moonslav59

Further proof. Again, thanks for finally giving up hiding.

Maybe Bloom was just a Rays plant, all along!

I hope you are wrong, but nothing seems encouraging about his first season in MLB.

Thanks for continuing to show your true colors. No more hiding it. At least I was right about you.

That is a crazy start to the season. If we can somehow go 5-5, we’ll know there will be no summer trip to those parks left on the schedule.

He did not deserve the treatment he got when leaving the Sox. Enjoy your retirement, Tito!

Well that’s two, but also EValdez. Refsnyder on a platoon, and maybe even Duran, but I’m fine with him in LF.

Glad you finally admitted it.

We do have several OF and DH types, and would not really need to replace him.

I'm not trying to get you to be giddy, but you obviously had issues with those who did. You still bring it up.

...and if we take back $25-30M of contracts in return, maybe there might be more takers, or pitch in $15-25M.

Sure, just like the Price trade where we had to throw in some bum named Betts. LOL

You stat nerds can hash this out.

Good that you can watch "lowlights" in the box scores. Have yet to hear why it bothers you that fans get "giddy" when their team is winning, even if it turns out to be false hopes.

But, you stopped watching when we were winning. Your eye test was skewed.

The Yoshi contract is what it is. We have to deal with it and make the best of the situation. May be having him DH 120-145 games would help him hit better than 2023. We know it would improve the D, by itself. These should be the "easier" choices for the next GM.

Okay, we need 6 non numbered SP'ers before we dip into the pen.

Yes. It is with many teams. And many teams use their long RP'ers as spot starters or slotted as their #6. If we sign 2 really good pitchers, and we get lucky with both starting 31 games, each, we'd still need 90 starts from ____. Let's say with some more good luck... 28 Bello 28 Pivetta We'd need, best case scenario, 34 starts from ... Sale Houck Crawford Whitlock Walter/Murphy Are we to expect more good luck and get 24 from Sale and just 10 from Houck or Crawford and be able to keep Whitlock and the other one from Houck/Crawford in the pen all year? IMO, we'd end up using 12 pitchers again, including all our long men plus Walter, Murphy and maybe Drohan or Wikelman. Even 3 solid SP'ers does not guarantee keeping 2 or 3 of those guys in the oen, all year, but why not try to plan on just that? The 3rd guy could be a durable #4 type. SP1 FA SP2 FA/Trade SP3 Bello SP4 FA/Trade SP5 Pivetta (who has been proven to start many games and give a lot of IP) SP6 Sale I'd rather have to get to my 7th SP'er not my #6 to start dipping into my long relief group in the pen. I'd love to see, what I think might be revolutionary (at least for the Sox) to have a solid 4 man long relief pen and 4 man short relief pen combined. Short: Jansen, Martin, Wink, Schreiber (AAA: Bernardino, Kelly, Robertson, Guerrero) Long: Houck, Whitlock, Crawford, Pivetta (if Sale is healthy) or Murphy (AAA: Gambrell/Walter/Mata/Drohan/Wikelman) To me, this is a top 5 or 6 pen in MLB. Why not plan for that?

I'm wondering why you chose to say 87. I could care less if you say you are terrible. It bring me no joy. You rarely answer the question asked, so I will say I think you are terrible at that.

I seriously doubt JT comes back at that option price, but he did seem to like it in Boston, despite all the seeping toxicity. It doesn't make sense, to me. Yoshi should be the DH for several reasons: 1. He reallysucks on D, and I mean badly. 2. He seemed to burn out over the long MLB schedule. 3. The only position we seem to have a surplus is OF, especially LHB'ers in the OF. I really like JT, and I'm worried about our offense, next year, without him. I just don't think we'll want to spend the money it may take to bring him back on him and not pitching and a RH'd bat who can play CF (or RF, if Dugo's days are numbered.)

Susuki makes the catch, and this is not even mentioned.

But why mention 87 wins?

It's obvious many think like you do.

You mean you read about them. One "problem" Devers had in key situations was they walked him way more than JT (more than double the amount) PAs in High Leverage: 120 Devers (21 BBs) 112 Turner (9BBs) JT did outhit him (.333 to .266), but when you factor in the walks, which would bring their PAs about even: nonwalk PAs: 103 Turner 99 Devers The RBIs were about the same per nonwalk PA: 31 Turner 30 Devers High Leverage OBP: .408 Devers .384 JT SLG .532 Devers .510 JT OPS .940 Devers .894 JT JT did do better with RISP and Late & Close, but MVP? I'd give it to Martin. You can't do much better than he did.

Oh, it made perfect sense. That's why I'm all for adding 3 solid SP'ers, so we don't have to keep jerking these guys around, or at least lessen the odds of having to do so. I know full well, we won't. We will continue dreaming Sale will start 25 games and go 160+ IP. We will keep thinking Houck can go past 18 batters. We will be sufficiently impressed with Crawford's 4.78 ERA as a SP'er in 2023 to anoint him the 4th starter in '24. We will keep Whitlock in the pen, but won't hesitate to start him, when someone gets hurt. We won't make plans to cover for anything that could and will go wrong. Unless, the new guy breaks the paradigm.