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He's been laying this at the feet of the roster construction, and has been routinely (and correctly) laying that at Brez's feet.
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I must admit, I've been having the same feeling.
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What I'd rather is you calm down and remember even when your baseball team is losing it's still okay to joke every now and then. It's not the end of the world. 👍
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Maybe we should bring in forum favourite, Last Place Dave to fix it.
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Can't catch a break.
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Screw it, it can't get worse. I say lets do it!
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And Story stays at SS in that scenario.
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I had a week long conversation about trading Mayer. I was defnitely up for that. I wasn't as sold on his bat as others and the health thing as well.... But always easier to say these things should definitely have been done in hindsight. We'd be hard pushed to trade anyone right now (that we'd want to), and not a lot on the farm that is due to come and make a difference. Win the next two against the Yankees and things will feel a lot better. But I'm really not hopeful.
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I was definitely on the side of keeping him so the 4 could rotate/cover injuries (I didn't think Yoshida would get many at bats at all), but it is definitely hurting us. I still think if we had traded Duran and ended up with an injury to Abreu (he's got sketchy health record) we'd have been hurt by the outfield alignment with Yoshi in left. But we never trading Yoshi.... maybe it would have been worth the gamble.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
Hitch replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I continue to try and stay positive, and I don't believe we are as bad as we are making ourselves look, but man is it getting old feeling the game is over the moment the other team gets a 3-0 lead. -
Yes, but it was VERY early. An absurdly small sample size. Any other roster he'd have had the chance to hit out of it. But this 5 into 3 kills any of that.
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Not to defend him too much because he's been poor, but he seems to have suffered the most from this outfield mess. He is a guy that needs to play every day and keep his rhythm.
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Oh dear...
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He's also looking a little frail to me recently. So a change coming along in the next few years wouldn't shock me.
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I've really soured quickly on Cora. I actively want him gone at this point. I've not felt this way about any manager. I'm just at my end of seeing us make dumb mistakes and enter seasons unprepared. Time for a wholesale change. Bres I'm okay with having another year or two.
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I couldn't agree more. As a big fan of a European football club, I've made this point before - Red Sox fans have no idea how bad an owner can be. Especially when you get to the levels of money needed to buy them that the Red Sox is now at. The other thing to consider - would fans be happy being owned by the Saudi's or Qatari's? Sports washing gets old quick.
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Ain't that the truth.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
Hitch replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Crotchet seems pretty adamant he's fine, so we'll see. If he isn't, this season is DOA. -
My favourite Fred tactic is the - 'I've just tuned in' when something bad happens. Not so much when we win or play well. There are several posters who you can see are desperate for the team to be bad so they can attack ownership. They want it, they would prefer us to be bad so they can say they were right. Fred is the cheerleader of this group. That said, his multiple complaints are not without basis. And if they don't pull out of whatever this is in the next few weeks he'll be well within his rights to go into overdrive.
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Again, the comment was to show how useless a comparison to Crochet for Tolle was in this example, when there were vastly different elements at play for Crochet. You've used 10,000 words to miss it again. With the veracity, mass, and sometimes sarcastic nature in which you post, you can claim to think deeply about everything you decide to post if you want, but I simply don't believe you. 👍 Either way, I think the topic has run its course.
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I don't believe Crochet was the closer the CWS. And the point (that is continually being missed) is that he came into that bullpen with the freedom to develop against MLB pitching because they were not in a race. Tolle still needs much development and would not get the same luxury if promoted (which he won't be). Any other issues with it - take it up with the people thinking it was a good comparison. I thought it was a stupid one when I first read it. I think it's a stupid one now.
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You obviously didn't understand my point. It was that Crochet was able to develop in a pen that was not under pressure to deliver results because the CWS were not competing. Tolle would not have that luxury or space to develop while being in this pen. Something you seem to have given no thought to. And he very much has a lot of development to go. Luckily this is all moot because they won't bring him up in that role. As they shouldn't.
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I refuse to believe you can have read my post and think my point has anything to do with this reply.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
Hitch replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Right? Logic is out the window these days. It's day to day on every judgement. -
You're comparing apples to I don't know what the hell. Where was Crotchet in his development curve? And does the fact that the WS were winning like 40 games a year, meaning they can have him develop against MLB hitters with absolutely zero concerns about the the outcome of a game, mean nothing to you? You need bullpen help - go and get it. (We've literally got two proven MLB pitchers back any time now by the way, so why you'd even look at Tolle boggles the mind). When your stud prospect has work to do on all his secondary pitchers, you do that work, not call him up to a bull pen to throw one pitch. I think this weird start has broken the mind of a few people.
