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I assume you're on the optimist side of the "pollyanna" scale. I think your opinions are typically grounded in data and facts (more so than say... mine). I wouldn't say you come across as a pessimist by any means.

Depends on which 3? My guess is they are a 80 - 84 win team.

This is still a good offensive team. They lead the AL in hits and are 2nd in TBs.

The team sucked in 14 for sure. However, they could have been a .500 team if they win the last 3 games vs CLE. Doing so would have tied them for 3rd place. We overstate it when we complain about the last place finish of 15.

It's really hard to predict how this team will perform over the short term. Could ERod come back healthy, get strong seasons from current staff and adding another starter make this team a playoff contender? Yeah. If ERod is unhealthy, Eovaldi gets hurt, Pivetta has a 6 ERA, Houck shows he's not ready, Perez pitches like bad Perez and Sale doesn't come back ready, this team could be back to where they are this year.

You expected this?

Seems like right now, they are in uncharted waters and are possibly as clueless as us.

Friday: Mazza v Wright Saturday: Houck v TBD Sunday: Pivetta v TBD

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I agree. You can't count on ERod. When Sale comes back, he will probably not be 100%. Most likely, there'll be another injury and Sale just slides in as 5.

If they never hired Dombrowski, I don't think there would be a large outcry from fans that Ben was staying. I bet the sox owners were surprised that Ben left. I believe they wanted Dave as President. Didn't Henry work with Dave in FL?

He should be back 100%. Seems like a good team guy. At 6.25M, he has good upside as a 4 or 5.

But you said it was "implausible." Clearly it was a reasonable position. Just one you didn't agree with.

Brian is just a COFFEE BOY.

I think Dombrowski wanted to head into more of a Larry role. He tried that in Detroit, but the GM there stunk (this was litigated the other day about the Tigers and their performance prior to Dave) so he fired him after 6 games. Now, that probably tingles the tin foil hats right now, but hear me out. I think Dombrowski WANTED to by the President. He WANTED to get away from the day to day player management stuff. I think he'd rather advise than be the one making the decisions. We can see that with how he wanted to further the cause in Nashville this year. From the day it was announced: The Blue Jays had "serious conversations" with Dombrowski about possibly joining that club, and that prompted the Red Sox to give him full power over baseball operations, Yahoo! Sports reported. He didn't want to just be GM anymore, he wanted a bigger role. I believe that he saw that Ben was a good GM (he had won a WS on his own after all). I also believe Ben looked at what happened in DET and said "woah, I don't want to get let go, I know how things worked under Larry, but I'm just going to leave on my own. There will be other opportunities for me." Both things can be true. Dombrowski could want a different role AND Ben could want to go elsewhere and not work for Dave.

To me, it's just nice seeing a player state that he really wants to be here next year. All too often, we hear about players not wanting to be here. It's nice to get the buy in.

Series of events: 1. Lucchino states he's leaving the FO 2. Dombrowski is let go by the Tigers 3. Dombrowshi is hired by the Sox I think it is reasonable to assume that Dombrowski came in to take over for Larry.

I blame Werner for Pablo and Hanley.

Unfortunately, tonight wasn’t the way how I wanted to end the season. However, I feel blessed for this season even though it wasn’t season we used to see. I’m grateful to all the fans for the love and support, and make #PerezDay very special. Hopefully I’ll see you next year✌ Thank you my friends @Section10Pod for all the support that you have given me this season. I had so much fun listening to you and reading you. Hopefully I’ll enjoy more of this next season. Whenever you want, I’m down to participate in one of your podcast’s episode for sure Seems like Perez wants to stay!

speier: Martin Perez thanks Red Sox fans for their support. 'I want to be back next year,' he says, at a time when the Sox have a 2021 option. 'We're going to have a great season next year.' Perez replies: Moving forward to be back next season. Thank you for all your words towards me @alexspeier. I hope to see you soon again

No. On August 1, 2015, the Red Sox announced that Lucchino was stepping down after the 2015 season. Dombo was hired two weeks later to take over for Larry. Are you saying that Ben left because of 2 weeks believing he’d be president of baseball ops?

I missed Lin pitching?

Tapia is a big boi

Never enough Jim Ed.

Not good!