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  1. 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…
  2. notin
    My bad . But that’s right. He was on those Hobson teams…
  3. 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…
  4. notin
    ???? Youre scaring me that your transition to Florida Man is nearing completion…
  5. notin
    Boxer is Story, sent out to the glue factory despite us being told he is headed for Sugarcandy Mountain….
  6. notin
    I have never praised Breslow. But I will admit, I’m jealous of his hair…
  7. notin
    I will assume you’re successfully repressing the Butch Hobson years. I understand and am envious…
  8. 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
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    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..
  10. 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…
  11. 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…
  12. 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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  14. 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?
  15. 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…
  16. notin
    Those who know him best know the truth…
  17. notin
    I think of him as Squealer from Animal Farm. ”All injuries are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
  18. 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…
  19. 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…
  20. notin
    Every team does that to increase their depth. It’s not like the Sox are saying “we couldn’t sign Robert Suarez because we brought in Patrick Sandoval.” It’s not an either/or situation. The problem is the Sox brought in depth but didn’t bring in anyone in front of that depth. They have a bunch of emergency reserves and no one for them to back up.
  21. notin
    Why we call up guys like Tayron Guerrero and Jack Anderson while an actual major leaguer like Tommy Kahnle sits in Worcester, forced to subside on Sole Proprietor meals, is beyond me…
  22. notin
    Tanking for draft position in baseball is bad enough, but it still won’t resolve their complaints that Henry doesn’t spend enough money…
  23. notin
    And yet if he helped stranded and kidnapped children get back home at that rate, you’d think he was some kind of hero. It’s all about perspective, I guess…
  24. notin
    While I don’t want Adames, at least he is not in the Fantasy Pipe Dream Trade Category like Neto and Yordan Alvarez
  25. notin
    The bullpen has been horrific. And the thing is - at least Breslow tried to improve the offense, whether you like his moves or not or expected more, at least he made moves.. He ignored the bullpen completely. Teams pitch about 1,450 IP per year, with starters handling maybe 800 of them, leaving about 650 IP for the bullpen. So in building a “pitching and defense” team, Breslow looked at the crew charged with handling about 45% of the pitching and thought “I’m sure it’ll work itself out.”
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