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Cora is first half AL manager of the year
Kimmi replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
You have to be excited about your Mariners! Servais certainly deserves consideration for MOY at this point in the year. -
Cora is first half AL manager of the year
Kimmi replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Good info Moon. Bloom is not making any loud splashes (other than Story), but that doesn't mean he hasn't put together a good team with some pretty good depth. -
Possibly. As they always say, these things have a way of working themselves out.
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I'm not sure what you would consider a meaningful statistical comparison, but looking at several relief pitching stats at Fangraphs, Sox relievers are not that bad, except in the category of meltdowns. But even with that, you have to look a little deeper, IMO. The Sox relievers have the highest leverage index (LI) in MLB when entering a game, meaning they are entering in critical situations more so than other teams. IMO, that makes the possibility of a shutdown or a meltdown more likely because there is less wiggle room. The late inning blown saves and losses are things that will stick in our minds because they are at the end of the game and because they are so difficult to take. We tend to remember those better than the times the BP pitched well.
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I was aware of that. For me, the more baseball the better. I'd be happy if they played into December.
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Yes, I knew it was a 3-game series. I misspoke. I understand exactly what you all are saying about the teams without byes having to get through an extra round. Even so, if the Sox make it into the playoffs, I like their chances of winning the WS as much as I like any other team's chances. Even the Yankees, who will presumably have that bye. The goal is to make it in.
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It won't be as good as what we would get if we traded him, but as you said, it's better than nothing. Every little bit helps.
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That would be a lot of money, trying to keep all 3 of them together for that long. Mookie will likely be worth his contract, on the whole. However, it's not as easy to eat that kind of money for 3 or more years as you think it is. Concessions have to made elsewhere to cover it.
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Thanks. Good to know. I'm still hopeful that the Sox will work something out with him.
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100%
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I get all that. One of the wildcard teams will be eliminated in each wildcard game. What I'm saying is that the wildcard teams that prevail have as good a chance of winning it all as any other team does.
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It would, for sure. The concern is never about the first few years of a contract though.
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I'd give QOs to JD and Eovaldi and be happy if they accepted. We'd at least get something back if they decline, but I'm reading that might change depending on what is decided upon with the international draft. Can we give Bogaerts a QO if he opts out? Either way, we now have some flexibility to work on getting nice replacements.
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I'm not sure what we'll see, probably something none of us were expecting. LOL I trust Bloom and I like the way he does business. I'll leave it up to him.
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Cora is first half AL manager of the year
Kimmi replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Cora is my man as well, and I think he deserves a lot of credit. I have always believed that a manager has a large impact on the team in terms of what goes on off the field. I will add the controversy over non-vaccinated players not being able to play in Toronto as another issue that Cora has had to deal with. At the same time, perhaps the Sox are doing as well as they are because they weren't as poorly constructed, including the 'barren upper minors' as you think they are. -
I would disagree with the "adequate to awful" rating. I think it has ranged between good and below average. There have been some terrible performances thrown in (and there have been some great performances thrown in), but I would not rate them, in general, as awful any more than I would rate them as being great.
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No, it wasn't. I'm not sure if Bloom will cut ties with him though.
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I'm with you on Sawamura. I'm not getting all the hate. Even if he is just a low leverage guy, every pen needs some of those guys.
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Bloom seems to really like having roster flexibility. The more arms you have available, the better. I'm not down on this pen like most people are. I'm guessing Bloom will add one under the radar reliever and be done with the pen. Getting Whitlock back is about as good a trade deadline pick up as you can get.
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And probably won't pay Devers.
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IMO, the reason for picking up reinforcements has more to do with being able to finish out the regular season strong than it has to do with winning in the postseason. The postseason is too much of a crapshoot. The Yankees are all but certain to win the division, so whoever they pick up to finish this season doesn't really have on impact on me. Will it really matter whether the Yankees win 110 games versus winning 111 games? The postseason is too much of a crapshoot. For the Sox, winning 1 or 2 extra games could very well be the difference between playoffs or not. Soto would be nice, but it's not happening.
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Good points. As I said in my previous post, I'm not sure the Yankees really need to make any moves. If it were the Red Sox, I'd be completely fine if the team did not make any moves at the deadline.
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How about what Kimmi from Talksox thinks? I would be in an uproar if the Sox traded one of our key players at the deadline.
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There's no data on it yet, but that would be something that I'd be interested in looking at several years down the road. I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure that I agree with that statement on the whole. In other words, I think one of the wildcard teams is just as likely to win the WS as one of the division winners are.
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Yes, we could possibly trade some fringe players. That would make sense. Beyond that, Bloom will not make any moves at the expense of this year's team.
