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  1. Maxbialystock
    To be honest, I think Story has taken away two Cardinal hits, so he's been a positive asset in this game.
  2. Maxbialystock
    Agree--of course. But @ $22M/year, one expects some hitting.
  3. Maxbialystock
    I don't give a hoot about Cordero's technique at 1b. I do care about his hitting, and so far he has struck out once.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Agree.
  5. Maxbialystock
    The MLB app quotes Story as saying he will beat this slump, but first he needs to admit what the scarecrow admits in the Wizard of OZ: he doesn't have a brain. In 3 pitches, he gets two right down the middle which he ignores, and swings and misses at the second pitch, which is either out of the zone or close to it. Except for Duran's leadoff triple, the Sox lineup looks pathetic. Wacha has his work cut out for him.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Lousy start when JDM has men on 1st and 3d with no outs and goes GIDP. Then Wacha gets a 3-1 count vs Arenado, who owns him, and decides to throw a fat changeup down the middle.
  7. Maxbialystock
    On a team currently filled with hitless wonders in the outfield, Duran's .814 OPS looks pretty tempting. Plus, personally, if I were Bloom, I would give any Sox player a $1000 bonus for every bunt single.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Nice turn of phrase. I gave Robert Redford (both a former baseball player and former horse whisperer) a call, and he says Plawecki is the real deal.
  9. Maxbialystock
    I only remember the excellent plays Iggy made for the Tigers (and the Sox). He was a joy to watch, but over time I recognize that, while Iggy would have been great fun to watch, the smart baseball move was to go with Bogey. A peek at their WAR's over the years confirms that.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Message from moonslav with which I completely agree: one game at a time. Old Red kind of pissed me off with his "well, finally, the Sox are going to play a winning team," but right now I kind of agree. Let the games begin.
  11. Maxbialystock
    Five lefty bats, which is what I predicted last night (on the game thread) might be the case because the Cardinals are going with three righty starters.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Guilty as charged, and I couldn't be happier that you might be right. My source on Duran was SoxProspects.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Succinct and scary. Well done.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Interesting. I am not impressed with Duran's defense or hitting, but, frankly, I don't know enough to disagree with you. Lots of people have said that this year especially Bloom and Cora need to see what players not named Devers, Bogaerts, and JDM can do.
  15. Maxbialystock
    While I agree with you about the Sox in last year's postseason--which was to me spectacularly good and fairly earned (not lucky as jacksonianmarch seems to think)--I do like jacksonianmarch's overview of the Sox future. I mean, it's broad brush, but it does seem that the one guy the Sox need to hang onto is Devers. That said, I still have not figured out Chaim Bloom's overall approach because to me he's caught between the devil (the system he created in Tampa to win with a low payroll caused by a weak fan base and budget) and the deep blue sea (the Sox under John Henry have been willing to spend big to get those 4 WS titles in 20 years).
  16. Maxbialystock
    Since we are still on a game thread, dare I say that the Cardinals are in Boston for three and are going with three good pitchers--Wainwright, Hudson, and Pallante--who will definitely challenge our Sox hitters. Eovaldi and Whitlock will both miss this series, but the Sox can still send out Pivetta tonight, then Crawford, who shut down the Mariners (5 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 4 BB's, 7 K's) five days ago, and then Wacha. Overall, the Cardinals have the better record (37-28 vs. 34-30), but they are better at home than on the road. Unfortunately, the Sox have been better on the road than at Fenway. Also overall, the Cardinals have better hitting and the Sox better pitching. Their team run differentials are +53 (Sox) and +55 (Cardinals). All three Cardinal starters are righties, so Cora might again go heavy with the lefty bats (Devers, Verdugo, Cordero, JBJ, and Duran). I read that righty bat Refsnyder is day to day and think that, if he is OK tonight, he could easily replace JBJ or Duran.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Agree fans approach things differently--vive la difference. However, I was not being facetious about Old Red, so I admit I must have been wrong.
  18. Maxbialystock
    The Cardinals are one of the truly great franchises in MLB who still draw big crowds despite being in a smallish city (301K). Right now their average home crowd of 38,577 is the second best in MLB after the Dodgers and ahead of the Braves, Yankees, Padres, Angels, Astros, and Cubs--all embedded in much bigger cities/fanbases. I think Branch Rickey made them great by being the first GM to develop a farm system, but he left there 80 freaking years ago, so they have had plenty of excellent GM's and managers since then. They are one of the oldest MLB franchises and have won 11 World Series. And what I remember best is that almost any time I drove through the central time zone I could pick up a Cardinals game if they were playing. Worth remembering too is that when the Sox broke the 86 year curse, they did it by sweeping the Cardinals. Thereafter, I had to tread carefully whenever I ran into a diehard Cardinals fan.
  19. Maxbialystock
    What excuse???? Oh, wait, I get it. You're the one who says the A's are actually a minor league team or at best a completely incompetent bunch of losers at the MLB level. Thus you also think that no decent MLB team would ever lose to the A's even though they have actually won 1/3 of their games this season. It therefore follows--in your train of "logic"--that the Sox should have won all 6 games vs. the A's and not just the measly 5 they did win.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Beyond question, Bogey would be a huge loss, but that also seems inevitable at this point. Thus the acquisition of Story, who can stay at 2b or go back to SS when/if Bogey goes elsewhere. I still remember coughing up a great defensive SS, Jose Iglesias, in 2013 to help get Jake Peavy. Iggy went to the Tigers, started, and played a brilliant SS in the ALCS against us. Nevertheless, the Sox won the ALCS and the WS and kept two SS's--Stephen Drew and Bogey (who played 3b that year). I hated losing Iglesias, but have been fine with Bogey at SS since 2014.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Interesting comments. Your Story Land commentary has little to do with the player and everything to do with Chaim Bloom. You much prefer Story to be closed. Also interesting is "they are going to need him to produce." Use of the third person--when many of us would have said "we need him to produce"--connotes you have no investment in the Sox winning, at least not this year. You've been sharply critical of Chaim Bloom and rarely comment that Cora did anything right since early in the season. So my guess, only that, is that you want this to be a bad season so you can say, "see, I was right."
  22. Maxbialystock
    You are a great contributor, but this time I'm not so sure I agree with you.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Completely, absolutely agree he is a fierce competitor.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Good stuff.
  25. Maxbialystock
    His first two seasons (2017 and 2018) with the Sox, I thought Chris Sale was the most professional pitcher I'd seen. He was completely focused, rarely shook off the catcher, and fielded his position skillfully and enthusiastically--and he threw good stuff. His WAR's those first two seasons were 5.9 and 6.5--pretty darn good. Since then--2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022--however, his WAR's have been 2.1, 0, 1.0, and 0. So right now I'm hoping you are right and that very soon the real Chris Sale will materialize. But there is a lurking doubt.
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