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  1. moonslav59
    SF is 35-32. If only…
  2. moonslav59
    And nobody is counting on any prospects. We just know the chances have improved.
  3. moonslav59
    We should have given up on "suspect" Pedroia after his poor start. Bogey hit .662 over his first 650 PAs. JBJ, don't even ask!
  4. moonslav59
    Who?
  5. moonslav59
    What success has "buying the headline" been in the past few years? I'm thinking under 50 ot even 40%.
  6. moonslav59
    I did not say Whitlock and Houck cannot fill the role or be better than Pivetta. Both have shown they are much better in the pen, and I'd like to keep them there. Pivetta was a very good 5th starter for a little more than 2 years. He sucked, this year. I guess I shoulda known. We are not going to add 3-4 solid SP'ers, next winter, so Houck and Whitlock will start. If we go cheap, Crawford might, too. To me, we'd be a much better team with all those guys in the pen and 4 new starters to go with Bello. Sale should never be counted on to fill a slot.
  7. moonslav59
    When you take Whitlock, Houck and now Crawford from the pen, and Schreiber is on the IL, you end up with hacks like these.
  8. moonslav59
    Who-da-think, we should have kept Seabold and not signed Kluber?
  9. moonslav59
    Not all his major league moves have been head scratchers, but he's made 2-3 doozies. When you spend $1-10M on mostly 1 year deals, you get what you pay for, and I still am not so sure Bloom has done worse than most GM would have done with the contract sizes he was afforded. To me, the bigger FA moves before 2022 (Wacha, Hill, Strahm) looked better than before 2021 (Richards, Perez II, Marwin,) but the W-L record did not reflect that. Of course, other moves were made (Renfroe for JBJ, the Barnes extension, and Diekman,) but there does not seem to be a clear correlation. Ultimately, it ends up being the results on the field, and Bloom has clearly missed with his SP'er additions, even if most were bargain basement stabs in the dark. He chose to spend more in other areas, but even on this area, our SP'ing has been doing more than fine, lately, and we are doing worse. Baseball is hard to figure out.
  10. moonslav59
    You also need to know who the best people are. Do we? You need to get them to come to the Sox- probably paying more would do that in most cases. I'd like to know how much we have tried to improve in these areas, and some expert say we got good, meh or worse new guys. Maybe we have done some good or very good things on the farm, but players are so far away from the bigs, we can't see it. Maybe not.
  11. moonslav59
    It's hard to grade the last 4 years of farm building, because Bloom took mostly HS players earlier in the draft. I did expect to see more changes in the areas you mentioned, especially on finding and developing pitchers.
  12. moonslav59
    As the song says, "two out of three ain't bad." (We did compete in 1 of the 3 years that should count, too.)
  13. moonslav59
    It just goes to show how complex fixing a baseball team can be. It looks like we "fixed" the black hole problem, but got worse.
  14. moonslav59
    So, he's saying at 2B: Arroyo> KIke
  15. moonslav59
    I hardly ever agree with Tomase. I'm not sure what to make of this.
  16. moonslav59
    The guy who went to HOU did okay, too, and he is available, now.
  17. moonslav59
    Just put the house on stilts.
  18. moonslav59
    Bello could be a solid #2, but I'd prefer counting on him as our #3, next year. I'd prefer the rest anchor a great pen: Whitlock, Houck, Wink, Craw, Schreiber, Martin & Jansen. That means we need a 1, 2, 4, & 5, but my guess is at least 1-2 of those first 4 will be starters. JH will pray Sale is back as the #1 or #2. How many teams add 3 SP'ers in an off season and go on to a ring?
  19. moonslav59
    This is looking so much like 2022.
  20. moonslav59
    Oh, well...
  21. moonslav59
    Not counting just the errors, but how many 4 out innings do our pitchers need to get through?
  22. moonslav59
    Going out on a limb with a gut feeling. Turner hits a walk off HR. Bam!
  23. moonslav59
    POR won 9-1. Some nice box score lines: 3-4 Hickey w 5th HR 1-3 Kavadas w 10th HR and BB 1-4 Meidroth w 4th HR 1-4 Rafaela 2 2B & BB 1-4 Mayer (.550 OPS in short time in AA) Sharp 6 IP, 6H, 1 ER, 2BB, 6K Woo lost 3-0 Not much to report. GRE lost bigly. Encarnacion did well: 5 IP, 3H, 0 ER, 3BB, 5K 3-3 Jordan w 2B & BB 1-4 Anthony w 2B SAL lost bigly as Dean got rocked DSL 5-6 Cespedes 3-4 Paniagua w 2BB 3-5 Nunez 2-4 Semerite w BB 2-4 Prado w BB 2-4 Linarez 2-5 F Jimenez 2-6 Y Ruiz FCL 2-2 Jones w 2BB 2-3 Salazar w 2B 2-4 Yuten w 2B & BB 2-4 Pierre
  24. moonslav59
    Let's hope he passes this test.
  25. moonslav59
    They know they can trade prospects for the here and now, but I think that is not part of "the plan," either. I'm not so sure Bloom is hoarding prospects on his own. It's an organizational choice, IMO. No prospects were traded before or during 2019, either. 4.5 years highest prospects trade? Aldo Ramirez (9th on SPs) for Schwarber Jason Groome (NR when traded/6th in Spring '21) for Ferguson, Rosier and Hosmer Michael Chavis (NR when traded) for Austin Davis Other prospects were traded for prospects: 22 Seabold for PTBNL 25 German for Denlinger (I'm probably missing some other minor ones.) Proof this plan is not about the here and now.
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