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  1. notin
    Yes. Thats part of my issue…
  2. notin
    Just move home plate out near the triangle and turn the whole field around!
  3. notin
    The lefty arms actually look really good. If his best righty bat had more pop than Durbin, this might be different…
  4. notin
    Probably would have if Bloom didn’t waffle his way through two consecutive deadlines when the Sox were in contention. Bloom did well to add Abreu at one deadline, but just couldn’t commit to either buying or selling so quite often just did neither…
  5. notin
    I agree. I’d rather be runner up for 10 straight years with no rings than 1 ring and 9 last place finishes. My only real participation is watching, and it’s better when it’s worth watching…
  6. notin
    You clearly do not know how to cook spaghetti…
  7. notin
    I don’t think so either. In fact, it’s fairly safe to assume no one will take Adames or Chapman of San Francisco’s hands. The only team looking to make deals ASAP might be the Cubs, who have very little healthy SP left. But their list of expendable bats is basically Matt Shaw, unless they feel they can move Moises Ballesteros (which I would call unlikely). I don’t think hope the Giants make Casey Schmitt available. He’s part of their 1b-3b-DH logjam along with Chapman, Devers and Eldridge and very likely Adames at some point…
  8. notin
    So you don’t think they’ll replace him?
  9. notin
    Technically Gold Glove nominations. Soto has the same number of Gold Gloves as I do. And is only slightly more likely to be the one to break that tie…
  10. notin
    I can see 200 million benefits. Any actual prospects they get for Adames and/or Chapman straight up are not going to be anything more than future career minor leaguers. Adames is still owed $155mill on a contract that takes him through age 35. If they’re targeting prospects, they’re also paying him to play someplace else.. Also he isn’t the Giant the Sox need to focus on. The best target for Boston on that team is Casey Schmitt…
  11. notin
    So… nothing…
  12. notin
    Soto was a Gold Glove finalist playing RF for the Yankees!!
  13. notin
    The Mets won’t be looking to offload Soto for 8-10 years. Maybe I’m being optimistic, but I strongly think IKF and Yoshida will no longer be issues by then.
  14. notin
    Probably his worst. But Clockwork Orange was far from great IMHO. And I love dystopian fiction…
  15. notin
    Is he having his worst season because he’s been going back and forth, etc? Duran has DHd in 6 games this year and has an .829 OPS in them. Small sample size but it’s also where he’s been doing his best. And he’s only been benched 5 times, mostly in April. He hasn’t really been bounced around that much and has been out in LF nearly every game lately. Duran, like many others, might be having a bad year or a bad couple months. Not every slump is related to usage…
  16. notin
    Yoshida was supposedly just the bench guy, and probably a better option than Eaton if hes needed for an extended time. It makes sense to ease Anthony back in as a DH. At least for now. Duran has a total of 34 plate appearances as a DH. While his OPS is only .698, that’s not much lower than his OPS when starting in the field. And, again, it’s only 34 plate appearances. That’s really quick to say he isn’t going to work out as a DH. The irony now is the post-Ortiz Era, far too many didn’t want a dedicated DH and would prefer Cora use it to “rest” starters rather than give them days off (which wasn’t the full reason they got days off). Now the Sox have that model and “we need a dedicated DH.”
  17. notin
    The original interest in Adames (and Chapman) stemmed from an idea of trading them both Story and Yoshida in a move that gave Boston two RHH infielders with some pop and saving San Francisco over $200mill or so. The problem with trades like this is 3 years from now, we will be hoping to deal off Adames and Chapman for some other longer, worse deal some team wants out of. Not to mention that move looks really bad for SF on the PR front. They still gotta sell tickets. And so it goes…
  18. notin
    No one cares if you don’t like OPS; it’s a better yardstick for a hitter than RBIs. And talk shows calling a player a flop is no different than us doing so. That same ilk has been calling Jordan Walker a flop for the past 3 years, and now at the ripe old age of 23, he’s looking like an MVP candidate. And I bet not one of them has called themselves out on it. Probably just rationalized it even further. When a 22 year old player only has 443 career plate appearances, it’s absolutely ridiculous to label him a success or a flop based solely on 130 PA. Heck it’s ridiculous to do so based on all 433 PA. Plenty of people were and still are excited for his future, but no one expected him to be a league MVP and carry this team in 2026. And a lot of his hype did come from his ability to draw walks. That was exactly why Cora batted him leadoff…
  19. notin
    Trading Duran makes sense, but at some point the Sox probably need veteran hitters while the first and second year players establish themselves one way or another. Getting more prospects seems like a way to extend this issue rather than solve it…
  20. notin
    What does getting his contract off the books do? It’s a one year deal and not preventing any major acquisitions…
  21. notin
    No, but sometimes teams add pinch runner/defensive players at the deadline. Toronto added him last year, but it was via waiver claim. If dealt he won’t get much. Not really sure why fans are so keen on it. It’s not like Breslow will think “Now I can finally afford Tarik Skubal!!!”
  22. notin
    No, when the players are here, fans focus on everything they do wrong. But when they move on, the same folks focus on everything they do right. Grissom’s OPS is only .686, but somehow he’s a great hitter now?
  23. notin
    Eyes Wide Shut?
  24. notin
    Blue Thunder? Also, Clockwork Orange was a cheesy adaptation at best. And when ranking Malcolm McDowell movies, it falls behind Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes…
  25. notin
    No great hitter has ever done that before…
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