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  1. mvp 78
    I spent all offseason saying that the MIF situation was a mess. I've always thought that Kiké was a good to great CFer and should have been left there. This is unchanging. This isn't after the fact reporting in the manner that you do.
  2. mvp 78
    He has a 25% k looking %. Mookie Betts has a 36% k looking % and has watched more 3rd strikes gone by than Casas this year. Wade Boggs had a career 46% k looking %. The MLB average for 22/23 is 23%. He's taking a called 3rd strike at a league average rate.
  3. mvp 78
    The 6.5% HR/FB was unsustainable? The ERA that was much less than his xFIP was kinda SSS fool's gold? No way!
  4. mvp 78
    Like I did what?
  5. mvp 78
    One bad signing doesn't tank a season. It was a 10M contract. It's the same contract Garrett Richards got. It was the whole stew that Bloom created that ended up not working out. You should be able to cover up one bad ingredient.
  6. mvp 78
    The WOO starting rotation can't even compete in AAA. I'm sure it would be glorious to see after they were all pitching at Fenway in August. Chris Murphy 7.71 ERA Brandon Walter 6.75 ERA Bryan Mata 5.61 ERA and injured
  7. mvp 78
    The easiest thing to do is always criticize everything retrospectively without ever stating which moves you want to make ahead of time. "Bloom sucks. He shoulda kept this guy. He's good this year!" "Ok, so who do you think Bloom should pick up this offseason?" "I don't know. That's not my job!"
  8. mvp 78
    He's trending in the right direction, unlike some other young players on the team. If the Sox have the right coaching staff, they can teach him to be a better defender and get him to keep approaching his at bats in the best way possible.
  9. mvp 78
    As I've said before, the Red Sox offered a LARGER contract than what the Rangers gave him. Eovaldi went back to the Sox after receiving the TEX offer and requested the original Sox offer and Bloom said no. They had already spent the money elsewhere.
  10. mvp 78
    That was my concern going into the season. There are a lot of words that I can use to describe for the plan Bloom had for "up the middle" this season and none of them are good. What I would have done is just left Kiké in CF, played Arroyo at 2B and found a glove first SS that hits 9th. When Story comes back, you upgrade Arroyo with Story and have a pretty strong defensive alignment IMO. What Bloom did was rely on Kiké to be a fulltime SS when he's never been one. Expected Arroyo to be a fulltime 2B when he's never been healthy enough to give you those innings. Hoped Duvall would bring COF GG defense to CF and play average defense there. Traded for an injured Mondesi to backup 2B/SS if Kiké/Arroyo didn't work out. The only plan that kind of worked out was Duvall. He got injured, but could have been injured on a similar play if he was in RF or LF.
  11. mvp 78
    This is serious business!
  12. mvp 78
    An archaeological dig.
  13. mvp 78
    He'll be 28 by the end of the month. That flash wasn't long enough. He's nothing more than a bench bat. He's a placeholder for whoever is the long term solution at 1B if you are calling him up. The Sox don't care about his development. That's why they just threw him at SS and didn't think twice. They also floated his name as trade bait multiple times AND NOBODY BIT. He has no value. If it wasn't for the stretch at the end of 2020, we wouldn't care about him.
  14. mvp 78
    Yes, a 32.6% k rate in AAA is A LITTLE HIGH! That is close to his MLB k rate. If he gets called up again and has the same approach, add 5-10% to that.
  15. mvp 78
    Look at his home/away splits this year. 3.38 Home 1.49 Away
  16. mvp 78
    He pitched to contact and had a decent defense behind him. Now he has the Boston Red Sox behind him and is pitching worse. It's a f***ing nightmare scenario.
  17. mvp 78
    I think it's because his two biggest blowouts were on the road: @LAA 3 INN, 8 ER @NYY 0.2 INN, 6 ER Two outings can really skew a sample if you're only looking at 15 starts.
  18. mvp 78
    Dalbec sucks. We've seen him not be able to hit at the MLB level. He'll k 40% of the time. Being able to mash at AAA doesn't mean you can mash at MLB. It's not a one to one.
  19. mvp 78
    Who?
  20. mvp 78
    With no starting pitching, even if they claw their way to an 86 win season, does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? The team isn't good enough to go far in the postseason. We would have needed to see progression from Whitlock, Bello and another pitcher, but that hasn't quite been the case. The pitching has just treaded water.
  21. mvp 78
    Zero chance they were going to trade him. None.
  22. mvp 78
    Lots of blame to spread around. He got caught in the middle on that one, but a guy of his stature should know better.
  23. mvp 78
    The guys we want to get non-tendered always get tendered.
  24. mvp 78
    I agree that we should see more DHing from Yoshida going forward. If not this year then the next 4.
  25. mvp 78
    I'm not sure Kavadas ever wears a BOS uni.
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