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  1. Bellhorn04
    You really know how to stay on point. I root for Bloom because he's our guy right now and I want him to succeed. I rooted for Theo, Ben and DD too, right up until they were gone.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Your overall premise is fine, but you got a little sloppy in the details. 1986 Hurst was better than 2007 Schilling. But of course, Schilling was a clutch, money, big game pitcher.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Now that is for sure. Unless you're Gladstone Gander.
  4. Bellhorn04
    And why exactly do you think that?
  5. Bellhorn04
    Unfortunately, I have seen a number of Red Sox teams go into second-half slides that they didn't recover from.
  6. Bellhorn04
    We did not sign JD early.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, but that statement is definitely a complaint. And you hear it a lot. Price was another one. The statement is usually based on a lack of reports of other teams in on the bidding. Fans assume that means there weren't any, and it gives them something to beef about.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Ax far as the identity part goes, Bill Lee said it was the Wall that formed the identity of a lot of those Sox teams of the past. Management would load up on RH power hitters to take advantage of the wall, and try to outslug other teams. It was a flawed strategy, obviously. I think you have to give a lot of credit to Theo Epstein for recognizing that the Red Sox needed to get much stronger in other areas.
  9. Bellhorn04
    So non-repeatable skill is basically another way of saying good luck.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Apparently there was a lot of talk we bid against ourselves.
  11. Bellhorn04
    And there was also a lot of talk that we got a good deal, much lower than Boras was asking, and DD did a good job waiting him out. Kimmi gave it her stamp of approval, that was good enough for me.
  12. Bellhorn04
    And Rob Manfred would do it gladly...
  13. Bellhorn04
    JD is an accomplished hitter, absolutely, but he's purely a DH, and age-wise he's getting into the worry zone. He's most certainly not getting any 3 for 60 offers if he opts out.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Really? Even if he has an off year in 2022 and shows signs of losing bat speed?
  15. Bellhorn04
    What about juicers like Canseco and McGwire. We've seen some pretty big dudes hitting long balls since their day. What about Stanton, he's pretty damn big and muscular.
  16. Bellhorn04
    It explains why they didn't trade him, doesn't it?
  17. Bellhorn04
    I think it's a misconception, because if you want to look at profiles, Bloom is a protégé of Friedman, and Friedman is the guy who has been spending by far the most of everyone since last season, after some years of relative restraint.
  18. Bellhorn04
    No, it's not hard to believe. It seems like a good observation, that the players don't care as much about the long term as team management and the more patient fans do. Maybe the players can't help looking at what happened and thinking that they aren't really a good enough team to contend for a title. I'm a believer in intangible stuff having an impact.
  19. Bellhorn04
    It was pretty easy to identify that we didn't do much and other teams did. I don't think anyone expected this much of a collapse, this fast.
  20. Bellhorn04
    OK, that's fair. My sense is that you and are actually somewhat on the same page about this. I don't believe anyone can consistently raise their performance level either, but as you say, performance level can be diminished. So what gets called clutch, if it exists, is actually an absence of choke.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Schoop was signed to an extension. As far as blame goes, if Bloom was given a strict mandate not to exceed the tax threshold, then you can't really blame him. But in that case maybe you can blame ownership.
  22. Bellhorn04
    OK, I think I can frame this a little better. The term repeatable skill implies that there are non-repeatable skills. So what exactly is a non-repeatable skill? And you can't just say clutch. In order to explain exactly what we're talking about, there has to be a whole class of non-repeatable skills.
  23. Bellhorn04
    With all due respect to you and to whoever made this stuff up, I can't for the life of me figure out the value of these definitions. If throwing 95 is a 'repeatable skill', does that mean throwing 85 or throwing 75 are too? What makes throwing 95 a skill, in itself? If you throw 95 but can't do it for strikes, it's not much of a skill. Ditto if you can throw 95 in the middle of the plate but can't hit corners. What you're describing seems to be simply measurable physical events.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Yes, it's a bit disappointing that they moved heaven and earth last year to reset, all so they could make Bloom expend every effort to stay under the threshold again the following year.
  25. Bellhorn04
    "Batting clutch has a slight tendency to repeat." Woo-hoo! I'll take it!
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