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You make excuses for him. He leads an organization with lots of resources. If he wanted to hold the line on payroll, he could have pursued some trades. You can’t start the season with 2 starters. There is no rationalizing that away.
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Sale’s injury was known in February before play was suspended. The roster at that time had only 3 other starters — ER, Eovaldi and Perez. That is not a viable starting rotation. I posted about it at the time, and the COVID delay gave him 3 months to get add some starters. He didn’t. The staff that he started the season with was a joke. In all my years of watching the Red Sox, I have never seen them start a season with a worse starting rotation. When ER went down, we were at 2 starters and still he did nothing. It was ridiculous.
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I am giving him a chance. 2020 was an unwatchable product. And he is heading down the road of another unwatchable squad in 2021. I am waiting for him to give me something to defend. And I will admit that I have had a bad taste in my mouth, because when Bloom was introduced to the season ticket holders, he promised us that it was a top priority to keep Mookie for the length of his career. Within a month, Bloom was shopping Mookie and then traded him. I never heard that Bloom made any good faith effort to retain Mookie, so, at best his remarks that day, were very disingenuous. I used to criticize Ben plenty, but I always appreciated that he was always straight with the fans.
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I never understood the compunction to defend a GM — and especially not one who is putting an unwatchable team on the field.
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I don’t watch many Mariner games. When I watch west coast games, I rarely watch the Mariners. And their announcing team is boring beyond belief.
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Marwin’s splits are not good enough against RHPing.
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Verdugo Kike Renfroe/Franchy ?
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That is probably what they will do.
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If I bumped into him on the street, I would not recognize him. If he told me his name, I would have no idea who he is. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/02/red-sox-sign-chris-herrmann-to-minors-deal.html
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Who platoons with Renfroe with Beni gone?
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and a 4th thing: 4) lost 70% of the team’s viewership.
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The bad habit this team is more likely to have will be to cause the fans to turn off their games after the 5th inning.
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Franchy will not even be as good as Wily Mo. And Pivetta will not be as good as Andy Hassler. This is a team that could finish in third. The Orioles belong in AAA, so we should have no trouble beating them. We should be fighting for 3rd place with the Rays who have destroyed their pitching and rebuilt with old retreads. The Yankees and Jays should bury us by double digits by the All Star Break.
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So far, Franchy has been compared by posters to Big Papi and JD Drew. I’ll stick with my assessment that he stinks.
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Another old time term that would describe Franchy is a “big stiff.”
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Sure, a utility player can be full time player or close to a full time player. They are regularly in the lineup. Franchy has never been more than a bench player- a spare part.
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Have the Red Sox issued a Spring Training TV Schedule?
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Tampa swapped out Snell and Morton for Wacha, Archer and Hill. We can overtake them.
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You need to work on your Yiddish.
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400+ ABs in a season is not a bench player. He did that twice in Minnesota.
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Do you prefer “stinks”?
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Even with Minnesota, Ortiz was OPSing over .800 and he was playing 120-130+ games in three of those years. I don’t consider that a part timer or bench player. Franchy has not been more than a bench player. I just don’t see any basis for the comparison.
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It’s not like its fighting words. They are one word descriptions that should clue people into the fact that they don’t have to crunch his stats to know that they shouldn’t be investing in his rookie card. And guys like you we would call a jerkoff. One word, and everyone knows what they are dealing with. Don’t be insulted. You are in good company. In Brooklyn, we used a lot of Yiddish words too. They are very descriptive and just don’t translate. I’ll have to start working them into my posts.
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Ortiz had 2 seasons with 400+ ABs each and 1 with 300+ ABs. Franchy has 300 ABs combined. Also, Papi wasn’t K’ing once every 3 ABs. There is no comparison.
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but he didn’t do it in one season.
