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  1. notin
    And you sound like the guy who says “defense doesn’t matter. Just get 8 hitters and sort it out later” and ignores that the teams that came in 3rd and 4th in MLB met in the World Series. 😉
  2. notin
    Devers would still be here if he was amenable to 1b then as he is now. Contreras might not be here in that case, but i can’t say that for certain. At one point, Henry and FSG did agree to pay Devers over $300 mill for the next decade. I do doubt they left that meeting thinking “ok next step is to trade him outta here!”
  3. notin
    And Tampa has all but weaponized bunting as well. Milwaukee clearly knew their offense and how to maximize it. Boston saw half the team struggle, wasn’t ready or willing to adjust and has unsuccessfully tried to ride it out. Milwaukee also runs all the time, negating some of their weak SLG by just taking the bases you give them. Boston does have the speed to do this. They just don’t…
  4. notin
    I’ve heard the 2x number as well, but it’s a theory at best. I think Contreras has hit as well as Bregman, but the failure of Durbin to even bring to the plate ehat Toro brought has been huge. Plus the disappearance of Story and, until recently, Duran…
  5. notin
    I do agree SLG is one of the best measures for a hitter, because it has the widest range. BA - 95% of the league falls between .200 and .300, and those who don’t are not outside that tight range by much OBP - Most of the league is in a similar range - maybe .280 to .380. But probably not 95% and they can get further outside. SLG - the range goes up to maybe .320 to .560 or so for probably 85-90%. I admit I’m guessing here and not willing to get hard numbers. But it’s not uncommon to see two hitters in the same lineup with SLG that differs by .200. You rarely get that with BA and OBP, and when you do, at least one of those hitters has a very limited number of PAs…
  6. notin
    Milwaukee is 28th in SLG. Boston is 24th. Milwaukee has 130 XBH, Boston has 145. Youve seen it before. Have you ever explained it?
  7. notin
    I mean, the Sox are 29th in home runs., The teams ranked 28th and 30th are a combined 67-39. Their combined home run total (80) is only 4 more than Houston, who is only slightly better than Boston. Does this prove you can’t compete building around power? Milwaukee is basically Boston wuth better OBP and a bullpen…
  8. notin
    My bad . But that’s right. He was on those Hobson teams…
  9. notin
    They had the bats to be. Mo Vaughn, Wade Boggs, Jack Clark, Andre Dawson, rookie Gator. They focused on offense. Pitching? Frank Viola was a good add, but they bought into Danny Darwin abd thought John Dopson was an MLB-caliber starter…
  10. notin
    ???? Youre scaring me that your transition to Florida Man is nearing completion…
  11. notin
    Boxer is Story, sent out to the glue factory despite us being told he is headed for Sugarcandy Mountain….
  12. notin
    I have never praised Breslow. But I will admit, I’m jealous of his hair…
  13. notin
    I will assume you’re successfully repressing the Butch Hobson years. I understand and am envious…
  14. notin
    I spent last summer at least asking for the Incredible Shrinking Andrew Vaughn, whose dead red StatCast page made his weak baseball card numbers look meaningless. The Brewers snagged him, and he wound up blasting baseballs all over the Midwest as he helped them take the NL Central. But Ive also seen plenty of Sox teams focus on powerhouse offenses wuth no pitching and defense and miss the postseason, albeit under different rules As there is no magic formula, I’m Ok with trying to as long as they do it right. In 5 games before yesterday, the Sox scored 25 runs and went 1-4. In 3 of those 4 losses, the bullpen either gave up the lead or pushed it just out of reach. And yesterday, the game was 2-2 until the bullpen came in. With a good bullpen, the Sox could have gone 5-1 in that stretch. With a decent one, maybe 4-2 or 3-3. But with this bullpen, 1-5
  15. notin
    Ive ranked him among my biggest disappointments all year, if not the biggest. But “basically 4 years service time” spread across 6 years isn’t the same as actually playing for 4 full seasons, either..
  16. notin
    The postseason Sox had their bench on the field too much in that THREE GAME SERIES. Nate Eaton, Nick Sogard, Romy and Refsnyder combined for 25 of their 96 plate appearances, not exactly representative of the regular season…
  17. notin
    It really has been lately. But the problem is that they didn’t try to address the issue. Basically, this Sox same Sox lineup averaged 4.84 RPG last year after trading Devers (compared to 4.86 RPG with Devers), top 8 in MLB. They lost Bregman and Toro/Lowe and replaced them with Contreras and Durbin. Contreras has worked out, Durbin not so much. But this year, Story has been non-existent. Duran was as well until recently. And the second year crew hasn’t even equaled their performance from last year…
  18. notin
    Duran has 560 games and 2349 PA spread out over 6 seasons, with the overwhelming bulk (317 games, 1431 PA) of it in 2024-25. He’s a veteran, but he really hasn’t been around that long…
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  20. notin
    Yes he’s having a terrible season. No one is arguing that. And if all he had was 2026, it would look stronger. But Durbin was good last year, so we do know he has the ability to succeed at some level in MLB, right?
  21. notin
    He played more games in Worcester in 2021-22 than he did in Boston. 33 games in Boston in 2021 and 58 in 2022. You really going to argue he was a full time major leaguer in those seasons? He did play 102 games in Boston in 2023 and hasn’t been demoted to Worcester since…
  22. notin
    Those who know him best know the truth…
  23. notin
    I think of him as Squealer from Animal Farm. ”All injuries are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
  24. notin
    Cheap, deflecting answer that skirts the question . The clear and obvious point was some players start their careers more slowly than others, but it didn’t make them immediate failures. I’m sure your talk radio shows were calling Pedroia a flop when he was initially called up in 2006…
  25. notin
    Exactly. When Lester came up, I remember some folks being upset the Sox dealt “the good lefty” Kason Gabbard (for Eric Gagne?) instead of the slower starter in Lester. Clearly they made the right choice. The Sox do have a very young team right now, with Anthony, Mayer, Durbin, and Narvaez all starters in their second season. Certainly they assumed some would struggle but not necessarily all of them. Add to that other starters (Duran, Abreu, Rafaela) who don’t have much more experience. Basically only Contreras and Story as experienced starters, and both of them at ages where decline sets in. There was clearly a lot that could go wrong, and I would be surprised if they didn’t expect some of it too. But they had issues with far too much going wrong. And even then, they built a strong rotation and a good defense, which can be enough to carry a team a long way. They had their lifeboat. They just forgot to put a bullpen in that lifeboat…
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