Dipre
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Between 1967 and 2003 the Red Sox made the playoffs 9 times with 0 championships. That means the Red Sox were making the playoffs at a clip of about once every four seasons, and never won a championship.
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Not in its current pink hat wearing iteration it didn't.
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How many of those "non-losing seasons" between '67 and '04 resulted in playoff berths? More importantly, how many of them resulted in championships?
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Duvall played for two weeks. Devers, obviously, Verdugo has been consistently good all season. What I did think was that Turner, Casas and Kike could either improve or move towards career norms. Casas and Turner have indeed improved, but parts of the lineup have cratered in ways that are due for correction. Again, all teams slump.
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And Red Sox Nation is a creation of the current ownership group. Oh, the irony.
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They're 11th in payroll. Not 30th. And the payroll and contract management aspect of team building has evolved from the Papi and Manny days. I understand that the performance of the current team is frustrating, and that's squarely on the GM, but that doesn't mean the actual process is incorrect.
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The offense was not over-achieving. In fact, I'd argue it's capable of sustained success. Every team is slump-bound, but the way to survive slumps is pitching and defense, and this is a poorly constructed roster defensively.
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Spare me the hyperbole. The point is simple, they want a competitive team on the field, but they also want to avoid lux tax issues and to build up the farm system, so they can spend big on the players they want to spend on, while injecting the team with players from the farm. The problem is that the competitive team part has been grossly mismanaged by Bloom. No one is denying that.
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The Sox did nothing but suck for decades on end. They win a couple championships (under this ownership group, no less), and now anything less than 180MM payrolls and yearly playoff berths will suffice.
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Tampa did exactly what the Sox are doing to create their MiLB and team framework, but with less resources for their MLB team.
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It doesn't matter whether it's Bloom or the reincarnation of Sparky Anderson. Bloom only executes what ownership wants him to. He was hired to create a sustainable contender, and it seems like they're breaking a few eggs to make that omelette.
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Because BA is a component of OBP and SLG%
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Now it's a semantics issue. Alrighty then.
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But that's not how it works unfortunately.
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Bad teams hit when they're not pitching, and pitch when they're not hitting.
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"Hank Aaron's favorite stat was BA, BA and the awesomeness that is the eye test is all you need for evaluating players". Old Red, June 2023.
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Usually, yes. As does better OBP. Look, it's really simple. Every time you get on base, you don't make an out, therefore you help the offense. And hitting for more power directly causes more run production.
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You're moving the goalposts. That wasn't your initial argument.
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Derek Jeter....better than Albert Pujols.
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You're asking the wrong question.
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Eovaldi chose not to sign with the Sox, and Wacha will turn back into a pumpkin. He surely could have done better than Kluber, with the benefit of hindsight.
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You can have great seasons with low batting average (Adam Dunn, Mark Reynolds), but it's pretty much impossible to have a great season consisting only of a good batting average. We're not reinventing the wheel here.
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Yeah back in the day when they talked about horsepower, they meant literal horses, and we've moved on from that too. Even the older folk who loved riding horses have a car now.
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That's a logical fallacy Bellhorn.
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Batting average is merely a component of OBP and SLG. By itself it's meh.
