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  1. Bellhorn04
    Well put.
  2. Bellhorn04
    He might be better than good. And he's got some serious attitude.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it will always be a mystery. I don't understand how they could have conducted a thorough medical on Sale and pronounced him good to go. And yet he did pitch in 2019 and very well at times. moonslav's theory that DD assumed Sale would need TJ surgery during the contract but was still worth it for 4 years and 145 mill (128 mill for tax purposes) does make some sense.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Well of course, there's that well-worn sports cliche about "playing to the level of the competition". And it's not really a positive trait of a team. And the 2023 Sox seem to be giving it validation...
  5. Bellhorn04
    Well of course, there's that well-worn sports cliche about "playing to the level of the competition". The 2023 Sox seem to be giving it some validation...
  6. Bellhorn04
    Excellent post.
  7. Bellhorn04
    There's definitely part of me that won't be sad if the 2023 Sox go in the tank along with attendance and ratings. I'm not proud of myself for thinking that way, but I can't help it. I've had enough last-place finishes for a while. Maybe it's an old guy thing, I don't know. I'm 67.
  8. Bellhorn04
    "The roster is what it is." - Alex Cora This team is doing about as well as could have been realistically expected. It was projected to be about .500 or a little over, and that's exactly where it is. With Sale gone, Houck gone a while and now Paxton questionable, we are going to have a lot of trouble staying at .500.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Of course!
  10. Bellhorn04
    Didn't you say we've been spending plenty?
  11. Bellhorn04
    Right, he's little poor boy Chaim.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Well, Bloom must have liked something in how Wacha pitched in 2021...
  13. Bellhorn04
    Bloom is actually the only one I've heard say it. No idea why he said it, really, but it did sound very promising at the time. It didn't sound like Corey Kluber. Also, you keep bringing up Eovaldi's 407 innings over the last 4 seasons (actually 3.4 seasons because of COVID), but for some reason you leave out that Kluber pitched only 280 innings over the same time.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Not me. I've commented on the discrepancies between the two many times. I've pointed out the classic example of Rick Porcello's nice-looking 2020 fWAR many times.
  15. Bellhorn04
    The Kluber signing wouldn't piss me off as much if Bloom didn't say he was going to acquire a pitcher with "upside". Makes him look like a flat-out liar/politician. I think he whiffed on his real targets such as Eflin, and ended up settling for Kluber. It didn't work out.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I f**king love "ill composed".
  17. Bellhorn04
    Only if you think fWAR is the true measure of performance, which is highly debatable. Kluber's bWAR was 0.8.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Even if true, Bloom could have signed pitchers instead of Story and Yoshida.
  19. Bellhorn04
    I had high expectations before this past offseason. I had low expectations after this past offseason.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Duvall had 2 things going against him when he returned - the layoff, and the laws of regression to the norm.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Eovaldi's injury history over the last 5 years isn't really worse than Paxton's, is it?
  22. Bellhorn04
    Um, Max, why would you quote Duvall's .760 OPS and leave out Refsnyder's .689 OPS, and why would you like the .689 guy better than the .760 guy?
  23. Bellhorn04
    I don't have a big problem with 6-game win streaks followed by disturbing 2-game losing streaks. That happens to the best teams. But it does feel like this team is hovering on the brink between playoff contention and total sub-.500 irrelevance. So are a bunch of other teams, but that's small consolation for Sox fans who had bigger expectations from Bloom's 4th season.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Giolito has the infamous "reverse splits" - right-handers hit him better (.751) than left-handers (.680) over his career. So Cora was correct as usual.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Look at it this way, Bello was signed in July 2017 and didn't pitch in the bigs until 2022, so that's 5 years. Bloom's first signings were in 2020.
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