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  1. moonslav59
    I went to a game there many years back. It was the Sox opener in the closer by committee year. I kinda liked the stadium, but I guess I am alone.
  2. moonslav59
    Or, we just sweep the Rays. (Yeah, right!)
  3. moonslav59
    Yes, I hears about the high upside on Valdez, but maybe it's a long shot- like Ockimey was.
  4. moonslav59
    They don't pack their stadium, because they picked the wrong place to have a team. Most of the people living in that area are transplants who already have a favorite team, and it ain't the Rays. (I'm a huge baseball fan, and I live in Houston. Guess how many Astros games I've gone to or watched on TV? Zero, except the 2 Sox games I went to.) You really think trading Bogey for something special will turn our fan base into the Rays fan base? Nobody is saying hand Bogey away for nothing. If we traded him, we'd get something very nice back (a pitcher) and replace him with a much better defensive SS (I hope). I'd miss Bogey, for sure, but not his serious lack of range at a position where range is very important. We may lose Bogey after 2022, anyway, so I'd at least entertain offers and only trade him, if the return was right.
  5. moonslav59
    Yes, winning drives fans away.
  6. moonslav59
    1986-1989+29=2015-2018
  7. moonslav59
    I’m not sure Bogey is an upgrade at 3B nor Devers at 1B, but the idea makes some sense, if we add an excellent defensive SS.
  8. moonslav59
    Some prospects I’m curious about are the De la Rosa, Freddy Valdez and Gambrell kids we got in the Beni trade. Winckowski may end up being the best of the deal, but any thoughts on these other guys? .
  9. moonslav59
    Archer had to leave the game due to a hip injury. Cruz has a COVID issue. Choi pulled a hammy. The Rays don’t even blink.
  10. moonslav59
    There is a 2022 thread.
  11. moonslav59
    Saying the AB trade was a disaster is an opinion, not a fact, and likely a wrong one, too. AB sucks and we have a long way to go to see what the 5 players we got for him will give us.
  12. moonslav59
    You really don’t know? Look at the 2020 roster, especially our top innings eaters, and then ask again.
  13. moonslav59
    They do all the things not captured by stats very well. They don’t have to pay their players as much as others, because on paper, they are not as good.
  14. moonslav59
    Nice memory, That was heartbreak hill before the 75 WS heart ache. I went back and looked at the game logs from ‘74. They had actually lost 6 of 8 before that doubleheader. Many remember the 1978 collapse as being worse, and in some ways it was. We were up 10 games on July 8th and shortly later won 5 in a row to be up 9 on July 19th, but the the wheels came off, all at once. We lost 5 in a row and 9 of 10 to get down to a 4.5 game lead, then won 6 in a row at the end of August to get back to 7 up. We then went 3-13 to fall back 2.5 games, and everyone, and I mean everybody counted us out. Amazingly, we finished 12-2 to force the tie with the Yanks., yet that team was always thought of as big chokers.
  15. moonslav59
    I remember reading a book called something like “In the Zone,” where it focused on basketball and tennis players, maybe golfers, too, and how they all described their hot streaks in nearly identical ways. They spoke of how it was like they were not even thinking about it. It just happened. In a way, they were “outside their minds” and everything seemed slowed down. They also mentioned that as soon as they started thinking something like, “man, I’m hot,” the streak would end. Not sure how this fits into the discussion, but felt it seemed real to me, as I had felt that same way during the finer moments of my sports career.
  16. moonslav59
    The Rays have scored 46 more runs than us, this year, despite these numbers: .739 OPs/ 104 OPS+ Sox: .765/111 OPS+ By batting slot: TBR/ BOS 1 .858/.742 2 .744/.745 3 .601/.859 4 .852/.883 5 .685/.883 6 .746/.711 7 .778/.655 8 .745/.759 9 .625/.625 I know team speed and base running smarts has something to do with it, but still... How about non repeatable numbers? Late & Close .701 TBR .671 BOS High Leverage .843 BOS .777 TBR BAbip .308 BOS .292 TBR
  17. moonslav59
    The A’s lost again, this time by allowing 2 in the 8th to lose 2-1. We gain a half game and are now tied for the WC2 slot.
  18. moonslav59
    It felt like a sweep.
  19. moonslav59
    I’m more worried about the Jays than the As. Even when I posted the Pesky Rays thread, the Yanks were always my biggest worry.
  20. moonslav59
    I like Gausman, but he’s not the type of guy I give the type of deal he will get. Plus, he could easily be a flash in the pan. He sucked in 2018, was nothing special before that and has a smallish sample size of doing well. He has never pitched 187 innings. That’s too many ifs for. Me. One more thing, the whole idea of a 6 man rotation seems like fantasy, to me..
  21. moonslav59
    Mayer cranked his first HR, today!
  22. moonslav59
    We were 54-32 on July 5th. That seems like eternity ago. We’ve gone 16-23 since then, but had some moments where it looked like we were going to get back to our winning ways. We won 4 in a row and 6 of 7 vs NYY & TOR in the middle of July and 3 of 4 just last week, but it seems more and more like that 86 game team was the fluke and not this most recent 39 game team. Take away those 6 of 7 and 3 of 4 stretches and we have a 7-21 record, I still think there’s plenty of time to turn things around, especially with a favorable schedule when compared to the A’s, but we gotta beat up the bad teams and hold our own with the good ones. Losing 10-1 to the Rangers after seeing them sweep us in Texas months ago, hurts, badly. .
  23. moonslav59
    How about Voit?
  24. moonslav59
    I could see that happening, and fans would love to point out how that was Bloom’s MO in Tampa. I could also see us trade Vaz a year before free agency, but catchers are hard to find. (That’s also why Vaz’s trade value might get a nice return.)
  25. moonslav59
    I’ll go over what next year’s pitching staff looks like. Gone or mostly likely gone: ERod (free agent) Ottavino (free agent) Richards (option declined) Perez (option very likely declined) Andriese (already gone) Robles (free agent) That’s a lot of money off the books for only 2 key slots to backfill. Here’s my look at the 13 man staff for 2022: (What I think not necessarily what I want) Sale _____ (FA) Eovaldi Pivetta Whitlock _____ (FA) Houck Barnes _____ (FA) DHern Taylor Sawamura Brasier AAA depth: Seabold, Winckowski, Crawford, Bello Valdez, Rios, Davis, Bazardo It’s hard for me to name names for the 3 slots we might fill via free agency or trade. I like R Iglesias as a closer/set up man but doubt we outbid everyone for a pen arm. I’d like us to find a younger arm for a solid #1 or 2 slot starter, but none jump out at me as being large and long type contracts, to me. I think we sign an aging starter or two rather than look for or repeat the Price type deal. 42 Rich Hill 39 Verlander 38 Greinke 38 Morton 37 Scherzer 36 Kluber 36 Cueto (no) 34 Kershaw
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