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  1. Bellhorn04
    But maybe other Red Sox teams have had worse 60 game stretches?
  2. Bellhorn04
    Rusney "Forever Young" Castillo.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Red Sox fans may be bidding an emotional farewell to Chris Mazza tonight.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Atlanta has clinched their division, so at least it has no impact on the playoff situation (I don't think it does, anyway).
  5. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I'm hoping we can go in another direction from that too.
  6. Bellhorn04
    The problem with this idea is that Porcello and HanRam's 2016 seasons were far better than the seasons that came after as well. So 2016 was the big outlier for them. Randomness at its finest.
  7. Bellhorn04
    JD deserves a pass for 2020 after his first 2 seasons. And his contract is still looking pretty good - for him for sure - hopefully for us too.
  8. Bellhorn04
    If it was some sort of misunderstanding, you'd think Henry would have made more of an effort to keep Ben around.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Masterson was coming off a horrible season. His numbers with Cleveland were very erratic. That whole rotation was a crapshoot. The results made it look like a bad idea.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Of course not. But it's clearly a significant part of the explanation for why Henry was compelled to bring in a guy like DD.
  11. Bellhorn04
    moon's W-L prediction was posted before we found out Sale and E-Rod were goners.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Still 15 games out of first place in 2015 though. Expectations were fairly high for that team after signing Hanley and Pablo and "rebuilding" the rotation with Porcello, Miley and Masterson-to go with Buchholz and Kelly. It was that 'Who's the ace?' rotation that made me seriously question Ben's thinking for the first time.
  13. Bellhorn04
    OK, replace that with "back-to-back last place finishes with one of the highest payrolls in baseball", then.
  14. Bellhorn04
    What I said was implausible was DD being hired only to replicate Lucchino's role.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Yes, I was going to mention those things myself. Maybe hiring DD was the proverbial last straw...
  16. Bellhorn04
    Maybe he did. Or maybe he was doing the diplomatic thing. We'll never know. But I think most people understand why Ben quickly moved on.
  17. Bellhorn04
    All that really matters is what Henry's intentions were. And those are pretty clear. He wanted DD to do DD things, and that's what happened.
  18. Bellhorn04
    What's Chaim Bloom's title?
  19. Bellhorn04
    You left out the "Red Sox headed for third last place finish in four years" part. So are you suggesting that Ben misunderstood the situation or it wasn't explained to him properly? And that Henry and Werner then said "Oh, gee, we really weren't expecting that. Now I guess we'll need DD to make all the decisions."
  20. Bellhorn04
    It's totally implausible that Dombo was only hired to do what Larry had been doing (whatever that was). Dombo has always been a head decision-maker. It only makes sense that Henry wanted DD to assume that responsibility with the Red Sox, and that's exactly the way it unfolded. Ben realized he was no longer going to be that guy, and he resigned.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I don't think that's true. Most people hold DD responsible for Price, Sale, and Eovaldi. And the stuff about Lucchino being responsible for Sandoval and/or Hanley is all speculation.
  22. Bellhorn04
    I never said he was, that's just trying to put words in my mouth. The point is that he's not the head decision-maker.
  23. Bellhorn04
    It all adds up to the fact that he was being 'supplanted', as Nick correctly put it. If you want to argue that it was a case of Ben seeing 'the writing on the wall', that's virtually the same thing.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Theo Epstein is the president of the Cubs. I don't think there's any doubt he's the head decision-maker in baseball operations. Sam Kennedy is the president of the Red Sox. I don't think there's any doubt Chaim Bloom is the head decision-maker in baseball operations.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Not at all. Why would Ben resign if his position in operations wasn't going to change? Makes no sense.
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