Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

FredLynn

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    11,857

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    9

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by FredLynn

  1. FredLynn
    I understand the unbridled optimism. But a little dose of reality: we are SEVEN GAMES in the lost column behind the last WC spot with just 29 remaining. If the A's just go 17-14 we would have to go 22-7 just to tie-without Chris Sale. That is just not going to happen. We aren't mathematically eliminated yet, but the season is over.
  2. FredLynn
    No one is unaware of the position we are in. Some people are just holding out until we are mathematically eliminated, but no one here is so dumb that they think we actually have a good chance to make the playoffs.
  3. FredLynn
    A closer would not help, not with Sale, Porcello, and Price stinking all nearly year.
  4. FredLynn
    Todd Walker is one...not sure who the other guy is.
  5. FredLynn
    Wright is a sleeze ball. I don't want him on my team. As for JBJ, I agree. He has trade value. Maybe someone will give us a marginal AA player for him.
  6. FredLynn
    Hopefully they will rest Price for the remainder of the year.
  7. FredLynn
    It doesn't matter
  8. FredLynn
    I don't hate anyone I am in competition with. I do hate the Yankees.
  9. FredLynn
    I can't speak for all Red Sox fans, but I am apathetic about which teams are the wild cards. It won't be the Sox. As long as the Yankees do not win the World Series I am fine with whoever wins the ring.
  10. FredLynn
    Strangely enough, I have the same birthday as Yaz.....have had it all my life.
  11. FredLynn
    It is ALWAYS considered good form to bash the Yankees in any way you see fit. However, if you choose not to do so, the rest of us will have to make up for the shots you fail to take at them.
  12. FredLynn
    Sure, we still have a chance. One source I read put that chance at 2%. The season is essentially, though not mathematically, over.
  13. FredLynn
    Snell is expected back in September; Chirinos will probably be back in September. Glasnow is likely done. Even without Glasnow the Rays have better pitching than the Yankees, though I certainly would not expect them to beat them in any series. I think either Houston or the Dodgers will take out the Yankees, and again the Yankees will have failed this year.
  14. FredLynn
    Thats the other thing about the Yankees: yes, their pen is above average (though not as good as Jacko thinks when compared to many other playoff contenders). In the playoffs managers rely not only on their bullpen pitchers but also on their SPs to give them some innings. And the Yankee starters are very ordinary, for the most part. Their pen will be greatly taxed.
  15. FredLynn
    Using ERA as a gauge, the Guardians, the Rays, the A's, the Astros, and the Dodgers all have a better bullpen than the Yankees. Now you might say the ERA is a poor marker for excellence, but its not like the Yankees have THE dominant pen. In fact, they are pretty ordinary when compared to other potential playoff teams. The Yankees have a chance for a ring...but they should not be favored to win it because their SP is substandard, ranking 19th in MLB in ERA. There isn't another playoff bound team with that kind of mediocre SPing.
  16. FredLynn
    No, its because overall he sucks with a bat in his hands. He hasn't had an OPS+ year over 100 (=average) since 2016. Even his dWAR is just 0.4 this year-hardly stellar. Yes, I do like him in CF, but I will not miss him next year when he is (hopefully) gone. There are lots of good defensive CF out there and in the rebuilding process hopefully we will find one who can also hit the baseball.
  17. FredLynn
    The playoffs are a crapshoot. The team that wins the ring is usually the team that got hot at the right time. Last year the Sox were hot all year. The Yankees have a chance, but I would think that the Astros and the Dodgers would be co-favorites right now.
  18. FredLynn
    We both know that signing ANY of those guys would not have changed a thing. None of the would have made up for six games in the lost column.
  19. FredLynn
    I agree that he should have tried to add a RP, though budget constraints probably prevented him from getting one of any quality. I would assign maybe 10% of the current problems to DD; I would assign 20% to Cora for not having his team ready to play on opening day and for making so many mistakes this year-but the vast bulk of the blame has to go on the underperforming players, especially our SP.
  20. FredLynn
    Yup. Guys have bad years. This year Cora failed to have his SPs ready to start the season by severely limiting the number of pitches thrown in ST, a strategy which was predictably faulty. Then you have the kind of brain dead baseball the Sox have exhibited all year, for example, Bogaerts getting thrown out at 3B last night. Just not thinking....they frequently do not have their heads in the game. Thats mental; its mailing it in.
  21. FredLynn
    The 2019 team in on course to lose 23 more games than the 2018 team. The 2014 team lost 26 games more than the previous year. Neither team lost a significant number of players, though the loss of Ellsbury, an everyday player, was probably more important that losing Kimbrel. The 2018 team was a LOT more talented than the 2013 team. Thats the issue I have. With the level of talent the 2018 team had they should at least have been in contention for a playoff spot. They just mailed it in this year. When a team has no talent you really can't complain that they suck. These guys have the talent but didn't do their jobs. Thats in no way the fault of the GM.
  22. FredLynn
    Next year. We still have one more year of relevancy left as long as Sale remembers how to pitch. After that its time to rebuild and DD is not the right guy for that job.
  23. FredLynn
    Yup. Its been that way all year. Brain dead baseball. Beside the SP its the major reason we aren't making the playoffs this year. Lack of focus, lack of concentration.
  24. FredLynn
    The pen has definitely done their job.....
  25. FredLynn
    I assume thats sarcasm......but since this is the game thread I am not going to make political comments here. Such things belong elsewhere.
×
×
  • Create New...