Bellhorn04
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I just said it was evidence of another Japanese player improving in Year 2. I didn't say it was guaranteed. I've been more critical than anyone of the Yoshida signing.
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Aside from the huge expense and huge risk, it's cake.
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Way to start the day with another thoughtful contribution.
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Sox ownership have been meddlers in the baseball decisions from the get-go. Theo's gorilla suit was the first sign of it. I don't think that's going to change. -
It's a sign of a badly constructed team and a fired CBO. Maybe this increasingly brutal finish will REALLY motivate Henry and the other jackasses to some serious action this offseason.
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moon just tries to be fair.
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I wouldn't call a 4-3 loss in 13 innings evidence of quitting. If Rafaela caught that ball in the 9th it was a win. Not that it matters.
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I don't see how you could ask that unless you didn't read the post I was replying to.
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That sounds like a pivot from "DD should have signed him" to "DD should have traded him". It's quite possible that they didn't trade Betts then because they still had some hope of extending him. What we'll never know, apparently, is how much they actually offered Betts or how much they were willing to offer. Betts has now denied he was ever offered $300 million, and there were no counter-denials. We do know that the Sox have made ridiculous lowball offers to Lester and Bogaerts. It's not beyond the realm of imagination that they also tried to lowball Betts. Maybe they were concerned about him holding up over a decade or more. I blame Henry 100%. Not DD and not Bloom.
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How can you blame DD for Betts when we have no idea how much Henry authorized to offer Betts? It's not like Henry hasn't made lowball offers to other players. Meanwhile, DD likes big offers. The only reasonable conclusion is that Henry did not want to offer what Betts was willing to accept, not even after DD was gone. According to Betts, the final offer came when Bloom had taken over, and it was so low that his team just said no thanks, see ya later.
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And Sox owners weren't expecting Bloom to waste the kind of money in 2023 that he did. Story 23.3 fWAR -0.2 Yoshida 18 0.6 Kike 9 -1.6 Kluber 10 -0.8 Total cost 61.3 mill Total fWAR MINUS 2
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Devers signs 11 year $331 million extension
Bellhorn04 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Back in the day fans would have been heaping criticism on Babe Ruth's physique. -
Devers signs 11 year $331 million extension
Bellhorn04 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He looks fine from what I've seen. He's a big man. The bigness helps put baseballs over fences. Just let him be. -
Suzuki had a 113 OPS+ last year and has a 119 this year, so that's some very recent evidence of improvement.
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Mainly because so many starting pitchers had bad years/injuries, and the bullpen was weaker. And s*** happens.
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That was a good piece by him.
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And let's face it, Cora did push his starters in the 2018 postseason with the relief stints. That did have a lingering effect, it seems. Look at what happened to Keith Foulke after Francona rode him like a rented mule in the 2004 ALCS. Then you had other bummers like World Series MVP Steve Pearce have his career come to a crashing halt. It was the classic year-after-championship meltdown. There are reasons it's so hard to win back-to-back World Series.
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You know your baseball, Dipre.
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108 is the outlier, sure. But 3 years in a row with 93 or better is pretty good IMHO. If we want to fixate on W-L records, Bloom has 1 good one and 3 terrible ones. And what you're saying is he built this 2023 mess of a team and that's what should be emphasized.
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Problem is the Red Sox front office specifically told the fans Bloom was hired to rebuild and be a playoff contender while doing so.
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Ridiculously unfair LOL. He didn't "build an 84 win team". He won 3 divisions and a title before that one disappointing 84 win season. And the 2021 team did just fine with many DD holdovers.
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Also - the 2021 team did fine with a few tweaks by Bloom. If he had done as well in 2022 and 2023 this thread might not exist.
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But then we come back to the question of whether DD didn't just do exactly what he thought he was hired to do. Make some big moves and win a championship. Done and done. High-priced pitchers are riskier than ever. Now someone is going to have to take that risk again.
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DD's comments about it were pretty classy, I thought. He said he was hurt because JH didn't say a word to him about why he was gone. DD said about 3 sentences about it, said he didn't want to say any more about it and that was that.
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Devers signs 11 year $331 million extension
Bellhorn04 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Round is a shape, as they say.
