jacksonianmarch

In terms of team runs allowed, the Sox are the worst in baseball by a WIDE margin. The Sox have allowed 6.33 runs per game. The closest to them is Pitt at 6.00.

Top 5 is far more beneficial not only due to the talent available in the top 5, but due to the immense draft pool

No point in having these bubbles if you can deal a player and transport them with the masses

Lemahieu with a thumb sprain. He’s irreplaceable. Wade isn’t a bad backup and someone who’s deserved more chances than he’s received, but he’s no DJ

Barnes has never been one to thrive in the big moment

10-3 just like yesterday.

Urshela has been amazing. 2019 isn’t looking like a fluke

Btw, Eovaldi’s K rate is the highest of his career. If he keeps the K rate up, keeps his BB rate down and can stay healthy, he should be able to be dealt off without the Sox eating any money

f*** it. Stay here.

You don’t want the Sox players opting out. You want them to perform, get dealt and allow for a real rebuild. It’s like a house flip, except in reverse. The most fun part is the demo. But as a fan, the demo is the hardest. Selling off good parts, tearing off bad parts, and seeing how damaged your foundation is. You need a demo to rebuild. Sox need a demo

DHern and Taylor would make you a .500 team? Really?

Any team looking to deal isn’t looking for a rental these days. Remember, butts in seats and merchandise are very, very important. Well, no seats to sit in and merchandise has to be horribly low. That’s why I disagree that Bogaerts or Devers would return nothing. But here’s the biggest issue. There’s literally no minor leagues right now. No ebb and flow of development. No scouting of the alternate sites. Nothing. Aside from players on 28 man rosters, who would you deal for? Any SR on them is a year old, who knows if it’s accurate? Bogaerts on a long term, reasonable contract is incredibly valuable. Devers, likewise, assuming he breaks out of his slump. These guys would bring back a haul that in 2019 time would be massive. Who knows if the 2020 haul would be worth it. That’s why I can foresee a salary dump like Eovaldi. Maybe he performs well enough to be dumped off for next to nothing and the Sox just gets out from under his money

When I essentially predicted the cliff (you’re welcome and feel free to look at the thread), I told you that DD would be the architect of it. To fade to this level (high payroll, horrible team, horrible farm), you need to do a few things. Let’s see if DD did them. 1. Deal off every farm talent worth a damn for now players. DD- check 2. Sign or extend players into their post prime years. DD- check 3. Sign or extend players that are fragile. DD- check 4. Make almost no effort to add depth behind all star talent. DD- check 5. Entirely ignore drafting and never consider dealing for minor league talent even if it can come cheap. DD- check The icing on the cake is that the Yanks are really good right now while the Sox flounder, so the public eye is on this train wreck a little more. DD won his title. He then was sent packing within 10 months of the champagne. What he left behind will take years to recover from. Henry didn’t hire Bloom for 2020. He didn’t hire Bloom for 2021. Bloom’s task is enormous and not one that’s fixable with straight cash on an open market

Very good chance we are seeing the last swings of Gardner as a Yankee starter. Frazier is hot and it’s his time. Tauchman is just better all around at this stage. When Judge returns to RF and Stanton to DH, I can see a platoon of Tauchman and Frazier in LF

Bloom did the right thing with Betts. He would make this s*** show better, but better enough to still not be a playoff team. Nothing kills a team more than mediocrity. Getting Verdugo for 5 seasons plus a top prospect in Downs while also moving on from Price and half his contract for two seasons was a steal. The biggest thing Bloom can do now is blow this up. Maybe Devers and Bogey stay. Maybe you blow them all up. Maybe they ask to be dealt. Who knows. But building a rotation on the FA market isn’t smart. You don’t have the minor league prospects to deal for top notch pitching beyond Downs and maybe Casas. You need to restock the farm and start anew. If I was Bloom, project 2023 would be the goal.

Guys, if you don’t have the option of fans at your games, then this is the time to suck if you have to pick it. Business decision here. It’s a smart one. If I were Bloom, I’d sell off everything. The Yanks will be dominant likely through 2022 before they start getting into the “cannot extend them all” phase. Devers is a FA after 2023, so maybe you keep him. Bogey is under contract, maybe you keep him. Or maybe everyone is up for grabs and you build a core that will be ready by 2023.

There’s a time to suck and get kids their due and then there’s what the Sox are doing. They’re running total garbage out there. In a year where development is non existent, I’m surprised the Sox haven’t promoted Mata. And this isn’t just a Sale and ERod thing. This entire staff is absolutely abysmal. Bloom cannot fix this in one offseason. This will take time and resetting during a pandemic shortened 60 game season was the right play. This team needs a total blowup

This is the worst Red Sox team I have ever seen. Maybe it is compounded by the lack of fans, but they just look dead every single game

Judge on the IL as well, although it sounds like he doesn't even have a grade 1 strain. The Yanks are playing it right. They've got lots of OF depth, so if a guy is sore, they can set them down for 10 days. Stanton, who knows. He has a grade 1, he should be back in 10 days, but you never know with him

Bloom ain’t to blame here. Mandate to get below the cap with Sale and ERod out for the year. The genius of this would be if the Sox could grab the #1 pick in the draft and then snag a pitcher or two and bump into playoff contention for 2021. Watching a game in a 60 game season with no fans is just not as enticing as the real thing!

Strangely, the Sox don’t have the worst starting ERA in baseball. After today, it’s up to 6.47ERA. That’s a full 0.3 ahead of Arizona and Detroit. They do have the worst WHIP at 1.78 and it’s not close (next highest 1.64). Believe it or not, the Rockies had the worst starters ERA last year at 5.87

I’d be interested to see the numbers, but this Sox starting rotation may be one of the worst of all time in Major League Baseball.

Dalbec has a .100 IsoPatience in the minors. He’s a three outcome hitter. Middlebrooks was different. He had zero patience. I think Dalbec provides a higher ceiling and the higher likelihood of having a longer big league career as his skill set translates well to today’s game

Losing Kahnle while Chapman is down is a problem. If Chapman is the usual Chapman, our pen should round into form. Yesterday was sheer mismanagement by Boone. Paxton had sucked coming into the start and threw 6 scoreless. Why run him out there for the 7th? And then why let him pitch to Lowe after allowing a 2 run dinger?

Zero chance he opts out.