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Maybe someone can find a longer or worse "cold streak," but I found a ,,, 31 games stretch (4/21 to 5/28) at .689 and a 26 game stretch (6/3 to 6/30) at .774. Before today's game with his HR and single, his OPS since July 1st is 1.005. That's a pretty long stretch, already.

YES! I'd also think about extending Crawford, Bello and Wong.

The player suck and would likely do no better with another manager. That being said, Boone and Cashman both suck, and I hope they remain in control for many more years to come.

JT was a great signing. I only wish the option year was a team option. His help at 1B, 3B and even 2B has made him way more valuable than JD would have been for the Sox, this year.

Urias > Reyes, IMO

IMO, that definition does not fit Nate. Just because it fits him more than anyone else in your time period chosen does not make him dependable. He was far from dependable. Better: yes. He was not even the most dependable from 2018-2020, 2019-2020, 2020-2022 and many other time frames, except yours. Yes, your chosen time frames gives Nate the lead in innings, but he missed way too many innings to be called dependable, IMO.

Actually, ERod has more IP with the Sox from 2018-2022. 491 ERod 462 Nate 446 Pivetta 423 Sale If you want to argue, Nate was not with the Sox for all of 2018, then one can argue ERod was not here in 2022, and Pivetta in 2018, 2019 or most of 2020. IMO, from the summer of 2018 to the end of 2022, ERod and Pivetta were more of a "horse" than Nate.

Wink certainly does not have great numbers. His ERA seems like smoke and mirrors, when you look at his OPS Against (.757) and WHIP (1.407,) but let's see how he ends up comparing to Nipper's career.

Was that the last time you watched a game?

The Sox currently have the 11th best record in MLB. 12 teams make the playoffs, but we are on the outside, looking in, at the moment. -1.5 from MIL #10 -2.0 from PHI #9 and the great DD constructed team with an easier schedule -2.5 from TOR #8 -3.o from SEA #7 We need to get to the #7 slot to make the 12 team playoffs, as of now.

You would think that.

I guess they must like the match-ups with Wink in the first inning or two. Pivetta looked pretty good starting, last time, and I'm not sure it matters when he gets his 5-6 IP. It doesn't seem to bother him, how they use him.

Signing Nate, instead of Kluber and Duvall might have still kept us under the tax line, and we'd likely be in a playoff slot, right now, but we'd also be missing Nate for the rest of the season- an all to familiar thing with our best starters (Sale, Nate and Paxton.) We'd also not have Duvall, right now as Duran is slumping, again.

I wasn't counting Kike, as he was not a FA or winter signing, but I suppose you can count Brasier and Kike. More likely, if we did sign Bogey, we don't Martin, and Yoshida. Or Jansen & Turner Or Turner, Martin & Duvall I know including Kluber makes signing Bogey better, but we were always going to sign a SP'er. At one point, Eflin looked like the better choice, but he's out for the year.

Despite Porcello and Price not even being on the 2020 team, they started more games than Nate from 2018-2020 65 Porcello 57 ERod (despite missing 2020's COVID season) 52 Price 52 Sale 42 Nate Despite not being on the Sox for most of 2020, Nate has started more games than Nate from 2020-2022" 65 Pivetta 61 Nate 34 Perez (not on '22 team)

Or, if IP and GS makes you a workhorse.

Not really true. Pivetta has been more dependable than Nate, and he was demoted this year, not injured. 30 GS in 2021 and 33 in 2022 (led league in GS) Richards was demoted not injured. Wacha started 23 games in 2022, which is about the same percent of games missed due to injury as Nate's 4 year numbers. Perez was very dependable. (He was demoted from the rotation n 2021- not injured.) Hill got hurt, but still started 26 or 32 games- a way better rate than Nate's. Kluber got demoted and then hurt. GS leaders by season: 2019 34 ERod 32 Porcello (talk about dependable in GS and IP) 25 Frail 22 Price 12 Nate 15 Velazquez+Johnson 2020 12 Perez 9 Nate 7 Godley 6 Mazza 10 Brewer+Houck+Hart 2021 32 Nate 31 ERod 30 Pivetta 22 Richards (demoted) 22 Perez (demoted) 22 Houck+Sale 2022 33 Pivetta 26 Hill 23 Wacha 20 Nate 26 Wink + Crawford 20 Bello+ Whitlock and 2023 21 Bello 19 Eovaldi (on IL) 16 Crawford (was in pen) 16 Paxton 13 Frail 13 Houck 10 Whitlock Yes, Nate provided the best prolonged pitching by one pitcher since he came here in 2018, but he was not and still is not, and never has been a workhorse.

Then, subtract just about every other signing to match his AAV. Go ahead: take the worst contracts, then compare, I'm not even convinced signing him to a $200M/7-8 deal, earlier will prove to be worth it.

The other being Chris Frail.

The big killer was Judge, although an injury to him should not have been "stunning. fWAR '22>'23 11.5>3.5 Judge (looks stunning but the injury was not shocking) 3.7> 0.9 Trevino (a big drop, but did you really have high expectations, here?) 3.0> 0.5 LeMahieu (I don't really see this as stunning, due to his age and trend) 2.8> 1.9 Torres (pretty close and certainly not a stunning drop) 2.4> 0.8 Rizzo (This is not far from expectations) 1.2> -0.4 Stanton (This one hurts but not totally unexpected) 2.3> 0.0 Carpenter (You expected this repeated?) 1.7> 0.0 Higgy (a drop) 1.6> 0.0 Donaldson (Totally expected) 1.4 IKF>1.7 Volpe (an improvement) 1.4 Hicks>1.6 Bader (an improvement) 1.5>- 0.6 OCab 0.3 Gallo>-0.4 McKinney (meh) Team 2022>2023 .241>.230 BA (.276>.266 BAbip) .325>.305 OBP .426>.399 SLG .751>.703 OPS

Signing Bogey would have been a big mistake. Not adding someone like Iggy, when he was available during the season was a bigger mistake. Not playing Reyes a few games, when Cora chose to start Kike, instead, was also a mistake. Hell, as bad as DHam looked, he seemed better than Kike. (I'd have even tried Arroyo at SS over Kike,)

How the 4 games between HOU and SEA go, might determine who we need to pass (along with passing TOR.) SEA and HOU play 4 more games. A 3-1 or 4-0 split might make one target easier than the other. A 2-2 split would allow us to gain 2 games on both, if we go 4-0, or 1 game on bth, if we go 3-1 in those 4 games. Other than those games, we will have to rely on other temas to beat the teams ahead of us. The only teams ahaead of us, who we can pass to make the playoffs, is HOU (7 games) and TOT (3 gms.) The Rays are a long shot, and we only play them 3 more times.

I'm not sure why Bloom's blunders turns Nate into some kind of durable or dependable stud horse.

I've never come close to defending Bloom's choices on rotation additions or moving guys like Whitlock to the rotation. No way does Wacha and Hill even begin to move the needle.

Winck has had an up and down season, with his poor outings bunched up. Wink's AUgust was going great, until his last game Aug1-Aug 15 1.50 ERA amd .668 OPS Against Amazing what one bad game can do... ERA/OPSA 1.50/.517 first 24 IP (14 gmes. 3.72/.787 next 9.2 IP (5gms) 3.12/.758 next 8.2 IP (7gms) 12.46/1.601 next 4.1 IP (3gms) 1.29/.667 next 14 IP (10gms) 9.00/1.029 last 4 IP (5 gms) A different view: 1.50/.517 first 24 IP (14 gmes.) 5.16/.973 middle 23 IP (15 gms) 1.56/.687 last 17 IP (14 gms) not counting his last game on Aug 17th) 3.00/.763 last 18 IP (15 gms) counting his last game