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  1. Bellhorn04
    But it's not. Henry's reluctance is the reason.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Mitch Moreland? Yeah, if not for him we'd have been able to keep the elite talent. What a compelling case!
  3. Bellhorn04
    I understand a lot of the anti-DD sentiment, and yet... -Which player that DD traded away do we miss? -The 2021 team did fairly well. So are the failures of the 2022 and 2023 teams more on DD or Bloom?
  4. Bellhorn04
    Or 4.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Nobody should be happy with the 2022 or 2023 Red Sox. The 2023 team had some good moments, but the trend is not promising.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Maybe he's still not ready.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Barnes?
  8. Bellhorn04
    I'd call it more like a momentary lull in a shitstorm.
  9. Bellhorn04
    These last two seasons really have been brutal, there's no way around it. I was sure that after last season they were going to really do better this year. But Bloom did a totally half-ass job this offseason. He did just enough to keep the team floating around the .500 mark again.
  10. Bellhorn04
    How much information do I need? I have a subscription to the Globe, I read some of the articles by Shaughnessy and the others and I look at some of the comments after the articles. I know the general sentiment is that Bloom sucks and needs to go. What else is there to know?
  11. Bellhorn04
    We know they're not happy these days. We really do.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Right, but playing the game only has two possible outcomes - you're either one game ahead or one game behind.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Not a fan of the two game swing concept?
  14. Bellhorn04
    Bogaerts is struggling. Eovaldi and Wacha are on the IL.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Even "the budget" is an oversimplification, IMHO. A budget is for one year. A contract extension for Betts would have affected the payroll for the next decade plus. Henry just didn't want to go as high as it would have taken to get Mookie to sign on the bottom line. That's what it came down to.
  16. Bellhorn04
    So in your scenario, Refsnyder wouldn't play at all anymore, even against lefties - do I have that right?
  17. Bellhorn04
    So what's the solution-pick 3 guys to be in the lineup every day and bury the other 2? The whole team is in somewhat of a slump, as you've noted.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I'm distancing both Dombrowski and Bloom. I think if DD had his way they would have offered more money, absolutely. I've said that a number of times.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Verdugo had an OPS of .478 in July, so he should have been just DFAd, I guess. The thing is, major league hitters go into short-term slumps all the time, and if you bury them when they're slumping, they'll never come out of it.
  20. Bellhorn04
    And I know you know this, but Eck was talking about the pitcher who gave up the winning run sadly walking off the mound. So the whole "walk-off" thing got monumentally misunderstood, but of course no one cares LOL
  21. Bellhorn04
    It was the decision to stop negotiating with Mookie, to give up on trying to keep him, that had to come from ownership. And the negotiations with Mookie had started long before Bloom came along. So yeah, that decision was above Bloom's level. Seems pretty obvious to me.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Bloom is a salaried employee who can be fired at any time. Henry is the majority shareholder of a franchise worth $4.5 billion. Do you really think Henry would just let his employee make a call of that magnitude on his own?
  23. Bellhorn04
    You don't seem to like the word "mediocre".
  24. Bellhorn04
    I was referring to the options of Andrus and Iglesias.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Agreed. But I have a hard time believing the plan was to be a .500 team or worse over the course of the 2022 and 2023 seasons. And it's not like they didn't spend some money.
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