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  1. a700hitter
    I really want the team to keep Bogaerts, but I am betting that he gets traded this offseason after seeing the story on the Red Sox site that XB plans to opt out after 2022. This smells like a planted story without any sources. It will make it easier for the team to move him and explain it to the fans. It is a scumbag tactic imo.
  2. a700hitter
    You are old. Moon is old. I am old. We all support Robo umps. There goes that theory.
  3. a700hitter
    Franchy Cordero has been outrighted and removed from the 40 man roster. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/red-sox-designate-franchy-cordero-for-assignment.html
  4. a700hitter
    Robo managers at their press conferences would say things like: ”He battled in that AB” ”He has been impacting the ball” ”We like the way the ball has been coming out of his hand.” ”The season is a marathon not a sprint” ”He has electric stuff” ”We love his energy” ”The metrics indicate” plus 5,000 other pre-programmed responses. What’s that you say, we already have robot managers?
  5. a700hitter
    I thought Max was proposing Robo Managers.
  6. a700hitter
    Yes. It is a very profound thought.
  7. a700hitter
    In the infield, I would pencil in Dalbec at 1B full time. I’d get a LHH backup. I would look to upgrade at 2B. Arroyo is not the full time answer, but I like him coming off the bench. Kike is the best fielding CFer, so leave him there. Dugo can’t handle CF full time. Schwarber should be signed to play LF and DH with JD. Dugo slides to RF and I would keep Renfroe to play against lefties and as the 4 th OFer. Pitching: 1. Sale 2. Eovaldi 3. Houck (hopefully he can handle the workload for at least 160 innings) 4. ERod (no QO but I would look to sign him for 4 years for reasonable money) 5. Pivetta Bullpen: Whitlock Barnes And a lot of work for Bloom to do. He needs to do a much better job than he has done in this regard. I agree with the notion that bullpen pitchers are not a crapshoot. Crapshoot pitchers are in the bullpen. There are solid consistent bullpen guys. Bloom needs to get some. Robles is not the answer, not is Brasier.
  8. a700hitter
    You obviously weren’t a big baseball fan in the 60’s if you don’t understand. There was a term that was used to describe the better teams (I.e., the teams that finished in the top half of the league). They were called 1st Division teams. After 1967, the Red Sox became a perennial 1st Division team. And although the GB stats are not impressive, playing .500 ball was a sea change. Prior to ‘67, there wasn’t even hope of being competitive. The chance of a competitive season ended after opening day.
  9. a700hitter
    The 67 Season was a defining season that completely changed the trajectory of the franchise. They went from perennial losers to a team that ran off a long string of winning seasons, including the ‘68 -71 seasons which you characterized as “nothing special at all”.
  10. a700hitter
    Only baseball smart matters to me.
  11. a700hitter
    I am never happy about losing, and I still think Bloom s*** the bed at the Trading Deadline, but I am very happy that we had a competitive season instead of falling off a cliff
  12. a700hitter
    Cora’s moves deteriorated at the same pace as the offense.
  13. a700hitter
    I am rooting for Dusty to finally win a Championship.
  14. a700hitter
    The much better team won. I tip my hat to them.
  15. a700hitter
    He got out managed this series. Bring in Perez.
  16. a700hitter
    And the bullpen comes through to put the final nail in the coffin.
  17. a700hitter
    Are you making an excuse for him sleeping? We already have people excusing strike’em out throw’em out DP on a hit and run with a strike out machine AB. Any other bad moves that we should excuse?
  18. a700hitter
    Cora has a plan.
  19. a700hitter
    That too
  20. a700hitter
    Because it is really a low percentage play to put on a hit and run with a hitter who strikes out one-third of the time with a runner with 14 steals in his career.
  21. a700hitter
    Dusty outmanaged Cora.
  22. a700hitter
    So you prefer the strike’em out throw’em out DP? Even if the Dugo succeeds in the SB, that puts men on 2nd and 3rd with 2 out for Dalbec (who you have concluded is hopeless). It was a low percentage play, that wouldn’t have helped us much even if it had succeeded with a SB.
  23. a700hitter
    If Cora doesn’t send him, Dalbec bats with 2 men on.
  24. a700hitter
    Shaw strikes out about once every 3 ABs and Houston has Maldonado in for defense. It was a stupid play, period.
  25. a700hitter
    Did Cora put that play on? WTF!
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