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  1. Bellhorn04
    It's just data and formulas.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Good. Well deserved.
  3. Bellhorn04
    "All we need is for everything to go right." Pollyannalytics at its finest!
  4. Bellhorn04
    Of course I realize this talk is all in vain and they're likely done with the pen, possibly done, period.
  5. Bellhorn04
    The way I see it, a good reliever is almost automatically a difference maker. He'll be in dozens of high leverage situations.
  6. Bellhorn04
    A good late inning reliever can save you a few more games. Look at the leads we blew last year. That's a difference maker.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I know you're joking, but without O'Neill we'd probably have been 14-29 against lefties. But hey, why would we do anything about it? Baseball players are expensive!
  8. Bellhorn04
    5th pen arm? Robertson has been excellent the last 3 years. Compare him to any of our other relievers over that span. We're talking a one year deal. Like I say, the Sox cheapness is warping our thinking.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I disagree. Jansen and Robertson would both move the needle. I'll assume that Jansen is out of the picture. But Robertson pitched 72 innings last year with a 1.9 fWAR and a 1.7 bWAR. Works for me.
  10. Bellhorn04
    I don't think we have enough information to say and I would expect there's a lot of variation in how things are done.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Mookie still watches Red Sox games when he can. First reason he gives is Cora. He really thinks highly of Cora. https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2025/01/why-mookie-betts-still-enjoys-watching-red-sox-games.html
  12. Bellhorn04
    In a way it's a relief to have someone finally tell us exactly what happened. Scott was very emphatic that Mookie Betts was more than willing to be a Red Sox for life, if he got a market value offer.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Zack confirmed that $300 mill was their ceiling. And when these guys set ceilings, they don't unset them.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The Red Sox were 17-26 against LH starters in 2024. O'Neill had a 1.18 OPS against lefties. Solution: dump O'Neill and don't replace him! 😛
  15. Bellhorn04
    More from Zack Scott on Mookie. "Mookie Betts’ contract with the Dodgers offers another compelling example. He signed a $365MM deal with $115MM deferred. While the headline figure was impressive (second largest contract behind Trout!), the present value was $307MM, placing it below a few additional contracts (Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Stanton, and Gerrit Cole). This structure allowed the Dodgers to acquire a star player while satisfying Mookie and his agent’s desire to be seen as a top-two player. In Boston, we had tried to re-sign Betts, but our self-imposed $300MM limit wasn’t enough to meet this desire. A similar deferral structure to the Dodgers’ deal might have changed the outcome." Too bad they didn't think of that.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Question is where does Abreu play when Anthony comes up.
  17. Bellhorn04
    It's nuts that they've done nothing about replacing O'Neill's bat. Sure looks like they're counting heavily on Campbell.
  18. Bellhorn04
    That's what the perception always was. Then the analytics guys pointed out that the Wall gives and takes - a lot of balls that would be out in other parks hit the wall and go for singles or doubles instead. But one thing's for sure, the Sox have been brutal at Fenway the last two years.
  19. Bellhorn04
    I think that was a song by Tony Bennett. I left my bat In Colorado A mile high on a hill It waits for me
  20. Bellhorn04
    Well, it doesn't necessarily mean that, but it's often used that way.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I really believe they are being run in a committee type fashion. The latest evidence of this was the comments by Zack Scott. Everything was we this and we that. And hardly anyone even knows who the heck Zack Scott is or was. Plus of course we had the reports about Bregman, that Cora and Kennedy wanted him and Breslow wasn't as keen. It would explain a lot about the way things have been going and all the mixed messages.
  22. Bellhorn04
    A lot of that is surely blind luck, considering we haven't done so well in so many other areas.
  23. Bellhorn04
    The thing about O'Neill is he absolutely murdered LH pitching last year with a 1.180 OPS. We're going to be even worse against LH pitching this year than we were last year. Keep in mind our LH hitters OPS'd a catastrophic .629 against LH pitchers last year.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Yuck. Their cheapskatery is really altering our thought processes.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Understood, but the facts remain that O'Neill was our third best hitter last year, had a 2.5 WAR and has not been replaced in any way, shape or form. It's the latter part that's the real issue.
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