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Everything posted by notin
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Honestly, isn't "winning the World Series a couple times each decade" a lofty goal in itself? Especially given the crapshoot the MLB postseason can be? If they have a nice, solid run of making the post-season, I will be happy. I don't care if it is with a cheap team or an expensive one. Although there is an advantage to doing it cheaply. Those expensive teams, when they fail, can be very hard to turn around quickly...
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That weak bench doesn't have to score mch, thanks to the pitching. The Sox are 9-2 if they score 5 runs or more. They've only topped 8 runs in a game twice...
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Yes, because he did not commit to one direction or the other.
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Beane reached the postseason 4 consecutive times, twice getting eliminated by the eventual WS champions in the first round. The A's also won 3 division titles in 4 seasons, with the one team that didn't still winning 102 games. Going 4 straight times and winning 100 games in back-to-back seasons are two things Beane's teams did that the Red Sox have never done. That he never won the World Series sets a pretty high bar for failure. In those 4 seasons, the Oakland A's under Beane were a successful franchise using any other metric. Now, it is a pretty big IF, but again, if they can do it, what is the problem? Would you prefer a low payroll team that makes the post-season 4 years in a row, or a high payroll team that misses the post-season altogether most seasons?
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Thank God...
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He was thnking of making 2022 better with Hosmer and 2023 better with Urias. Problem was, neither could pitch...
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Yes. The point of doing both is to get better now and in the future. In 2022 and 2023, he did nothing to make those current teams better at the deadline...
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Taking your opinion of Kike out of it, he was dealt for minor league pitching on July 25th. The pitchers might not have been all that exciting, but neither was Kike. Bottom line - he was a late July trade for the best available minor league talent. That's a sell to me...
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So? If they WIN on the cheap, I'm fine with it...
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Explain how it isn’t failed attempts at both…
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He sold Kike in 2023 and bought Urias. The only good was that Breslow flipped one of the pitchers he sold Kike for to get O’Neill. The jury is still out on flipping Urias…
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Bloom’s attempts at buy/sell in the same deadline were always abject failures. He never bought anything the Sox needed for that year. His sell deals were better, such as getting Abreu and getting Robertson, who was flipped for O’Neill…
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But right now my preseason optimism feels justified. Although the postseason prediction conditional on the starting pitching throwing 750 IP looks in jeopardy, with two starters already missing time…
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Point? He was right but reality was a little inaccurate…
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But if not hurt, not only would he be in the rotation, but one of the pitchers in it would be in the bullpen. And we’d have more depth…
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They’ve already had major injuries to the rotation. Giolito isn’t having one of those minor tendon replacements…
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I would assume they want a non-40 man player, so maybe? I was just looking into Walsh, who was pretty good in 2021, but has battled Thoracic Outlet Syndrome since and been awful. Meanwhile Brandon Belt is still unemployed despite coming off a season in which he had a .858 OPS/136OPS+ and 19 HRs…
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He was ok a couple years ago with Anaheim. Recently DFAd by Texas, which makes him much easier to acquire for almost any non-prospect
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If the Sox ever get healthy, it looks like: C: McGuire/Wong 1b: Casas 2b: Grissom 3b: Devers SS: Rafaela LF: O’Neill CF: Duran RF: Abreu/Refsnyder DH: Yoshida Biggest issue with even getting there appears to be Casas, who might be out for a while…
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I’m positive they will NOT move Whitlock out of the rotation, even if Anderson and Criswell combine for 1000 hitless IP between now and Garret’s return…
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I am hoping Criswell and/or Anderson can grab rotation spot and convince the Sox to move Whitlock (once healthy) back to the bullpen...
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Greg Weissert has been a huge plus so far as well…
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Right now, the Sox do not have any position players on their 40 man roster that are not in MLB. They called up minor league journeyman catcher Tyler Heineman once Casas was on the IL, but not because he earned the promotion and not because they needed a catcher; he’s was promoted because there was no one else left…
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Probably in full UConn Husky gear…
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Abreu will have games where you think he’s a gem, and other games where you think you see why Houston gave him away…
