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  1. notin
    Nick Burdi is 32 years old. His 5.1 IP for Boston this season is only 4.1 IP shy of his MLB career high. His 24 IP in Worcester this year is his highest total at any level since 2015. I think we can view Burdi as like a shell discharged in action at this point. Rehab or not, he’s pretty much at his physical limit
  2. notin
    We all learned it was weird in the 2003 ALCS; Sox won the 3 games started by Wakefield and Burkett but lost all 4 started by Pedro and Derek Lowe..
  3. notin
    The downside to bunting Manfred Mann over to third is the Sox do strikeout a lot. Sac bunt followed by a strikeout, and you have a runner on third with 2 outs and still haven’t scored. The reason to play for two runs on the road is not because you think the opposition is going to score twice, but rather because you believe they will score once. Score 2 while they score one? Like it or not, it is a strategy built on winning rather than on prolonging games…
  4. notin
    So do hits that sure-handed fielders either no range cannot get to…
  5. notin
    Is his leash anywhere near as tight with the Sox as it is on Internet forums?
  6. notin
    Dylan Cease is on the list of ball players whose name is a complete sentence…
  7. notin
    Doubt it. Sox42 said it was Tolle, but I think he was just confusing short names. But even trading Tolle, inadviable as it might be in this case, shouldn’t be classified the same as trading Betts…
  8. notin
    But the thread says we traded away Betts, Sale and Tibbs. Three very similar deals, too…
  9. notin
    And I’m just about to lose my mind…
  10. notin
    Unless a tree falls in front of me and I don’t hear it. Because that will then prove I’m a nobody…
  11. notin
    Time will tell. Correct. May has made one start. Tibbs and Erhard are still in the minors. It is weird how some decided Tibbs first 3 games in the Dodgers farm system were the norm and his 50+ games with Boston were the outlier. Oh and that he was the key piece in the Devers trade. Tibbs and Erhard are likely inconsequential. May will make maybe 10-12 starts for Boston. This trade really isn’t the big deal many are desperately trying to turn it into…
  12. notin
    So you’re saying trading away James Tibbs and Zack Erhard is like trading away Sale and Betts? No Andersen for Bagwell? Or what about Teel and Montgomery for Crochet? Or is your point that “the Sox ALWAYS make bad trades and to prove it I will name two of them from the past 5 years!!”?
  13. notin
    Padres’ bullpen is insane. Very few teams ever have two All Star relievers; the Padres had 3 this year. And then they added Mason Miller. This bullpen might rival the 2015 Royals…
  14. notin
    Under a mountain of legal and insurance paperwork…
  15. notin
    I read somewhere Password was working out at 1b. I can’t remember where, which makes me think it’s possible I wrote it somewhere and then read it. And if that’s the case, I’m not sure that counts…
  16. notin
    Clearly. And it worked. You’ve already forgotten either that Xander and Eovaldi were not traded away or that we were talking about the Sox making bad deadline trades, a topic that doesn’t apply to Sale or Mookie. But at least you remembered Eovaldi was in another good one…
  17. notin
    They also got some much needed silence in a locker room previously filled with complaints about switching positions…
  18. notin
    Hey they need someone to tell those left-handed hitters they can’t play against left-handed pitchers…
  19. notin
    Have you seen the Padres’ bullpen? Not sure that’s a great plan…
  20. notin
    No one is arguing about the theory that Sox will strike out less if they swing at fewer bad pitches. But the problem is, it’s not that easy to implement. If it was only as simple as “don’t swing at bad pitches.” Thats about as effective as trying to solve anyone’s problems with the universally good yet still meaningless advice “just don’t make mistakes.”
  21. notin
    Some? Cop to it, man. You blazed that trail years ago…
  22. notin
    If talks for Kelly we’re going anywhere at the time, the Sox likely wouldn’t have pivoted to Dustin May…
  23. notin
    Like when they gave away Christian Vazquez and received nothing in return except Wilyer Abreu…
  24. notin
    And it’s acceptable for a one hit wonder band. But how good is it for a switch-hitting lawnmower?
  25. notin
    Did Schwarber change anything? His K% and O-Swing% are both within a 3% range over the last 5 years. His K% is down 0.5% from last year, but his chase percentage is slightly up. Schwarber has always been a patient hitter with decent plate discipline, which is why his OBP is usually .100 or so more than his BA. But he does still have significant swing and miss in his game…
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