moonslav59
-
Posts
105,071 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
132
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by moonslav59
-
Plus, Whitlock lost time in the pen due to being used as a starter. I think Houck has to be mentioned, too, and he was a starter and on the IL, too.
-
Yes. I was wondering who would catch that. It took a while.
-
They added Strahm, Schreiber and used past additions, Whitlock, Wink and a few others as well. The farm also contributed Crawford and others. It didn't work well, this year. Many of the same names that did okay, last year, sucked, this year. The Diekman signing was awful, although we did salvage that signing by trading him and his contract for McGuire.
-
Yes, my bad- as is Binelas. The far-away prospects from the Beni trade have not done too much. Luis de la Rosa has promise.
-
Indeed, and they do better picking off the scrap heap and trading stars for prospects than they do drafting.
-
Mr. All-or-Nothing, himself. 48 XBHs 39 Singles 151 Ks
-
Every team does this to varying degrees. Hell, someone picked up Austin Davis. Maybe they see something where they think a tweak or adjustment might help, or maybe they just think this junker in better than the junker I just DFA'd. Many times, it's just hit or miss. Take the Martin perez example for SP'ers. Bloom was criticized, by me, too, for signing him- not once but twice. Now, look at him.
-
Well said, max. While fans might think winning now is all that matters, a GM has to look at more than just that. I think Bloom had a pretty good plan going into 2022. There were were some known holes and some that were not so known at the start. Injuries and collapses, like at 1B created some wide gaps. Those can be viewed as just making excuses, as is blaming a restricted winter spending budget, but it is just as real as looking at our budget and saying we should be winning more than we are. On building up the roster and farm from a pretty much decades long low point of 2020, I can't see how anyone can say Bloom has failed in this area, alone. Much still has yet to be determined, but he has added a lot of talent to the farm, and the depth of our 40 man roster is way better than 2020. This may be what has saved Bloom's job, but ownership looks beyond just one season's win-loss mark.
-
It might not be one guy, and if it is, that guy probably missed on a few, too. Also, remember when we said the same about Beeks? There was even a 9 or 10 game stretch where we were shaking our heads about Chris Mazza in 2021.
-
I like it, too, and I hope they keep it, but a lot of times it's used to highlight how bad an ump is, or how they vary.
-
True, and I end up reading what he writes via other poster's responses, and I respond, so I'm not really following my own advice.
-
If you hate the superimposed rectangle, then I would think it goes away with robo umps. (Maybe not?)
-
I'm not disagreeing, and if Bloom spends big on the pen, and it fails, being critical of his choices will be fair game. (I doubt he spends big, which is one reason I want us to trade for an ace, QO Wacha and keep Whitlock & Houck in the pen, all year.)
-
I guess I just don't get the "sake of the game" part of the position against robo umps. I'm fine with differing opinions, too. We won't even notice the change, except for no bad calls.
-
It took years to get a system like that. Of course it wasn't just Bloom, or James Click or Friedman.
-
Banning?
-
Well, if everyone put him on ignore, nobody would read his BS and respond.
-
You mean like Whitlock, Schreiber, Strahm and maybe German? The Rays miss on a lot, too. It's not an exact science. Bloom seemed to do better, this year, than in his previous 2- both on starting pitchers and relief pitchers added. Wacha Hill Schreiber Strahm Diekman Kelly Danish 2021 Richards M Perez Whitlock Ottavino Andriese Sawamura (Mid season: Robles, Davis, Rios) 2020 I don't want to talk about it, and the list is 20 names long.
-
It wouldn't help stop the Bloom Bashers, if the pen sucks, next year.
-
They must really think German is not ML ready. I'd rather they just called up Winckowski or Seabold. There was a good reason the Mets cut this guy. (I guess you could say the same about the teams who cut Schreiber.)
-
1. You are not the only one- by far. 2. I don't understand how eliminating needless mistakes isn't making something better.
-
He's just seeking the attention nobody else will give him. Ignore trolls, and eventually they will go away or lessen their appearances.
-
The problem might be, how we feel if Bloom adds some proven pen pieces, and it still sucks.
-
How would you use Whitlock next year?
moonslav59 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
All the radio talk shows are talking about it! (LOL) -
Well said. The game of baseball has always been evolving towards teams figuring out how to get batters out more foter, or hitting pitchers more often. It started with simple notions, like don't pitch inside to this guy or outside to that guy. As teams got smarter and smarter, the information got better and deeper. Teams that fell behind on these aspects of the game lost more often. At times, it evolved into cheating. Some teams went to extremes on compiling data- something VTek used to have in his head (and notebooks.) You're right- nobody complained, except for the cheating part. Now, a way has been found to improve an ugly part of the game using technology and common sense. Bring it on!
