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A HOU loss, tonight puts them 2 behind the Sox with us having the tie-breaker. Essentially, a 3 game lead, assuming ATH beat HOU tonight. HOU is 29-37 since July 6th. DET is in the midst of an epic choke job. SEA (14-1) and CLE (16-2) are on epic hot streaks. What a crazy season!!! -
It's still early, out west, but SEA & HOU are losing. The Yanks nearly lost to the lowly CWS. It ain't the Sox a chokin'!
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Cora knew Bregman was a clubhouse leader and strong influencer, especially on younger players. Too bad Devers wasn't "young enough."
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10-9 in Sept is not a choke. You can keep saying it, but that doesn't make it real. 11-9 since Aug 31st and 15-11 since Aug 25th is not choking. 4 of last 6 is a real choke job. LMAO. You can will it to happen all you want, and maybe we do another down turn, like we have several times, this year, but nobody knows.
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Yet, everytime we lost 3 in a row, some felt we were doomed to keep losing.
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This Sox team has time and time again bounce back from adversity. If anything should have been predictable about the 2025 Sox is that they'd not go out without a fight. Their M.O. is not to "flop." This is not the same Sox team as the ones that did flop.
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Big win! Damn CWS! I may be in a minority, but I'm glad CLE is beating up on DET. I hope they sweep em.
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Better than nothing but still not Robo Umps Now! https://www.mlb.com/news/abs-challenge-system-mlb-2026
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Duran back to lead off.... 1. Duran 2. Story 3. Bregman 4. Yoshida 5. Romy 6. Rafaela 7. Lowe 8. Abreu RF 9. Narvaez
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We may never know what offers were on the table. I find it hard to be so sure in criticizing Brez for not making deals we know nothing or very little about. My big "prize" was Joe Ryan, and he's done very little since the deadline. After the deadline was over I thought E Suarez was the big bat "prize," but he has not done great, either. 2 more reasons why I can't bring myself to say Brez blew it at the deadline. Do I wish he'd done better? Yes. I just can't say my ideas were any better, so I'll hold my tongue.
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I'll certainly admit I might be entirely too high on Holobetz, but he started in high A and was promoted to AA. He had a .657 OPSA for the Sox farm. soxprospects.com has him listed as the #1 AA SP'er, next year, ahead of Clarke, Aita and Paez. They also have Phillips starting the season as the #4 SP'er for the A+ team in 2026. I was happy we traded Yorke for Priester, and it did seem questionable to trade a pitcher in April. I just assumed they saw something they did not like or expect when they got him in the first place. I figured they had Fitts, Dobbins and even Newcomb ahead of him and expected Crawford & Sandoval later in the year. They seemed to have enough depth, and there are only so many slots on the 40 man roster you can set aside for SP'ers. We had 12-14 when the trade was made. That's about 1/3 of the whole roster. Again, I'm not defending the trade. In hindsight we keep him and move Newcomb to the pen, and we might be in first place, right now.
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SP's.com says... Fastball 94-96 "tops out at 98" with "heavy vertical movement." Cutter 87-90 "newer pitch" that "lacks depth." Slurve needs tweaking and "potential below-average offering." Changeup: used mostly vs RHBs. "potential fringe-average."
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I'm certainly on board if not driving the add a second ace type bandwagon. At least bring Gio back or the like (Keller?) I've been convince we also need a real big bat addition, too. IMO, we should trade for a pitcher and sign a bat. (I don't think bring Bregman back counts. We need a big bat plus Bregman or someone like Bregman, too.) Depending on who we have to trade away for that pitcher, I think I'd be fine with just two really meaningful additions, only. 3 Locks: Crochet, _____ & Bello Sandoval & Early would be the 4 & 5, unless they look awful in ST'ing. The rest could help the pen or be on the starter depth chart, or both. Dobbins, Crawford, Tolle & Harrison (Criswell & Perales) That's eleven starters, which about what we started this year with, but we have some pretty good minor league depth of near ready starters in AAA and AA, next season.
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We should have kept Wikelman.... LOL! We should have kept Wikelman! LOL Another one was Newcomb. We should have just moved him to the pen. Hey, when Holobetz and or Phillips win the Cy Young, I'll come back to this.
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Weissert will not be considered for a rotation slot. (Was that a typo?) Wink might have one last shot, but he's better in the pen. I see it like this: if healthy... Locks: Crochet, Bello His to lose: Sandoval Just don't look awful in ST'ing: Early Equal shots at the 5 slot: Dobbins, Crawford, Tolle & Harrison Extended depth (would have to WOW! in ST'ing) Criswell, Perales Minor League depth with a longshot: Uberstine, Mullins, Drohan, Holobetz, Clarke, Paez, Aita, Witherspoon, Phillips, Valera, Fajardo
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$48M is still a huge amount, and with one less pre-arb year, one can understand a drop. I'm not sure how much his injury history scares other GMs, but I'm sure some are not that interested, until he shows he's healthy, and maybe for 3 straight months or so (next deadline?) Others may still think he's worth $48-60M in trade value.
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And, at the same time, the farm got way better. We finally have some young pitchers and pitching prospects to talk about. Many of our young players are locked up, longtime- something Bloom was rightfully criticized for waiting too long to do. He even locked up Chapman. Of course, if he sucks next year, he'll be bashed for doing that, too. The only players from this team who are not under total team control for 2026 are: Bregman (opt out) Giolito (mutual option) Story (probably won't opt out) Wilson Refsnyder (might retire, return or go elsewhere) Hendriks, Matz & May While this list is significant, it is not as impactful as some we've seen in year's past. After 2026, it's just Whitlock, Sandoval & Lowe (assuming we offer him his last arb) To me, it's rather stunning how long we have control of a big chunk of our foundation at reasonable prices and projected arb costs. If JH opens up the wallet to fill a few key high need areas, the window can be wide open and long lasting.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
moonslav59 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
We know one of the key teams will lose, tonight, so a win by us has to relieve some pressure. -
Nobody but Fred, yes. I didnt mean to imply you were judging him only on that blunder.
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The biggest one, Suarez, you guys got. Although he has shown some big power with SEA, his OPS is under .700 since the trade. Naylor had done well, and certainly better than Lowe, but not really anything spectacular. Who esle?
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Agreed. I do think Brez did a good job building depth, as well as adding some quality (Bregman, Chapman & Gio fro '24) over the winter, so as to minimize the chances we'd need a major deadline deal, but the Devers grade undid much of that and created a must do deadline situation that went unfulfilled. I'm not defending his inaction, but I also do not think it's the only thing he should be judge on.
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Thanks for the thorough reply. We couldn't line up pretty much means Brez refused to overpay by just enough to get it done. To me, that's not an automatic slam on Brez, since we don't know what the final offers were from each team, and then we also have to look at how many of the biggest names that did get traded have not really done great or even good. The one that didn't get traded (Ryan) has not done too well, either.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
moonslav59 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
So, a three way tie, the first tiebreaker is head to head records among just the 3 teams? Depending on who the 3 are we are.... 4-2 CLE 4-2 HOU 0-3 DET (3 to go) 9-4 NYY 3-3 SEA___ Detroit 3-0 BOS (3 to go) 4-6 CLE (3 to go) 4-2 HOU 2-4 SEA 4-2 NYY Cleveland 2-4 BOS 6-4 DET (3 to go) 4-2 HOU 2-4 SEA 3-3 NYY -
A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
moonslav59 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Today's SP'ers: Gio at Gausman Skubal (DET) at Williams (CLE) Javier (HOU) at Springs (ATH) S Smith (CWS) at Gil (NYY) Wednesday: Crochet at Scherzer Flaherty (DET) at Bibee (CLE) TBD (HOU) at TBD (ATH) TBD (CWS) at Fried (NYY) Thursday: Bello at Bieber TBD (DET) at Messick (CLE) TBD HOU at TBD ATH Martin (CWS) at TBD (NYY) -
I wonder if Brez thought he was close enough to making a more significant deadline deal, but was surprised it didn't go down. At some point, you gotta be ready to add that last piece or pivot quickly to a plan B you already had lined up.
