Braves (Sale) vs Red Sox (Tolle): 5/28/26, 4:10pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

35 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

NESN just showed the graphic with Boston leading the world in worst home record.

I dare them to replay for the thousandth time the ad where Crochet says, "It feels like we got something special here."

9-19 is special.

As in "Wasn't that special?"

[Tedballgame]

46 minutes ago, iortiz said:

Grissom hit well in Atlanta and is getting on base in LAA often. He’s better than anybody here right now at 2B. He’s disciplined at plate with a good glove. 

Yes, he is hitting .227. He would be a star on this team. Great trade.

[Tedballgame]

48 minutes ago, iortiz said:

Grissom hit well in Atlanta and is getting on base in LAA often. He’s better than anybody here right now at 2B. He’s disciplined at plate with a good glove. 

Are you saying it was a good trade?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Chapman is being wasted on this team. He should be the first player the FO should trade. Should be able to get a couple of very good prospects from a contending team for him.

[Duran Is The Man]

9 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Chapman is being wasted on this team. He should be the first player the FO should trade. Should be able to get a couple of very good prospects from a contending team for him.

problem is....i don't trust Breslow to make a trade on a fantasy league team. knowing him, he'll trade Chapman for another AAAA utiltyman that can't hit, field, run or throw. 

[Old Red]

11 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

problem is....i don't trust Breslow to make a trade on a fantasy league team. knowing him, he'll trade Chapman for another AAAA utiltyman that can't hit, field, run or throw. 

Remember there’s no business like Brez business #12 in the HOBO draft. What do you expect for a 12th round draft pick?

[vegasbob]

Henry and the FO can't deal now . It looks too much like they are failures and quitting on the rest of the season when all we need is just some lucky hits .

It will be socially correct to move Chappie in early July and get a bigger price when the Sox are firmly on the way to a sub 70 season .  That will be about the time Anthony and Crochet return.  Don't fool yourself, those 2 will not be playing MLB in June.. 

[Tedballgame]

21 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Chapman is being wasted on this team. He should be the first player the FO should trade. Should be able to get a couple of very good prospects from a contending team for him.

Red Sox are keeping him fresh for trade by not having any late inning leads for him to protect.

[FredLynn]

1 hour ago, vegasbob said:

Greg W getting seriously booed, deservedly.

He fully showed on yaz that he is a thrower, not a pitcher. 

I didn't watch the debacle. I checked the final score-10-2. Strong work! Another loss was necessary. We need to keep losing to improve our draft position after BresLOW gets fired. I am heartened to hear that the fans FINALLY started booing this team. Henry owes us an apology for the feces he allowed to represent what use to be a great franchise.

[moonslav59]

Another fun game.... NOT!

Tolle had some bad luck, early- one by his own missed chance at the rocket hit back at him and later the bloop hit Duran almost got to.

The granny was the kiss of death. The pen issue is showing up more and more as the season goes on. 

I'm not sure how much longer we can keep looking this bad. I keep thinking it can't get worse, and we lose 5 of 6.

[Old Red]

3 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

I didn't watch the debacle. I checked the final score-10-2. Strong work! Another loss was necessary. We need to keep losing to improve our draft position after BresLOW gets fired. I am heartened to hear that the fans FINALLY started booing this team. Henry owes us an apology for the feces he allowed to represent what use to be a great franchise.

It wasn’t just booing today either it was also chanting of SELL THE TEAM.👏

[Old Red]

3 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Another fun game.... NOT!

Tolle had some bad luck, early- one by his own missed chance at the rocket hit back at him and later the bloop hit Duran almost got to.

The granny was the kiss of death. The pen issue is showing up more and more as the season goes on. 

I'm not sure how much longer we can keep looking this bad. I keep thinking it can't get worse, and we lose 5 of 6.

The pen issue keeps showing up, because for the most part the starters aren’t going very long. Bringing Weissert in to give up that granny was on Tracy.

[FredLynn]

23 minutes ago, Old Red said:

It wasn’t just booing today either it was also chanting of SELL THE TEAM.👏

Good to hear. Hopefully if people do show up at games they will repeat the same thing. Better yet BOYCOTT Fenway Park this year. Nothing would speak the language Henry the Cheap needs to hear than an empty park.

[Randy Red Sox]

2 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Another fun game.... NOT!

Tolle had some bad luck, early- one by his own missed chance at the rocket hit back at him and later the bloop hit Duran almost got to.

The granny was the kiss of death. The pen issue is showing up more and more as the season goes on. 

I'm not sure how much longer we can keep looking this bad. I keep thinking it can't get worse, and we lose 5 of 6.

i am sick to death of Weissert. he almost never strand any inherited runners.  Complete trash.

[iortiz]

3 hours ago, Tedballgame said:

Yes, he is hitting .227. He would be a star on this team. Great trade.

Last time I checked he was OBPing around 330.

[iortiz]

3 hours ago, Tedballgame said:

Are you saying it was a good trade?

Absolutely no. On other post I said I would have given one more year to Sale considering he was going to be healthy on paper again and see for once and for all if he had something left in that tank. The rest is history. He won a CY and he keeps racking up. 
 

BUT, once you had Grissom, you had to give him a chance at MLB level at least 2 full seasons and see like they did with Duran and now with Rafaela. They gave up too soon. IMO he will be a 750 hitter at the very least with a golden glove clip. 

[moonslav59]

58 minutes ago, Randy Red Sox said:

i am sick to death of Weissert. he almost never strand any inherited runners.  Complete trash.

He's having an awful time. He was okay, last year, but yuck-a-ddodle-doo.

[Larry Cook]

Kanhle in Worcester looks ready if weissert develops Fenway flu!!!!! 

[moonslav59]

47 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

Kanhle in Worcester looks ready if weissert develops Fenway flu!!!!! 

What's up with Samaniego?

[iortiz]

BTW don’t be surprised if Anthony is done for the season. 

[jad]

Lose to get a better draft position?  But the best draft position is only one unknown prospect better than the worst draft position.  So you're saying that there's one teenager out there who will turn this around?  I know it's a radical thought, but if you want to get better, keep your best players.

 

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 hours ago, iortiz said:

BTW don’t be surprised if Anthony is done for the season. 

I'd be more surprised if he played the rest of the season w/o going on the IL again. This dude would probably get injured playing chess.

[notin]

10 hours ago, Randy Red Sox said:

i am sick to death of Weissert. he almost never strand any inherited runners.  Complete trash.

And yet if he helped stranded and kidnapped children  get back home at that rate, you’d think he was some kind of hero.  

It’s all about perspective, I guess…

[notin]

1 hour ago, jad said:

Lose to get a better draft position?  But the best draft position is only one unknown prospect better than the worst draft position.  So you're saying that there's one teenager out there who will turn this around?  I know it's a radical thought, but if you want to get better, keep your best players.

 

 

Tanking for draft position in baseball is bad enough, but it still won’t resolve their complaints that Henry doesn’t spend enough money…

[notin]

9 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Kanhle in Worcester looks ready if weissert develops Fenway flu!!!!! 

Why we call up guys like Tayron Guerrero and Jack Anderson while an actual major leaguer like Tommy Kahnle sits in Worcester,  forced to subside on Sole Proprietor meals,  is beyond me…

[mvp 78]

12 hours ago, Old Red said:

Remember there’s no business like Brez business #12 in the HOBO draft. What do you expect for a 12th round draft pick?

#13

[mvp 78]

21 minutes ago, notin said:

Why we call up guys like Tayron Guerrero and Jack Anderson while an actual major leaguer like Tommy Kahnle sits in Worcester,  forced to subside on Sole Proprietor meals,  is beyond me…

Tyron

[Randy Red Sox]

1 hour ago, notin said:

Tanking for draft position in baseball is bad enough, but it still won’t resolve their complaints that Henry doesn’t spend enough money…

Henry doesn't spend enough money but the buffoons [Bloom, Breslow,] have WASTED significant $$ on low risk re-hab pitchers and the like.

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, notin said:

Why we call up guys like Tayron Guerrero and Jack Anderson while an actual major leaguer like Tommy Kahnle sits in Worcester,  forced to subside on Sole Proprietor meals,  is beyond me…

Kahnle & Samaniego.

[moonslav59]

In some ways, this season reminds me of 2022.

After failing with signings like Martin Perez, Richards and other, Bloom had his best winter of SP'er additions with Wacha and Hill, but we got worse- way worse.

This winter, Brez seemingly did well adding Contreras, Suarez & Gray, but we got worse- way worse.

Of course, other holes we not addressed in both cases, but when you compare just the winter moves made between pre-2019 and pre-2026, two of the best appear to be before 2022 and before 2026.