Hitch

Guided, sure, but we don't let them guide us, we let them be the evidence and truth of everything. Which is just counter productive and blinkered. Not having a go at anyone, I'm as guilty as anyone.

I haven't checked but that's bizarre if true. This feels like the worst Sox team I've watched, and yet, oddly, it also feels not a million miles away from being a contender. Some of the players are playing way below their level, and some are just not good enough, but a smart deadline and summer, and I really believe that we will be a contender next year. The problem is, I hold no hope we'll have a smart deadline (or summer if Bres is still there).

There's no point wondering what Devers might have or not have done, there's no point looking at his numbers and transporting them directly to if he'd stayed here. We don't know anywhere near enough of the variables. The trade might have rocked him, he might be have issues settling in SF (SF media certainly hasn't taken to him), he might have personal issues, it might just be a down year, he might hate the limelight that's come his way after the event, or a whole myriad of other reasons. The problem with making absolutely every argument stat base is that we forget human beings play this game not numbers. That said, I have always been happy we've gotten out of that contract as it's certain it will go bad at some point, and I hated his attitude throughout the whole debacle. But we all boil these things down to numbers far too much.

It's a shame this offence is so anemic as the defence and pitching is great. I don't know how we fix the offence. It's going to be difficult (putting it mildly) with the roster and value of our trade options right now.

I'd just post the tweet. But whatevs, no biggie.

I'm nice to everyone.

You this guy or just stealing is tweet, word for word.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand hate and vitriol for those reasons.

I didn't want Bregman for those years or money, but felt we had painted ourselves into a corner and needed to get it done in the end.

I've been somewhat surprised by how many people are going to bat for Cora and the coaches. We've been horribly prepared for most of their tenure (we weren't even prepared for the ABS system). We've made a disgusting amount of errors for most of their tenure. And there was clearly two camps ignoring each other when it came to hitting. Then add in the regression of everyone this year... It was absolutely time to clean house. Whether they've got it right, we'll soon see. As will Breslow as it's his show now. I also feel quite uncomfortable with the hate Breslow gets. It's different to others I've seen, more viscera and personal. It's quite odd.

Yes and no. Having some more veterans on the team would have been very valuable to the team. Hearing all the recent stories about Bregman, Anthony at the very least would have be in a better place with him here. Bottom line is we put a lot of pressure on players to carry the offence that weren't ready. Bregman was the big miss.

Benintendi had 1.6 war over his last two years with us. Then went 2.9, 2.9, 2.3 per season elsewhere. Verdugo actually did better than I thought year 1 with Yankees. If we can't judge Hamilton, we certainly can't judge Ref.

Verdugo and Beni? Really? Ref has been gone 2 minutes. Vaz was on the down slope.