monegro can put it together under the new pitching system?

No love for Elmer Rodriguez? (Or, IFA D Reyes?)

[notin]

28 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

No love for Elmer Rodriguez? (Or, IFA D Reyes?)

E R-C is fifth from the top on his list…

[moonslav59]

6 minutes ago, notin said:

E R-C is fifth from the top on his list…

My bad

[notin]

8 hours ago, Maxbialystock said:

What failure?  The attendance this year is the same as last year and the year before and better than 2021, the year after the 2020 covid season.  

As long as Sox fans continue to come to the park in semi-droves (almost 33K/game) and pay top dollar to watch .500 baseball,  that's what they will get.  

Boston is reputed to be one of the great educational cities in America, but it has spawned one of the dumbest fan bases around.   I say again, the 2012 Sox absolutely stunk and the Sox fans came to games in freaking droves--37,383 per game.  Six years later, 2018, the Sox had the best team in their entire freaking history, and the attendance was down to 35,747 per game. 

I hasten to add that, while I will agree Fenway park is very photogenic on TV, it is also one of the crappiest ballparks in MLB with way too many seats with terrible sight lines.  

I think ticket prices impact attendance as much if not more than team play sometimes.

Despite the higher attendance figures, the 2012 team had $42mill less in gave revenue, than the 2018 team.  That works out to roughly $500k less per game, despite the 2,000 more attendees…

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/294146/boston-red-sox-gate-receipts/

[mvp 78]

22 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

No love for Elmer Rodriguez? (Or, IFA D Reyes?)

Reyes was signed by Breslow.

Elmer is fine, but ceiling of a back rotation guy right now.