Red Sox 2026 Spring Training

[notin]

4 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

They floated the idea of broadcasting the games at a frequency only dogs could hear, but decided it would be too costly.

Plus most dogs know how poorly that team is run…

[vegasbob]

12 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

I think I pulled a left pectoralis muscle, maybe the clavicular head, opening up the sliding door that was frozen.

But Monasterio went yard and Campbell cracked another good oppo hit... so I won't even mention the names of the 1-2-3 batters who went 5-for-8 -- in Ks. 

Would their initials be Anthony, Rafaela, and Abreu ?  But as Moon notes, it's insignificant at this point in time, and likely really is .

[FredLynn]

3 hours ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Fred, you just enjoy being a pain.

As long as everyone enjoys me being a pain I’m good doing it

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

2 hours ago, vegasbob said:

Would their initials be Anthony, Rafaela, and Abreu ?  But as Moon notes, it's insignificant at this point in time, and likely really is .

Game was on NESN but with Minnesota feed.

In case anyone missed it, the Twins announcer called one of our batters Ramoan Anthony.

I don't expect AL Central guys to know entire rosters of all clubs in the other divisions, but the player who finished 3rd in Rookie of the Year? Ya know, last year's consensus Number One Prospect?!?

 

[Duran Is The Man]

7 hours ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Did anybody get injured?  If nobody got injured, it was a good day.

it's still early. 

[Duran Is The Man]

2 hours ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Game was on NESN but with Minnesota feed.

In case anyone missed it, the Twins announcer called one of our batters Ramoan Anthony.

I don't expect AL Central guys to know entire rosters of all clubs in the other divisions, but the player who finished 3rd in Rookie of the Year? Ya know, last year's consensus Number One Prospect?!?

 

yeah, he also mispronounced Abreu's name. must be something in the water with them.....they have an announcer (Tim Grubbs) in Wichita that mispronounces everybody's name. he's freakin' awful.

[Bellhorn04]

I predict that Campbell leads the team in PAs in spring games.

[moonslav59]

I think Cora's line-up choices give us a look at his intentions. I think we see this as the general template, but maybe some tweaks are made for L-R starters.

1. L Anthony

2. R Story

3. L Duran

4. R Contreras

5. L Abreu

6. R Durbin

After this it gets murky, but he seemed to like Narvaez, last year. I'll go with...

7. R Narvaez

8. L Mayer (R Romy)

9. R Rafaela

[moonslav59]

I noticed fangraphs projects a 2.1 fWAR for Durbin.

They project Contreras as 2.2.

Here are some selected projections:

2B/3B:

4.5 KMarte, 3.9 Bichette, 3.8 Bregman. 3.7 Neto, 3.4 Hoerner, 3.1 Donovan

3.0 Semien, 2.9 CJ Abrams, 2.8 G Torres & Devers, 2.7 E Tovar, 2.6 Keaschall

2.5 Meidroth, 2.4 Paredes. 2.3 B Stott, 2.2 Okamoto, R lewis 2.2

2.1 Durbin, A Bohm, 2.0 Murakami. 1.8 Polanco, 0.6 M Shaw

1B/DH:

2.7 Schwarber & Alonso, 2.5 Yandy Diaz. L Arraez 2.3

2.2 Contreras

2.1 Rooker, 1.3 E Suarez

[Bellhorn04]

18 hours ago, FredLynn said:

As long as everyone enjoys me being a pain I’m good doing it

Fred, I'm sorry but I have to put you on ignore for a while.  It's not because I dislike you or think you're a bad fan or any of that.  It's strictly because too many of your posts are of the downer variety.  I decided this when I read your post about Rafaela k'ing on his first 2 ABs of spring.  That did it.  Now I know you will likely respond that you're just reporting the facts and it's too bad the facts suck etc.  Nobody disputes the fact that he did indeed strike out twice.  It's your response that depressed me.  I'm talking about an actual physiological response where my spirit sagged.  I realize that some of this might sound comical, which is partially intended, but I'm quite serious about the downer thing.  I just turned 70 and life is too short.  Anyway I just wanted to explain.  Go Sox.     

[Old Red]

21 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Fred, I'm sorry but I have to put you on ignore for a while.  It's not because I dislike you or think you're a bad fan or any of that.  It's strictly because too many of your posts are of the downer variety.  I decided this when I read your post about Rafaela k'ing on his first 2 ABs of spring.  That did it.  Now I know you will likely respond that you're just reporting the facts and it's too bad the facts suck etc.  Nobody disputes the fact that he did indeed strike out twice.  It's your response that depressed me.  I'm talking about an actual physiological response where my spirit sagged.  I realize that some of this might sound comical, which is partially intended, but I'm quite serious about the downer thing.  I just turned 70 and life is too short.  Anyway I just wanted to explain.  Go Sox.     

Welcome to the 70 club.

[FredLynn]

1 hour ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Fred, I'm sorry but I have to put you on ignore for a while.  It's not because I dislike you or think you're a bad fan or any of that.  It's strictly because too many of your posts are of the downer variety.  I decided this when I read your post about Rafaela k'ing on his first 2 ABs of spring.  That did it.  Now I know you will likely respond that you're just reporting the facts and it's too bad the facts suck etc.  Nobody disputes the fact that he did indeed strike out twice.  It's your response that depressed me.  I'm talking about an actual physiological response where my spirit sagged.  I realize that some of this might sound comical, which is partially intended, but I'm quite serious about the downer thing.  I just turned 70 and life is too short.  Anyway I just wanted to explain.  Go Sox.     

Suit yourself, but IMO you are taking this WAY too seriously.

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Fred, I'm sorry but I have to put you on ignore for a while.  It's not because I dislike you or think you're a bad fan or any of that.  It's strictly because too many of your posts are of the downer variety.  I decided this when I read your post about Rafaela k'ing on his first 2 ABs of spring.  That did it.  Now I know you will likely respond that you're just reporting the facts and it's too bad the facts suck etc.  Nobody disputes the fact that he did indeed strike out twice.  It's your response that depressed me.  I'm talking about an actual physiological response where my spirit sagged.  I realize that some of this might sound comical, which is partially intended, but I'm quite serious about the downer thing.  I just turned 70 and life is too short.  Anyway I just wanted to explain.  Go Sox.     

You missed.... eerrrr wait.....we all missed any comment on Rafaela's big hit, today.

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, Bellhorn04 said:

I just turned 70 and life is too short.

I recently just joined the club.  I only mentioned it because my wife threw a party to end all parties, and felt like it should be recognized.  I pride myself on never, ever being surprised, and I was just staring at all these people, with no clue as to what was going on.

[moonslav59]

1 minute ago, JoeBrady said:

I recently just joined the club.  I only mentioned it because my wife threw a party to end all parties, and felt like it should be recognized.  I pride myself on never, ever being surprised, and I was just staring at all these people, with no clue as to what was going on.

I'll join the 67 Club in a few months, and I feel like I aged 5 years in the past year. Does that count as 70?

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Fred, I'm sorry but I have to put you on ignore for a while.

I have him on kind of a TL/DR internal mechanism.  It isn't so much the disagreements, as much as I know exactly what he will say.

I'd say roughly half the folks in here side on adding a slugger in the middle, and half side on adding a #2.  I can debate that all day long, but it's a debate at the margins.  A 3 WAR slugger or a 3 WAR #2 won't make that much difference.

But if one is going to be negative on every acquisition, then there is no real point on me reading the post.

[JoeBrady]

2 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I'll join the 67 Club in a few months, and I feel like I aged 5 years in the past year. Does that count as 70?

67+ (5-1) feels like you are in the 71 club.

[JoeBrady]

37 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

You missed.... eerrrr wait.....we all missed any comment on Rafaela's big hit, today.

But Sweet just gave up two HRs.  Looks like Fred's prediction of 0-162 is looking more and more likely.

[moonslav59]

4 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

But Sweet just gave up two HRs.  Looks like Fred's prediction of 0-162 is looking more and more likely.

Especially since Sweet is projected to be our closer.

[Bellhorn04]

3 hours ago, Old Red said:

Welcome to the 70 club.

Thanks Red.  

[notin]

2 hours ago, JoeBrady said:

But Sweet just gave up two HRs.  Looks like Fred's prediction of 0-162 is looking more and more likely.

Especially since the Sox are very unlikely to get that next regular season win at any point in the next 4 weeks…

[jad]

Damn, you guys are young!

[mvp 78]

On 2/21/2026 at 7:39 PM, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Game was on NESN but with Minnesota feed.

In case anyone missed it, the Twins announcer called one of our batters Ramoan Anthony.

I don't expect AL Central guys to know entire rosters of all clubs in the other divisions, but the player who finished 3rd in Rookie of the Year? Ya know, last year's consensus Number One Prospect?!?

 

Those announcers were really terrible. DO can be pretty boring at times, but I'll take his boring national broadcast vibe over a bad broadcast any day. 

[drewski6]

On 2/21/2026 at 7:39 PM, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

 

In case anyone missed it, the Twins announcer called one of our batters Ramoan Anthony.

 

 

Maybe hes just a big fan of the ramones? Bah bah bah bah, I wanna be sedated

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

32 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Maybe hes just a big fan of the ramones? Bah bah bah bah, I wanna be sedated

Ah, Rock and Roll High School -- which makes me think of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Dunno why... probably the Cars and Phoebe Cates (red bikini's a better image than the latest whiteout).

[drewski6]

3 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Ah, Rock and Roll High School -- which makes me think of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Dunno why... probably the Cars and Phoebe Cates (red bikini's a better image than the latest whiteout).

My rock n roll high school was like Backstreet Boys and Rob Thomas.  1999/2000 didnt rock particularly hard.

Late high school started moving on from boy bands and studio paint-by-numbers formulaic down-the-middle "rock" and into more garagy sounds like strokes, hives, vines, and eventually killers.

[mvp 78]

18 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Ah, Rock and Roll High School -- which makes me think of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Dunno why... probably the Cars and Phoebe Cates (red bikini's a better image than the latest whiteout).

There is a Rock N Roll High School movie that the Ramones are in. 

I believe Joey Ramone was the only Ramone to have more than one line. The only thing they could get Dee Dee to memorize was "Hey pizza! Let's dig in!" and he could barely do that because he was out of his mind. 

The movie was supposed to originally feature Todd Rudgren, but he declined. 

[Duran Is The Man]

4 hours ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Ah, Rock and Roll High School -- which makes me think of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Dunno why... probably the Cars and Phoebe Cates (red bikini's a better image than the latest whiteout).

makes me think of the movie Heavy Metal. i remember (barely) sitting in a theatre watching this absolutely stoned out of my mind. 

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

2 hours ago, Duran Is The Man said:

makes me think of the movie Heavy Metal. i remember (barely) sitting in a theatre watching this absolutely stoned out of my mind. 

I don't think I was there -- but then again, I forgot the whole 1980s... or was that the 90s?

[Duran Is The Man]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

I don't think I was there -- but then again, I forgot the whole 1980s... or was that the 90s?

yes