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  1. Bellhorn04
    Dodgers won't win the Series every year because of randomness and such. But it'll probably be a long time before they miss the playoffs again.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I know, I meant "should be, and eventually will be, a DH".
  3. Bellhorn04
    Depends on a lot of things, right? If even one of Anthony or Campbell make the leap in 2025 that will be exciting and a big boost. But it's X factor. You won't see it in any of the projections. As I keep saying, I'm worried about Devers's shoulders, and I'm not all that cozy about Casas's ribs either. I can see Story staying healthy and playing great D, but I'm less optimistic about him squaring up more baseballs. The reality is he has a .693 OPS in a Red Sox uniform.
  4. Bellhorn04
    They haven't added any guys we actually wanted them to add (other than Whitlock). Assembling a conglomeration of bodies might help with injuries, but won't necessarily nail more games down.
  5. Bellhorn04
    The FanGraphs boys may be off the mark, but when any projection system rates your position players 14th out of 15th, it's not great.
  6. Bellhorn04
    That still looks like a net minus for the offense. We haven't even talked much about Rafaela, the guy who has a K/BB rate that has never been sustained.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Breslow has done some potentially very good work with the rotation. Not complaining about his activity there. That's not the issue. They have to make a couple more moves to call this is a good offseason. They need a bat and a good reliever at the least.
  8. Bellhorn04
    If Kennedy was being honest he'd admit that they're treating the first tax level as a ceiling. They're probably holding some back for possible extensions-which is fine, but still, I don't get why there still needs to be a "no tax" order in place for the third year in a row.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I know. I'm just feeling skeptical, maybe because of other recent offseasons where we waited for something good to happen that never did.
  10. Bellhorn04
    I'm OK with our pitching depth. I'm complaining about our offense's depth. A lot of key guys that had injuries last year. Our best hitter with major shoulder pain that is supposed to magically stop. Our DH apparently not a go for opening day. One of our only home run threats gone. Like I say, go Roman, go Kristian.
  11. Bellhorn04
    But his point is not in the Red Sox favor. We don't have depth, so injuries to key players are even more damaging.
  12. Bellhorn04
    While the Red Sox have been running out of steam every year.
  13. Bellhorn04
    What I'm really talking about is the prospect of more willful negligence by our leaders. They lose O'Neill from an offense that ended the year looking awful, and they just sit on their hands about it. It's the tight-fistedness continuing to rear its ugly head. Not blaming Breslow. It sure looks like he's under serious constraints.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Except I didn't say Devers or Casas suck.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Key players, Hugh. Compare to Betts, Ohtani, Freeman, Teoscar.
  16. Bellhorn04
    The only legit reasons to have a shred of optimism about our 2025 offense are Anthony and Campbell. The rest is just Pollyannalytics and wishcasting. They subtracted the 3rd best hitter from an offense that collapsed in mid-August and didn't replace him. Our best RH hitters from last year have names like Refsnyder and Wong. Go Roman, go Kristian! 🙃
  17. Bellhorn04
    Well, you're not really explaining or backing anything up. Did every other team have a key guy like Devers finish the season on the IL, and key guys like Casas and Story play a combined total of 89 games? Did every other team's offense fall off the planet the last 6 weeks of the season?
  18. Bellhorn04
    Every offseason we think we're going to be healthier than we were last year.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Is it? The virtual heart of our offense, Devers, Casas and Story, all had severe injuries last year. It's Devers I'm really worried about. Our offense was pathetic from mid-August on, which coincided with Raffy's offensive disappearance. The inflammation must have been pretty awful to do what it did to him as a hitter.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Those were more sensible times.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Vlad is a great hitter but he's a DH - if he gets $450 mill we really are through the looking glass.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Devers's shoulder issues were diagnosed as inflammation and as far as I can tell the only treatment was rest. But the issues were bad enough to reduce him to a feeble hitter before they finally shut him down. I'm not totally comfortable about all this...
  23. Bellhorn04
    But they also won 99 games in 2022 without him. It's not like they've been maestros of mediocrity the last 3 years like our Sox.
  24. Bellhorn04
    The 'getting healthy again' thing is kind of shaky, though. We don't really know if Devers, Story, Casas, Yoshida or Giolito will be fully healthy after the injuries they had last year. And while I liked the Buehler signing, there's good reason to be concerned about his health too. Point is the health thing could go sideways on us all over again.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Actually a 13 game gap (94-81) but the point stands.
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