Maxbialystock
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Well, mostly all. Coop K's with men on 1st and 3d.
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On the surface that is unarguable--and made worse by the fact that both Smith and Cooper are in the game. But Cora knows all.
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Valdez is red hot.
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Ugly top of the 1st that ended well. Bello threw almost everything right down the middle and got away with it despite leadoff single and BB. On that missed double play, I can't decide who looked worse, Hamilton on the bad throw or Bello cringing at 1b.
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Thanks. I was in a hurry.
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Mize ® vs. Bello ®, about even but I give the edge to Bello Duran LF Abreu RF Smith 1B Devers 3B Valdez 2B Cooper DH McGuire C Rafaela CF Hamilton SS Once again, 7 lefty bats for the Sox, who are going for the series win.
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A Realistic View of 2024: Part II
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He did not "close the spigot." Even this year, 5 years after the 2019 season, the Sox payroll is $182M, 11th biggest of 30 MLB teams. Two years after 2019 in the 2021 season, the Sox payroll was 6th highest and that was enough to produce a team good enough to make it to the ALCS--something only 1 of DD's four Red Sox teams accomplished.
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Boy, you sure know how to misrepresent things. DD was hired in August 2015. LESS THAN TWO YEARS EARLIER THE SOX WON THE 2013 WORLD SERIES. That was also the Sox 3d WS win in the previous decade, 2004-2014. Also, as I keep saying and you keep ignoring, JH pretty much gave DD carte blanche--the Sox payrolls under DD were 3d largest, 2d largest, largest, and largest in DD's 4 seasons. However, in that last season, 2019, with the Sox already with the biggest payroll in MLB, DD had to go to JH and tell he needed a lot more money to keep Mookie and find two really good starters to replace Sale and Price--while still paying Sale and Price.
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You are so completely full of it. Seriously. In DD's 4 seasons as the Sox CBO, their payrolls were ranked 3d, 2d, 1st, and 1st. What broke the bank at Monte Carlo was the collapse of the Sox in 2019 with the biggest payroll in MLB and DD going to John Henry saying "I need a whole lot more money to meet Mookie's demands, which the Dodgers are more than happy to meet, plus I need a bunch of money to replace David Price and Chris Sale while we continue to pay them."
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Nice win, 2 run dinger by the Tigers in the 9th notwithstanding. Sox are 8-5 since losing 4 straight (May 15-18) to Tampa Bay and St Louis. Up ahead (after 1 more game vs Tigers) are-- 2 vs. the 32-23 Braves, 4 vs. the 15-43 White Sox, 3 vs 40-18 Phillies, 3 vs. 40-19 Yankees.
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Late to the game. Why is Wong in for Grissom?
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Surprising game. Criswell and Bernardino both pitched well--which isn't surprising for Bernardino but is for Criswell--and the Sox lineup has played good D and scored 6 freaking runs. Home plate ump likes to call strikes. Fine with me as long as its for both sides.
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We were both wrong. Today Valdez is THE MAN.
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Customers got tired of going to Fenway Park 10 years ago. 6 years ago they couldn't even fill that very small ballpark with the best Sox team ever. His yacht cost $90M, which wouldn't begin to pay what the Dodgers are now paying Mookie Betts.
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I'd rather have Ref, but Cora tends to play guys who are on the roster rather than leave them on the bench.
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Fine, I like Mookie too. However, I have two responses to keeping him. First is that Mookie doesn't pitch, so the Sox pitching staff would have continued to disintegrate to mediocrity. Second is the example of the LA Angels, who have kept a truly great player in Mike Trout and gone nowhere in the postseason. Indeed, from 2018 to 2023, the had both Trout and Ohtani and went nowhere. I am not arguing that JH has made the right decisions with respect to CBO's and/or level of spending. But I am saying I understand his frustration with all those big contracts that resulted in so-so performance. As I have already said too many times, that frustration continues today with paying Sale $17M to star for the Braves, Turner $6.7M to play elsewhere, Story $22.5M to remain on the IL until 2025, ditto Giolito $18M, ditto Whitlock $3.2M, and $18.6M to Yoshida who is currently on the IL and whose hitting last year and this has not been commensurate with that salary.
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So let me ask you this simple question. What would you have done if, after 4 straight seasons of paying top dollar or near top dollar, your CBO came to you and said, "boss, love those payrolls, but to remain competitive we are going to have to spend a whole lot more money?"
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Baloney. He absolutely, positively did allow DD to do that for the Sox. In 2016, DD's first season, the Sox had the 3d highest payroll in MLB. In 2017, 2d highest. And in 2018 and 2019 the highest payrolls in MLB. And guess what JH found out in 2019? Not only were the Sox not even going to make the postseason--with the biggest payroll in MLB--DD was almost certainly telling him he would need a whole lot more money to keep Mookie Betts and find two more stud starting pitchers to replace Sale and Price while also continuing to pay Sale and Price.
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Olson ® vs. Criswell ® Olson's ERA of 1.92 gives him a big edge over Criswell's 4.19. So Cora is going with seven lefty bats (*): Duran LF * Abreu RF * Smith 1B * Devers 3B* Valdez DH* Grissom 2B McGuire C * Rafaela CF Hamilton SS *
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Commentary from the cheap seats. They didn't get a deal done with Houch because he was never on the Sox roster. As for Houck, as recently as last season there were discussions about whether he could successfully face a lineup a third time--to say nothing of the fact that last year his ERA was 5.01 in 21 starts. This year he's like he ducked into a phone booth and emerged as SuperHouck. His repertoire is bigger and his pitches are way sharper. And his ERA is an insane 1.85.
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Looks like Rafaela is going to keep that rbi lead a while longer. That he is doing so from the 9 spot in the lineup is remarkable. Sox back up to .500. However, tomorrow it's Criswell (ERA 3.96) vs. Olson (ERA 1.92), so big edge to the Tigers.
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Houck goes 7, giving up 1, and now has an ERA of 1.85, but is just 5-5.
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My goodness, yes. Tough because he delivers. Tough because he gets little support--tonight was an exception--from the hitters. And tough because the defensive saboteurs are always lurking. That bad throw by Devers to 2b was pure inattention.
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4-1, Sox, after 4 innings. Devers led off with a double, and Rafaela, knowing that he and he alone deserve to lead the Sox in rbi's, finished the job with a--wait for it--3 run dinger. Ghostbusters!