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  1. Bellhorn04
    Bello's Run Support Rabbit Paw continues to be in great working order!
  2. Bellhorn04
    It's a survivable bad contract, I agree on that. His presence might be useful, but let's face it - the only way it is is if Devers goes down to injury, which nobody wants... So if Yoshida is going to have an MLB career of any sort, the Red Sox would be doing him a favor by trading him to a team in need of a DH. But of course they're not really in the business of doing favors. They'd have to recoup some dough in the process...
  3. Bellhorn04
    Started the year in horrific slump. Broke out of it for a few games. Went into another slump. Broke out of it for a few games. Hopefully he's back for good now. It does look like the horrific start was mostly about rust.
  4. Bellhorn04
    We're facing Logan Allen the 2nd.
  5. Bellhorn04
    The Sox made their blockbuster trade for Crochet and they followed through with the extension. I don't believe Anthony and Mayer are going anywhere, except to Boston.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It doesn't really matter what they told him. The fact is he was always a DH in waiting. We all love him but he got paid about twice as much as he should have.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Lazy post by me - I knew I was leaving someone important out. I love Whitlock.
  8. Bellhorn04
    It's not all gloom and doom. Some stuff has been going right. Crochet, Buehler, Chapman, Slaten, Bregman, Campbell, Abreu, Duran starting to heat up etc. If they have reasonable health luck they really should make the playoffs.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Now you have to be joking. They won the ring in 2018 in spite of those bad contracts. But those contracts also impacted the team's payroll freakout after the 2018 ring. Dombrowski took a lot of heat for the sky-high payrolls in 2018-2019, but the reality was that a lot of the bad contracts were ones he inherited.
  10. Bellhorn04
    No, it's 100% an issue because Yoshida, making 18 million a year, is only suited to DH and Devers has taken that spot from him. So we have an 18 million backup DH that we don't really want to ever see because it would mean Devers is injured.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Some would say we have a present and insoluble DH logjam with Devers and Yoshida.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Man, the numbers really bear this out. Sox offense: Innings 1-3 61 runs .847 OPS 4-6 34 runs .636 OPS 7-9 36 runs .679 OPS
  13. Bellhorn04
    I absolutely agree that DH should be manned full-time by a good hitter, not used to rest guys. The Red Sox problem is having a surplus of guys-Devers, Yoshida and Casas-whose best position is DH.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Both are fielding demotions. DH is the more radical version.
  15. Bellhorn04
    There has to be some way the guys who run baseball could figure out how to remove this disincentive to promoting a potentially big talent. They're supposed to be trying to please the fans, after all - growing the game, making more money, that kind of thing we usually think of as a good thing...
  16. Bellhorn04
    But it's easy for us to say that from our armchairs, no? In the Seattle series Casas had 2 homers, 6 RBI and 3 walks. Maybe he's about to get hot. And if he does a lot of the talk about moving him will go away...
  17. Bellhorn04
    If only we could use 2 DH's!
  18. Bellhorn04
    Yoshida has other flaws too. He's a very slow baserunner. He couldn't hit lefties last year. And you might even argue that he's "injury-prone" or breaking down at this point. He does have strengths but they get drowned by his weaknesses. He'd be nice to have in a DH platoon, but that's kind of a tough fit. Obviously if Devers has to go on the IL, that's Yoshida's opening and we'd be semi-happy to have him.
  19. Bellhorn04
    We've also seen recent examples of the moving around thing not working very well at all. If you've got a guy like Ben Zobrist or, on a smaller scale, Brock Holt, it works, but I don't think guys who can actually do this well are all that plentiful. Let's see some names, I say!
  20. Bellhorn04
    I have a pretty strong feeling that metrics people are dictating a lot of the lineup stuff, and the metrics people do not subscribe to the theory of hot hitters. A guy could be 6 for his last 8, but if he's not the best matchup for today's starting pitcher, he's out of the lineup.
  21. Bellhorn04
    The other problem is that they didn't have much trade value. Masa's contract is deep underwater and he was injured to boot. Casas had an injury-plagued season and he's yet another should-be DH.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Was your main issue with yesterday's lineup Campbell being in CF?
  23. Bellhorn04
    Re Mayer & Anthony - their normal positions are SS and RF, and Story and Abreu have been 2 of our best players. Mayer can't take 3B from Bregman or 2B from Campbell. It's a conundrum. Someone has to get hurt or really start to play bad to create an opening. Either that or some sort of musical chairs arrangement, and those can be troublesome in their own way...
  24. Bellhorn04
    I don't understand the question. Can you spell it out a bit?
  25. Bellhorn04
    There's just no way he's 100%. A healthy Devers does not slug .327. Of course with all the fuss about him switching to DH I can understand why people are grasping at that straw too. Whichever it is, it's a grim situation. We're paying $50 million to 2 DHs, one who's doing little and one who's not playing at all.
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