Bellhorn04
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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
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I'm a Cora fanboy, so I'm biased, but I think Bloom's roster deficiencies made Cora look bad this year. I thought it was noteworthy that Shaughnessy was clearly defending Cora and blaming Bloom for this year's fiascos like the Barraclough game.
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Just install him as DH.
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I'll be surprised if Bush is back next year.
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Just kidding, here, okay, but... Maybe part of Yoshida's offseason training regime should be flying him back and forth across the country and putting him in hotels to build up his "travel muscles".
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I hope it's the Y not the O. We don't need any more DH's. But we sure as hell need starting pitching.
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There will be splash, I guarantee it. They've already set the tone for that with the "Our fans deserve better" message. If they don't follow up on that, the Nation will be more pissed than ever, and there will be no doubt who they're most pissed at.
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As I just said in another thread, Red Sox media all seem to think Cora is still very much in the good graces of ownership. The thing is, if we're firing Bloom because he did a lousy job constructing the 2022-2023 teams, it's hard to blame Cora too. It would have taken a miracle for the 2023 Red Sox and their pitiful starting rotation to make the playoffs.
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Just my opinion, but I think when Average Fan says he hated the Mookie trade, it's shorthand for hating that they let him go.
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Red Sox media all seem to think Cora is still very much in the good graces of ownership.
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So where the hell do they go from here? I think we all have a sense they're going to make some fan-pleasing splashes this offseason, so it's gonna be interesting.
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Exactly.
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Devers signs 11 year $331 million extension
Bellhorn04 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Devers is never going to be Svelte Sven. I think he keeps himself in baseball shape. -
Here's what's a little ironic, though. These non-moves that Bloom is now being ripped for were future-oriented moves rather than compete now moves. If the Sox front office is trying to tell us they think Bloom was paying too much attention to the present by not making these moves, that would indicate they are approximately the most two-faced f***ers on the planet.
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I am that poster, of course. Let me try to clarify my position once and for all. Any suggestions I have made or will make that the Red Sox should have retained Bogaerts are based on the premise that they could have signed him for 6-7 years for 160-180 million, and not signed Story instead. No need for moon to point out again that we don't know if Bogaerts would have signed for that. I stipulate that he's right. The contract Bogaerts got from the Padres was insane and I've never said I wanted the Red Sox to do that contract. Yes, I do quote fWAR because it's an objective source of total player value. As for Old School Numbers, Bogaerts's 2023 OPS of .767 does seem to be better than Story's 2023 OPS of .521. (Had to get a little snark in here.)
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Not necessarily. He might have approved a trade to a championship contender.
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a) No, I don't think the correct answer is zero. It clearly supports the position that you can be highly successful without anyone playing more than 150.
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The Sale rumor seems pretty shaky.
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If ownership realized that, they would have approved a fire sale.
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Our fans deserve the best! That's why we didn't pay Mookie or Xander and we cut payroll and raised ticket prices!
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But they were all in to contend every season, they tell us! None of it really adds up to a coherent story.
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Exactly.
