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It hasn't helped and it makes for an ugly game to watch. 💯

One of the Sox may choke someone by the end of the year.

Hard to wait on a hot streak if the Sox are going to call up a bunch of young guys. This team is giving 2014 vibes (young guys added, but the team isn't there yet and it may take another year or two to really figure out).

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Going by fWAR, they are good at OF, DH and C1. They need upgrades at every other position (3B is dependent only on Breggie's timetable). The IF and C2 has been killing them.

Fundamentals aren't the biggest reason the team is a .500 team. If the 2023 team was a strong fundamental team, they still don't make the playoffs.

The media creates the circus act. It's all just a fiction.

He's been the 5th best hitter in MLB since 4/2/25. Why would you trade a guy like that?

I know you found some stats, but could you find some more for me please? 🙏

Having Story-Hamilton-Wong-Rafaela-Duran hit one after another in the lineup can lead to a long stretch of frustration.

Alex Bregman has been getting is butt kissed and acting like a prima donna ever since he turned an unassisted triple play in his first t-ball game at age 4. Who did that little snot think he was? 👎

I agree that some of this slump is due to the randomness of baseball, especially when people start posting OPS with runners in scoring position, close and late states or whatever. I think those things even out over time.

It was handled fine. The media handled it poorly. Devers gets a pass since the interpreter didn't appropriately pass along Devers' words.

My concern is that fundamentals don't start the second you reach MLB. These are things that should be worked on as they are in the lower levels of the org. I worry that there's more concern about focusing on maxing exit velo than spending a few extra minutes to go over sac bunts and other things that have been lost over the past 30 years. The lack of fundamentals aren't strictly a Red Sox issue, it's a problem all across MLB.

He was good in '21 as well. He's been given a pretty tough hand from Bloom and Breslow. Looking at the lineups he's had to run out, especially in the middle of the field, it's not surprising that they've been a middling team. If you give him an above average team, he can make in game moves to put them over the top. If you give him a .500 team, they are going to stay .500.

On point 2: 2022- team of expiring contracts and starting pitchers that couldn't stay healthy (or had a history of doing so), stayed close near the deadline but the CBO chose to do nothing of significance except trade the starting catcher 2023- Kluber was the Opening Day Starter, the 2b with the most appearances had -0.2 bwar (Arroyo), the SS with the most appearances had -0.6 bwar (Kiké) 2024 - another season with no plan for 2b, early injury took out SS for the year, pitching was healthier but faded badly after the All Star break which was unsurprising giving the lack of career innings thrown by the starters 2023 was obviously the worst setup of the previous three teams. The other two are similar, but had two unique issues. The '22 team should have just sold off prior to the deadline when they were securely in a playoff position. Instead, they went over the CBT because of the dumb JBJ trade. The '24 team seemed primed to compete, but another Story and Casas extended vacation exposed a lot of their depth issues at the high minors. Without a plan at 2b, they became too weak up the middle overnight. Hamilton did have a hot stretch in the middle of the season, but it was bookended by equally brutal stretches. Were these teams ready for the playoffs coming out of Spring Training? They had an outside shot at it, BUT NEEDED EVERYTHING TO BREAK RIGHT. That means they were closer to a .500 team than we wanted to believe.

He seems like a guy that can rack up numbers for an "also ran" team.

Get ready to learn Chinese, buddy.

3 k's for Hamilton, one backwards.

In NONE of those three games, was Justin Wilson coming in to get a save. Do we really think he was going to pitch from the 6th inning all the way until the end of the game? Of course not. He didn't even appear in the 8th inning of any of those 3 "blown saves." Save conversion rates are meaningless.

Abner Uribe. Now that's a classic baseball name.

It worked for the Mick?

Liam Hendriks: 0 blown saves. Must be having a good season! Whitlock leads the team in blown saves, but it was probably unfair to put him in high leverage situations after missing so much time due to injury. I'd give him a pass. In two of Wison's blown saves, the Sox came back to win and the other was 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB in a 4 run loss. I'd give him a pass too.

This season? 4.5