moonslav59

Claiming every post ever made has been "perfect," then doubling down on the claim, kinda fits the definition, to me. Just the opinion of an "old fart."

Total PAs Against and OPS .566 Martin (199) .569 Weiss (33) .689 Crawford (508-3rd) .693 Jansen (188) .699 Llovera (132) .703 Pivetta (506 -2nd) .713 Sale (408-6th) .723 Bernardino (212) .730 Winckowski (355- 7th) .740 Murphy (212) .744 Schreiber (199) .765 Paxton (411-5th) .767 Houck (441-4th) .777 Bello (668-1st) .839 Whitlock (297-8th)

Conversely, our pen took great strides, this year. IP/ERA as RP, only: 81/2.90 Winckowski 56/3.07 Pivetta 51/1.05 Martin 48/4.91 Murphy 45/3.63 Jansen 44/3.92 Schreiber 40/3.57 Bernardino 31/5.28 Bleier 29/4.71 Llovera 25/4.26 Jacques 23/6.26 Walter 22/1.66 Crawford 21/7.29 Brasier 19/6.27 Ort 18/5.50 Whitlock OPS Against .471 Crawford .566 Martin .569 Weiss (33 PAs Against) .571 Pivetta .693 Jansen .699 Llovera .734 Winckowski .740 Murphy .741 Schreiber .746 Kelly (37) .749 Jacques .750 Sheriff .751 Bernardino .783 Garza .785 Brasier Others: .831 Whitlock .867 Walter .887 Ort .912 Robertson

The starting Pitching has been widely agreed upon as our major weakness, this year and going into next year. Only having one pitcher with over 102 IP as a SP'er is alarming, and Crawford ended up second in GS and IP as a SP. Sale and Paxton both started 19 games, which might be more than many expected. (I did not expect 38 GS and 194 IP from the two, combined.) IP/ERA as SP'er only 157/4.24 Bello (28 GS) 102/4.78 Crawford (22) 100/5.31 Houck (20) 98/4.42 Sale (19) 96/4.50 Paxton (19) 80/5.06 Pivetta (15) 52/5.23 Whitlock (10) 42/9 Kluber (9GS) We had 16 starts by "openers" or spot starts. (25 IP/ 5.47 ERA) Total: 750 IP (4.75 IP/GS) 4.82 ERA 1.315 WHIP Best OPS Against by SP: .713 Sale .732 Crawford .765 Paxton .767 Houck .777 Bello .789 Pivetta .841 Whitlock .881 Kluber We need at least 3 SP'er for 2024, but I know two is probably wishful thinking.

We'll find one.

Sox OPS have been tumbling: .941 Abreu (just 73 PAs) .857 Devers .856 Casas .844 Duvall (342 PAs) .828 Duran (362) .799 Turner .781 Yoshida .775 EValdez (140) .756 Rafaela (77) .755 Dugo .710 Reyes (177) .710 Dalbec (43) .698 Urias (109) .686 Wong (393) .679 McGuire (200_ .678 Refsnyder (238) .544 Story (152) .438 DHam (39) Team OPS by Position: 2023 Position (2022/2021) .852 1B (.683/.761) .838 CF (.671/.678) .822 3B (.856/.909) .804 LF (.694/.695) .757 DH (.763/.906) .737 RF (.661/.803) .683 C (.694/.686) .665 2B (.724/.777) .632 SS (.815/.822)

One site's best picks: 2024 MLB Draft mock WWW.MLB.COM Sure, the dust has barely settled from the 2023 Draft, but there’s no rest for the weary. It’s time to start digging into the Class of 2024. If the scouting industry can do it, so can we! After all, many of these players are already out and being seen by One site has this for best college players: https://razzball.com/way-too-early-top-25-college-prospects-for-the-2024-mlb-draft/ 1. Jac Caglianone | 1B/LHP | Florida 2. Brody Brecht | RHP | Iowa 3. JJ Weatherholt | INF | West Virginia 4. Chase Burns | RHP | Tennessee 5. Charlie Condon | 1B/OF | Georgia 6. Vance Honeycutt | OF | North Carolina 7. Nick Kurtz | 1B | Wake Forest 8. Tommy White | 1B/3B | LSU 9. Travis Bazzana | 2B | Oregon State 10. Hagen Smith | LHP | Arkansas 11. Braden Montgomery | OF/RHP | Stanford 12. Carter Holton | LHP | Vanderbilt 13. Michael Massey | RHP | Wake Forest 14. Drew Beam | RHP | Tennessee

Our school mantra is, "We own what we do, and grit gets us through."

BINGO! These guys all know their weaknesses. They have been worked with for years to try and fix their weak areas. There is not much a manager can do in a few short months. Is there an expert manager or coach that gets all his players to improve focus and attention for every (needed) minute of every game? I will guess that some might do better than others, but these players need to start taking responsibility for their short-comings. I'm in the education business, and the shirking of responsibility and blaming everyone and everything but themselves is a major problem with recent generations. Where do you think they get this from? This board, obviously! (LOL)

Funny how you see this as me starting the name-calling, and you so gracefully and vallantly not escalating it. I guess calling us "old farts" is better than me calling you "pompous."

It's hard to know, for sure, his bat cannot improve enough to be a DH. He put up some pretty good numbers on the farm. Of course, not all farm numbers transfer over to the bigs, but he does have some good batting skills. In 2022, only 2 players, in all of minor league baseball , had more PAs and an OPS higher than his .918 OPS. (Both were at lower levels.) Soxprospects.com, basically says he's an "up and down," platoon utility guy. Not a resounding endorsement, but his bat could improve. I do think an EValdez/Refsnyder platoon would yield an .800+ OPS, but we can't afford to use 2 of the 26 roster slots on DHs, when we already have Yoshi. Refsnyder is marginally better in LF as a back-up than Yoshi, and EValdez could be an emergency 2Bman, but their "depth added" would be limited. This just doesn't look right: DH: Yoshi LF: Duran v RHPs/ Ref v LHP 2B: EValdez v RHPs/ Reyes v LHPs The D at 2B would be awful.

It seemed like some turned on him after that, maybe not so much because of it. That was "that other site," so maybe it was different, here.

You are a fine comedian, I will say.

Wake took a lot of grief over the last few year and for allowing that home run, but he was a great competitor and got the job done, more often than not. 140+ IP for 14 straight seasons and 16 out of 17 (130 the other year.)

I'm far from sure, too, but his D is so bad, his best slot might be DH. That was my point. It is rare for a team to platoon DH, unless bot can play other positions, as back-up well enough to not be a drain of 2 roster slots. That being said, an EValdez/Refsnyder platoon rates to hit better than Yoshi, IMO.

He's not great anymore, but he should not have been paying CF.

...anyway, I think there is a bigger chance Cora gets promoted than fired.

Not blaming Randy for anything, but I haven't said anything insulting in a while.

There are worse curses than this. One starts with an "M" for me, me, me and ends with a "P" for pompous.

True. Many did say Abreu was the better of the two we got for Vaz. I'm still short of saying "I'm impressed." Happy? Yes. Hopeful? Hell YES!

So, why stir it back up to the top?

Yoshida did have a pretty long stretch, where people were thinking, Hmmm, maybe he was a good signing, then... POOF! Maybe, he can get that back and keep it going for a full season, while relaxing on the bench as a DH.

What I have said is not an insult.

They all look promising, but I'm not sure I'd say "impressed." The sample sizes are way too small.

They are better at DH than at a position. I count 5. Yoshida Casas Devers Refsnyder platoon (top 30 batter vs LHPs over last 2 yrs) Duran, maybe I did not say they would be great DHs.