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  1. Bellhorn04
    Being a Sox fan for 50+ years has made me superstitious and paranoid about the team. That's my excuse, anyway.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Yes.
  3. Bellhorn04
    0 hits and a record-breaking 15 strikeouts in the first 5 games, plus injury concerns hanging over from last year, will do that.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Zack Scott who worked in the Sox front office at the time totally disputed the idea that Betts didn't want to stay. He said Betts just wanted to be paid market value and the Sox had self-imposed limits that they were sticking to.
  5. Bellhorn04
    They offered him a little less than $300 mill, per Zack Scott, and they weren't prepared to go higher. Competitive offer, sure. But I can also understand Mookie thinking he could do better than that. I think they undervalued him as a player, frankly. They probably didn't believe he could continue to be elite another 5-10 years.
  6. Bellhorn04
    How can you really justify banning them, if all they did was move some weight around?
  7. Bellhorn04
    It seems like a conundrum. If you're consistently pulling the starter after a maximum of 18 hitters, you're consistently turning the game over to the pen for at least 4 innings, and that means starting off with with one of your lesser relievers. And after yesterday's day off, the Sox now play 15 days in a row.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's all about the fans who bought tickets for the home opener.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yanks struck out 14 times last night, including a Golden Sombrero for Jazz!
  10. Bellhorn04
    You know it's a good deal when you don't see anyone complaining about it. So great job, Brez. Now can you please get some of these guys to start hitting?
  11. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, there's really no comparison. Bogaerts is a good to very good player. Betts is one of the best to ever play the game. It's crazy that Bogaerts and Devers are making nearly as much as Betts.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I just have the feeling that the philosophy has turned toward one of "strikeouts are not such bad things". Casas might be a good example to watch. This is a guy whose patient plate approach was lauded when he first came up. 2022 K/BB 23/19 ratio 1.21 2023 126/70 ratio 1.8 2024 77/30 ratio 2.57 2025 7/1 ratio 7 Maybe I'm grasping at straws here, I don't know...
  13. Bellhorn04
    This deal seems totally reasonable for both sides. He can opt out after 2030, so it added 4 years of guaranteed control.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Pollys might argue that the difference is the current stretch was preceded by months of rest/rust. But either way the numbers are staggering.
  15. Bellhorn04
    But what did the Sox see in his approach that they liked when the Yanks came to hate it? The Sox were 18th in Ks in 2023. They were 3rd in 2024. So far in 2025 they're averaging 11 per game.
  16. Bellhorn04
    No. When they hired Lawson last year (or in December/23) it sent a chill through me. Like I say the big beef when he was with the Yankees, and it was a very loud beef, was that they had become a home run or strikeout type offense, swinging out of their shoes. I thought this was a guy to stay far far away from. The Yanks fired him mid-season, which is pretty rare with a hitting coach. I'm probably blaming too much on this one guy, but the fact they hired him and then promoted him indicates that there's something in his approach they're buying into. I don't get it.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Good stuff!
  18. Bellhorn04
    Fire the hitting coaches. I think the hitters are following Dillon Lawson's "swing hard in case you hit it"* approach, the one that got him fired from the Yanks. * It's actually "hit strikes hard", but it looks more like what I said.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Fire the hitting coaches, for starters. I don't see how they can be doing a good job when the hitters are acting like wind turbines so much of the time.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it seems like the team is just as confused about what's going on with Devers as we are.
  21. Bellhorn04
    There's a little more to it for me. Our offense was terrible the last 6 weeks of 2024. And we seem to have become a team that strikes out at a crazy rate.
  22. Bellhorn04
    It could be either or a combo, but the thing is, he has never ever looked anywhere near this bad.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I have a really, really bad feeling about our hitting coaches, Fatse and Lawson.
  24. Bellhorn04
    The other poster said his OPS was .552. I tried to let it pass, but I just couldn't.
  25. Bellhorn04
    But what should they be doing with him, if he swears he's 100% physically?
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