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  1. Bellhorn04
    But in the '04 postseason he was rock solid and error-free for 14 games, and hit a little too.
  2. Bellhorn04
    The hitting played into it too. I think it all started with the contract. 4 years for 40 million was a fair chunk in those days. Expectations were probably set a little high. I wasn't one of the people calling him Rent-a-Wreck. Just trying to explain it.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Another thing with Renteria was that Cabrera played so well for us in '04 and people were puzzled that Theo didn't just re-sign him. Later came the stories about OCab's off-field antics.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Probably because Nomar more than compensated with the stick...before 2004, that is.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I think what killed Renteria with Sox fans was the errors.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Great movie, great book.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Trout is hardly the first star player whose marketability has been hurt by playing on crappy teams though?
  8. Bellhorn04
    But on the flip side there's Clemens, and his 'remarkable career renaissance' after going to the Jays...
  9. Bellhorn04
    Maris. The exploits of McGwire and Sosa, and then Bonds, became a bad joke in retrospect, when we knew they were juiced.
  10. Bellhorn04
    You don't mess with the butterfly, though. I know this especially after reading Stephen King's 11-22-63...
  11. Bellhorn04
    I think there would still be a pretty big issue with the home run record being made into a joke.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Good one!
  13. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, that's an easy call. Although, who knows if we would have won it all in 2013 and 2018 in that Wayback Machine scenario?
  14. Bellhorn04
    I respect that view. I'm kind of an agnostic on the HOF stuff. Whoever gets in gets in. It's not my call.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I think around 1998 the juice became something really special.
  16. Bellhorn04
    And will Cole be able to maintain the same spin rate after leaving Houston and their special sticky substances? (Yes, that might be developing as a thing now.)
  17. Bellhorn04
    It's absolutely hilarious that Sox fans still debate something like this. We're nuts.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I know the juice didn't magically appear in the mid-late 90's. But that's when the home run totals really jumped and McGwire and Sosa left Roger Maris in the dust.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Severino gone for season. German gone for first 2 months. Paxton gone for a while. Stanton gone for a while. Hicks gone for a while. Judge now questionable for opening day. A rack of injuries like that would spell lost season for most teams, including the Red Sox. But after last season, the Yankees seem like they can overcome such things with relative ease.
  20. Bellhorn04
    I think Theo out-clevered himself a bit with Beltre. The contract he signed Beltre on was clever, and the comp picks he got for losing Beltre were clever.
  21. Bellhorn04
    A-Gon also had shoulder surgery right before his first season with us.
  22. Bellhorn04
    A lot of this is just perception, but: McGwire and Sosa, along with Canseco, are sort of the poster boys for players whose numbers were largely a product of the juice. Bonds and Clemens are sort of the poster boys for players who would have been great without the juice but got greedy.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I don't think it was a racial thing with A-Gon. He didn't hit as many home runs as expected, he was a member of a 'dream team' that collapsed horrifically in his only full season with the team, and he also had a knack for saying the wrong thing. The tag that everyone remembers about 2011 is 'chicken and beer', and that had nothing to do with A-Gon, it was supposedly led by Beckett, Lackey and Lester-kind of a redneck thing, you might say. Beckett and Lackey in particular were guys who at various times were not well liked at all by Sox fans-in spite of their key roles in championships.
  24. Bellhorn04
    To be fair, AGon and Beckett were traded in late August of 2012, and their fWAR's for that year were much lower. AGon ended at 3.0 for the year and Beckett at 2.0.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Personally, I'm rooting for Eovaldi to have a good season, but not so they can trade him.
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