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  1. Excellent post.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.
  4. Of course!
  5. Didn't you say we've been spending plenty?
  6. Right, he's little poor boy Chaim.
  7. Well, Bloom must have liked something in how Wacha pitched in 2021...
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. I f**king love "ill composed".
  12. Only if you think fWAR is the true measure of performance, which is highly debatable. Kluber's bWAR was 0.8.
  13. Even if true, Bloom could have signed pitchers instead of Story and Yoshida.
  14. I had high expectations before this past offseason. I had low expectations after this past offseason.
  15. Duvall had 2 things going against him when he returned - the layoff, and the laws of regression to the norm.
  16. Eovaldi's injury history over the last 5 years isn't really worse than Paxton's, is it?
  17. 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?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Personally I think the Dalbec promotion makes some sense. Why not give him one more shot or maybe increase his trade value a bit. Not much to lose. I assume Casa will still get the majority of starts as long as his signs remain positive.
  22. The Days of Hamilton are upon us!
  23. When you look at our respective records against good teams and bad teams this year, what you learn is... Nothing.
  24. They are truly a last place team, but still with a legit shot at the playoffs.
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