moonslav59
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I'm not sure where it will come from, of "it" ever will come. I am still optimistic. While things did come together last year, I don't think it was a fluke. We expected some regression from JD and Betts after their exceptional 2019 seasons, but I felt others, like Vaz, Leon, JBJ and Devers might pick up the slack and then some. For the most part, they have done better, but with Beni and our SP'ers struggling, here we are- a .500 club after 60 games. As bad as we've played, we are still in the race, and we have some budget space to make some additions. Maybe we need a trade to shake things up. Maybe it will just come on its own. Maybe it will never come. I'm staying hopeful, but it's getting harder every day.
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Another sad night for the Sox. We keep missing chances- over and over again. When Sandy Leon is the only guy getting key hits, you know something is going on. Nobody is picking it up. I've been waiting and waiting. We got a little tease a couple weeks back, but then this. I'm not giving up by a long shot, but this is disgusting.
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True, but he's betting close to a full season under his belt.
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Can/Should the Red Sox Blow Up the Roster?
moonslav59 replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
You guys crack me up. There's at least 6 weeks to go before we even think about this. -
I thought the trade was okay, too. My point was more about us never even trying Buttrey, before we dealt him away.
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Can we wait until the end of the season to see, if the "rest plan" pays off? I'm sure Cora, DD & Co. did not expect such a slow (and long) start to the season, and there's no way the extra rest in ST'ing is why we are playing poorly now. If we win it all, my guess is, those who were against the resting philosophy will still claim it was a mistake.
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Always have been- always will be. We rested them about 8-12 more innings each than the previous season(s), so it's not like it was a radical change, and it's not like we sent them to Hawaii while the other players worked their butts off.
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Maybe hitter complacency when he is starting plays a role. Maybe opposing pitchers get jacked up when they know they are facing Sale. I think Sale will start getting wins. He's been pitching better after his poor start. Hopefully, the odds will catch up, soon.
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Would you say Dalbec's current trade value is higher than Beeks' was last summer? My point is that trading for decent talent is not as costly as many seem to think it is. This summer, there may be 16-18 sellers- an all time high. The cost may be lower as the supply of assets are higher.
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Sale's OPS Against vs top competition: 2017 .666 v Yanks .564 v Rays n/a v Astros 2018 .470 v Yanks .420 v Rays .655 v Astros 2019 (small samples) .855 v Yanks .676 v Rays .661 v Astros There is no evidence that Sale falters vs tough opponents.
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RS per IP 2019 2.6 Price 2.9 Sale 3.9 Eovaldi 6.5 Porcello 7.7 ERod 2018 3.5 Eovaldi 3.7 Pomeranz 4.5 Sale 4.7 Price 5.3 ERod 5.9 Porcello 7.3 Johnson 2017 3.5 ERod 4.4 Sale 4.4 Porcello 4.9 Fister 5.1 Price 5.4 Pomeranz It looks like Sale is always on the short side of the mean.
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Will Chavis play 1B and Holt or Nunez at 2B? Too bad, Pearce was finally heating up. Moreland gets hurt every year.
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Sounds better.
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If the season goes down to the wire, the Rays may need Snell for game 161 or 162, and he won't be available for the WC game.
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Please. Nobody expected Beeks to be good, and his prospect value then was lower than Dalbec's is now. Do you disagree? Be honest.
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So, 40 saves & hold vs 9 blown saves. Other teams? Yanks: 20 sv + 42 Holds= 62 vs 7 blown saves Astros: 18 sv + 31 Holds=49 vs 4 blown saves Rays: 17 sv + 47 Holds= 64 vs 6 blown saves Twins: 15 sv + 32 Holds= 47 vs 3 blown saves While our blown saves issue may be exaggerated, we certainly are doing much worse than the AL leaders. Save % 83 Twins 82 Astros 74 Rays 74 Yanks 57 Sox As much as Brasier has been bashed, he has our best SV%: 67% Brasier (6/9) 50% Barnes (3/6) 50% Hembree, Walden & Workman (all 1/2)
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Eovaldi and Pearce were rentals that brought us a ring, and both were gotten for less than Dalbec's current worth.
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The mandate could be to spend 20% more and stay there all season.
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They may guess wrong on free agents, but they would not intentionally spend on nobodies.
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Many players are still doing better than 2016-2017, so I'm not so sure you are right about "coming back to earth." Besides we did win the division those years playing like "silos".
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What kind of of pen help can we get for Dalbec? How about Dalbec plus Johnson or Shawaryn? Would trading D Hernandez for a solid 4 month, pen arm be worth it?
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Like the one we had right under our noses and traded away to get 2B help last summer- Ty Buttrey for Kinsler. We never even gave him a try, here.
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A few of Sale's losses were with Vaz, some were blown by the pen, and others were lost by no run support, but certainly Sale has not been Sale. We needed a lock down performance last night. He was well rested. He didn't give us what we needed, but with just one run scored, it's hard to blame just him. I saw the stat last night on how Sale is like 82nd out of 87 starters when facing batters the second time around. He's been great the first time through a line-up, but batters are getting to him later. We're seeing more bone-heads plays than 2018. It's like we're back to Farrell's 2017 squad again. We need serious focus and a full team effort. It's not too late to turn things around, but I think a trade sooner rather than later might shake things up a little and break the malaise. We could also use Eovaldi and Moreland back.
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...or mandate a 20% increase in payroll every year until you finish above .400.
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Actually, it seems to me, our hitters do worse vs rookies and scrubs. Our history (maybe not so much this year) is to rise to the occasion, when we need to. When we needed to beat the Yanks last year, we swept them. When playoff time came, we beat the best of the best- perhaps the hardest all time 3 series opponents in MLB history- the Astros, Yanks and Dodgers. We just need to snap out of this funk and play like we can. I still think we will, but time is running short.
