moonslav59

1. Arroyo 2. Vaz Nuff said.

I think it has more to do with the Sox pen and pushing our luck after last night's nice job..

Is Bogey ever going to get a clutch hit? I mean, this is a contract year!!!!

Agreed. That might have b een our b est chance at scoring 2, tonight, unless Bobby Dee comes up again.

Maybe Nostrildumbass is more like it.

I called it. Big game from Bobby Dee, tonight.

Winckowski 6 IP 3 H 0 ER 0 BB 6 K

If he knows me, he knows Devers is forevers.

Kavadas is the next Greek God of Walks.

To think anyone considered him even close to that value is mind-boggling.

No Devers, either. Weird line-up and alignment. 1. Arroyo RF 2. Vaz 1B 3. JD DH 4. Bogey SS 5. Story 2B 6. Verdugo LF 7. Dalbec 3B 8. Plawecki C 9. JBJ CF I'm going out on a limb: big game from Bobby Dee.

Yes, big game from Walter after that horrific first AAA start. The 3BBs were surprising, though. He had 4 BBs all season, before today. Wong & Refsnyder both has two 2Bs. I was hoping Murphy was working towards a promo to AAA. This start did not help.

Isn't there some rule about time between call-ups and sent downs?

Seager is almost worse, since he's making about twice as much.

We haven't gained much on TOR & TBR in during this streak.

Lot's of hype on many of them. .751 Correa but just 154 PAs .708 Seager .556 Baez (Iggy is at .747!) 2B .759 Story .635 Semien (R Odor is at .690.)

Only in the sense of playing Story at 2B. All winter, I was wanting us to sign Baez to play SS and Suzuki to play RF. (Shows what I know about being a good GM, and why just because I disagree with some moves, it doesn't mean I think the Gm was wrong. I know I'm not an equal to Bloom. I accept that.)

Maybe the most interesting choice was signing Story to begin with, if the idea was not to play him where he is best suited. Now, I don't know about his arm injury and the role that might have had in the idea of signing him to play 2B, at least for 2022.

I think it's interesting to sign a plus defender at SS, the most important defensive position in baseball, then not play him there. I get why, but it still interests me, especially since I think Bogey is, at best, and average MLB SS, defensively. Whether you like the choice or not, I think it is a very interesting string of decisions. When we almost traded for ARod, and rumor was Nomar did not want to change positions, but ARod was fine moving to 3B for the vastly inferior defensive SS in Jeter, I found that vert interesting, too. I get how Jeter and Bogey were and are icons, but not for their D.

I didn't mean to imply you thought Kike was not a plus defender, and I have no issues with anyone liking JBJ better on defense. Cora has made some interesting choices: Bogey at SS vs Story Kike in CF v JBJ. It might be more about Bogey at 2B v Story or Kike in RF vs JBJ, than the first part of the choice I listed.

It's close. JBJ's full career resume tops Kike's in CF. You gotta admit, they both are major plusses on D, and in Fenway, those two positions have heightened value.

There's a good chance maybe only 1-2 prospects gained in those 3 trades I mentioned amount to significant net pluses. Maybe none do, but increasing the quantity and quality of the farm improves your odds. I won't count the Betts trade that brought us Verdugo, Downs & Wong, and the deadline sell off of 2020, by definition is about the future (Pivetta, Seabold and some long shots), but let's look at the other 3 trades: Beni, Ottavino and JBJ: Beni> Cordero: Looking much better, this year and has 2 arb years left Winckowski: .595 OPS Against in AAA- about as good as we could have expected. Gambrell, de la Rosa & F Valdez: all long and far-away shots that have not wow'd anyone, yet. Nothing> Ottavino: gone German: May be the best prospects of this whole group. .485 OPSA in AAA (5 IP)/.495 in AA (11.1 IP) Renfroe (arguably obtained from the money saved by trading Beni)> JBJ: High cost defensive whiz who seems to be improving his offense from 2021 Binelas: .813 OPS in A+ with 11 HRs in 160 ABs Hamilton: .728 OPS in AA but dropping quickly I like the odds we get something nice from 2, maybe 3, of these guys. What JBJ, Cordero and Ottavino do or did might not matter, so much.

I could be wrong, but I think Kike gets excellent jumps, takes straight and true routes and has speed and athleticism to make almost all makeable plays. JBJ might be slightly better on positioning, anticipation and getting great quick out of the gate breaks, but he may not match Kike's speed. (Athleticism being about equal?)

I'm thinking a lot depends on how Houck is doing, and if he becomes the closer. I'm leaning towards Hill going to the pen, but each will have a few more starts before Sale returns. So much of evaluating a starter is based on his last start or two. I know Whitlock has proven he can be great as the long man, even if that brings him to the 9th, so I'd be fine with keeping Hill in the rotation, but I think Whitlock is the better starter, despite their most recent start.