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  1. moonslav59
    He really looked like he had good command. He did not look rusty, at all. Even some of the hits were not off fat meatballs.
  2. moonslav59
    Ball girl play. Ground Rule DBL instead of bouncing around the triangle. Who was saying we have many more wins than losses due to luck?
  3. moonslav59
    He's had an up and down career with some ups and downs within many seasons. Just waiting on the next up.
  4. moonslav59
    This has been a fun game to watch. I'm not sure why you feel disgusted.
  5. moonslav59
    Bernardino proves the point that guys like Brasier can be replaced very cheaply, if the guy we call up to take his place sucks. Dime a dozen.
  6. moonslav59
    Just got caught up on delay. Nice game from Paxton, but I'd yank him.
  7. moonslav59
    I was thinking more about not adding Adrus or someone a little better than Chang.
  8. moonslav59
    I don't think Pedro fell apart any earlier than the league norm, and if you look at his age 30-33 numbers, one could argue he aged better than most, no matter what he did after 33.
  9. moonslav59
    They also beat us to Eflin, last winter.
  10. moonslav59
    Trying to find their next Springs, I guess. It does make you wonder why the Rays would want our scraps. It must mean they like players Bloom has acquired.
  11. moonslav59
    How could they not know about Mondesi's ETA. when they traded for him? (Or, did they?)
  12. moonslav59
    Sox attendance does not always gel with winning seasons or being loaded with stud supernova stars.
  13. moonslav59
    Major boo-boo. I neglected to put Houck in the rotation.
  14. moonslav59
    Pedro did have one last good season at age 33 and from age 30 to 33, he pitched 820 Innings (4 yrs) with a 2.83 ERA and an amazing 160 ERA+. I think pitching very well fromm 30-33 beats most pitchers by a mile. Sure, one can find many who did great well beyond 33, but I would not say Pedro aged, poorly. Also, when looking at Pedro's ERA, you have to factor in the steroid era and what offenses were doing back in those day. That's where the ERA+ shows just how dominating he was. He had a 173 ERA+ for a 10 year stretch ('95-'04.) Since the 1950's... 291 Pedro 2000 271 Maddux 1994 260 Maddux 1995 243 Pedro 1999 229 Gooden 1985 226 Clemens 2005 223 Verlander 2022 222 Greinke 2015 219 Pedro 1997 3 of the top 9 slots! 218 deGrom 2018 217 Snell 2018 ... 211 Pedro 2003 & Clemens 1990 ... 202 Pedro 2002 Pedro led the league in ERA+ for 5 seasons: 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
  15. moonslav59
    It just seems like our offense is so powerful and has shown it can score late and often, we don't need 6th inning RP'er that put us in deeper holes. I had high hopes in our AAA pitching depth, this year (Mata, Walter, Murphy, Kelly, Mills and others,( but they have almost all fallen flat on their faces to start the season. We still have a pretty good 13-15 pitchers, but with 3-5 on the IL, at any given time, we end up with Brasier, Bleier and at times Ort needed in games still within reach.
  16. moonslav59
    Looking at attendance rankings is greatly affected by the size of Fenway. Even when we sell out, we don't reach the 40K levels other parks can reach. Even comparing eason to season makes little sense, sometimes, when you look at what years we won and seemingly had better teams to watch.
  17. moonslav59
    It's been a years long mystery. Maybe it will all end, this month.
  18. moonslav59
    An early look at who might be sellers, at the deadline: Potential sellers at 2023 MLB Trade Deadline WWW.MLB.COM There are more than 11 weeks until the Trade Deadline, but with the quarter mark of the regular season rapidly approaching, front offices around baseball are beginning to assess where their teams stand. Eight teams entered Thursday with winning percentages of .444 or lower, which over the course of a
  19. moonslav59
    Who does this anymore? IP /ER 9.0/ 0 8.0/ 0 8.2/ 0 Total: 25.2 IP 11 Hits 3 BB 25 Ks He had a 5.20 ERA after 5 starts.
  20. moonslav59
    If Wink can keep this up, one could call the Beni trade a winner. (The money saved also allowed us to sign Renfroe- or Marwin, if you see the glass as half empty.) It's hard to view losing Betts in any kind of positive light, but under the circumstances, to me, that trade now looks like a plus. Everyone knows I hated the Renfroe-JBJ deal from day one, but I did say the only way it could work is if a prospect does better than what was expected from hamilton and Binelas, at that time. Hamilton is keeping a sliver of hope alive, but it still looks pretty bad, despite the fact that other teams have moved on from renfroe after having him, for a while, too. The Pivetta trade is not looking quite as good as before. The Vaz trade looks good. The Diekman deal looks like a steal. Most of the others look okay or are washes. (Aldo R for Schwarber worked.)
  21. moonslav59
    Agree. The last 3 have been within our top 5 or 6 pitchers, this year, Demoting them would be a mistake, IMO.
  22. moonslav59
    Had we kept Betts, how would we have dumped Price? Package him with Beni, Bogey or Devers? Pay 75-80% of his salary? Had our budget been set at the same as it was, we basically sign nobody for 2020 and 2021, and that's if we were able to dump three-quarter Price.
  23. moonslav59
    Trading Pivetta would be a mistake, IMO. We have so many fragile and or sketchy starters, that having 6 may not be nearly enough. Paxton is such a total guess, that it will take quite a few starts from him to get any feel for expectation. I'm 100% against demoting Bello. I see him as our #2 SP'er, right now. I doubt it comes to DFA'ing Brasier and Belier, since someone else will likely get hurt, but if it comes to that, I see it as the best option. With our AAA pitching depth is disarray, I fear the Sox top brass wants to keep as many options on the table as possible, despite many of our belief that the waiver wire can provide pitchers equal to or better than Brasier and Bleier (and Ort.) Bernardino kinda showed that.
  24. moonslav59
    Yes. Most teams would or could not trade for just his salary, and the fact that giving up a lot of talent for 1 year also does not fit many team's plans or strategies. Throw in half-Price and you exclude 25-27 teams and reduce the expected return.
  25. moonslav59
    I'll take a stab at this... Bernardino has options: he will go when Whitlock, Crawford or Joely is called up. The second one should be Brasier or Bleier- both out of options- so DFA or trade. I can't see them demoting Bello over the idea that keeping Brasier and or Bleier on the 40 matters more. Maybe, they trade Pivetta.
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