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  1. moonslav59
    Dusty Baker understood the value of catcher-pitcher dynamics by trotting out Maldanado, day after day, despite having very good hitting catchers on the bench. Now, Dusty and Maldanado are gone. Hoiw is that working out for the 'stros?
  2. moonslav59
    Good to see Slaten get right back on track after that awful game vs STL. He has really just had 2 bad games (maybe 3) out of 17. He still has more to prove, but he's looking like a nice snag from Rule 5, once again, for the Sox. These 2-3 inning pitchers help save the pen from overwork.
  3. moonslav59
    58+ IP ERA Leaders 1.37 Suarez 1.79 Lugo 1.94 Houck 2.17 Crawford 2.52 Wheeler 2.56 Burnes 2.90 Glasnow 2.98 Berrios 3.05 Cease & Nola 3.10 Fedde 3.20 Gilbert 3.28 L Castillo A lot of these guys changed teams in the last year or two. Others between 50IP and 57 IP 0.84 Imanaga (another guy I hoped we'd sign, last winter) 1.80 Skubal 2.08 J Gray 2.16 R Olson 2.22 some guy formerly named Freakin'
  4. moonslav59
    Only Seth Lugo has more IP and a lower ERA than Houck. 0.1 IP more 1.79 ERA to 1.94 Where are the posters who laughed at the idea of signing him? (I'm sure I'll hear from them, if he falls off a cliff.)
  5. moonslav59
    SEA beat NYY and STL is up on BAL in the 7th.
  6. moonslav59
    Whit did finish 11 games in 2021, although not in the traditional closer-type role. I think all but 3 were 2+ inning closeouts. In 2022, he finished the game in 4 of his first 5 relief games, before moving to the rotation. 8.2 IP in his first 3 games, combined, and the last one was a 9th inning-only game. After returning to the pen, in '22, he finished the game in 7 out of 9 straight games, before finishing the year with 5 games as a strict 7-8th inning guy.
  7. moonslav59
    Other than 2020 and this year, it has not been a "smaller payroll." Other teams blew bye us like maniacs. Is that working for all of them? (I'm not defending the guy, but he has spent like no other Sox owner. Count inflation and he still blows the old guard away. I think he should and needs to spend more to get us back in the game. I have no idea if he will or won't.)
  8. moonslav59
    I guess I should not be surprised at the Devers bashing.
  9. moonslav59
    The D is not awful, anymore. It's not good, either, but it is nice seeing some really nice plays. That one by Rafaela, the other day, was one of the best I've seen a Sox SS make in 4 decades. We've seen improvement just from the start of the season (Devers, Abreu, Valdez...) and vast improvement, starting last year from Duran and our catchers.
  10. moonslav59
    No doubt, but the word was he was not good at 2B, either. Even EValdez started looking okay on D before his demotion. Could some actual coaching of MLB players be working with this new management team? It seems to be with our pitchers- the same guys we had, last year.
  11. moonslav59
    What happened to our awful defense?
  12. moonslav59
    ...and he was supposed to be a poor defender.
  13. moonslav59
    As soon as it takes.
  14. moonslav59
    This site never ceases to baffle me.
  15. moonslav59
    Too bad Devers can't hit a 2 run homer when down by 1 in the ninth. What a bum!
  16. moonslav59
    Fat bottom boys You make the rocking world go around
  17. moonslav59
    Houck's ERA is now 2.00.
  18. moonslav59
    From when I started following the Sox, in the early 70's to 2003, we were scattershot from sucking to also-rans. Now we go from sucking to rings to sucking, sometimes all in 3 years. I know which one I prefer.
  19. moonslav59
    It's hard to know for sure, which is harder on the arm, but it does seem like SP'ers have more TJSs than RP'ers.
  20. moonslav59
    Nothing is for sure, especially with Whitlock.
  21. moonslav59
    We needed a 2Bman. Apparently, JH needed to save money. The uncertainty of Sale's ability to stay healthy played a major role in the choice. As it turned out, iraon man Gio is out for the year, and Sale looks like a HE-Man, again... for now. Not spending the money saved by the trade, unless we want to count adding O'Neill's deal, which would be a major stretch, made the deal look worse. Grissom's start makes it look worse, too.
  22. moonslav59
    Looks great, now. Can I ask, did you hear one single poster advocating an extension of Sale, before the trade? Hell, we were still hearing about how bad his last extension from back in 2019.
  23. moonslav59
    It hasn't really be a "steady" payroll cut. We had a lot of money on the books in 2019, some pretty long term. There was a massive cut with the Betts-Price trade and not replacing Porcello's money coming off the books. (Not brining Kimbrel and kelly beck for 2019 just amounted to paying the raises others got. Of course, inflation make spending now look higher than it really is, comparatively, and the extensions kicked in for Sale, Nate and Bogey, but after 2020, we spent more and more- just poorly. The CB Tax budget went like this: $243M 2019 $185M 2020 $208M 2021 (one of the biggest jumps in spending in Sox history) $236M 2022 (another one of the biggest jumps in Sox history) $225M 2023 was the second decline year in 6 years 2024 will be the third decline year i the last 7 seasons and 2 in a row and 3 out of 5. FYI, Sox spending declined for 2 years in a row, before under JH: 2007>2008>2009 It almost did from 2012>2013>2014, but for $2M more spent in 2014 than 2013.
  24. moonslav59
    He sure would have, and maybe keeping Whitlock in the pen, had they chose him to be the odd man out, might have saved him some time on the IL.
  25. moonslav59
    Promote to Woo?
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