Bellhorn04
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I can handle one .500 season. Stringing them together gets tiresome. I'm not feeling optimistic about this team at all. We have some young players worth watching, but that's about it.
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We saw the ugly downside of this "sorta have a chance in July" deal the last 2 years. Looks like Breslow is going to be in the same position as Bloom. If so you have to think he's going to sell.
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A lot is being made about Phillies fans and now Yankees fans taking over Fenway the last two series. Pretty embarrassing.
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I mean, we should be depressed about being 14 behind the Yanks and 10.5 behind the Birds in mid-June. It's only the ever-expanding playoffs and the possibility of 84 win teams winning the pennant that keeps any hope alive.
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Wins and losses are like mood-altering drugs, agreed. But the general picture doesn't change. We've been flipping and flopping and floundering around the .500 level 3 years in a row.
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But StatCast or Savant or whatever also show that relatively speaking he doesn't hit the ball especially hard, I believe.
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He's right though. We have folks talking about who to sell at the deadline not long after the season starts. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It's about the teams the Sox keep putting together. And after the fact we have a lot of lamenting about not selling off in 2022 etc. It's just a depressing state of affairs all around.
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I have to agree. That's the position they keep creating with these mediocre teams they assemble. Look what it did to poor Bloom. They turned him into a deer in the headlights looking for the invisible third fork in the road.
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Just look at the Yanks. They have good young guys like Gil and Volpe, but they don't build everything around them. They spend and spend.
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The Sox front office pretty much ran out the white flag in the offseason this time.
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Can't do that until the time is exactly right!
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Maybe Andrew Bailey's methods only work short term with some guys.
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One thing's for sure, it's been a nightmarish start for Grissom as a Red Sox. A recurring hammy injury, a .367 OPS and (perhaps the scariest number of all) 1 EBH in his 87 PA's, a remarkable fWAR of minus 0.9. While Sale is indeed a Cy Young candidate. Total Hapless Harry stuff for the Sox.
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Sale already has a 2.4 fWAR this year. Grissom is at minus .9 That's a difference of 3.3.
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Grissom?
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Yep, everything to do with dollars matters. Take it from an accountant.
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Right, but since 8 teams paid luxury tax last year and a few others were close, AAV matters to a lot of teams.
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Glad we got all that straightened out.
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Yep. Mookie's first arb pay was $10.5 million which he received after 2017. That must be among the very highest first arb pays handed out if not the highest. But they also seem to be gradually increasing the arb pays.
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I think we're making a bit too much of how cheap this rotation is. Bello got that extension, and Houck and Crawford are gonna get a lot more expensive if they keep pitching well. Good players don't stay cheap, only bad ones do.
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Monster IF here, but IF the Sox can replicate this series result against the Yanks, the selloff might be on hold.
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6/13 Phils @ SOX 7:10PM ET
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
The extra rest might have affected him a bit, but yeah, if this is one of his bad ones it's pretty good. -
Right. But Pivetta will be gone next year unless they sign him to a new contract, and the price tag for Houck and Crawford will keep going up. It's a constant financial juggling act on a high wire.
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The Sox have had a run of 18 games at .500, 1 game over or 1 game under. It'll be 19 after tonight, of course.
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6/12 Phils @ SOX 7:10PM ET
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Put it this way, the only logical way the quality of baseball would be worse in 2024 than in 2023 is if a pile of stars retired after 2023.
