A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I

[alsoason]

21 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I doubt JH would pay the Tatis contract (goes to 2034.)

Yeah no doubt, I just threw it out there out of utter frustration with this bunch. I play fantasy baseball so I can track the pitchers for betting purposes but the Red Sox are not alone with players with bizarre stat lines at this point. Tatis is one of them and would fit right in with the Sox with exactly ZERO HR'S to this point, What has happened to Guerreo's power, and Witt another with zero hr's. Henderson with the Orioles not hitting his weight but does have 7 dingers. I am not sure how much the Robot ump is effecting players heads if at all, but it has been a strange month in general in baseball

[alsoason]

22 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Romero will get a look at some point. His k% is much lower this year, but I think they want him to pull the ball more and keep that k% down for more than just a few weeks. His 710 OPS isn't really telling the whole picture, but I think they'll want him to have more on field success before giving him the callup. 

Capra is just a 29 year old journey man. He didn't perform all that well in stints with the White Sox or Brewers last year. He can hit AAA pitching and that's good enough to keep the fans in WOO happy. 

Well Durbin is well on his way to being a journeyman if that. i really do not care who they put at 3b, anybody other than this failed peewee. There was only one Pedroia. 

[drewski6]

1 hour ago, alsoason said:

Yeah no doubt, I just threw it out there out of utter frustration with this bunch. I play fantasy baseball so I can track the pitchers for betting purposes but the Red Sox are not alone with players with bizarre stat lines at this point. Tatis is one of them and would fit right in with the Sox with exactly ZERO HR'S to this point, What has happened to Guerreo's power, and Witt another with zero hr's. Henderson with the Orioles not hitting his weight but does have 7 dingers. I am not sure how much the Robot ump is effecting players heads if at all, but it has been a strange month in general in baseball

Dont back down, you are right.  Look if you dont want more of the same, enough of the max efficiency talk, WAR/$ model, it has led to this.  "we cant get scwharber becasue then what would we do with Masa?" What about positional alignment! POSITIONAL ALIGNMENT!!!!!

We cant get Seager, we cant get tatis.  We are always destined for this , you see - they tell me.  They are wrong. This was a mess we created by not going after bats.  

Calculate your budget, get the 3 best bats available....see how much is left to plug holes.

The model that Breslow has introduced has spectacularly failed. Throw it out.

[moonslav59]

We shoulda and coulda given up enough to get KMarte or Neto.

Even Paredes or Hoerner would have been better than Durbin/IKF.

Donovan and BLowe were options, too.

To be fair, so were E Suarez and Polanco, who I mentioned, but have sucked, so far.

The great Pete Alonso is now at .700.

[moonslav59]

Some selected player OPS to start 2026...

.335 Refsnyder

.341 Carson Williams (I'm not sure anyone mentioned him, last winter, but he's a SS.)

.436 Bohm

.503 Stott

.508 Keashchall

.516 Ozuna

.522 Rengifo

.532 Polanco

.538 Rooker

.549 J Naylor

.556 Chisholm

.568 E Tovar

.583 McLain

.584 Bichette

.587 Devers

.601 Matthews

.622 Okamoto

.624 Vientos

.629 Semien

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.653 Torres

.664 W Castro

.679 Moncada

.687 Adames

.693 Paredes

.694 KMarte

.698 O'Neill

.699 Alonso, Hoskins & K Tucker

.703 J Baez

.704 Bregman

.710 Betts, Meidroth

.713 Arenado

.719 Swanson

.726 R Lewis

.731 Teoscar H

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I'm not trying to bust anybody for suggesting some of the names above: I suggested several of them, but choosing correctly is not easy as a GM.

Some of the next names were suggested several times, too...

.761 Josh Bell

.765 Seager

.789 Andujar

.810 Neto

.823 T Gray

.836 M Shaw

.847 Schwarber

.849 Kurtz

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.852 Harper

.871 Hoerner

.886 HS Kim

.888 Jeffers

.899 B Lowe

.915 Yandy Diaz

.930 O'Hearn

.955 Donovan

.975 CJ Abram

.981 Max Muncy

.990 Dom Smith

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1.010 Wood

1.054 C Vazquez

1.647 Rushing

[moonslav59]

This is really no fun at all.

[Old Red]

8 GB. 72-64 is the magic number that will get you back to 500. If TW leads the Let’s Go Red Sox cheer maybe they can turn this thing around. Remember also. Masa For Mayor.😀

[notin]

16 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Some selected player OPS to start 2026...

.335 Refsnyder

.341 Carson Williams (I'm not sure anyone mentioned him, last winter, but he's a SS.)

.436 Bohm

.503 Stott

.508 Keashchall

.516 Ozuna

.522 Rengifo

.532 Polanco

.538 Rooker

.549 J Naylor

.556 Chisholm

.568 E Tovar

.583 McLain

.584 Bichette

.587 Devers

.601 Matthews

.622 Okamoto

.624 Vientos

.629 Semien

______________________

.653 Torres

.664 W Castro

.679 Moncada

.687 Adames

.693 Paredes

.694 KMarte

.698 O'Neill

.699 Alonso, Hoskins & K Tucker

.703 J Baez

.704 Bregman

.710 Betts, Meidroth

.713 Arenado

.719 Swanson

.726 R Lewis

.731 Teoscar H

____________________

I'm not trying to bust anybody for suggesting some of the names above: I suggested several of them, but choosing correctly is not easy as a GM.

Some of the next names were suggested several times, too...

.761 Josh Bell

.765 Seager

.789 Andujar

.810 Neto

.823 T Gray

.836 M Shaw

.847 Schwarber

.849 Kurtz

__________________

.852 Harper

.871 Hoerner

.886 HS Kim

.888 Jeffers

.899 B Lowe

.915 Yandy Diaz

.930 O'Hearn

.955 Donovan

.975 CJ Abram

.981 Max Muncy

.990 Dom Smith

___________________

1.010 Wood

1.054 C Vazquez

1.647 Rushing

Who knew Tristan Gray was the one that got away? 

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, notin said:

Who knew Tristan Gray was the one that got away? 

Nobody here, for sure.

[moonslav59]

Alonso talks...

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2026/04/pete-alonso-details-red-sox-free-agent-pursuit-long-conversations-before-orioles-signing.html?utm_campaign=redsox_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawRZ6hpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeQkfVZk_u-KHlkVym37d526KGEUlws0wV-tNQAJVCRArl4NYlkZ2eHCMXrqI_aem_KxXwjE5JaqVUpCh8Qw9LSQ

[moonslav59]

The Sox now have 3 batters in the .800's, 3 in the 700's, 3 in the 600's and 3 in the 500's.

.849 Wong/ .834 Abreu/ .804 Contreras

.749 Monasterio/ .719 Yoshida/ .705 Rafaela

.686 Anthony/ .661 Mayer/ .604 Narvaez

.549 Duran/ .532 Story/ .531 Durbin

.469 IKF

[moonslav59]

Using this criteria, our SP'ers have this many good starts:

4IP 0-2 ERs

6IP 0-3 ERs

8 IP 0-4 ERs

 

1/1 Tolle

4/5 Early

3/6 Crochet

2/5 Suarez & Gray

1/5 Bello

 

Tolle & Early: 5 of 6. (83%)

Crochet, Suarez & Gray: 7/16 (44%)

Bello: 1/5 (20%)

 

Team: 13/27 (48%)

 

[moonslav59]

Cora and the coaches are out. I wonder if we hire someone of just go with Tracy the rest of 2026.

At least we will see some new coaches.

Gotta wonder if Brez is looking over his shoulder.