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  1. mvp 78
    It's enough to keep them in contention during the regular season. He's a 10 bWAR guy. That's the difference between playoffs and below .500.
  2. mvp 78
    We've seen from Henry recently that he makes decisions and very poor ones at times. I think he was upset at how 2011 went down and wanted to blame someone. He dumped DD after one down season and put out bad press on his way out. I think Henry was too high on his own supply at that point. I don't think he liked that it was seen as Theo and Tito's team. He got rid of them and kicked them on the way out the door which is now what they always do, which makes me want to ignore the 2011 drama even more. The worst thing to happen to the Sox was them winning in 2013, as it led him to believe that he could cheapen out and just get another WS willy nilly. He killed a golden goose and he'll do it over and over again just to show how smart he is.
  3. mvp 78
    Without pitching, I'm not sure what the O's can do. Maybe they are a team that can pile on wins in the regular season and then lose in the WC? IDK.
  4. mvp 78
    I think we learned that Richards shouldn't have been in that rotation. We can ignore an offense starting slow.
  5. mvp 78
    The Sox punted on the 4th and 5th starters that year once Buchholz went down. Bedard didn't work out. Wakefield should have retired prior to 2011.
  6. mvp 78
    It's not just that the pitching fell apart, the pitching was completely injured and there was no rotation to rely on in September. They needed to drag an ancient Wakefield out there (6.30 ERA last 4 starts of his career). Kyle Weiland had 3 horrible starts (9.26 ERA). They traded for Erik Bedard and it didn't work out (3 starts 5.25 ERA, didn't get out of the 4th inning the last two starts). They had Andrew Miller for two starts (15.63 ERA) before he was sent off to the pen. Then the C&B crew (Lackey 5 starts/9.13 ERA/4.17 FIP, Beckett 4 starts/5.48 ERA/4.63 FIP, Lester 6 starts/5.40 ERA/3.75 FIP) all pitched poorly at times and got lit up in the last few weeks, but may have been a little bit of bad luck. In Septemeber, the Sox were 7th in offensive fWAR and 6th in wRC+. They were 28th in starting pitching fWAR (30th in ERA, 29th in xFIP, 29th in innings thrown) and 15th in reliever fWAR (lead MLB in innings thrown).
  7. mvp 78
    If he does that, the price goes up even higher.
  8. mvp 78
    Yes, I'm worried about Crochet's durability. I'm also worried that the Sox will not extend him after trading a lot of prospect capital. If the Sox only halfway go for it the next two years and Crochet leaves, it's a failure on this FO. I'm a worrier.
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  10. mvp 78
    Hal is going for it, but not quite the way his dad did. At least we can be thankful for that.
  11. mvp 78
    The "over" on what?
  12. mvp 78
    We always overstate the meaning of the first game or two of the year.
  13. mvp 78
    The Mariners helped the Sox out by spending more time worrying about concessions offerings than adding to their offense.
  14. mvp 78
    The roles haven't been clearly defined to US. Maybe they've been clearly defined internally? Chapman CL Slaten Set up Whitlock Fireman Wilson L1 (6/7) Bernardino L2 (5/6/7) Kelly (7/8) high leverage Weissert (6/7) medium leverage Hendriks (5/6) low leverage until his stuff is back At some point, one of these guys will be swapped out for a bulk innings guy (Newcomb or other).
  15. mvp 78
    Go back to 2018. Where was the room to add players then? It all fell apart really quick and the whole team turned over except for Raffy.
  16. mvp 78
    Again, it's been 30 years since the Yanks have been under .500. Really an amazing stretch when you think about it.
  17. mvp 78
    I was referring to certain nonactive posters. You're the only one who has really stuck around. Are you worried about Max Fried's elbow? How high are you on the non-Devin Williams offseason acquisitions?
  18. mvp 78
    Sure. The AL seems to be down this year. If they can get into the WS and their rotation is still cooking (Crochet, Houck, Buehler, Bello, Fitts or acquisition), I think there's a chance. They'd still be the underdogs against the Dodgers, Braves and some other NL teams.
  19. mvp 78
    Where would Bregman be heading? With Bregman as the Opening Day starter, it seems like Mayer has a better opportunity at 2B/SS.
  20. mvp 78
    I wouldn't be overly concerned with that since they are just DHs.
  21. mvp 78
    Bernardino for now. If one of the starters gets blown up early, they'll need to use Newcomb in a bulk role and may have to call up Criswell.
  22. mvp 78
    I agree with this assessment. I think Giolito was probably healthy enough to pitch, but the Sox used the muscle "tweaking" as IL time to continue to work on Gio working his way back from TJS. He really didn't pitch all that much in ST and didn't look all that great when he was in, but I'm not sure if he's going to be very good until middle of the season anyway. It's going to take a while for him to really be 100%, but you can't hold him out just because his stuff isn't back yet. Bello is probably on the same track as last year and is most likely the first to arrive in BOS. Crawford may be the last to come back and I wouldn't be surprised if they are extra careful with him. It seems clear that if this injury existed last season and now is keeping him out that they rode him too hard last year. I don't know if he's even back in May. My concern is that rest clearly didn't solve the problem, so maybe only surgery will.
  23. mvp 78
    “Alex is going to play third,” said Cora. “Raffy’s going to DH. We all are in the winning business. He understands that.” Pumped and jacked is back on the menu, boys.
  24. mvp 78
    "Rays Up! Thank You Yankees!" Cursed timeline...
  25. mvp 78
    He had a better spring ERA than Tanner Houck.
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