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  1. moonslav59
    We are losing because of all areas not doing well, Max. The rotation. The pen, The offense. The defense. The baserunning. I'm not sure, if it matters that pitching is a couple percentage points higher than batting + defense + Baserunning, assuming it is. We suck in every category. The Astros have been missing 5 of their best 8 SP'er all or nearly all season long and they traded away Tucker, last winter. Yordan Alvarez is batting .646. Is this any worse than us trading Devers and seeing Bregman on the IL, along with Houck and Crawford? This is a team effort losing streak, including Cora and Brez, the coaches and maybe even that batboys.
  2. moonslav59
    Not a single shred of evidence to make any specific point about being "snakes." (Not that there weren't snakes, but at least give us some meat on those bones the title promised.) What are the "details?"
  3. moonslav59
    Sorry to hear that and sincerely hope you recover. Unlike you, however, I am correct in my point: you show up way, way, way more when things are bad than when they are good. Of course, you will never admit it, but it's true. What's untrue is that I do not and have not called Devers names, except "Devers Forevers," and things like "great hitter."
  4. moonslav59
    What names have I called him? Can you try to just get one thing right about me? Just once?
  5. moonslav59
    Nick, I have never been a believer in thinking a player is fully defined but what he done, recently. It can and often is an indicator or what we can expect, but I'm not ready to give up on Story, just yet. Also, we have nobody better to play SS, unless we play Mayer there, but then Story is a better option at 2B or 3B, anyway, than anything else we have. Now, I just spoke out against the recency factor, and will sound contradictory when I say that Story has looked way better on D over the last month or two, than he did in April, and he's has been getting some key hits. He's at .794 over his last 73 PAs, and I'd be thrilled, if he could keep this up. That is also way better than most Sox players over the last 3 weeks. Now is not the time to demote Story. The point on DHam is correct, but again, he's hitting better than Campbell and is our current best defensive 2Bman, so who do you play, instead? We need Romy at 1B w Toro. You want eaton starting at 2B?
  6. moonslav59
    I see you are predictably back, when things are going badly. Welcome back. I see you still keep getting my position wrong, as always. That is not so welcoming. The GM wants Devers to play 1B. That has nothing to do with what I've wanted for years. The manager doesn't do what his GM wants, so the GM has to try it himself. I guess that is no problem for you. It is to me. I'm fine if you disagree, but at least understand my true position, correctly. Again, welcome back during another down time in Sox history.
  7. moonslav59
    If this is true, and I can find no direct quote that says Brez asked or told Devers to play 1B, it makes Cora look even worse. It's a managers job to play the players at positions he wants them to play and inform them on where they will be playing. The fact that Brez had to do it, assuming he did, only highlights Cora's dropping the ball on his managerial duties.
  8. moonslav59
    Maybe he loves the park? Career: 1.046 at Fenway .846 HOU
  9. moonslav59
    Great movie and a perfect link to how most of us think, right now.
  10. moonslav59
    It's very difficult for many adults to learn a new language. I lived in Mexico for 3.5 years, took 5 levels of Spanish at the big university, and then hired a one-on-one tutor for another year. I got to the point where I could understand maybe 75% of what I read, 50% of what I could hear and my speaking level got to maybe 25% efficiency. (I teach ESL, so I know a little bit about proficiency levels in all 4 domains of language.) I'm not defending anybody for not learning the prominent language of the country they spend so much time in, but this is not even his home. I couldn't learn Spanish when Mexico was my home, and I planned on living there indefinitely.
  11. moonslav59
    We know he did not get Devers to even try ona 1Bman's mitt in practice. I do not know, but I don't think he even politely asked Devers about maybe playing 1B. He should have told him, nicely, "We need you to play 1B and not 'everywhere.'" He could couch it anyway he felt necessary, but Devers needed to play 1B and he did not. Then, he says "I'll play anywhere," the first day in SF. How can anyone think we managed the move to 1B, correctly? If Cora didn't even ask him, that's a huge problem, IMO. If he did ask him, and Devers refused, then trading Devers was the correct thing to do.
  12. moonslav59
    We'll see, and within the context of giving up Devers, I still think the return looks like Crap. I was higher on Dugo and Jeter Downs than Harrison & Hicks, and look where they got us.
  13. moonslav59
    Not that I've heard of, but I'd rather overpay for a guy like him than a top pitching prospect.
  14. moonslav59
    The Astros have a secret they have kept hidden for many years.
  15. moonslav59
    Agreed. He's likely a better defender than Anthony, since he can play CF, well. He's better than Campbell in the OF, as of now, anyway. He's a RHB, so that helps, but now that Devers is gone, we need one of our many lefties to step it up, bigtime.
  16. moonslav59
    I'm wondering how close Sox brass thinks Jh Garcia is from the big dance. He's looking very impressive, of late.
  17. moonslav59
    On soxprospects.com, Jordan moved up from #32 to #24. Tolle is at #5. Sandlin dropped from #8 to 13. Jh Garcia jumped from #14 to #7. Tibbs joined at #8. Romero dropped from #6 to 10. Clarke jumped from #18 to 11. Cespedes fell from #9 to 16. Monegro jumped from 27 to 19, but I think he's on the IL, now. Enddy Azocar made the biggest leap from #51 to 21, along with Uberstine from #54 to 26. Z Ehrhard jumped a lot, too (47 to 26) D Reyes with a big drop (21 to 31)
  18. moonslav59
    Breaking the mold!
  19. moonslav59
    What's the odds we sit Bregman down and talk about how much we want him back in 2026, then trade him and bring him back? (It wouldn't really be tinkering, since he's under contract with him, now.) He could still be a piece to build a young team around starting in 2026. It's not like our best young players are in single A.
  20. moonslav59
    The biggest difference is that we had nobody really good to trade. The better ones were hurt. In theory, Bregman could be traded, but I'm all for extending him. Chapman is a better trade chip than Jansen was in '24. Wilson maybe better than Martin. While Duran is not a FA to be, he'll bring way more back than O'Neill might have brought us. I'm not sure about rumors of teams wanting Buehler, but so be it. Gio should being more than Buehler. Ref won't bring much, but someone might really need a top 10 MLB batter vs LHPs. We could get enough prospects from trading these guys to make a nice winter trade. I know, I know, why should we expect we do well on winter trades and signings, this time around? What's the alternative? Just give up? I know, I know, the mob wants a complete blow-up and start over. Not me.
  21. moonslav59
    I did in 2023. I think I wanted us to buy in '24- just not top prospects. I'm not happy having to repeat myself. This sucks for all Sox fans from all sides of the spectrum.
  22. moonslav59
    I absolutely am disgusted to be for a firesale. Kicking the can sucks. I don't see anyway we can added 3-4 pieces and get back in this thing, so every trade should be about maximizing the assets we can have this summer to trade and spend to fill the biggest needs we have. Assuming we keep Bregman, trade Duran, Campbell, Casas, Arias & Sandlin for Skenes and trade all of FAs to be for prospects that can be flipped in a winter trade, this would be the framework: SP: Crochet, Skenes, Sandoval, Bello, Dobbins RP: ______, _____, Slaten, Whitlock, Houck, Crawford, Fitts, Weissert C: Narvaez, Wong or _____ 1B: ______ (Toro) 2B: Story or Mayer (DHam) SS: Mayer or Story (Romero) 3B: Bregman (Grissom) LF: Anthony (Refsnyder) CF: Rafaela (Garcia) RF: Abreu- Refsnyder (Garcia) DH: Garcia-Romy (Yoshida)
  23. moonslav59
    I'm not totally sold on any prospect pitcher.
  24. moonslav59
    Whoever Cora picks, it's Cora's fault.
  25. moonslav59
    Jh Garcia hit his 9th bomb, tonight and is at .983. Maybe the big 3 was really the big 4. Campbell went 1-2 w 2BBs in the 4-2 loss. Uberstine was not good. POR is down 2-1, late. Song let up the runs. GRE & SAL had rainouts or suspended games.
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