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  1. sk7326
    Wouldn't want to enter the ALCS with tricks Cora still knows.
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    One thing Dombrowski was good at was making aggressive calls on the farmhands.
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    The thing that Cora has done is been ruthless with his pitching changes. ERod and Sale got off to horrible starts - but Cora has not let guys sit there and harm the team (to whatever degree possible).
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    This has been a fun ride. The playoffs are always a crapshoot in that baseball is very noisy to begin with, and going to short series only exacerbates that. Houston if they advance is a serious challenge. Their pitching is excellent of course. The other big thing is they are the hardest team in the league to strike out, and the Red Sox were one of the worst teams in the league at fielding balls hit in play.
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    JD Martinez has a 1.200 OPS on one leg and 15 ABs!
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    He actually pitched significantly better than his results - that was the weird thing about his season. He walked fewer batters, struck out more of them and allowed less good contact. But his season sucked. He and Eovaldi were striking victims of the Red Sox statuesque defense.
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    Rodriguez is a decent bounceback candidate - just because he pitched a lot better than his results. Vazquez is a decent bounceback candidate as well. Verdugo is a solid starter. Schwarber is worth looking into re-signing. Dalbec is not a starter - but as a guy who gets a bunch of PAs against lefties spelling the corners? Sure, why not. 2B is the position where the team could stand to upgrade most directly. And of course Bloom will undoubtedly keep trawling the bottom of the oceans for arms. I'd re-sign Rodriguez myself, and perhaps hope the last couple of cursed years gets a mild discount. Sale-Eovaldi-Rodriguez is a good starting 3 ... and then you find at least one more starter. This team winning 92 was overachieving - but not by THAT much. Overachieving was having an 8 game lead in the division.
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    Yeah - the new CBA will make this interesting. I think there is a good chance there will be some actual salary cap. (the players might do it if it locks in a percentage of the pie. Right now the players are living with all of the downsides of a salary cap with none of the benefits) Ideally, we can bring Schwarber back - Dalbec is not a starter, but as a platoon bat playing both corner positions there is a really interesting player. Upgrading 2B would be nice.
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    The Sale extension was fine. I did not LOVE the Eovaldi extension, but given the market he was entering, somebody was going to pay him. He was hurt so much in 2019 and you're better off just throwing all of the 2020 stats (this applies for every team) out the window. There is a good pitcher there clearly - albeit one with some injury risk.
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    It's baseball. Any team can win 4 of 7 against another. Obviously the Astros are a real concern - the best team in the league at putting the ball in play against a team that ... uh ... lets a lot of balls put in play hit the ground.
  12. sk7326
    A self inflicted wound which is still hard to unsee.
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    This is a profoundly flawed team - the worst of the teams this team has taken to the playoffs this century. But the fight they have shown all season is huge. When their season almost fell to pieces due to that stupid COVID outbreak - they pulled it back. When the Yankees registered three straight comebacks in Fenway, the Red Sox overcame. When the Nationals had them down 5-1. Etc etc etc And of course, 3 of the 4 titles the Red Sox have won this century were under first year managers - and TECHNICALLY this is the first year of Cora's second go-round.
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    Because the infield was in all the way - that was a choice by the Rays, one they did not have to make
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    One legge JD Martinez was outstanding. Really all of the big guns showed up big in this series. Schwarber has low key been the best of all the deadline acquisitions in the league.
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    it was 1st and 3rd - they could have still done it. I was surprised they did not play the middle guys at double play depth.
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    Whitlock saved the night - and Tampa of all teams lost on some shaky fundamentals late. Somehow or another this team has made the Final Four. This was a four game series - but boy was it hard. The top of the lineup were the heroes - but a hat tip to Christian Vasquez who has been clutch the last two games. There is something to be said about him just being a hard guy to punch out.
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    Thing with Jimenez is that there is just not a lot of power ... .306/.346/.405 ... but there is a lot of contact and of course as an 80 runner, you're going to pop. I really have no idea how he handles Portland - the real "is he a guy or not" level for these dudes.
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    Honorable mention in Keith Law's Prospect of the Year column https://theathletic.com/2840781/2021/09/22/2021-prospect-of-the-year-royals-bobby-witt-jr-tops-keith-laws-award-list/
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    Where the defensive non performance has been underlined is if you look at Eovaldi's season - he has really had some Cy Young caliber fundamentals this year.
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    Fans - and orgs to be fair. It's just hard to save enough runs at any position to make up for a .270 OBP or something. But Bradley's production was enough for the other stuff to play.
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    Defense is important - but we're also in an era where fewer balls are put in play than ever. But you can sort of see the defensive issues in the spread between the team's FIP and ERA which is the worst in the AL.
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    Yeah - the Sox are in pretty good shape. If the depth continues to be tested, we'll see what happens. Brock Holt is not available - so the next ghost of Red Sox utility infielder past to sign might have to be Alex Cora himself.
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    Well ... one possibility. Let's say you simulate the stretch run 10,000 times. 3300 times the Red Sox and Yankees make it 3300 times the Red Sox and Blue Jays make it 3400 times the Yankees and Blue Jays make it. In this scenario the Red Sox make the playoffs in 66% of the scenarios while the Yankees and Blue Jays make it in 67% of them.
  25. sk7326
    The Red Sox will make the play-in game then lose 7 players to COVID protocols and beat the Yankees with Kevin Plawecki getting the save.
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