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  1. Maxbialystock
    Not what I said at all. I mostly agreed with everyone who suggested DFAing him. But now I'm glad he wasn't. He has had some good outings this season. On the other hand, the idiotic Twins reliever just walked Casas, so the bases are loaded with no one out. If the Sox score four, I will join the mob who want to ride Brasier out of town on a rail.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Kluber will prove to be? He hasn't already shown he's a fraud? As for Tapia, I would just say the lineup all season has been a patchwork quilt, but they have scored runs.
  3. Maxbialystock
    What a crock! Kluber nailed that coffin up when he gave up 7 runs in the first 3 innings. The Twins have the best pitching, lowest ERA, in MLB, so the game was over going into the 4th inning. That's why Cora let Kluber pitch two more innings--to save the bullpen a little bit. As for Brasier, he has also had some good outings this season, including a really good save. Tonight was the right game to screw up.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Nice grab by Dugo! And this time Valdez didn't wave him off. He wanted to, but then decided to let Dugo get one.
  5. Maxbialystock
    How do we know he didn't? What I saw was Valdez shouting and waving his arms like he had it, all of it--and he wasn't about to let someone else take away his catch. Plus the error on the grounder. An inauspicious first game, but he's only 24, so he needs more seasoning. Another 5 years should do it.
  6. Maxbialystock
    It's more true than not true, tonight being another example with Kluger giving up 7. In the two games McGuire started at Tampa, they scored 9 and 9 runs. Good start against the Tigers, who only scored 3--also a good game for Sale. But he also caught Sale vs. the Orioles, who score 8 runs, 7 off of Sale.
  7. Maxbialystock
    A shout out to the three who voted/predicted the Sox would win 86-90 games this season. Absolute the right attitude to take. Me, a predicted a bunch of losers. Sox are 9-9 despite a horrible team ERA, a lineup that looks like it belongs in the three-eye league but actually does score runs, a suspect defense, and marginal baserunning. Recently, however, we have seen good starts by Sale, Whitlock, Crawford, Houck, Pivetta (but not his latest). Plus Kluber almost, kind of, sort of had one his 2d time out. moonslav says the pitching will be fine, and he's starting to look like a prophet. I'm starting to like both catchers, Wright and Wong. I await the returns of Duvall and Story and the magical transformation of Yoshida into the guy the FO thought they were getting.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Ok, now that is impressive.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Agreed he's looked bad so far. Don't agree the sample is big enough to make a judgment.
  10. Maxbialystock
    And he earned those too, plus the hamstring was timely. Climate is also an issue.
  11. Maxbialystock
    And let's not forget the Rays technique of starting a reliever who goes 1 inning and is followed by someone who pitches several innings.
  12. Maxbialystock
    DH or even 1B. Agree good bats should play every day or almost every day.
  13. Maxbialystock
    I'm sure those stats are correct, but Wong's DWAR is +0.5 to McGuire's -0.1. They both have the same WAR: +0.3. And that's kind of the way I see it--Cora can go with either one. Plus Wong bats righty, McGuire lefty. I think CERA has some legitimacy, but last night I thought Sale was great because his practice session straightened him out. He was hitting spots way better than the game before in Tampa.
  14. Maxbialystock
    So you're saying the Trop--and not the fan base--is the problem.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Detroit population has gone down from 1.85M in 1950 to 640K in 2020. Income is no doubt also down. Baltimore got hit with a double whammy. First Peter Angelos (owner), who is incompetent, then the Nationals, who sucked up a bunch of MLB fans, not necessarily Orioles fans, who loved going to watch MLB at Camden Yards. I've been to games at both parks and both have good sightlines and decent parking. Plus Nationals Park is a lot closer to N.Virginia which has a sizable population--2 million. Charlotte, NC might work. Austin, TX? Jacksonville, FL? Indianapolis, IN?
  16. Maxbialystock
    Well, he earned one.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Here are the Sox OPS's for today's line-up Verdugo .879 Tapia .806 Turner .769 Devers .990 Kike .590 McGuire .914 Casas .528 Duran 1.069 Valdez, first MLB game, but MILB OPS of .799 (.628 this season)
  18. Maxbialystock
    Good point. However, it is not uncommon for the city to assume some of the cost. Nevertheless, your point is probably the explanation for why no stadium has been built or even discussed.
  19. Maxbialystock
    My view is that Sox fans come back after a good year, but not necessarily during one. I expect Phillies fans are the same. They love what their team did in the postseason, but they also love DD doing his thing.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Both points are excellent because Phillies fans are notoriously picky. Last year they won 87 games to the Sox 78, but the Sox got more butts in seats, 2.6M to 2.2M. 32K per game vs. 28K per game.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Agree. The Tampa/St Petersburg/Clearwater metro statistical area has a population of 3.1 million. Interestingly, because Tampa is next to the Gulf, daytime high in the summer is normally 91 and rarely 100. However, May to October is also the rainy season, so an indoor stadium is probably needed.
  22. Maxbialystock
    Absolutely. I think in the Rays case necessity was the mother of invention. In fact, going back to my OP in which I denigrate sabermetrics and being smart, what I love about the Rays management is that have in fact built a terrific system for identifying and developing not only good pitchers, but good lineup players who aren't paid anywhere near as much as the the superstars the media keep talking about. I would love to see John Henry and Chaim Bloom build a team like that. But at the same time I fear such a team would not put butts in seats, not even at Fenway. Thus my examples of the attendance at the Angels games last week and the Twins last night. The Twins have terrific pitching, but lack star power. The Angels have Ohtani and Trout. In fact, one of us wrote he attended one of the Angels games precisely because he'd never seen Trout play in person. And, oh, by the way, no fan worth his salt in the 1930's should have turned down an opportunity to watch Babe Ruth. Forget Lou Gehrig and the Yankees Murderer's Row, the Babe was absolutely worth the price of admission.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Somebody else (or was it you) said something like this on another thread. They basically said, "yeah, Bloom blew it on Yoshida, but the Sox scouting system is also guilty of recommending him so highly." Also, apropos of the movie Trouble With the Curve, the Sox scouts could only have watched Yoshida in Japan. In the movie, the high school prospect was scouted in North Carolina. The hope for Yoshida is that he needs time to adjust to playing MLB in the good old USA.
  24. Maxbialystock
    That's true, but my assumption is that butts in seats are a reliable indicator of the overall fan base.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Completely agree about Tampa and have said so repeatedly in the past.
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