moonslav59

Turner is no fluke. 2023: .845 OPS 1.095 High Leverage 1.070 Late & Close 2022: .788 OPS .861 High Leverage .956 Late & Close Career: .833 .854 High Leverage .801 Late & Close Just don't get me to admit it's a "sustainable skill."

I couldn't make it through 30 seconds.

It's like the second Ref signed that extension, he fell off a cliff. I do still like Schreiber, despite his recent meltdown.

The past was not all that great until 2004, in terms of the Sox meeting up with the Promise Land- too bad the league was waterdown by then.

He did well with the Dodgers in the playoffs. He also has a higher career OPS in high leverage than not. (.854 high)

Just like that, our 2B slot seems to be okay for 2024 with Urias and Reyes. Hardly cost much at all, although urias may make more than $4M, next year, on his final arb year.

This list of ow cost additions that have failed or failed badly is a long one under Bloom's tenure with the Sox. It was an area he was supposed to be good at, but even the best have plenty of failures. Here are some lower cost players who did okay or better for us, considering the money or cost in acquiring them being rather low. Pillar (FA) Arroyo (Waivers) Munoz & Puello (FAs) Pivetta (trade) Whitlock (Rule 5) Renfroe (FA) Ottavino (basically for nothing) Y Rios (for cash) Schwarber (A Ramirez trade) Robles (trade) T Shaw (Waivers) Iggy (SEPT FA) Robles Schreiber (Waivers) Refsnyder (FA) Wacha ($7M bargain) R Hill ($5M bargain) Strahm (FA) McGuire (and dumped Diekman) Tapia Bernardino (Waivers) Reyes (for cash) Urias (trade) Players Bloom acquired who struggled with us, but then improved after leaving: Springs Perez TBD Z Kelly (FA) W Abreu/ E Valdez (Vaz trade) C Rosier & M Ferguson (Groome trade) W Mills (trade) Nick Robertson (Kike trade) Barraclough (MiFA) Jacques (MiRule 5) I'm sure I missed some. I'm sure some feel a name or two don't belong on this "Okay to good" list.

All the TOR-BOS series ave been sweeps (2 by BOS & 1 by TOR.) If we sweep them, the next time, we may get in by going 4-3 or even 3-4 v HOU, but yes, beating HOU, badly, would bring us right into the mix.

Kinda like Schreiber and Refsnyder?

The Astros play more "easier" series than we do, but they still have some tough series to go... 7 v BOS 3 @ TEX 3 v BAL They end the season with 3@SEA 3@ARI

But this is my favorite cover of that great song by The Cure...

Speaking of dinosaurs...

We covered this... Quote Originally Posted by moonslav59 View Post Other Philly trades: (I have not heard of many of these guys.) Hao-Yu Lee for Lorenzen Billy Sullivan for Cristian Pache Vierling, Maton & Sands for Kody Clemens and Gregory Soto Moniak & J Sanchez for Syndergaard Ben Brown for David Robertson Logan O'Hoppe for Brandon Marsh (I know O'Hoppe was a highly regarded catching prospect.) JoJo Romero for Edmundo Sosa Picardo for Norwood Haseley for M Moore Toffey for L Williams Joel Valdez for N Nelson & D Sands Spencer Howard, Gessner & K Gowdy for Crouse, Ian Kennedy and K Gibson This what I found since the 2021 deadline. MVP responded.... Top prospects traded per the above: Lee O'Hoppe Vierling Brown Romero The rest were outside their top 20 on the rankings I looked at (FanGraphs and Baseball America).

We may not need SEA to lose, if we pass HOU and TOR- the teams we play head-to-head.

I'm fine with streakiness, as long as the end result is over .850. Sometimes, a team needs one hot player to carry them all by himself. The other thing about his "slumps:" usually his worst stretches he hits around .700. Others have long stretches of .600 or even .500-.550 ball.

6-4 might be okay, if it's 5-2 v HOU and 1-2 v LAD.

It's been over 102 with heat indexes between 110-118 everyday since we came back from maine on August 1st. It never gets below 80 at night. The humidity is oppressive. We have already decided, we are never retiring here.

That may or may not be true, but if true, it might not be a bad thing. My dream came true: Devers Forvers!

I'd include Bernardino in that mix.

Some include strength of schedule and division/league and W-L record as part of the "bottom line." (The Sox may pass PHI in W-L by season end- or not.)

True, but I would not go out of my way to say DD did a better job than Bloom, this year, if it was more about just being in the "right" division and having an easier schedule.

Good point.

Thanks. It appears he is following a similar path with PHI as with BOS: trade prospects and spend money.

It's a small step in the right direction, but I'm for a full robo ump for balls and strikes. Even if it ends uo being flawed, my guess is it will at least be consistent and allow batters and pitchers to rely on a set standard.