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  1. sk7326
    It is a little less shock and awe due to the 5 homeruns, but Anthony's 2.5 WAR on 266 PAs is wildly impressive.
  2. sk7326
    1. Re-sign Bregman. Ideally, you'd like to trade some term for AAV - but honestly, no reason to skimp. He is a good player. 2. I'd PROBABLY look at what it took to re-sign May. I kind of think he has more upside on the right sort of deal than other options in the mid-rotation market. 3. That said, the team has a lot of outfield talent, and if you can get a #2-ish starter, so much the better.
  3. sk7326
    The Trevor Story contract has been rough - but it's almost entirely due to injury. Well, that and a plummeting walk rate. But this year - he is a 3 win player, which would have been kind of okay (a loss contractwise but not a disaster) if that could have been the norm.
  4. sk7326
    Basically the only thing Anthony was doing wrong was hitting the ball on the ground too much. If the homeruns REALLY start catching up, we're cooking with gas. I mean, he was on a 5-6 win pace (extrapolated over a full season workload) without the homeruns!
  5. sk7326
    Great job on both sides. Roman Anthony is on a 5-6 win pace if he ended up with a full season of PAs. The ball is not going over the fence at the rate promised - but he has been mostly as advertised.
  6. sk7326
    oh without a doubt - but it was more fun to type than "various #4/#5 starter types"
  7. sk7326
    Maybe. I think Sandlin is at least as plausible. While the Sox lack a solid #4/#5, they have a TON of Fitts-like randos they can throw at the problem and see what sticks.
  8. sk7326
    As far as October goes they need one of these #4/#5 guys to get hot. Fortunately the Top 3 looks solid.
  9. sk7326
    I wanted a move. Personally, I thought something like a Duran for Kris Bubic made sense for everybody ... Duran for Dylan Cease would have been selling low (and clearly the Padres have bigger game in mind) But all things considered, getting another good bullpen arm, and at least a starter with some real upside. Most of the other starters at that level were going to be indistinguishable from the various Hunter Dobbins/Richard Fitts sorts of clones.
  10. sk7326
    It is - but you also can't just assume that is going to hold. I'd have loved for them to land the plane on Joe Ryan, but Dustin May is certainly talented enough to pay off.
  11. sk7326
    We do that and then Sale shatters his patella walking off the plane back at Logan.
  12. sk7326
    One thing we have seen is that Breslow and the gang are promoting the players using more of the batted ball and swing decision sort of data. And we just don't have that. If the player is making lots of hard contact but the ball is not finding gaps, that is going to weigh at least as much as even the triple slash.
  13. sk7326
    First, they have a great record in yellow. Second, the yellow has a great theme which has been fun to explain to people who ask. Third, it's a good color combo.
  14. sk7326
    Right now this team is kind of a spiritual cousin to the 1999 Red Sox who lost in the ALCS to the - well, you know ... the rotation is actually fairly similar 1. A true blue ace. Obviously 1999 Pedro is one of the best pitchers in history - which is an unfair comparison to Crochet, but Crochet has been one of the two best pitchers in the AL so far and deserves that respect. 2. A good pitcher with an arm trouble history. Then it was Saberhagen, now it is Giolito. 3. A guy who has been good but has been pretty awful. Then it was Mark Portugal, now it is Walker Buehler. 4. A manager not shy about McGyvering the rest of the pitching staff. One era's Jimy Williams is another's Alex Cora. This team does not have any offensive force at the level of 1999 Nomar - but there is probably more depth.
  15. sk7326
    I don't think he is being satirical - but given the quality of the commentary, particularly with Cora - how would it be different if it WAS a bit?
  16. sk7326
    There was a time I did not realize this was satirical and thus did not laugh enough. But I needed the smile!
  17. sk7326
    As a very old man, I have seen 83 and 85 win teams win it all, and an 84 win team make the world series just 2 seasons ago. The Red Sox have the starting pitching that can get hot for 3 weeks. Now, I'd love more - but winning the World Series literally requires only that much.
  18. sk7326
    Abreu led the AL in multiple defensive metrics in RF last year. He is a flawed player, but he is a strong plus at RF. He leads in the AL this year. The tricky thing with Duran is that he was good in CF last season, but it is also the only season he has had in the bigs where he has been above average anywhere. It is quite possible that 2024 was the outlier.
  19. sk7326
    I don't think this at all. Abreu is near the top of the guys the Sox would trade for a premium return. So is Duran. Anthony in a corner is safe. Rafaela is PROBABLY safe. He makes very little money and - if he did not improve another lick at the plate - would be a top 5 CF overall in the game. Garcia could easily supplant Abreu in the Sox pecking order given his ability in RF and the strides HE has made at the plate.
  20. sk7326
    I wish they did more - but we have also seen, over and over again, that team builders simply can't engineer teams to win pennants.
  21. sk7326
    Are we good enough ... to make the playoffs and get hot for 3 weeks? Hell yeah we are.
  22. sk7326
    At the moment, the Red Sox have gotten zero big league value from trading Devers and the prospects have largely not made a dent. So it is hard to call this a good deal. And his replacements have been - for the most part - bad. That said, the Devers contract was likely to be a problem down the road - while he has been a terrific hitter, he has not been a consistent .900 OPS guy and he was destined to move to 1B/DH anyway. (of course he was DHing here). I was shocked when the deal came, but I was not ready to picket Fenway either. It is nice to connect Devers trade to the team picking up the pace - but I don't think Devers made the starting rotation fall into place.
  23. sk7326
    I am not sure the results that Rafaela (one of the 3 best CFs in the league) and Chapman have put up (his best season in years) point to being poorly deployed.
  24. sk7326
    Alcantara is the most interesting as the team control is attractive for a former Cy winner. Now - he has been arguably the worst starting pitcher in the majors this season, and that counts on his resume too. The FIP numbers speak to a little bit of bad luck, but STILL lousy. But the last couple of starts have had some promise. How much signal vs noise is why Breslow gets the big bucks. I'd have a hard time dealing him if I was Florida, just because it's so obviously selling low.
  25. sk7326
    I have been okay with moving Duran for the right deal. But the uptick recently has spoken to sort of water finding its level with the bat. His has been one of the cases where his batted ball data showed a guy who should be getting better results. (his exit velocities and barrel rates are as good as they were last year)
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