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  1. moonslav59
    IMO, even if we add a SS or 2Bman, Arroyo will be on the opening day 26 man roster and deserves to be there, at least until his next IL stint. He can maybe hit .750 to .780 and is not bad on D at 2B. EVladez and Hamilton are not ML ready, now. Maybe in a few months but not now.
  2. moonslav59
    You called the 2022 team a turd. You say we are still that team, until we play some games. Then you say, "NO ONE said Anything about the 2023 as being a turd, but you." You still don't get it. You implied this is the same "turd team," without saying it. I totally "comprehend" your point. Stop acting like not agreeing is not understanding. You think the team you love was a turd and will be until proven otherwise. I totally comprehend your pessimistic outlook.
  3. moonslav59
    I must have overanalyzed this... Wallowing in 2022? You make it sound like it was so long ago, but like I said until games are played again, and the Red Sox prove otherwise they are still that losing last place team.
  4. moonslav59
    I can understand why anyone might have zero faith in Sale. I'm thinking that counting Sale + Paxton for anything near 30 GS'd COMBINED is likely setting ourselves up for disappointment, but the guy may still have a big plus to give us, and he's likely got more upside than almost anyone on our staff. It's not like he was in rehab throwing 87 mph.
  5. moonslav59
    Not sure what giving daily WC updates as we neared elimination or any realistic chance of making the playoffs has to do with being the first or one of the first to give up on a horrible season. To me, it makes perfect sense, that once we seemed to be out of it, I gave up and wanted a fire sale or even a mini fire sale. I'm not bragging about being near the first to give up. I'm not proud of it, either. It seems like those calling the 2022 season a turd are now upset I disliked our chances earlier than they did, for some reason. We sucked in 2022- maybe not as badly as some think we did- maybe more. I certainly don't view the 2023 team, which is already way different from 2022 as being a turd, until we start playing games. You sure can, and seem to want Bloom to fail, but I don't want to overanalyze or anything.
  6. moonslav59
    My guess: 1. L Yoshida LF 2. R Story SS 3. L Devers 3B 4. R Turner DH 5. L Casas 1B 6. R Kike CF 7. L Verdugo RF 8. R Arroyo 2B 9. L McGuire C Bench: Wong ©, Dalbec (1B/3B/DH), Refsnyder (RF), Addition (SS) or EValdez/JDuran SP1 Sale SP2 Kluber SP3 Whitlock SP4 Bello SP5 Pivetta SP6 Paxton Closer Jansen RP2 Martin RP3 Houck RP4 Schreiber RP5 Barnes RP6 Joely R RP7 Mills RP8 Brasier/Taylor/Kelly/German/Crawford...
  7. moonslav59
    I'm guessing more than the Old Testament.
  8. moonslav59
    Well said. I'd like to add on to the "masturbating in public." I'm not sure about the details and am not trying to defend what he did in any way, but I'm not sure he intentionally did it for others to see. I could be wrong, and certainly he has some issue to be doing that where he might be seen, but intent would make what he did worse, if on purpose.
  9. moonslav59
    Sounds like you really enjoy saying this. You can ignore context, as you usually do. You can choose misery and pessimism all you want. Nobody is polishing a turd, but some are seemingly enjoying squishing their fingers in it all winter long. There: I said it. I must be overanalyzing, again.
  10. moonslav59
    Any body wallowing in the misery of 2022, as if it was the worst season, ever, and seem to be almost hoping we repeat 2023 is doing more to the turd than I want to say.
  11. moonslav59
    Sale was our second best SP'er in 2019 and his 2.1 bWAR would have placed him 3rd among our starters in 2022. He might not have been great in 2019, but if he gives us those numbers in 2023, he's an upgrade over most of our SP'ers in 2022, whether you want to talk about Wacha, nate or whoever, or not.
  12. moonslav59
    Indeed, but when people talk about improving on 2022, we should focus on the 2022 Nate, Bogey and others, and not the glory days of 2018 and to a lesser extent 2021. The additions of Yoshia, Turner and more playing time from Story and Kike should make up for the losses of the 2022 Bogey and JD, but probably not the 2018 Bogey and JD. Wacha, Hill and Nate started 69 games, between them, so it's more like needing to replace 2 SP'ers from 2022 not 3. Kluber should replace one at maybe an even clip. 15-20 starts more from Whitlock and Bello should replace the rest of those starts. Pivetta stays the same, and Sale, Paxton, Mata, Walter, Crawford, Wink, Seabold and maybe Murphy need to replace this: GS'd in 2022 14 Wink 5.89 12 Craw 5.47 5 Seabold 11.29 3 Davis 5.47 Sale & Paxton may or may not reach 33 starts, but we now have Mata, walter and Murphy to add to the same mix as last year. That seems good, but who knows?
  13. moonslav59
    He's not a back end rotation guy, but no way Casas for him. Since 2020, Lopez has an 87 ERA- (Nate is 86). His FIP is 3.48 and his xFIP- is 85. (Buehler, Gallen, Gray & Stroman are at 86, Morton is at 84 and Alcantara 83.)
  14. moonslav59
    If Wacha, Nate, and JD were so great, why did we finish in last place? Only Wacha really pulled his weight, and it may have been with smoke and mirrors.
  15. moonslav59
    It's a showdown between the Old and New Testaments.
  16. moonslav59
    Sale's 147 IP in 2019 was more than Nate's in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022 plus more than Nate's 2019 + 2020 combined. Sale's 147 IP in 2019 is more than any season by Wacha since his 165 in 2017. Maybe, you meant to say 2019.
  17. moonslav59
    Same was true of Nate and Wacha, before and during 2022.
  18. moonslav59
    If Brasier and Taylor make the opening day roster, we may see our minor league rosters include these players and prospects: AAA: Mata, Walter, Wink, Murphy, Seabold, Santos, Crawford, Kelly, German, Ort Dalbec, RHern (hot winter), Hamilton, Koss, Rafaela, EValdez AA: Drohan, Van Belle, Ryan Fernandez, Broadway, Webb Kavadas, Scott, Yorke, Lugo, Abreu, Fergi=uson, McDonough, Binelas A+: Wikelman, Uberstine, Bastardo, Dobbins, Encarnacion, Guerrero, Olds Hickey, Jordan, Bonaci, Paulino, Mayer, Sikes, Meidroth A-: Perales, Paez, E R-C McElveney, Salazar, Romero, Anthony, Bleis
  19. moonslav59
    In no way was I even hinting that was what they were trying to do. My point was that in the eyes of the person who was raped, watching their rapist go free is an horrific experience and probably upsets them more than seeing an innocent man go to jail in some other case. And, in cases of rape, it's rarely a case of an innocent guy going to jail instead of the true rapist, although that does happen. It's usually the rapist being found innocent due to lack of evidence, often coming down to just two people's words against each other. The person who was raped knows the truth.
  20. moonslav59
    If Turner is a "nobody," then so is JD: 2022 .788 Turner (.858 after May 16th) .790 JD M (.698 after May 29th and .759 after May 16th) 2021-2022: .811 Turner (40 HRs 168 RBI) .820 JD M (44 Hrs 161 RBI) 2020-2022: .818 Turner (.282 44 191) .805 JD M (.269 51 188) 2019-2022 .836 Turner (.284 71 258) .846 JD M (.280 87 293) You have to go back to 2018 to make the sample size sway heavily to JD's side.
  21. moonslav59
    You lost Wacha and Eovaldi from your rotation and added back Kluber, who isn’t very good. Are we losing the 2018 or 2021 Nate of the "other Nate?" We are also "adding" up to 20 starts from Whitlock and another 20 from Bello. You lost a generational talent at a premier position and replaced him with a DH. It's not going to be hard to replace Bogey's D, and Yoshida does not have to hit as well as Bogey to help this year's O be better than 2022's. You lost your DH, who was still good and replaced him with nobody. Our DH position hit .765 in 2022. Turner can do that in his sleep and is hardly a "nobody." And your team won 78 games last year in a buzzsaw division. And now we don't have to play them as much. Baseball is a funny sport in that the best team wins 60% of the time and some years mediocre teams make runs and go to the POs. But the Sox are built to be doormats again without some heavy additions. We made heavy additions in the pen and have something we haven't seen in a while: YOUTH!
  22. moonslav59
    I would not trade Casas for Lopez and M Rojas.
  23. moonslav59
    Verdugo, Duran and Murphy for Cabrera?
  24. moonslav59
    I never said that. Everyone is due a fair process. I said the person who was raped or abused and then watched the guy get off free is not happy about it. It happens, often. The next person who gets abused is not happy either.
  25. moonslav59
    To the person harmed, it matters more. BTW, they might be helped thinking the guilty person is in jail, even if it's the wrong person. Also, when Bauer does not go to jail, there is no innocent person going, instead. The harned party feels angry and hurt. That was my point.
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