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  1. moonslav59
    The Betts shadow. (Not his fault.)
  2. moonslav59
    And, did you see Cora laughing when we were down 3? The nerve of that clown!
  3. moonslav59
    Is it ever going to be okay to move JD down even 1 slot?
  4. moonslav59
    Bazardo gets the Bazzarro win!
  5. moonslav59
    It's amazing how this team refused to let Cora hold them down.
  6. moonslav59
    The best part of the 2B is that JD can't GIDP!
  7. moonslav59
    We shoulda benched Devers!
  8. moonslav59
    Signs of life, despite Cora telling them to slack off and go easy, tonight.
  9. moonslav59
    Sounds good on paper, but it won't work.
  10. moonslav59
    True, but Lopez already is proven, and Luzardo shows signs, too. You gotta give to get. (I'd rather give Casas and Yorke, but I doubt that's enough.)
  11. moonslav59
    Two nights in a row, the Sox farm teams all won. German got his 6th save with Woo in a 4-3 win. POR won 10-3. The Sea Dogs walked 9 times, and their pitchers walked 7! We K'd 15 times and the opps 8. The top 6 batting slots got on base 2 or more times. GRE won 4-1. Mayer went 3-2 w 2BB Lugo 1-2 w 2 BB Davis 3-5 w 4 rbi Salem scored 8 in the last 3 innings to win 10-5. Another big BB game. The Sox with 8 and the opps with 9! Meidroth 3-3 w 2 BB & HR Romero 2-5 w 2B & 3B Ravelo 2-4 w 4 rbi and HR .
  12. moonslav59
    It won't be easy, but with the expected winter spending budget Bloom will be handed, I'm not sure it needs to take years to get relevant. Were we relevant, last year? Is this a doable winter plan? Sign: Swanson, Nimmo, Kike, Abreu, Fulmer & Rogers. QO: Wacha Trade: Bello, Rafaela, Yorke, Dalbec & RHern for Lopez, Luzardo & Stallings We'd be relevant in a few months: 1. Swanson SS 2. Nimmo RF 3. Story 2B 4. Devers 3B 5. Abreu 1B 6. Kike CF 7. Verdugo LF 8. Hosmer/Refsnyder/Arroyo/EValdez/Cordero DH/Bench 9. Stallings/McGuire C SP1 Lopez SP2 Sale/Paxton SP3 Wacha SP4 Luzardo SP5 Pivetta Closer Houck RP2 Whitlock RP3 Rogers RP4 Schreiber RP5 Fulmer RP6 Taylor RP7 Barnes RP8 Crawford/German/Others
  13. moonslav59
    Strahm has looked pretty good, but like Wacha, he's a FA after this year.
  14. moonslav59
    Yes, he should have signed great and durable pitchers for $7M and $5M, He sucks! You are right.
  15. moonslav59
    Pivetta is fine for a #5, maybe even 4. Taylor was pretty good. I'm not sure he can come back. Keep Barnes to see if he can bounce back. Bello, Crawford and German should get a look. Mata, too.
  16. moonslav59
    I'm only talking about the 4 year contract, but you keep wanting to change the subject. Pitching in Fenway affects your ERA. ERA+ or ERA- are better comparative stats to use and he was not only far from bad, he was pretty good. His contract was not horrible. You talk about his last year with the Mets and don't even mention 6 years with DET where he started 27-33 games, every year. He was average for 6 years w DET and sucked for 1 with the Mets, and you say I'm throwing crap against the wall. Only 22 out of 131 GS'd did Porcello let up more than 4 runs in a game, the vast majority of those were only 5 ERs in 5+ IP. It wasn't me who said, he was b ad most of his time here; it was you. Game by game, he had 74 QS in 131 GS. That's 56.5% GS rate, which is way abover average, let alone "horrible." Looking deeper, in his 57 starts that were not QSs, he had these games... 15 were games with 5+ IP and only 4 ER 11 of those 15 were 6 or more IP and only 4 ER. He was not horrible or even bad. As for being worth $20M a year, I have never come close to defending that.
  17. moonslav59
    V Santos with an interesting line: 5 IP 4H 0ER 5BB 4K. Keller came in and walked 3 in 1.2. Walks are the theme of the night. So far, Drohan has 4 BBs in 3.1 IP, but the Sea Dogs have score 8 on 8 BBs and just 4 hits. Of course Kavadas has a BB. Abreu 1-1 2 BB Koss 1-1 1BB 3RBI Potts 1-2 BB Northcut 1-2 BB Liu 5 IP 3H 0ER 1BB 10Ks!!! Sikes 2-3 2B Davis 2-3 Mayer 1-1 2BB Lugo 1-2 BB Perales walked 5 in 2.2 IP Meidroth 3-3 (3rd HR) Romero 1-3 w 2B
  18. moonslav59
    Yes, and I said, "finally you are counting just 4." I saw that.
  19. moonslav59
    "Bad most of the time." 2016: Quality starts 79% (led team) He only let up more than 4 runs in a game once out of 33 starts and that was just 5 runs in 6IP. ! 3 of the 5 starts with 4 ERS allowed he pitched 6+ innings. 2017 58% QS (3rd on the team) 7 out of 33 starts with more than 5 ERs allowed (all over 5 IP) 2018: 48% QS (3rd on team) and only 5 of 33 starts over 4 runs (3 of then 5 ERs in 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0 IP) Only 2 real bad games. 2019 was horrible, but 41% QS was still 3rd on the team. 9 out of 32 starts were over 4 ERs (3 were 5, 6 were 6.) \ Clearly, he was good in the vast majority of his games.
  20. moonslav59
    2+1=1=1 = 5 I read fine
  21. moonslav59
    Yes, finally you focused on the 4 years. I disagree on him being mostly bad. Having a 105 ERA+ over 4 years and eating those innings can never be bad.
  22. moonslav59
    They are what you say they are, not me. Bloom's Sox did better than those he inherited, so he did an okay job trying to improve on 2021. Apparently, he was supposed to be Nostradamus and trade away everyone but Houck and Vaz. That was the ticket to success in 2022. Blame Bloom for not seeing what was so clear, right?
  23. moonslav59
    So much of RP'ing and even closing is a near total crapshoot. The Sox went into 2018 totally prepared at closer. For much of 2018, there was no hint we needed help. Then, the wheels come off, but somehow Kimbrel bailed out the cesspool he filled to the brim with his bare hands. DD was a genius. Remember the talk on this board about leaving Kelly off the playoff roster. Yeah, we know better than Cora & the GM, right! Then, you take 2013, where we ended up using our 3rd string RP'er as closer after failures and injuries to Bailey and Hanrahan- two guys Ben traded for to "shore up" the closer's job, yeah right!, but we end up with the best 2-3 year closer stretch any team has ever seen. You plan and it works, then doesn't work, and then, somehow, we came out smelling like roses both times. Good job, GM, we say. LMAO!
  24. moonslav59
    Yup. Why not talk about all the pluses Bloom added?
  25. moonslav59
    OK, you kept listing the 5th year, 105 ERA+ gives perspective. Nate's is under 94. Did he suck?
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