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  1. moonslav59
    So, opening day 2025, it stops?
  2. moonslav59
    Will it ever end?
  3. moonslav59
    He was, and that was a pretty hefty signing, back then. The mid level signings carried that team, too.
  4. moonslav59
    POR pulled off a 9-8 win. Campbell & Anthony both went 2-4 with a homer and BB (Anthony also 2B'd). Teel went 3-5 w a 2B. Woo's game was suspended, down 4-2 after a 2 run Dalbec homer. GRE was shut out 5-0. SAL is up 2-0 with Arias 2 for 2 with 2 rbi. Duffy went a strong 5 IP w 7 Ks and 0 BBs (3 hits and 0 runs)
  5. moonslav59
    What makes that even worse is that even if they did great, we might not have one more win.
  6. moonslav59
    I'm not sure 2013 fits that bill. While $15-16M a year was pretty pricey, back then, Lackey was the only guy making that kind of money on a deal loner than 2 years. He also was not such a super productive isigning, although 2013 was his best season with the Sox. Lackey's ERA+ w LAA: 123, 127, 150, 119, 115 w BOS: 99, 67, N/A, 117, then traded after a 111 start to 2014. The next largest contracts on the 2013 team? $26M/2 Papi & Dempster $39M/3 Vic $30M/5 Lester $41M/6 Pedey
  7. moonslav59
    Nobody is arguing any of those points. We all know Betts was traded while Bloom was the GM. Most agree JH forced teh trade. Few remember DD came close to trading Betts in 2019 for the same reason Bloom ended up doing it: JH. The thing is, even if we all agree 100% on everything associated with the Betts situation, the topic would never just go away.
  8. moonslav59
    There were many pitchers signed, last winter, at reasonable deals that are doing very well. Some, that many of us liked, such as Monty, have not done well. Others like Lugo, Imanaga, Flaherty and several more would have been great gets, by Brez, but instead, we got Gio. Gio cost more than Kluber, Richards and Wacha, combined.
  9. moonslav59
    We've scored about 40 more runs than HOU, this year. They have had better pitching, despite having way more injuries to their rotation than we have had.
  10. moonslav59
    I think we should start talking about the loss of Carlton Fisk for nothing, more often.
  11. moonslav59
    The Betts discussion will never go away. It shouldn't, either. The Babe Ruth topic lasted over a century. Pitching is the top need area, for sure, and is deserving of much discussion, but that does not mean talking about other things means we no longer think pitching is the biggest problem. A related issue to pitching is spending. They have gone hand-in-hand for years. Trading prospects for pitching is also a related topic worthy of debate.
  12. moonslav59
    To make matters worse, when we tried to change the philosophy of relying on oft-injured pitchers by trading one (Sale) and signing a "durable" SP'er (Giolito,) we get that one horribly wrong, too. That being said, the Astros have something like 5 of their top 6 SP'ers on the IL, and are streaking into the playoffs.
  13. moonslav59
    One understated fact about all those winning seasons the Sox had starting around 2003 was the fact that we let some very productive players bolt, before they reached their declining years. Some still hurt like hell, and a few we wish we never let go- like Beltre and Lester, but for the vast majority, we made the right choice. Even the Damon departure worked out okay for us. When Ellsbury bolted, many were pissed off, but wow- nice job, right? Many hated letting Beni go, and he did have a couple good seasons afterwards, but right now, he has one of MLB's worth fWARs among everyday players. We made plenty of mistakes on some, but we did well letting many go, when the time was right, just right or nearly right. Letting Betts go, was a big mistake, but he did say he wanted to be a FA. DD acted on that, and the rest is history.
  14. moonslav59
    Agree on all points, here. I do think Betts was DD's top priority, and once it looked like he was dead set on reaching free agency, he did what he should have did: he locked up our next best players. The budget was not ever going to be endless, and the fact that DD could not even bring back Kimbrell and Kelly in 2019 proves that point. If we couldn't bring them back, how can anyone think Betts was still "on the table" after 2019? Our new spending in 2020 was a joke. 2021 was not much better and we barely replaced the contracts dropping off the books in those years. We never even replaced Porcello's money, Bett's arb money and half Price's money.
  15. moonslav59
    Every game is a big one, now. We've dug a hole that is perhaps already too deep. To climb out, we need to take one game at a time, and it sucks that this one will be without Devers, but in baseball, anything can happen. We need a good game from Paxton and the pen. That sounds like a lot to ask, I know. GO SOX!!!
  16. moonslav59
    To think Bloom actually had a chance to sign Betts and chose to trade him,because he wanted to, is alternate universe thinking.
  17. moonslav59
    Except that he was about to trade Betts in 2019. The "blame" on DD was about him choosing to sign Sale, Nate and Bogey and not Betts. If you think JH was going to allow him to sign everyone, that is not reality thinking.
  18. moonslav59
    I think the odds are pretty accurate. We have almost half the chance of making the playoffs as the next lowest team, who both (HOU and SEA) are fighting for a weak division title. 90%+ NYY, BAL CLE 85% MIN 53-65% HOU & SEA 36% BOS (Nobody else is even over 6%)
  19. moonslav59
    My position is well known on that. We need to trade top prospect capital for a TOTR pitcher, ASAP. It would be nice to spend bigly on another one, at the same time, but I am not expecting that to happen. (I'm not sure we trade top prospects, either, but trades like Yorke for Priester was encouraging to a much lesser degree than what is needed, of course.)
  20. moonslav59
    We did spend more than all but two teams, that year. Injuries to Sale and ERod hurt, bigtime, but we were still a big spender. The problem was, hardly any was new spending- same as 2019, and that was largely because of JH, but also because DD chose to sign JD, extend Sale, Nate (re-sign) and Bogey and not Betts, Kimbrell & Kelly. (The Porcello money was never spent, either.) This is not meant to be a criticism of DD. To me, he was not allowed to keep everyone. Someone was bound to be left out. Too bad it was Betts, and Mookie seemed to have a role in that choice made by DD, too.
  21. moonslav59
    Yes, indeed. His "emptying of the farm" was a gross misrepresentation of what he did, although his moves did contribute to a serious lag on farm infusion between the Devers call up and the Casas & Bello arrivals. I will say that we will soon be seeing the Bloom influence on farm building manifest itself. It may not be enough to get us to glory, again, but we should get a huge boost.
  22. moonslav59
    Yes, and we were still a "top tier spending team" in many of their seasons as GM. Hell, we were the third highest paid team in 2020, one of the team's worst all-time losing percentage seasons. We've been in the top 6-10 as late as 2022.
  23. moonslav59
    True, and when you look at MLBs largest and longest deals ever signed, you'll see a pretty high swing and miss rate, as well. (It is one major plus area for DD. His success rate on big signings seems much better than most GMs, although Price, Sale and Nate were not all that great.)
  24. moonslav59
    The loss of Betts was a huge gut punch. It was worse than not offering Carlton Fisk a contract, in time, and then blowing up the team of the mid and late 70's. Guys like Betts are generational- even multi-generational. He's like a hundred year storm event. You just can't let a guy like that get away, and we did. Even if we somehow-someway get ourselves back to a championship, I'm not sure that stench will ever go away. For me, I doubt I can ever let go and stop "giving a s***" about the Sox. They are in my blood and bones. I guess a blood transfusion might work, but I've never heard of complete body bone transplants. I'm doomed.
  25. moonslav59
    Indeed, along with many of the losing seasons and even last place seasons.
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