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  1. moonslav59
    Porcello and Price need to come to pitch as well.
  2. moonslav59
    Only 5 teams have more wins than the Sox. 3 are in the NL West. One is NOT the Yankees.
  3. moonslav59
    Wow. I'm assuming Kimbrell is first.
  4. moonslav59
    ERAs for RP'ers are tainted by the fact that they come into games with one or two outs sometimes. That greatly improves their chances at not allowing their own runners to score.
  5. moonslav59
    See what happens to teams who lose their top starters? We lost Price, Wright and ERod for longer than the Stos lost Keuchal and McCullers, and we are close to being in first place.
  6. moonslav59
    Hell, I could live with Rutledge. For a short term, yeah, but I don't think I could say that about a team entering the playoffs.
  7. moonslav59
    We still have about 6 weeks to the deadline. By then, we'll know a little more about the Rutledge-Pablo situation and maybe Devers might be ":deemed ready" by that time as well. I'm not for giving up much for any 3B rental.
  8. moonslav59
    Nobody ever did or will. You don't lose Papi and stay even by adding Moreland and a full season from Beni. Many felt we'd still end up top 3 or 5, but that's a far cry from scoring 100 more runs than just about everyone else as we did last year. I still think we might finish top 5, but time is running out on that projection. It wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong.
  9. moonslav59
    No, the bats did no "wake up". We hit the ball hard for some outs, and that Astros had some good shifts and defensive placements last night. I was wrong and should avoid short sample size projections. The Astros are showing the world what happens when starting pitchers get hurt. They went from looking invincible to so-so seeminly overnight.
  10. moonslav59
    Some recent news... Trevor Plouffe traded to Rays fo cash considerations. John Farrell was "ecstatic" over a 33 pitch session by ERod. He may be back earlier than many of us thought. Tyler Thornburg will undergo surgery to alleviate thoracic outlet syndrome. Thornburg, will miss the entire season. Several pitchers have had this surgery: some bounce back: some don't so well. The team expects Thornburg to be ready for the 2018 season. We'll have two more years of team control after this season. The Red Sox announcedthat they’ve placed left-hander Brian Johnson on the 10-day disabled list due to a left shoulder impingement. Sox have selected the contract of right-hander Austin Maddox from Triple-A Pawtucket. Southpaw Roenis Elias has been shifted from the 10-day DL to the 60-day DL in order to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Maddox. Jim Callis also lauds the Red Sox for the talent they secured in rounds three through 10. On the farm... Jake Romanski had three hits and Rafael Devers roped his 17th double of the year and drove in a run. Mike Olt reached three times with two hits, a walk, a run, and an RBI.
  11. moonslav59
    I expected a high-scoring game tonight. I'm glad Pom came to pitch tonight. Nice to see him last to the 7th. I'll be at the next two games as well. GOOoooooOOOOO Sox !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  12. moonslav59
    I feel he is too, but I trust Sox management on these types of decisions.
  13. moonslav59
    Kelly threw smoke tonight. I joked with my friend that he struck a guy out with a 97 mph "change-up".
  14. moonslav59
    Yes, it seems like when he slumps, the power stays there, so at least his few hits are big ones.
  15. moonslav59
    I think we have about $8-9M to "play with", so that's about $24-27M of yearly contracts we can take on (.33 x $27M=$9M). That's two players making about $13M each or 3 players making $9M each. I think the main issue is not going to be how big is the salary (dump) we get from someone. It's going to be about how good of prospects we'll be willing to give up and how good the players we seek will be. I'm fine with trades like the Ziegler one last year, but normally, I'm against trades for top end rentals.
  16. moonslav59
    Just got back from the game. Pom Pom looked impressive. Mookies blast was a laser. Big win to start the series. Keep it up, guys!!!
  17. moonslav59
    No HRam. Hmmmm. I'm leaving for the game soon. GO SOX !!!!!
  18. moonslav59
    We have enough cap space to trade for a rather costly 3Bman and a starter, since we will only be on the hook for about 1/3 of their salaries. My question is more about how much are we willing to give up for higher quality players.
  19. moonslav59
    I was against the Espi for Pom trade when I thought Pom might be a capable to decent 3 starter or good 4 starter. Yes, an acceptable 5 starter is lowering my expectations, too.
  20. moonslav59
    Then, maybe we should play Young vs LHPs and Travis vs RHPs at 3B from now until Devers is ML ready, right?
  21. moonslav59
    ...well, when you're trying to rank Bogey among the top 30 SSs in MLB, measuring how good the other SSs are is a big part of the process. I think saying Bogey is about 15th might be a tad too generous. Saying he's about 20th out of the top 30 by innings played sounds closer to his true ranking. The way he's hitting, 15th or 20th is fine by me, but a couple years ago, after his decent 2014 defensive season, I had hoped he'd continue to improve and possibly get to the 10th to 15th tier. It looks like he's stepped back a little from 2014.
  22. moonslav59
    Devers could play 1B, but I'm not sure I'd want to pay large and long for Moustakas, if it meant we might lose Bogey or JBJ.
  23. moonslav59
    Thornburg, too.
  24. moonslav59
    Although i hated the Pom trade, I actually liked Pom, when we got him. I don't like him as much now, but it's far far from hate.
  25. moonslav59
    That's exactly how I felt at the time. At the time, I said we "tried to play it half way."
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