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  1. Bellhorn04
    Every team has issues of some sort unless they're the 1998 Yankees or one of the other juggernauts. The pertinent question with DD's Tigers is whether it was the bullpen that prevented them from winning titles between 2011 and 2014. Anyone who subscribes to the playoffs are a crapshoot theory to any degree would have to answer no.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Which is a real problem.
  3. Bellhorn04
    For a number of years now. I assume this is just another COVID issue.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Way too many questions LOL
  5. Bellhorn04
    What do you suppose happened to these fans in 2019, when NESN ratings started their plunge? Seems to me the outfield that year was the Killer B's.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It feels weird not being able to follow these games on Gameday.
  7. Bellhorn04
    John Henry knows all this. He didn't get where he is by being a dummy. The Red Sox have said the reason they hired Bloom was to try to have more consistent good results. Henry no doubt got tired of the roller coaster ride that started in 2011. And I believe he thought a large part of the problem was trying to fix everything with big splashy signings. We need to give Bloom a chance.
  8. Bellhorn04
    When it's 4 years in a row, I think it's a fair argument, yes. But if we want to turn this into a playoffs/crapshoot discussion, that's kind of a different thing.
  9. Bellhorn04
    The bullpen was not a strength. But the first place finishes suggest that was not a big issue. And when trying to show it was what cost them titles, using that one pitch by Benoit is fun, but not really fact-based.
  10. Bellhorn04
    We'll never know unless Mookie tells all someday. Which he won't. He's a tough and smart cookie. I respect that.
  11. Bellhorn04
    One bad pitch to a great hitter from a guy who had an excellent season? C'mon man.
  12. Bellhorn04
    4 straight division titles. Are you attributing the lack of championships to the bullpens?
  13. Bellhorn04
    The thing is, if you're really going to be fair about this, you can't just run away from the vast differences in the money then and now. Keeping Mookie required putting roughly $400 million at risk. Try and find a historical comparative to that.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Not worth what, though? Not worth trying to do it all over again, like they did?
  15. Bellhorn04
    Isn't it a little strange we've reached the point that we think a championship season wasn't worth it? If we didn't win in 2018, I shudder to think what the mood of the Nation would be right now.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Eovaldi shouldn't even be part of this. Yes, $17 million is too much. But he's off the books after 2022.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you were not in favor of signing Mookie long-term because you felt too much of his game was dependent on speed.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Mookie Betts is an awesome talent and I deeply regret losing him. As far as great modern players are concerned, there's Trout and Betts, and the rest have a long way to go to prove they belong in the same discussion.
  19. Bellhorn04
    If we had retained Mookie for 375 mill or whatever, I'd be scared about one thing - injury. And not necessarily a major injury. Sometimes apparently minor injuries can mess up a player's career pretty badly.
  20. Bellhorn04
    In my humble opinion that was just how Henry felt at the time. The words got on record and have been used against him ever since. Which may be part of why he doesn't talk to the media anymore. Also, they kind of instantly repudiated it by offering Lester 135 million, didn't they?
  21. Bellhorn04
    Ha, you're not. I think this is more about us exonerating Rooster in the leadoff spot being the reason we lost in 1978.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Very true. But even before 2010 he had been putting up 4 and 5 win seasons. 35.6 bWAR in his Rays career.
  23. Bellhorn04
    A sort of compromise view is that Henry was deeply soured on mega-contracts by recent spending experiences. And there's little doubt that he was casting an eye in the Rays direction and observing how they were somehow getting so much more out of their limited spending.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Another point pertinent to 1978 is that the Yankees leadoff hitter that year was Mickey Rivers, with a .302 OBP.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I'll go a step further. The notion that Henry isn’t spending and isn’t retaining top talent is dumb and whiny.
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