moonslav59

Game Over! Season Over! Wait Till Next Year!

I can't blame Grady, and never did. Pedro out of gas is still better than almost anyone else.

Yes, I did. I need new glasses.

I seriously doubt we take the $4.5M Joely option, so that leaves in house options Murphy, Bernardino, Walter or force Sale to the pen.

Many of our RH'd RP'ers do well, very well or even have reverse splits vs LHBs. I do think we try to add one, but it's 4th or 5th on my list. 1. SP 2. SP 3. SP or RHB 4. RHB or SP 5. LH RP or RHB/SP

Yes, and of the 4 or more areas can do that.

So he leaked an opposing view to his own statements?

If that's bias, I'd love to see what he'd be like unbiased.

Yes, certainly possible, or $295M guaranteed.

Yes, that's it in a nutshell. If we needed a DH, sure, but we have a chance to improve our defense and maybe improve Yoshida's offense, too, by allowing him to not wear down by playing DH nearly FT. We have other big needs. It will not be easy replacing his bat and his spirit, but it seems like the best thing to do. (That doesn't mean he's not coming back.)

They didn't want to wait for Wacha's demands to fall.

The other factor is that we may not even offer him a contract. We have 5 guys on our 26 man roster who are negatives on D.

I know Duvall is a FA, but I included him in the comps because I'm wondering if Abreu would be an improvement on D, and there is chance Duvall is brought back. We will not trade both Dugo and Duran.

Some people liked to criticize the knuckleball, despite the fact that it was hard enough to catch the pitch, let alone hit it. He was a true battler. Not many pitchers gave 130+ innings for 17 straight seasons and all with one team (ages 28 to 44.) He gave over 140 IP in 16 of those 17 seasons. 150+ in 13 of 17. 180+ in 9. He ended up with a 105 ERA+ for us. 3 seasons: 1995-1997 (608 IP) 118 ERA+ 2001-2003 126 ERA+ Incredibly, he had a 106 ERA+ in a 4 season stretch from 2005-2008 at ages 38-41.

The one guy we rush to sign: Kluber.

Exactly, and nobody is suggesting we bench or trade our corner IF'ers.

RIP. I loved Tim!

I don’t see it that way. He seems to be a straight shooter who has been critical of Sox management enough times to convince me, he’s not lying. I’ve presented a view where nobody lied. That’s my position.

The evidence is he did not accept the offer to stay

Wacha did not get $30M/2.

Sounds about right, but he doesn't want to piss of Sox fans. I do wonder, if we offered the same or $1M more than whatever LAD's top offer might have been, would he have signed with us.

Yes. Go to baseball reference. Click on BOS Click on Pitching, then Detailed Stats Scroll down to Team Relief Pitching and it gives IR, IRS (IS) and IS%. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2023-pitching.shtml It also gives the league average (32%) 7% Martin 13% Bernardino 17% Jansen 20% Murphy Below average: 33% Brasier 36% Jacques 40% Pivetta 44% Wink 50% Schreiber & Llovera 57% Bleier Not enough PAs Against to qualify: 0% Crawford, Joely, Sherriff, Weiss 18% Garza 33% Barraclough, Walter 67% Kelly 100% Robertson

The thing is, nobody is saying defense matters more than batting and pitching. Hell, I doubt anyone thinks it matters more than just the rotation or the pen or even half a line-up. It's a point of discussion that Max just doesn't want to happen, for some reason. Our D sucked. We allowed way too many opponents on base, when they should have been out. We forced our pitchers to get 4 or 5 outs in way too many innings. We lost games because of our defense, and we certainly lost more than we won from our opps defense. Yes, every loss cannot be blamed on just one play (hit, out or Reach on Error,) but our defense contributed to way too many losses. That is indisputable. According to Outs Above Average we are -52! The next teams are: -52 BOS -38 CIN -28 MIA -21 OAK -18 LAA We are worse than the 3rd and 4th worst teams combined. To think that hardly matters is not sensible. Those 52 outs are just below AVERAGE! Imagine, if we were top 5 (+23 to +40!) We'd be talking a 75 to 90 swing in hits/errors turned into outs. For context, if our offense made 75 to 90 more outs, instead of hits, our team BA would drop from .259 (4th in MLB): .245 with 75 (T18th) .244 with 90 (20th) We'd all be screaming how terrible our offense is.

Coaches Poll 1. GA 2. MI 3. Ohio St (Beat ND earlier) 4. TX 5. FSU 6. PSU 7. USC (Plays at ND Oct 14) 8. WSH 9. ORE 10. ALA (first 1 loss team) 11. ND (second 1 loss team) 12. OKL 13. NC 14. WSH St 15 MS (1 loss) 16 ORE St (1 loss) 17 MIA 18 TN (1 loss) 19 UT (1 loss) 20 KY 21 Duke (1 loss to ND) 22 MO 23 LSU (2 losses) 24. Fresno St 25. Louisville (Plays ND Oct 7 at home)

Do you even know what "patting yourself on the back" means? It's not "patting" when you are wrong. Being a fact that you got a few things right, does not mean it's not "patting."