Bellhorn04
-
Posts
54,658 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
75
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Bellhorn04
-
But when they cut Lackey and Lester loose they knew it was going to leave a big hole at the top of the starting rotation, and they should have seen it all coming from the beginning of the 2014 season. They had a large amount of time to plan for all this. It was very premeditated, or it should have been.
-
I thought one of our areas of strength was money.
-
Hypothetically, the Red Sox had at least 5 options by which they could have retained or acquired a #1 or #1/2 starter. 1) Not trade Lackey. 2) Sign Lester. 3) Sign Scherzer. 4) Sign Shields. 5) Trade for Hamels.
-
But Ortiz is almost 40, and on borrowed time one would think. And guys like Napoli have been known to fall off the cliff at around this point in their careers. The projections seem to be based on optimism, without much consideration for 's**t happens'.
-
Men are simple creatures.
-
Then we need a new set-up man. Trading Koji might get us a nice prospect. But trading any good pitcher also adds to our to-do list for 2016.
-
Lynn, Rice, Dewey, Fisk - that was a once-in-a-millennium crop, or once-in-forever. And of course none of them were pitchers. For our #1 pitchers in the 70's we had to trade for Tiant and Eck. There's almost always been a problem producing pitching.
-
To me the projections that we would have the top offense in the AL, or one of the top offenses, may have been faulty. In 2014 we scored 3.91 runs a game, tied for 3rd worst in the league, and we had an OPS+ of 92, 2nd worst in the league. It baffles me a little how we were going to go from that to the top of the league with the additions we made. But I haven't looked at the projections.
-
Then we need a closer for next year.
-
Anyway, it seems kind of odd for us to be trying to pin all the blame on one or the other when they are both well below expectations.
-
Didn't you expect this team to score more than 4.2 runs a game?
-
If: The offense was expected to be top of the pack and instead it's middle of the pack. The pitching was expected to be middle of the pack and instead it's bottom of the pack. Are they not roughly equally responsible?
-
I think everyone is aware that underperformance by both our offense and our pitching are responsible for our record. They're about equally responsibly, perhaps. This is about heat being directed at Ben and the FO. The difference is that Ben and the FO made a major effort to upgrade the offense. Nobody is criticizing them about that. The criticism is that they could have done more to upgrade the pitching and they made a clear decision not to.
-
I can't believe you're even serious with this comment.
-
Betts/Bogaerts/Vazquez?
-
He's got a lot of financial incentive to get back this time.
-
No, I don't think Ben is stupid. In this case I think he adopted a strategy with the pitching that was too risky for a team that has as much money as this team does. He really rolled the dice and went against the grain of what almost everyone expected, which was that the Sox would acquire a #1 starter in the offseason.
-
Clay has been diagnosed with a flexor strain. Early indications are no damage to UCL. Doug Fister had a flexor strain this year and was out about a month.
-
Did Ben or someone in the organization ever actually say this?
-
The most innings Kelly has ever pitched is 124. Last year he only pitched 96.1. He pitched worse in 2014 than he did in 2013. I'm not sure how anyone could even project a guy like Kelly for a full season.
-
Ok, ok so who is the all-star from this group?
Bellhorn04 replied to sk7326's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hey, phantom debates are a big part of how we roll here. In truth I couldn't care less about Bogaerts not making it. -
Ok, ok so who is the all-star from this group?
Bellhorn04 replied to sk7326's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Fan voting is OK with me. But fan voting + game decides HFA for WS = ludicrous fiasco. -
I respect this position, but... I think Ben really rolled the dice with the rotation. While it's true that 4 of the 5 are below their career numbers, all 5 of these guys had something scary in their numbers too. The only guy whose underperformance so far is genuinely shocking is Porcello. All these guys had a lot of downside risk. That's the way I see it anyway.
-
Even if he needs TJS?
-
I'm still on the side that Ben used faulty reasoning in constructing the pitching staff. Short on talent, and our most talented starter was also extremely fragile.
