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  1. moonslav59
    Fear by opposing pitchers already.
  2. moonslav59
    Jesse Owens
  3. moonslav59
    Sale and Houck should take Richards and Perez’s rotation slots. Period. Now! What we do with them is secondary. I’m fine with DFAing one or both, phantom IL, if possible. I would not call up Munoz or Wong, and I’m no big fan of Marwin. We just have to wait for Schwarber and Arroyo. Munoz makes some sense once he’s healthy, but Marwin is Cora’s guy. The Dalbec- Cordero platoon may be what we have to live through until Schwarber or Arroyo return.
  4. moonslav59
    It’s come down to hoping and praying Sale, Houck, Schwarber and the return of Arroyo give us the boost we need at our highest need area.
  5. moonslav59
    And Henry is filthy rich. How do you think these guys got where they are?
  6. moonslav59
    CF where Kike played the most and will continue to. 1B ignores the addition of Schwarber.
  7. moonslav59
    True, but the affect on following years might be bigger than we imagine under a new CBA, so maybe the uncertainty played a role in that priority to stay under. We got someone to play 1B, and he has an OPS over .900. That’s not peanuts. We also boosted our pen depth. With Sale and Houck looking good, the equation was who can we get better than Pivetta? The cost of upgrading Pivetta significantly would have cost a lot and put us over the tax line. Those two combined could be viewed as going for broke to some extent.
  8. moonslav59
    I'm not excited about it, but I do think GMs are working on the assumption that the lux tax or something similar will continue in the next CBA-perhaps an even worse structure for the higher spending teams- like the Sox. Plus, this was just not the year to go for broke.
  9. moonslav59
    Great post, oldtimer. Very nice. Many of us fans who do focus on stats also understand the human element and all many of its nuances as much as anyone else, if not more so, to some, especially those who played the game a lot. In a game of millimeters, it's easy to understand how just one tiny thing going wrong, mental, emotional or physical, can upset the whole apple cart.
  10. moonslav59
    Looks like we are stuck with Marwin until Arroyo returns. Makes me wish we still had Chavis.
  11. moonslav59
    I get that, but that is not a reason to hurt your chances in 2022, 2023, 2024 and beyond to go all in during a clear rebuild year. Listening to posters over the last 2 weeks rip apart this team, it sure sounds like we needed more than Scherzer, Rizzo and Kimbrel to be a top fave. At what cost?
  12. moonslav59
    Plus, put Kike in CF and Arroyo at 2B, and the grades go up. No grade for the pen hurts the overall view, too.
  13. moonslav59
    I don't see that happening, but maybe Henry is fed up paying so much, especially when we were top 3 spenders in 2019 and 2020. I also look more at year 2 and 3 of being over the tax line as the most important. The team will try to avoid year 3, or just be a tiny bit over, if need be. That's why staying under this year was so important. Doing so, actually allows us more flex not just for 2022, but '23 and '24, too.
  14. moonslav59
    I think some looked at only his OBP and overlooked his power and defense.
  15. moonslav59
    Then what explains the wildly low ERA the third time through? Add the second and third together and it’s not all that bad. Also, look at IR allowed to score and OPS against numbers.
  16. moonslav59
    I was big on the Sox going after Taillon, but I guess Bloom didn’t like him as much or wanted to keep the farm pieces.
  17. moonslav59
    We're facing a lefty and have Perez on the mound. I'm hoping for more timely hits and continued power showings, tonight. Keep the mojo risin'.
  18. moonslav59
    Here is an interesting look at weak hitting in 2021: Out of 429 batters with 80+ PAs, this year... 183 have a .700 or lower OPS (43%) 120 have a .650 or lower OPS (28%) 65 have a .600 or lower OPS (15%) 31 are below .550 (7%) Here are the numbers for 2019: 436 batters with 120+ PAs 132 below .700 (30%) 73 below .650 (17%) 30 below .600 (7%) 17 below .550 (4%)
  19. moonslav59
    Updated Sox OPS Leaders - only 1 over .900 - Kike firmly ranked #4 .927 Devers .910 Schwarber (with WSH- .828 career) .898 Bogey .889 JD .806 Kike .792 Arroyo .778 Renfroe .750 Verdugo .721 Plawecki .650 Dalbec .650 Vazquez .573 Marwin .568 Duran .554 Santana .527 Cordero
  20. moonslav59
    Don't encourage him.
  21. moonslav59
    April 2022 or the WS, this October.
  22. moonslav59
    Nice win. Keep the mojo risin’.
  23. moonslav59
    Great points. He still needs a larger sample size to lock up a rotation slot for 2022. (Note: I am confident he will.)
  24. moonslav59
    Yanks score 5 in 8th. Up 8-3, now.
  25. moonslav59
    The Rays scored 4 runs, tonight on 1 single, 2 doubles,1 triple and 1 HR. 5 hits total
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