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  1. Bellhorn04
    6.1 innings, 4 hits, 0 walks, 7 K's. So that's an ERA of 2.84, a WHIP of .63, and a K/BB of infinity. We're really splitting hairs if we're arguing about whether this is excellent or not.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Well, he had one disaster start and has had 2 more excellent ones since.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Oh, I understand the reasoning. But you could also flip to a scenario where if you're a good team, you might extend some of these guys on expiring contracts instead of trading them. This 2026 team is hard enough to follow as it is, it's going to be really grim after you remove Gray and Chapman and Duran and/or whoever. The Red Sox have sure had a pile of losing seasons starting in 2012. It's been a somewhat bizarre roller coaster ride. Not complaining about the 2 rings in there, of course. But as of right now this organization feels like a directionless mess.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Figuring out which of your good players to trade because you stink always depresses me.
  5. Bellhorn04
    As a poster on SoSH put it: "Trading Betts gave the Red Sox the payroll flexibility they needed to field this 2026 team."
  6. Bellhorn04
    Agreed.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Just a tongue in cheek comment, Red, that's why I put the smiley face there. I'm including myself as one of the idiots.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Unfortunately 2027 could be a non-season. We are in crappy times.
  9. Bellhorn04
    A lot of sports fans are impatient idiots, always have been and always will be. Just goes with the territory. Let's face it, being a sports fan is not one of the most rational things we do with our lives. 🙂
  10. Bellhorn04
    The problem is I suspect they are pretty close to tossing the towel on 2026 and are looking at moving guys out rather than in.
  11. Bellhorn04
    And this is why I can't help wondering if the organizational approach is the real problem.
  12. Bellhorn04
    It's all on Breslow now. He canned Cora and the hitting coaches and as you noted, Kyle Boddy is now gone too. Breslow seems to be a walking disaster in the offense department. He will likely be gone soon too. But I don't think Henry and Kennedy have any clue where to turn next. Just a sad state of affairs. I feel bad for the paying fans.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Realistically, there's no hope for this team to turn it around.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Sure, but in what sense does it matter?
  15. Bellhorn04
    How is the offense easily fixable?
  16. Bellhorn04
    Pythagorean records are interesting but ultimately meaningless. We have seen teams with massive discrepancies over entire seasons.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The rumblings and grumblings from places like Sons of Sam Horn are that Breslow's organizational approach to hitting is extremely analytics-driven and "one-size-fits-all" and that this is adversely affecting the younger guys especially. No idea if this is correct, but something sure seems wrong with the approach.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I find it hard to be hyper critical when someone seems to have done better than what most of us wanted him to do. Personally I don't measure the performance of the CBO against what any of us said they should have done. I find that pretty silly, actually. They are the ones who are paid to do that job, they are the ones with all the supposed expertise and inside info, they are the ones with the power to make the moves. (Note: I don't mean to come off as sounding harshly critical of you personally. I guess I'm looking for reactions more than anything. I respect your takes, you're very consistent with them.)
  19. Bellhorn04
    As I said, if they kept Betts and didn't keep Sale and Bogaerts. That would have reduced the payroll AAV. Here is what you said that sounded to me like being an apologist: It's hard for any GM to make up for all the players lost and aging stars with big contracts to rebuild when spending less and less each winter. Maybe deadline moves could have swung some seasons, but the "new GM" would have had to have great winters, year after year. Hard to do on peanuts. It sounds like Bloom and Breslow couldn't have been expected to do much better than they did.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Durbin is 0 for 14 in the last 4 games. OPS at .557.
  21. Bellhorn04
    To me it feels like you're being an apologist. Which is fine, I've been an apologist at times too. I place zero blame on Bloom for 2020 and obviously he did pretty well in 2021. Starting with 2022 things have been pretty crappy.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Our payrolls weren't really peanuts. They were disappointing to us as demanding Sox fans, but they weren't peanuts. Story and Yoshida are obvious examples of spending badly.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I'm a bottom line guy. There are always going to be some moves that work out and some that don't. But when you look at our W-L records and our payrolls in the Bloom-Breslow years, there's just no way to call them successful CBO's. And what are the Boston Red Sox doing hiring back-to-back heads of baseball operations with zero experience at the job?
  24. Bellhorn04
    And this is where blame has to fall on Henry. He has made the Red Sox CBO an unattractive job. You can win 3 division titles and a championship in 4 years and still get unceremoniously booted.
  25. Bellhorn04
    True. What we do know is that the years 2020-2026 have been bad to mediocre, with the one brief bright spot of the 2021 postseason run.
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