Bellhorn04
-
Posts
54,669 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
75
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Bellhorn04
-
I was definitely looking at things through a cranky 2022 filter. As far as the Springs trade is concerned, the fact that none of us saw anything in him is irrelevant. We're not the ones who get paid to make the moves. The Rays must have seen something in him. And if Bloom is going to get credit for a pickup like Schreiber, as he should, he also has to take the heat for giving up a guy who has a good season, like Springs did.
-
Renfroe and Springs appear to be two examples of Bloom making a good move and then rather quickly negating it with a bad move. One thing that worries me about him is a possible tendency toward being a little too unconventional or clever...sometimes being conventional is not a bad thing.
-
As for Gallo, his career OBP of .325 is OK, but that career BA of .199 is bloody awful alright. Compare him to another Three Outcomes guy, Adam Dunn: Gallo 199/325/469/794 OPS+ 109 Dunn 237/364/490/854 OPS+ 124
-
Moving the ghost runner from second to third by way of an out is generally a bad play unless it's a really weak hitter at the plate. Teams scored an average of 1.38 runs in extra innings this year. So playing for and scoring one run would frequently have resulted in a loss anyway.
-
Nimmo is far from weak.
-
The Mariners have played 4 games this postseason, one in which a 7 run lead was lost, and one in which a 4 run lead was lost.
-
Much too reasonable.
-
How 'bout those Phillies?
-
Fair enough. The Yankee forum I follow is blaming it on Bloom for hooking Peralta too soon, for not using Schmidt instead of Taillon, because Taillon has hardly ever pitched in relief etc.
-
One thing I have noticed in my years of watching baseball is that starters often struggle when called on as late inning relievers in postseason games. As Taillon just did for the Yankees. There are some notable exceptions of course, Randy Johnson in 2001, Bumgarner in 2014, Lester in 2016, and several members of the Red Sox 2018 rotation.
-
You are contradicting yourself, though. Yesterday you said "2022 does not mean anything for what happens in 2023". But with Kike you're saying "what have you done for me lately". So obviously what happened in 2022 means plenty to you.
-
In Kike's last full season with the Dodgers he started 100 games and subbed in 30. He was 6th in games started. I don't see how you can be called a backup player with those numbers. It doesn't compute.
-
I don't know. Ben Zobrist got called a Swiss Army Knife. Playing multiple positions doesn't necessarily make you a sub or a backup.
-
No, but using "super-sub" for a starter is bad terminology.
-
Even if Kike led his team in games started, Old Red would still call him a super-sub or some such thing.
-
2 of his pitches left the yard, unfortunately.
-
Wouldn't it be more fun if we include pitchers?
-
Bogey & Nimmo.
-
How the heck did murder and rape being fine get in the conversation?
-
Jake Reed is a cool name, at least.
-
In 2019 with the Dodgers, for example, he started 100 games and appeared in 30 others. Most importantly for this discussion, he was 6th on the team in plate appearances. That makes you a regular, ain't no way around it.
-
Whyzat?
-
I'd leave them just as they are.
-
#19 all-time in bWAR including pitchers...
-
And Kike is just a bit better on defense...
