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  1. Bellhorn04
    And Eovaldi really is a guy they should have re-signed. But they have been absolute tightwads with free agent pitchers. They wouldn't beat the Cubs $53 million for Imanaga, for God's sake. What has become of us? We're talking cheapskates here, folks, let's be real about it. 😛
  2. Bellhorn04
    To me a realistic plan with post-2019 Sale would have been to view him as a wild card until he proved otherwise, not as the presumed anchor of the rotation. I don't even like the word "plan" that much with some of this stuff. A large % of baseball players are very unpredictable from year to year. Teams need all sorts of backup plans, if they expect to be successful. Look at Texas in 2023. Their Hall of Fame candidates, Scherzer and deGrom, were virtually useless, and it was Eovaldi and Montgomery who really delivered, especially in the postseason.
  3. Bellhorn04
    He's in the inner circle of our hitting coaching now. If they fire Fatse I suspect he's the replacement. Just have to watch and see if our approach gets better next year. Way too many Ks this year.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Did Bloom ever actually say anything about that being the plan and the reason he signed nothing but cheap short-term starters? It could easily have been part of a different plan - the scrimp and punt plan.
  5. Bellhorn04
    OTOH no one is ripping them because Whitlock and Story got injured again. The usual grumbling that Whitlock should be in the pen, of course.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Wacha has exceeded 124 innings in each of the last 5 full seasons, averaging 135.9. The way things are now, he might be a lot closer to the top in innings pitched over that period than you think!
  7. Bellhorn04
    Chains of events. If Schiraldi gets Carter out, Steamer and Buckner are lifting the trophy instead of wearing goat horns.
  8. Bellhorn04
    You're right. I may be reaching. What I'm really wondering about is the Red Sox "organizational philosophy" about hitting and how Lawson fits into it-they clearly think he's a perfect fit.
  9. Bellhorn04
    That's true. Maybe more pertinent is that they went from 18th in K's in 2023 with 1372 to 3rd in 2024 with 1570.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Right, it's just that a lot of people don't seem to realize the score had already been tied by the time the ball was hit to Buckner. The real problem was that McNamara didn't pinch hit Baylor for Buckner against Orosco with the bases loaded in the 8th.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Dillon Lawson has been promoted to assistant hitting coach. Wonderful news. 😛
  12. Bellhorn04
    I'll take it a step further and say he's in big trouble.
  13. Bellhorn04
    For me the very best moment of all the moments was the end of ALCS Game 7 in Yankee Stadium, looking at the guys in the dugout getting ready to run on the field and celebrate.
  14. Bellhorn04
    2019: Dombrowski ruined us for years with Price and Sale-and got fired. 2020: Goodbye Mookie. And on and on it goes...
  15. Bellhorn04
    Yes, when things go wrong, we point fingers. We all do it. Bloom had fingers pointed at him by all of us for various things that didn't work out, and then Henry pointed his finger and said "see ya". Why would this be different?
  16. Bellhorn04
    And that's what I've been saying. They badly needed more starting pitching. Everyone said so including the team. What do they do? Nothing but swap one risky starting pitcher for another-one reclamation project for another. That was their answer. It's kind of mind-boggling to me.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Ridiculous. I've acknowledged the injury risk over and over. It's hopeless trying to debate with someone who fails to understand your position or has no problem misrepresenting it and using straw men.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It was one hire, but a pretty significant one when the guy just got fired as hitting coach by our arch-rival. The Yankees offense under Lawson was roundly criticized for being one-dimensional, home run or nothing. And the numbers bore it out. Why would they think this guy was a plus? You can keep making move after move, but it doesn't get you far if your judgement continues to suck...
  19. Bellhorn04
    If you think the budget was no factor, why not keep Sale and sign Giolito? Sale + Giolito has to be either better or the same as just Giolito. That's beyond dispute. And if they need a second baseman that bad, there are other ways. Grissom was a prospect, no more no less. I have no idea why you would think "replacing" Sale was necessary. Talk about making ZERO sense. This is starting pitchers we're talking about. You've talked countless times about how a team needs a pile of starting pitchers to get through a season. "Adding to" Sale - yes, that would have made sense.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Right, but that's an enormous qualifier when you're talking about 4 kids that have never even played in an MLB game.
  21. Bellhorn04
    In reality I don't think we'll ever know if moves likes this have an impact one way or the other. But I perfectly understand the cynicism of an old schooler like Denny. They get tired of hearing about all the supposed upgrades in analytics and other off field programs when the actual major league team continues to flounder the way it has basically starting when they hired Bloom. I seem to be the only one here who was dumbfounded that they hired Dillon Lawson after the Yankees canned him midseason, and in 2024 the Yankees got much better in the K/BB department and the Red Sox got much worse.
  22. Bellhorn04
    No one is sure of anything with Henry and the payroll any more. I have shifted to a pessimistic outlook, but maybe that's just because I got sick of the optimistic outlook being squashed.
  23. Bellhorn04
    But they also have these things called "doctors" who perform these things called "examinations" before trades are finalized. He was obviously healthy as far as anyone could reasonably determine. The rest is just "yeah, but still, he gets injured a lot" no s*** Sherlock stuff.
  24. Bellhorn04
    There's one simple 2-part explanation for all of it-trading Sale/signing Giolito/not replacing Giolito. 1) The budget was tight and was prioritized over everything else. 2) They were punting anyway - it really didn't matter to them if they made the playoffs.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Can you please try to read what I actually said? Is it that difficult? I said he looked healthy AT THE END OF 2023.
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