Bellhorn04
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Just a little more faith in Yoshida because he has a track record. Romy could improve against righties, sure. Campbell and Garcia have no track records so I can't see turning to them now. We'll see them again in 2026. -
Yeah, not a great post by me. One of my all fired up posts.
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Yoshida .674. Pretty small differences here, and Yoshida's sample size is still small enough that his OPS jumped 45 points last night. Still not sure why you have so little faith in his ability to hit righties.
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That was me that said 2 weeks as a guess, and it was just a few days ago, actually. But like I said, the real answer to that question is that it's up to management to figure out. They are looking at all kinds of things that we don't even know about. And we know that they are not really averse to jettisoning guys...
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He's not starting against lefties. Should be compared to the other options against righties.
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SF has a "pitcher's park" Park Factor in the low 90s though.
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Yes. But the parallels with the Nomar trade are pretty strong to this point. It felt like a cloud was lifted when Devers was traded. Not that he's a terrible guy, but the situation was so uncomfortable that it just always seemed to be lurking there as an unhelpful distraction and you didn't know if there was more bad stuff yet to come.
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I'll stick with the opinions of Cora and the rest of management over the armchair versions. I think the real ones have done an excellent job this year.
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New leadoff hitters are probably a platoon of Duran and Eaton.
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I'm surprised you bailed on Yoshida so fast. He proved he can hit 800 against righties over 2 seasons. Positive regression was virtually inevitable. How long should the leash be? That's up to Cora and Breslow and the hitting coaches. They have vastly more data and knowledge than us.
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Nah, we have Fred and we have other raggers to look after all that. You're supposed to be one of the reasonable ones.
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Campbell had 263 PAs and Yoshida has had 128, after a long layoff.
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And very fitting that it happened to the all-time roid king.
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There's still a reasonable chance for some positive regression by Yoshida. He was over .800 against eighties in 2023-2024 combined.
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Yoshida does have a better track record. What exactly makes you think Garcia or Campbell can hit right handed major league pitching right now?
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What MLB team would you say exemplifies this approach?
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Not liking the results?
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But signing Bregman seems like it was a very long way from a sure thing, especially since the total guaranteed money was significantly less than other offers he got. As with many things concerning the Sox behind the scenes doings, we'll never really know.
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I know. For some reason Fenway seems to foil the spray charts.
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Fenway fools everyone again!
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Houston reportedly offered him 6/156 or something like that. My Pollyanna take is that he really wanted to play for the Red Sox and Cora.
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Personally I don't think they trade him unless they think his attitude is a real issue. They know damn well it makes the 2025 team a couple wins worse on paper. What muddies the waters intent-wise, of course, is that it was also an opportunity to shed a very large contract.
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Devers stunk for quite a while after the trade. He's been hot as a pistol the last week or two. No one will ever know how much of an impact the trade had on the Red Sox psychologically, but for the most part they've been playing a much better brand of baseball since the trade.
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The third catcher is just emergency insurance, it enables Cora to do something like use Narvaez as a pinch-hitter - like he did yesterday, very successfully I might add. Kelly is a mystery. Andrew Bailey must think there's something there he can fix.
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If they're going to give up on him now they might as well release him. We all know he might start hitting. Why wouldn't he? He hit righties very well in 2023 and 2024. He's healthy. He's just rusty. Look at how Story shook off the rust after people were giving up on him. I think you have to give him a couple more weeks. That's just playing the percentages.
