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  1. notin
    I think they should sue the Wirld Wildlife Fund to get their old acronym back. Or merge with them by staging matches between professional wrestlers and wild carnivores to raise money for conservation purposes…
  2. notin
    Yes but it’s run by Thom Brenneman and Jimmy the Greek…
  3. notin
    The Beckett trade has a solid case, but it was widely panned by the Boston media and fans after the 2006 season in which Beckett’s ERA was over 5.00, Hanley won ROY, and Anibal Sanchez had a good season that included a no-hitter…
  4. notin
    And Dom Smith could lead the bullpen in IP!!
  5. notin
    Shot without trial…
  6. notin
    Whitlock did go down late, but it was hardly unprecedented and hopefully not unanticipated. The Sox moved Sale because he was injury-prone and unreliable, but then ignored that same issue with Whitlock, and once again forced him into a role he has repeatedly shown he cannot handle…
  7. notin
    The Royals guessed right ok, but not as well as it initially appears. Lugo has a 2.72 ERA. 0.79 against the White Sox, 3.06 vs everyone else. Wacha has a 3.50ERA. 1.33 vs the White Sox, 4.11 vs everyone else. Lugo has pitched well, but the White Sox have elevated him to an elite pitcher worthy of Cy Young discussion. Wacha looks closer to league average when not facing one of the most incompetent teams in MLB history. Wacha’s ERA+ is 126 overall, but against non- CWS opponents, it’s closer to 105…
  8. notin
    That’s been the issue. They made a few waiver claims - Keller, Horn, Alvarez, Speas - and traded for Wingenter, but these guys didn’t do much, pitching about 35 largely ineffective innings. Horn has shown some ability, and Keller has been tolerable (at best), but the others all faded fast…
  9. notin
    We could see every reliever every game!! Until September when all their arms fall off!
  10. notin
    Houston does more than their share of analytic algorithms. They hired Alex Cora to put them at the forefront of that strategy in the first place. And whatever those algorithms do, they probably at least contribute to the star power of those players to some extent. Alvarez in particular, as he was just a rookie ball hitter in the Dodger system when they acquired him for a mediocre reliever and came up through the Astros system while this entire process was being developed. Or we could just assume the Dodgers misidentified Alvarez as the potential elite hitter he was becoming, and discarded him for 120 IP over 3 years…
  11. notin
    The Royals and the Twins are both basically .500 teams when not playing the White Sox. It wouldn’t surprise me if either or both of them struggled down the stretch and missed the playoffs. The Rays are only 5.5 games out and are one hot streak away from passing Boston and both Central posers….
  12. notin
    And a two game suspension to follow?
  13. notin
    Breslow didn’t do what abloom did at all, and Bloom didn’t bring in a bunch of low risk pitchers. Guys like Mike Wacha and Rich Hill are far from “low risk”…
  14. notin
    Bloom brought in lots of starters. Perez, Wacha, Hill, Paxton, Richards, Kluber. They all didn’t work out, but disregarding 2020, you could easily name the 5-man rotation for the Sox. This year - who was the 5 man rotation before Paxton? So far, pitchers added by Breslow have accounted for 14 starts - 13 by Criswell and 1 by Chase Anderson. This team went 3 months with 4 starting pitchers…
  15. notin
    The big deal to me looks like they never replaced Giolito. And I’m not talking about getting some sort of leader. They never replaced him with anyone. The Sox have had 98 games started by Houck, Crawford, Pivetta, Bello and Criswell. But Criswell isn’t really part of the rotation! How is he fifth on this team in starts? They lost Giolito, lost Whitlock, and have been trying to get by with a 4 man rotation in which only one guy has ever pitched 150 IP! And then didn’t add a reliable starter at the deadline! They ignored the rotation. And now it’s crying for attention…
  16. notin
    Not sure Penrod is the answer, but DFAing Bernardino looks like it might help…
  17. notin
    Oh I swear all the time. But I will talk about whatever I want or others want. As for the Sox pitching, that’s also been discussed to death. It didn’t help. Breslow needs to scour the waiver wire, but with the Sox record, it will be difficult for anyone close to worthwhile to fall that far…
  18. notin
    But boy are Sox fans specific. That Babe Ruth chatter has lasted as long as it has just shows how much we ignore. The Sox traded/sold a slew of players to the Yankees around that time, including practically an entire pitching staff. Some other names include: Carl Mays Red Ruffing (Hall of Famer) Sad Sam Jones Bullet Joe Bush Herb Pennock (Hall of Famer) Waite Hoyt (Hall of Famer) That’s a ridiculous amount of talent to have, let alone have and give away. But fans like to focus solely on one player, I guess, which is why only Ruth ever gets discussed despite three other all time greats being right there with him. It’s like how fans focus solely on Jackie Robinson when discussing braking the color barrier, and completely ignore the other 3 players who crossed the barrier that year (including one RHP became Robinson’s teammate in Brooklyn)…
  19. notin
    Sorry for not meeting your topic expectations. But on to that pitching, exactly what the f*** do you think we should be doing about it? Will our conversations magically heal it?
  20. notin
    A general correlation feels like a weak description, as there are different types of spending, and they anre definition equal. Extending younger players has shown to be far more effective than signing free agents. After winning certainly isn’t a guarantee, but age and decline are… Like I said, aging and decline is a guarantee.
  21. notin
    Other than exonerating DD, do you have a point? Are you really trying to say DD never even attempted to extend Betts? If so, that’s far, far worse than anything Bloom did. Times 100…
  22. notin
    Even at the time, I seem to recall DD shifting to Bogaerts and Sale once the negotiations with Betts went sour. I don’t think the choice was Bogaerts and Sale over Betts as much as those two were Plan B. The notion that Bloom could have signed Betts over Story and Yoshida is simply wrong, as it ignores the entire timeline, the existence of luxury tax, the signings of Sale and Bogaerts, the total value of the contracts in question, and that David Price was still alive…
  23. notin
    I can absolutely make that argument. Especially if “winning” is measured by rings. MLB recent history is loaded with teams that went all in on spending, didn’t win, and then found themselves stuck with a load of aging and cumbersome and largely immovable contracts. Players winning isn’t a guarantee. Players aging and declining is…
  24. notin
    Stop trying to disassociate Dombrowski. No one blames him like you do to Bloom. But he absolutely had his chances to extend Betts, and was actively trying as far back as 2017. Betts just wasn’t going for it. That’s not DD’s fault, but it isn’t (as you repeatedly claim) Bloom’s fault either. And THAT is the reality. Bloom was basically the hatch hey man charged with dealing Betts. I’d be surprised if he was even given the resources to sign Mookie.
  25. notin
    I’m ok with counting 2020. If the Sox won it, I’d have counted it. Plus I really wanted baseball that year…
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