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  1. Bellhorn04
    There are plenty of examples of hitters breaking down from injury too, though.
  2. Bellhorn04
    And which option do you consider better, and have you tried applying it to free agent contracts and production? Bring it on!
  3. Bellhorn04
    Yes. But it's a scary injury because it appears to have resulted simply from a lot of hard swings, which I'm sure he's planning to continue. If he makes it through 2025 OK that will be very reassuring.
  4. Bellhorn04
    To me this is a nonsensical argument. By this reasoning big busts "skew" the average too, and there are plenty of those. If we can't even use averages, what the heck would you use instead?
  5. Bellhorn04
    Well, I guess it's a matter of opinion whether winning a championship makes it worth it. You and I obviously differ on that.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I'm looking at track records and the projections that are based on them. I'm not just going on hopes and hunches.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Well let's see, when I look at B-R, he's projected to bounce back to .778 in 2025. So go talk to them. Don't blame me for looking at some objective numbers.
  8. Bellhorn04
    The average free agent gives you 1 additional win per $8-9 million. It's an expensive way to get better, but no, it's not strictly PR. If it was strictly PR it would have no added value whatsoever. The Red Sox have had a ton of free agent busts, but they've also had plenty of free agent successes that have contributed directly to 4 titles. We can go over that as many times as you want.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Easiest question ever: both.
  10. Bellhorn04
    I'm not trying to put it on the medical team. But I'd love to see the explanation for how this problem is not going to reoccur once he starts trying to demolish 98 MPH fastballs again.
  11. Bellhorn04
    You can't replace a Soto. The Yanks won 94 last year and they look to have done enough to win at least 90 in 2025. They were in a position of being able to get a couple games worse and still win the division. The Sox not replacing O'Neill is just a whole different deal. It's not that O'Neill is a great loss. But when you look at our problems hitting lefties last year and where our payroll is, doing nothing here is plain and simple negligence and profit-prioritizing. I might be shifting the point, but it's a slow Sunday...
  12. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I get too many funny feelings like that.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Hopefully it'll be Campbell at some point, and preferably sooner than later.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I have zero expectations for Grissom. I don't think he has much of a future with the Sox.
  15. Bellhorn04
    And you just know Bellinger and Goldschmidt are going to do some good things for them. The Yankees picking up these guys while the Sox do nothing to replace O'Neill just highlights once again the difference in how the 2 teams are operating. The Yankees keep going for it and prioritizing winning while the Sox keep fiddling around and prioritizing profit.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Personally I can't wait to find out how Raffy's shoulders healed.
  17. Bellhorn04
    You're being a good positive-thinking fan. Nothing wrong with that. (I'm kind of testing your optimism a bit, too, I guess, just for the sake of having a debate.) I do find it a little amusing when we point out all the bad things that happened as if nothing bad like that could happen again. e.g. Breslow making those 3 deadline moves that all sucked to an almost incredible degree.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I think that third fork in the road actually leads to FSG's bank.
  19. Bellhorn04
    They just need Roman and Kristian to be Lynn and Rice.
  20. Bellhorn04
    We don't trust the Sox FO any more, and for very good reason IMHO. They've delivered one of the worst stretches of Sox baseball in a long time. And it all basically started when they traded Betts and went in their new direction. The new direction has sucked.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I'm not weighing the second half more highly. I'm weighing each game equally. They won 81 of them and they lost 81 of them. To what do you attribute the post-ASB record of 28-38?
  22. Bellhorn04
    Right, but they couldn't stay above .500 for more than a few games until mid-June. They were: 7-7 9-9 10-10 19-19 22-22 26-26, 27-27 etc. right up to 35-35. They were the Even Stevens. The Maestros of Mediocrity. They had one really good stretch, from mid-June to mid-July. That was it.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I think he could adjust. He had a few glitches with the pitch clock thing and adjusted to it. He's an old pro. And at the moment one still looking for an MLB contract.
  24. Bellhorn04
    So what you're talking about isn't really "playing better", you're just saying we had worse than average injury luck. I disagree with your recap of the season. The 2024 Sox were at .500 in mid-June. They went on a great run for a month that put them about 10 games over. That was really their only stretch of excellent play. They came out of the break playing like crap and it all went down the tubes from there.
  25. Bellhorn04
    If they show him the right number dinero-wise I expect he would say sure, and since he seems a fairly confident fellow, he'd probably be thinking he would get the closer job back anyway...
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