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  1. mvp 78
    You can always change the channel on the MLB app. 🫠
  2. mvp 78
    Jim Rice was 28 in 1981. Nobody was like, "boy this guy needs more time..."
  3. mvp 78
    28 is not a YOUTH MOVEMENT though.
  4. mvp 78
    Craig, make the call.
  5. mvp 78
    Youth movement? He's older than Devers.
  6. mvp 78
    Just smile, wave to the cameras. Don't engage with the players!
  7. mvp 78
    Attitude wise, he could be a good fit in Philly with DD who drafted him. I want what's best for him and Cora is as supportive of him than any manager could be, but it's just not working out.
  8. mvp 78
    They spent A LOT of time working on defense with him. YEARS. He just doesn't concentrate when he's in the field. He still doesn't take good routes. They spent a lot of time tweaking his swing to maximize him at the plate. It worked last year, but he's definitely regressed to '23 or worse this year. Sometimes it's the player, not the coaching.
  9. mvp 78
    Sox can't pull the ball. If they could, they'd be hitting it out more.
  10. mvp 78
    More TJS?
  11. mvp 78
    It's not surprising. He looked really bad last time out. Arm issue?
  12. mvp 78
    You can pitch 8 innings, not give up a hit and still lose the game. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE199204121.shtml I don't believe we can say it was clearly "the right move" though.
  13. mvp 78
    It's not something that's going to get fixed overnight. It's a problem that crept into the game and now they have to figure it out. I'm not paid to figure out how to fix it though.
  14. mvp 78
    For a MIF prospect was the weirdest part of it. I know they needed an MLB ready 2b, but they could have just found a short term FA. The system had Mayer, Rafaela, Yorke, Meidroth, Paulino, Romero (all at AA or above) and that doesn't even count Campbell who was having a crazy amount of helium during the offseason workouts that year. If MIF is the strength of your system, don't go trade for another guy to take away from someone else's reps.
  15. mvp 78
    I think Cora was fine with the trade because he realized the situation was no longer solvable (i.e. the problems between Raffy and FO). A trade was going to happen at some point so may as well trade him now even if there were no locker room issues.
  16. mvp 78
    If they were more focused on contact, I think it'd be easier to deal with the velo and spin TBH. In baseball, everything is just max effort all the time because that's what the spreadsheet demands. It hasn't made for a better game at all.
  17. mvp 78
    It's not going to happen anytime soon. We just have to be honest with his performance. It's fine to look on the field and say "yeah, this is on the CBO."
  18. mvp 78
    He had a CY winner on his staff and traded him away. He got nothing back. That's on his ledger. It's how it works. If he made a trade where he dumped Blaze Jordan and got a CY winner back, we'd be singing his praises.
  19. mvp 78
    Since 6/10 27th in runs scored 3.15 runs/game 4th in K% 22nd in BB% 30th in line drive% 25th in pull%
  20. mvp 78
    Robert Stock 3.32 ERA AAA 10.13 ERA MLB
  21. mvp 78
    Because the difference between AAA pitching and MLB pitching is HUGE! Just because a player is mashing at AAA doesn't mean he's going to be good at the MLB level. Scouting boxscores doesn't work.
  22. mvp 78
    Yeah, you can like individual trades and moves (Verdugo trade, Crochet trade/extension, Wilson/Chapman FA signings, Narvaez), but he manages the entire squad. Even if every move he makes is an A+, the team could still be a .500 team because of the moves he fails to make (Wong, OF logjam, 1B, 2B, SP FA signings, Story, Masa, etc.).
  23. mvp 78
    The team was a 78-84 win team and had a CY winner on the staff. Breslow traded the CY winner and got nothing back. He added 3 wins the first year after being well under the cap going into the offseason. What did he add in the offseason that considerably helped the team: O'Neill and the Verdugo trade. Last year was kind of a disappointment. Going into this season, the hope was that the Yankees were taking a step back and the Sox were taking a step forward. The Yankees did take a step back. The Red Sox are in the same place! No matter what moves he did, the Red Sox are in the same place they were with the last year's squad. That's on Breslow 100%. "We'll have more wins without Devers." They are 3-5 without Devers and won't be adding to the MLB roster from that trade for a week and a half. 🙃
  24. mvp 78
    The main reason is that hitters are focused on launch angle and trying to hit every ball over the fence instead of just simply making contact. Arraez was hitting .381 on 8/1/23. He's not the greatest contact hitter of all time, he just has a throwback approach. Gwynn, Molitor, Ichiro and other great contact hitters would be just as good now as they were back then. Hell, they probably even have higher OBP's since pitchers throw so many BB's now.
  25. mvp 78
    This is why the Sox won't get any better. The defer to mediocre veterans rather than giving run to younger guys that need reps at their long term positions. Cora is clearly a good manager for a ballclub that wants to win in the postseason, but not the right manager for a ballclub that is trying to rebuild.
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