Yaz Fan Since 67
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Did that really just happen? Why did a 7th inning home run feel almost like a walkoff? Guess because they had not come back from down 3 all year. I wanted Abreu to have the green light on 3-0, then he took a fastball right down the middle and I thought they had missed their chance. Best win of the year for me, Keeping the streak alive made it felt like a pennant race win in September. Chapman has not been the same for many weeks now and that's my concern. -
And then there was last night.......😁
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He is what he is. He starts off hot and can carry a team for a month, then he cools off and is a bit streaky. At the end of the season he can be expected to be 264/23 HR ..780 OPS guy who plays great defense and I'm glad he's on my team.
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What fun last night was. I recorded both games and watched them back to back. It was great seeing Duran shooting one through a drawn in infield. All season I was frustrated that we never seemed to do that. Bennet was superb, again. LIke all of us I was concerned that we had lost our momentum after the break. I sure didn't see this coming. But this is fun again, bring on tonight!
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LOL at all the fans who were spiking the football as Raffy struggled early in the summer. He often starts slowly I thought to myself, this was no big deal. Now he is doing Raffy Devers things and has been doing it for 2 months and nobody should be surprised. I don't want to get into the trade again, I'll just point out that he is the big bat that fans are screaming for, the big bat this lineup desperately needs. And now he plays for someone else. And we got back little. Again. But at least JH is saving money which is great. For him. I'll never get over this trade. Teams work it out with an unhappy player all the time.
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Is this 2026 Red Sox team…CONTENDERS or PRETENDERS?
Yaz Fan Since 67 replied to southpaw777's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Didn't the All Star break used to be 3 days? I totally expected to watch a game tonight. With the wife out of town just what am I supposed to do now? -
I didn't get the reference until I read the quote. I really liked that movie.
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I enjoy reading the game threads the next day. LOL at all the posts already calling it a loss before the 9th, I had the same feeling. But when a team is on a roll the other team's shortstop boots a game ending double play ball and their worst hitter hits a bloop to tie the game. Yes the Masa line drive was frustrating bad luck, that's baseball, but the damage had been done and we stole one yesterday. Not sure I agreed with Tracy's strategy to play for 1 run in extras, seems to me you need 2, but it held up for one of the biggest wins of the year. Shame they are breaking while they are so hot but Duran certainly needs a reset. Wong is the correct answer at catcher, unfortunately.
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Yeah going into the season I saw Tolle and Early in the bullpen, and that sounded good to me as I was unsure about everybody except Whitlock and Chapman. But injuries as you said changed that plan. I just remember so many games early in the season when we just knew a lead in the 5th would not hold up as we saw relievers give it back. But clearly that has changed.
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I was shocked when I learned from the telecast that the Sox pen has the lowest ERA in baseball. Seems to be this has been a weakness until we got to Whit and Chapman. What a performance by Rivera. Seems like everyone they start these days puts on a good performance. I miss how much they ran the previous 2 seasons, but Duran has to get on base for him to utilize his speed and Hamilton is no longer on the team (thankfully). Regardless this sure is a lot more fun than it was in May.
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I know mocks don't mean anything but I can't really get excited about the 69th rated player being selected at 20.
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Yeah after he went to a personal hitting coach after the Red Sox coaches couldn't get him going. Honestly that is a big concern for me, our coaches can't get our players to hit better. It's actually the opposite. Who knows how many players they have screwed up?
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Is this 2026 Red Sox team…CONTENDERS or PRETENDERS?
Yaz Fan Since 67 replied to southpaw777's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I just checked on this yesterday and sadly the answer is no. -
I can't disagree with the record. I can disagree that Tracy is the reason for the improvement. The hitters are hitting the baseball now and the starters have gotten even better. Cora didn't have players playing like they are now.
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I'm happy for Tracy, this is his big shot and I'm glad for him that the team's record is better. But I don't see him as the reason for the team's improvement, they are just now starting to hit the baseball and the starting rotation is one of the best we've had in recent memory because it's so deep.
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Yeah I can't give Tracy credit, this was all the starters and pen. When a team starts performing then suddenly the manager looks smarter. Tracy had nothing to do with Durbin turning his season around for instance. So happy for Sandoval after all he's been through, I don't think even he expected this. Just so weird to have a left handed dominated starting staff, and that's without Crochet. Boy this is fun, I was watching just because I always watch my team play. But it's different now, I feel these games really matter.
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Given the way our players do not seem to recover from injuries everything is on the table for me. You are probably right, it may be nothing. It just struck me as odd that a trainer would not be all over the team's best player when he was obviously injured.
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I just found that, at least from the appearance on the tv shots provided, the training staff didn't even look at him. He was kind of alone and that was surprising. I would think ice immediately after the injury would be the treatment but what do I know?
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So Contreras leaves the game after taking a foul ball off the foot. He was obviously limping. Why wasn't he immediately getting treatment in the dugout? Minutes later he still had his shoe on and was alone, why wasn't a trainer attending to him? I would have thought ice was applicable here.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
Yaz Fan Since 67 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
If nothing else we now have a pitching staff to get excited about. Tolle, Early and now Bennett have all pitched very well. Put them with Suarez, Crochet and Gray and this should have been an amazing starting staff. Not sure of the health of Crochet but we could be potentially looking at starting 5 excellend LHP as a starting staff next season, not sure that's ever been done before. -
I'm talking about the entire body of work, not specific moves. I don't know if it was you who initially posted the comment but someone has to defend the term "impeccable" for an offseason that lead to a team that just got out of last place in the 2nd week of July.
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Not sure a month into the season is the best time to go outside to find a manager, a legit big time manager. Hiring from within made sense at the time. But Earl Weaver was not saving this team this season.
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So many people wanted Cora fired. Looking at the record and the team's performance it's obvious to me that Cora was not the problem. I don't believe for a second that the team had bailed on the season after 27 games and winning no longer mattered on April 25th. No they fired Cora because they felt he was a major reason the team was 10-17. They promoted Tracy because they thought he could turn around the season. And they were wrong. This is and always was a personnel problem, not a manager problem IMO.
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Yeah the Cora haters have been pretty quiet. I didn't know that about Durbin but it adds to my concern. I'm getting pretty convinced that our player development sucks.
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I was never confident in Bello, he's been given enough opportunities for me to kind of understand where he is. For the life of me I don't know why they bailed on the opener set up. It wasn't Bello's fault they couldn't find someone to get 3 outs before the game got out of hand. But that was a weird deal and perhaps unsustainable. Campbell is the one that frustrates me. I mean what happened to that guy? I was all for the extension, I never expected this and neither did anyone else.
