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Me, too. I was just thinking that maybe both Luzardo (3 yrs remaining) and Lopez (2 yrs remaining) might be more available, especially since they have Cabrera (5 yrs remaining) in the wings. They'd still have: Alcantara 5 Rogers 4 Garrett 5 Cabrera 5 and 2 highly ranked pitcher in Perez (68.8 on BTV) Meyer (23.2)

He must have been bullied by geeks and nerds back in grammar school.

You'll get over it. It's okay.

True, but there is no FA on the market even like Cole. Offer Wacha QO and trade for Lopez.

Hey, they get the great Murphy & Seabold!

You can't get a top starter by trading prospects #10,11, 12, 13 and 14. My guess is any such trade would have to meet one of these criteria: 1. #2 Casas or #1 Mayer plus 1-2 others between 10-20. 2. Two from #5 Bleis, #4 Yorke, #6 Rafaela or #7 Mata plus maye a 10-20. 3. One from #5 Bleis, #4 Yorke or #6 Rafaela plus two from #7 Mata, #8 Walter, #10 Paulino, #15 Wikelman I'm not sure Bloom has it in him. It might take convincing from Kennedy or someone else. I am convince of one thing: we can't get way better without adding a top pitcher as just the first of several pitching additions or bring-backs (Wacha, too?)

I can't get on board with this. We need a durable horse in the rotation, and someone better than Pivetta. Syndergaard only checks one of those boxes. Over 25 starts twice in his career (2016 & 2019) Over 22 starts 5 times in 8 years. 24 starts in his last 3 years with a 4.17 ERA and 1.29 WHIP. I really think we need to trade for an ace. I know it sucks parting with top prospects, and Bloom might need to be forced to do it, but I don't see any FA pitcher that wows me.

A healthy Kike makes the team better. Let's give Bloom and apparently JH's open wallet a chance.

No, you added the games from 2nd to last place and .500, so it means something to you.

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That catch that robbed a HR was fantastic. He's really quite and athlete. I'm glad he's coming back. He needs to stay off the IL and maybe get over the slow start syndrome.

Good to see Kike back. Too bad he missed so much time.

Updated Sox OPS .883 Devers .859 Bogey .854 Refsnyder .824 McGuire (.627 overall) .776 JD .759 Vaz (.729 overall) .756 Pham (.713 overall) .752 Arroyo .744 Dugo .743 Story .697 Cordero .648 Duran .646 Kike .644 Dalbec .581 Plawecki .578 JBJ (.572 overall) Less than 50 PAs 1.000 Almonte .782 Ja Davis .725 Wong .611 Hosmer .516 Casas .427 Downs .322 Sanchez .000 Shaw & Arauz 9 guys over .743 is probably more than the vast majority of teams.

It wasn't voted on. I think that was what notin was driving at. It's not just the pitcher who controls the time of the games.

But, can the batter step out of the box 5 times? I remember Nomar was slower than any pitcher ever was.

EValdez finally got his Woo OPS over .800. (It was over .900 with the Astros.)

I just finished the game on delay. That was a long one. It was so nice to see Devers come back to life. Almost everyone joined in. Winning is always more fun.

Can he reach 70, if he keeps hitting homers?

Well, bloom did trade for at least 3 prospect pitchers: German, Wink and Seabold, plus he got Whitlock off Rule 5, so he has not totally ignored adding young pitchers to the system. Some "retreads" have worked: Pivetta, Schreiber and Strahm to some extent.

Awful! The season is over and it just barely started!

Hamilton is making a nice run at respectability- 3 for 5, today with a 2B and 12th HR. Rafaela went 2-5 w SB. Abreu walked (108) and so did Kavadas (100.)

I ahve gone to many games at Fenway. Not this year, but almost every year. I also pay for Sox TV, which some goes into JH's wallet. I get the $200M payroll should compete point, and they should compete, even if there is a significant amount of inherited deadwood. I agree, but when it looks like an off year, I don't think clinging to a sliver of hope is helpful to the sustainability of winning every year. I think we tried to put together a winning and exciting team in 2022, and that's all I expect. There are many other teams doing the same thing, and we can't win every year, unless we spend like the Dodgers (not happening) or build a system like the Rays (which many here seem to abhor, because they think you have to act like a small market team every year.) Of course, a fire sale guarantees nothing, but it's the Gms job to further improve your chances, when he can and not waste resources on a false hope season like thsi was in July. Again, that's my minority opinion. I don't blame fans for wanting to see a team trying to win, when they fork over hundreds of dollars to go to a game, but if we keep holding onto resources and let them expire without anything to show for them, it's bad for establishing a winning system, IMO, of course.

That's how it should be, yes. Batter v Pitcher and Pitcher v Batter and NOT Pitcher v Ump and Batter v UMP. How can a computer whispering in the earpiece of the home plate ump, "Ball" or "Strike" change the sacred pitcher-batter relationship, except maybe for the good, as they no longer have to rely on the totally random chance that an ump may make a bad call. The switch to robo umps can be seamless and unnoticeable, except that no bad call will ever be made. No more arguing with the ump. No more batter stepping out of the box to regroup after a b ad call. No more pitcher wandering around the mound in anger, trying to keep himself from being thrown out of teh game for bitching at the ump. No more deference being paid to players known for having a "good eye," and rookies needing to feel like they have to swing at anything close to the K zone, until they "earn the respect" of the umps. Pitchers and batters can actually concentrate on hitting and pitching to a known K zone. They no longer have to make adjustments to certain umps known for calling low Ks or outside Ks, or whatever. Consistent and correct calls should be the goal of any sport, and replays have shown that they and the fans want just that. Yes, the game is between humans, who make mistakes, but an umps mistake should not be planned and accepted, unless it has to be.

Okay, I took "painful watching him play" as griping. My bad. I, for one and as a paying customer, still look forward to his next AB.

So? Part of the reason they were not playing well, then, was because a sucky team like the Sox were beating them. We've also beat teams that were playing well and lost to some that were playing well or crappy. That's the way a season goes. Some teams seem to lose to s***** teams more than their share. Others the opposite or an expected mix. The season is 162 games long, and most of the time, these things shake out. We beat bad teams back then, and then we lost to bad teams, bad pitchers and bad everything. And, we lost to good teams- lots of them, thanks to our schedule. Maybe we beat the M's because key players were hurt, and maybe teams beat us, because our key players were hurt.