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The Sox now have 3 batters in the .800's, 3 in the 700's, 3 in the 600's and 3 in the 500's. .849 Wong/ .834 Abreu/ .804 Contreras .749 Monasterio/ .719 Yoshida/ .705 Rafaela .686 Anthony/ .661 Mayer/ .604 Narvaez .549 Duran/ .532 Story/ .531 Durbin .469 IKF

Padding the Pythagorean.

I told my wife Monasterio would hit a granny. That being said, I don't bring up all the times I make wrong predictions. LMAO

True, but my gut has been punched.

The way Devers looks, since the trade, it was a fantastic deal to dump that salary. Sale has predictably missed every October since the trade. How is DHam looking like an MVP? NHe's got a .604 OPS and the team has gone from first to last placee.

Brez is setting himself up for the shortest tenure at Sox GM in a while. Cora is setting himself up for an end to his tenure with the Sox. Sure, he's playing the guys Brez gave him. but many are under performing everyone's expectations, and that is something the manager usually gets heat for. They both might be on their way out.

Alonso talks... https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2026/04/pete-alonso-details-red-sox-free-agent-pursuit-long-conversations-before-orioles-signing.html?utm_campaign=redsox_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawRZ6hpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeQkfVZk_u-KHlkVym37d526KGEUlws0wV-tNQAJVCRArl4NYlkZ2eHCMXrqI_aem_KxXwjE5JaqVUpCh8Qw9LSQ

Team rankings: 30th in SLG at .335 (.053 from 15th & .134 from 1st) 29th ISO .109 (.001 from 30th, .042 from 15th & .082 from 1st) We can safely say we are the weakest team in MLB< so far. We are 26th in OBP, so it's safe to say this has been a big weakness. We are 23rd in RP fWAR but 11th in xFIP. I'd still say our pen is a weakness. Our SP'ers are 28th in fWAR (27th in ERA-) We are 13th in K% but 25th in BB/K, so this is a weak area, too. Fangraphs has us 2nd in Baserunning metrics, so maybe I was wrong there. We are 3rd in DRS and 2nd in OAA, so our defense is not a weakness.

By bringing himself down, too?

It will Narva happen.

4 GIDP out of 39 non K outs. (Not sure how many had nobody on 1B.)

When might we start seeing Wong play more than Narvaez?

I'd rather be the GM... LOL.

1. Power 2. OBP 3. Relief Pitching 4. Starting Pitching 5. Managing 6. Running 7. Bunting (Only defense seems to be okay.)

The bunt allowed IKF to steal 2B and get to 3B on the error. Without the bunt, Wong gets thrown out trying to steal 2B. LOL

No convincing needed.

When do Stanley Tucker (1.066) and Andrews Opata (1.020) start getting some attention? I realize their sample sizes are around 50 PAs, but still... How about the uptick from Yophery Rodriguez? He's batting .304 with 4HRs in 56 ABs. (OPS .986) Holobetz was starting to get all the attention, and despite his last start being a bad one, he's still at a 2.45 ERA and .566 OPS Against while leading the Sox farm in IP at 22 in AA. The sample sizes are small, but take a look at some of these K/IP numbers: 17/9.1 Valera (on the IL) 25/17.2 Dylan Brown 26/22 Holobetz 22/12 Wyatt Olds 22/14.1 Ethan Walker 16/9 Erik Rivera & Griffin Kilander 16/9.1 patrick Halligan 17/12.1 Gage Ziehl (Grissom trade) The lowest OPS Against for pitchers with 12+ IP: .338 Eyanson .354 Futrell .380 Bickerstaff .391 Bennett .495 E Walker .514 Rogers .539 Brown .545 Mullins .566 Holobetz .571 Olds .616 Gartrell .619 Tolle .637 Finley .668 Adams .673 Sansone .692 S Martinez .698 J Webb

Whodathunk with Rafaela leading off, Story batting clean-up, Monasterio 5th and 3 of the bottom 4 batters all batting under .552 OPS?

37 out of Story's 86 outs made this year are Ks.

What team am I watching, here?

Sounds like a good idea. (Who gets Gray's or Bello's next start? Anderson? Bennett? Pen game?) I don't see many other in-house tweeks that can be made, except maybe IL'ing or DFA'ing Watson or swapping Story from SS to 2B, but we all know Cora will not even ask Story if he's willing to even think about moving positions. I don't see the streaking Gasper as a solution. Cheng, Sogard, Delay and Ward are very long shots. Waiting for Slaten, Crawford or Sandoval to come to the rescue seems pointless.

Brez has certainly shifted the focus to pitching, and he's made dozens and dozens of moves to add or swap out pitchers. He was bound to get some wrong, but as of now, it seems he was wrong on way too many, especially the ones he paid the most for, except Crochet & Chapman, maybe. Some moves like Sale and Priester (traded and not the traded for deal) looked real bad, at first, but might be hard to judge at the time of the trade (Sale) or in hindsight (Priester.) I think if blame must be assigned, and in this culture, it is unavoidable, it seems JH, Brez, Cora and others all share in the blame. JH's cut in spending set us so far back, that recent spending upticks seem like a drop in the bucket. Brez has not spent much of that uptick spending wisely. He's made some good and some bad deals, but has built up the farm pitching outlook, which is speculative value and not actual value, yet. Cora has let his favoritism/loyalty cloud his judgement and actions. DD left us with some serious budget issues and a pretty lowly ranked farm, although the prospects he did not trade turned out to be better than the higher ranked ones he traded away to give us those 3 very nice seasons. Bloom did some good building back up the roster depth but failed at adding the right mix of star power with the too few chances he did get to spend more (Story & Yoshida.) Add this all up and we get the perfect storm of futility.

Nobody here, for sure.

Keeping all these guys we'd still suck.

This is really no fun at all.