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  1. notin
    So he’s the cheapskate?
  2. notin
    Sellers like the Dodgers?
  3. notin
    It seems like Cora is drifting from his analytics background. Not that they would be 5-1 if he used it more, but his batting order using them properly would be: Anthony LF Duran DH Contreras 1b Abreu RF Story SS Mayer 3b Durbin 2b Narvaez C Rafaela CF As pointed out earlier, putting Anthony/Duran 1-2 invites opposing managers to counter with a LHRP. What needs to be acknowledged is this can be good thing. Forcing managers to use relievers is effectively managing both teams at once. This is playing chess, not checkers…
  4. notin
    I get why he kept Story at SS; Cora isn’t very confrontational and the last time he had a player change positions, it didn’t work out so well. But batting him second and batting Abreu 5-6 is all on him..,
  5. notin
    Schrodinger’s Bat?
  6. notin
    That Story is still batting second despite having fewer hits than Rednex while Abreu - with 60% of the Sox home runs - still isn’t in the top three is making me strongly consider the possibility that Cora is a f***ing moron…
  7. notin
    Hilariously weak AL? Did you see the NL last year? The best team was Milwaukee, who had one hitter in the Top 50 for OPS - Yelich at 49. And the worst team was Colorado, who made a solid run at dethroning the 2024 White Sox as the worst team of all time. The Sox post season had too much Eaton/Romy/Sogard bench players. This team has a little more depth than last season’s, which is a good thing despite that it angers some fans…
  8. notin
    Yeah but the 2020 Red Sox have very little impact on this team. The only survivors are Houck and Wong…
  9. notin
    I don’t recall if I went that high with either, but if I didn’t, i wasn’t far below…
  10. notin
    Why Refsnyder? Well, as Ive said he was another option over Arroyo. My point is Cora was not victimized by having no other options instead of Arroyo in RF. That was a choice, not an inevitability. He also could have just played Bradley, accepted the lesser offense, and knew the defense would work out. It’s not a great option, but neither was Arroyo…
  11. notin
    Do not confuse patience with optimism. I am preaching patience and history…
  12. notin
    I could point out they did replace Bregman, who came to Boston with a 121 OPS+ over the previous 3 seasons, with Willson Contreras, who came to Boston with a 127 OPS+ over the previous 3 seasons. Of course, Contreras is also 2 years older as he is in his age 34 season. But I also wanted them to deal Bello for an infielder capable of more offense than Durbin. But either way, the Sox and especially Devers got off to an abysmal start last season, too. And did so with those big bats you mentioned, one of whom was Problem #1 with the offense over his first 5 games. But it was early then, just as it is now. I’m not expecting anyone to go on the tear Devers eventually did go on. But I do expect more from most of them, and I will probably see that happen. How much more? TBD…
  13. notin
    My only thoughts are - isn’t this exactly what we all thought last year? A year ago, this offense looked questionable even with Devers, who got off to a phenomenally slow start going 0 for his first 19 with 15 strikeouts while the Sox started out 1-4 with 16 runs scored. And very few were saying “I have faith in Devers; he’ll come around.” Instead there was all this talk about Devers opening up his already unorthodox stance too much. It did play out well for Boston. The Sox did eventually score runs and make the postseason. Can they do it again? Not sure but I’m certainly not throwing in the towel after 5 games…
  14. notin
    Because he had played OF and could hit LHP? Why was Arroyo the only other choice?
  15. notin
    1. Refsnyder did play games in Boston in late April. Arroyo continued his RF debut until July. 2. Who cares if anyone on here considered him? Cora and Bloom could and should have. Are you really saying “we didn’t mention him on this forum, so Cora was forced to stick Arroyo in RF.” 3. I don’t know why they signed Refsnyder, but if it was for his performance vs LHP then it makes much, much less sense to put Arroyo out in RF. 4. Or Bradley could have just played. Cora made that choice himself. He wasn’t stuck with a bad roster and no other options…
  16. notin
    He didn’t have to throw Arroyo into the OF in 2022. Cora made that choice. Cora did have other options, like leave Bradley out there vs LHP and at least know he’d have defense. Or Refsnyder, who was on the roster in April while Arroyo was still playing RF. Arroyo was 100% on Cora, who does have a clear addiction to platoons and probably wanted a way to get Arroyo into the lineup vs LHP…
  17. notin
    On his own? Doubtful. I’m sure Cora has input. But Cora owns the lineup…
  18. notin
    If the Sox had Eaton instead of Yoshida, Cora would have a set starting lineup and work Eaton in occasionally to keep him active. Now he has a player better than Eaton, and he has an option to do the same thing. This is on Cora for overcomplicating it…
  19. notin
    Well, Paredes was a “Fenway swing” Guy who really isn’t in the same category as those others. His career OPS of .765 is was the equivalent of a .780 on the 2025 Red Sox. I don’t think that’s out of reach for Durbin. But Devers and Marte are quite often .890 and above. That’s some rare air that Durbin likely never attains…
  20. notin
    I like the idea of learning those secondary pitches at the MLB level where he gets more short opportunities against actual MLB hitters. The main flaw is he accrues service time faster this way, but if the Sox continue their policy of extending young players, that might not matter. There is another more obvious way the OF sorts itself out, which is Cora just uses them the same way everyday, occasionally giving each the occasional off day. It’s the least complex and most likely plan…
  21. notin
    I think the OF rotation will sort itself out at some point. But I agree they just ignored the bullpen almost all off-season, with the biggest addition being Ryan Watson, until ST was practically over and they added some leftover ill-prepared table scraps that may or may not help. I think they could solve this easily by putting Tolle in the bullpen…
  22. notin
    I don’t know if their offense will be third in the AL again, but plenty of offenses with elite hitters are struggling. Through 4 games, the Sox have only scored 11 runs. But then through the same number of games, the Yankees and Phillies have only scored 14 runs, the Athletics have only scored 11 runs and the Padres have only scored 9. All of these teams do have those types of elite hitters folks wanted the Sox to add. Meanwhile, Milwaukee has scored 31 runs. Washington has scored 31 runs. The Angels have scored 27 runs. What hitter on any of these teams makes you envious of their lineups? I know someone is going to miss the point here and say “I don’t care about other teams” while then also using them as a baseline. It’s 4 games. Well last year through the first 4 games, the Sox also scored only 11 runs en route to a 89 win postseason appearance. And that was with Devers still in the lineup…
  23. notin
    Actually it looks to me like analytics are certainly present, but I’m not so sure they dominate to the extent you’re claiming. This team is still mostly Cora(although Cora himself can be heavily dependant on analytics)…
  24. notin
    Roman has an .800 OPS vs LHP, which is well above league average. It is a limited sample size, however. The difference between LHH vs LHP and RHH vs RHP is probably not as great as you think. Over the last 3 years, LHH have anout a .675 OPS vs LHP, while RHH have about a .700 OPS vs RHP. Of course that’s really not relevant, since we’re talking about two very specific LHH’s, one of who is Roman Anthony, whose numbers vs LHP are unlikely to drop just because Wilyer Abreu struggles vs LHP. Not to mention, not every team has an endless supply of LHP in their bullpen, and teams rarely carry LOOGY specialists now, as they were obsoleted by the 3 batter rule…
  25. notin
    There are all these underlying beliefs about left-handed people and their freakish biomechanical traits. “They throw across their body.” “They all hit outside pitches.” “They all worship Satan.” “They eat nothing except Saltines and mayonaise.” The inability of lefties to hit LHP is, like everything else, case by case. And you need only review the hitting of Triston Casas to disprove it as a universals truth..
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