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  1. You're preaching to the choir. But my inner Polly gets excited by a couple of wins, I can't help it. This team should be better than the last 3 with Crochet and Bregman totally living up to expectations. And how about that Narvaez?
  2. But it's not even that simple. Pitchers are allowed to argue but they can't leave the mound when they do it. Robo-call challenges are an easy fix.
  3. Thank you. That certainly suggests the Sox defense, while not great, is much better than their fielding pct.
  4. If the rotation would solidify (huge if) I think they can change that a bit.
  5. Buehler was pretty hard on himself about getting tossed. Personally I kind of love the guy. He's a serious competitor.
  6. I think it might be interesting to see what the correlation strength between fielding pct. and advanced defensive ratings is.
  7. Ruth of course was also a pretty damn good pitcher. He picked up an additional 20 WAR from it, in fact!
  8. Probably not in a PR sense, but Devers is raking, so if it worked out baseball-wise that might be more important. It's all opinions.
  9. Right, just like your belief that Cora is mishandling the Devers situation could be totally out to lunch.
  10. Maybe Cora did that just to put his mind at ease and let him focus on hitting. I highly doubt he made any promises about never playing 1B ever. That'd be pretty foolish since Cora could be gone any time himself. The bottom line is none of us know jack about what was actually said and we're all just guessing. But the fact Devers is hitting like a beast now after all the uproar suggests that however Cora handled it wasn't the worst thing.
  11. Well maybe Max has a point. Maybe focusing on DH has worked for Devers. He's certainly been hitting well.
  12. Bailey got a few good months out of him. Bailey hasn't really proved his methods are effective with any of our pitchers for very long. Plus a lot of them are getting injured.
  13. Houck had some success before Bailey came along. Bailey made a pretty big change in his pitch mix, and it worked great at first, but it seems like hitters rapidly caught on. Now he looks like a total writeoff. I have no idea how much of it is Bailey's fault. It's all speculation. But when things turn to s**t there's going to be speculation aplenty.
  14. I think you're going to start hearing about it, but in the wrong direction. Can't shake the feeling the Sox have gone all in on certain 'scientific'/'philosophical' approaches that just aren't working.
  15. No kidding. We're mostly here to express our opinions.
  16. We really have very little clue what JH is thinking about the Sox any more. He says nothing. There has to be frustration though. They spent on this team, they had 3 hot prospects, but it looks like a train wreck. The Sons of Sam Horn boys are pointing fingers at Cora but also at Bailey and at the hitting approach. There's something obviously wrong with the way this team is being run.
  17. I still think Cora is a very good in-game manager. I think the things that have really started to raise questions are the team's sloppiness and/or listlessness. We've seen the team battle back from deficits several times in the last two series so that's a positive sign. But they need to get on a run. Flipping and flopping around the .500 mark is getting old.
  18. The simple answer is business is #1. But a winning team is generally better for business. More fan interest and extra revenue from playoff games. So there's a connection between the two.
  19. I need a better definition of the eye test too.
  20. Does the eye test include looking at the box scores? That's all you needed with Crochet and Giolito the last two games.
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