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  1. notin
    Walden, like Brasier, is a career minor leaguer DD has somehow become enchanted with. Shawaryn may or may not be a major leaguer. Brewer is actually pitching a lot better lately and therefore Cora has lost faith in him...
  2. notin
    There are two possibilities for his inactivity on this bullpen. 1. He is extraordinarily busy with non-baseball matters and has not been able to follow the team. 2. He actually passed away during the off-season and the Sox are keeping it quiet. I don’t want to believe it’s because he’s extremely stubborn or extremely stupid or extremely lazy. But those could be the case. I just don’t want to believe it...
  3. notin
    Either try Mejia in MLB or release him. Otherwise, what good is DD’s big off-season bullpen addition doing?
  4. notin
    It was a good signing, but Bogaerts is having a better year and was a great extension, yet no one is putting him in the discussion for MVP. Anyway, the LeMahieu discussion for MVP begins and ends with the phrase “Not Trout.” But that wasn’t my point. My point was DD ignored the bullpen and did an incomplete job with a lot of depth on the pitching staff, and somehow you’re thinking he missed on LeMahieu because Pedroia was uncertain? Given the lack of all around depth on this team - Sam Freakin’ Travis is starting in LF today, FYI,l - singling out the infield as the miss is nothing but hindsight. Dombrowski also missed out on Derek Dietrich, who is having a better year and fit everyone’s budget and plays even more positions (although not as well) was a much bigger miss...
  5. notin
    The real problem with that criticism is it lumps all Sox administration into one big pile and faults the current ones for the mistakes of their predecessors. Might as well mention the Bagwell trade while we’re at it...
  6. notin
    And their vaunted bullpen is a bunch of pitchers in their 30’s...
  7. notin
    Although the chips the Brewers gave up to get Yelich have largely been flops. Yelich has been outstanding, but he’d be a slightly lesser player at Fenway than in that shoebox in Milwaukee...
  8. notin
    1. Sandoval was awful in Boston, but his career was clearly not over. 2. Hanley reportedly all but begged the Sox to sign him. I don’t fault them there. 3. He says that about every Sox player. But it’s not like he examined Pedroia and it’s certainly not like no player has ever come back from that injury. (Justin Turner did, for example.) 4. Don’t get me started.
  9. notin
    The question will remain - what would it take to change from buyer to seller? The division is further and further away. The WC is getting more crowded. And if you’re realistic about it, you can’t wait until July 31 to decide, since trades are very complex and lawyers have to review contracts, etc. The Sox probably have 2 weeks to make a decision if they’re going to stay in it or just sell off some parts and try to reload...
  10. notin
    It’s amazing how many people in hindsight wish we had Le Mahieu. The Sox didn’t have any bliss anywhere’s in the infield this off-season. Pedroia was still in play and the Sox had Nunez and Holt. Considering how many voids the Sox actually had where Dombrowski did nothing, why are we suddenly complaining about a void he didn’t have where he did nothing?
  11. notin
    See why I’ve been saying since December this team needs a fourth outfielder? They didn’t use JD Martinez and put XXX at DH...
  12. notin
    Neither starter had life? Those guys were throwing 145 kph out there!!
  13. notin
    So it’s the end of the window despite only Porcello leaving this year and Bradley’s nd Betts TBD after that?
  14. notin
    Something that becomes a lot easier when you lose a lot and have those really high draft picks. Is that what you want?
  15. notin
    Saved that bullpen
  16. notin
    Actually with the exceptions of Shawaryn and Porcello, what was disappointing? I will day this past week has had two firsts for me after over 40 years watching baseball. So things I never saw before were 1. A game where both teams put the DH in the field and had the pitcher in the lineup to hit. 2. A game where both SP had 0.2 IP and 6 ER...
  17. notin
    Considering the Yankees lead 6-0 after one and once lead by 11, it is somewhat of a victory to get Chapman into this game...
  18. notin
    That sounds like Palmer...
  19. notin
    I question promoting Hernandez if he can’t find the plate. Do they think the plate is bigger in AAA or something? Or maybe the problem is the Eastern League umpires?
  20. notin
    It does seem like a dumb idea. The Brits - and Europe- must have heard of baseball by now, and want nothing to do with it. I think they hate it because you can almost always tell when a game is going to end. For some reasons, those oOld Land Filks like the endings to their sporting matches to be complete surprises...
  21. notin
    Unless the Sox right the ship soon, taking these two “home” games on the road isn’t going to matter...
  22. notin
    I think you mean “vaping.” This isn’t the 1950’s...
  23. notin
    Jim Palmer was notorious for that behavior...
  24. notin
    The real problem is the Sox need to remember that in London, you circle the bases to the left...
  25. notin
    I do expect a drop in the second half, as the selling/tanking teams move some of their starters and replace them with minor leaguers. It probably won’t drop the full 7.5%, though..
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