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Will Trevor Story actually be back this season?
Bellhorn04 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yes, we're a hair's breadth from garbage time. From having a look at Story and so on. -
I could be wrong but I thought the earlier offer for Sale came from Texas. I wasn't one of the people who was mad at Bloom for not doing it. I supported him on that. I've pretty much been a Sale Pollyanna all along.
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Who are your favorite Red Sox bloggers?
Bellhorn04 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Outstanding piece here by Dan Secatore at Over the Monster about Devers not speaking to the press for a hour plus after Tuesday's loss to the Mets and some of the fallout. And about a lot more than that. Secatore is really good. https://www.overthemonster.com/2024/9/6/24236818/red-sox-rafael-devers-didnt-speak-but-he-said-everything-christopher-smith-chris-cotillo-masslive -
I'm very skeptical they're going to do what it takes to acquire an ace this offseason. Because they're basically in the same position they were last offseason. It's still a .500 team with a promising farm and a ton of question marks. I think they are going to kick the can down the road one more time and treat 2025 as another year of evaluating where they are. If a lot goes right in 2025 they might finally feel motivated to make those big moves.
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I did go back and look at the early posts in this thread and re-posted a sample of them. They showed a very mixed reaction to the trade. Old school types like jad, iortiz, cp176 and a700 absolutely hated it! My initial reaction was positive but after a couple of days of thinking about it I amended to say the trade would look very questionable if they did nothing more than sign Giolito. My big problem with their approach to the 2024 rotation is really not that much different from yours, we only differ on the particulars. You have excoriated them for not doing anything to replace Giolito when he went down. I'm excoriating them for trading Sale when we had such a desperate need for starting pitching and clearly had no intention to do much about it.. I think some hindsight is fair in evaluating this trade not because of Sale's shockingly good health and performance, but because of the overall negligence of the rotation that we saw. That negligence basically nullified any sense this trade might have made in isolation IMHO.
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I think notin's strategy here is to keep saying Sale is due for an injury until it actually happens.
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What, nobody can predict injuries? Interesting.
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The best news about the Sale trade right now is that the Red Sox are pretty much making it irrelevant for this year.
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Those are WAR projections, which necessarily include innings projections... Projections are obviously just best guesses, but they are based on statistical models, so they're about all you can ask for.
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Devers is playing hurt and it shows. They'll probably have to shut him down soon.
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The overall numbers are slightly improved from 2023. But if you take out the first month of the season I'm afraid the comparison would not look so good. ERA by month 2.62 !!! 4.12 4.33 4.91 4.95 6.47
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Yes, I looked for them, but he must have been already hurt.
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Injuries suck. The recurring injuries to Story and Whitlock suck too, but I don't necessarily think it means we should cut bait on them.
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Almost all the 2024 pre-season projections for Sale predicted a WAR of 2.7-2.9, with innings of 127 to 150. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/chris-sale/10603/stats?position=P (Click on the Preseason Projections tab.) Make of that what you will, but these are objective, data-based numbers.
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They posed different kinds of risks. I'd call a guy who posted a 7 ERA over his last 2 months of work pretty risky. I think you might have suggested he was pitching hurt and the injury in spring training was the end result.
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He was actually disagreeing with mvp that time LOL I think what notin and I have in common is that we just can't let something go the way normal people would LOL
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And the "couldn't count on him" argument drives me batty. I mean, I'd argue that the Red Sox really had no reason to "count on" any of Giolito, Houck, Crawford, Bello, Pivetta or Whitlock to have a good season. Every single one of those guys had issues and question marks of some sort.
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That explanation still doesn't make sense to me. I'll just never understand why trading a starting pitcher made a lot of sense for the Red Sox because they were so thin in starting pitching. We do know the Red Sox suck at Plan B's though, I'll ready concede that point.
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Abreu does look like an excellent trade candidate and should bring back something useful. I think they should probably hold into DHam with all the question marks in our middle infield scenarios.
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Yes, 5Gloves is right, Baltimore and the Yanks both have serious closer issues.
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Dominguez has already supplanted Kimbrel as the O's closer.
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I don't think there's any chance those 3 get you back 2 good late inning relievers. Late inning relievers are a pretty valuable commodity.
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Brez was their man.
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Will Trevor Story actually be back this season?
Bellhorn04 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Trevor was 4 for 5 for the WooSox last night! -
I'll say. 31-38 with a -46 run differential. Hard to believe, really. But we must remember that even if the team sucks to an embarrassing degree, fans always get the Fenway Experience. And there are affordable tickets for students.
