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Everything posted by notin

  1. He opted out on his own, didn’t he? That may not have worked out so well…
  2. Remember when Travis Shaw started the year 0 for 19 with only 7 strikeouts, and that was enough to DFA him despite the only other 1b on the Sox roster having a .457 OPS at the time? Just DFA Dalbec and claim Cooper. Or better yet, complete a trade for Cooper, as he is likely to generate some interest on the waiver wire…
  3. Up thirty one points from a week ago!
  4. Cora also said Dalbec will get the bulk he of Casas’ innings. Hopefully he’s just posturing…
  5. You didn’t even ask us to pass the hat/Venmo for gas money…
  6. My first choice. Walsh hasn’t been the same since his TOS. Is Cron playing anywhere? Brandon Belt is available but can he just step in? Not to mention he’s not the ideal guy if your issue is injuries…
  7. The bullpen issues would be much less if the Sox would learn their lesson about Whitlock as a starter…
  8. Refsnyder was going on first movement. Really he just got outguessed. That’s unlucky baserunning, not bad baserunning. Wong made a bad play; he didn’t know where the ball was and he got caught in no man’s land…
  9. That was my point. I didn't want him to sell either year. I wanted him to try and make a solid push. But if he had sold either or both seasons, I would have understood it and begrudgingly accepted it...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. Yes, because he did not commit to one direction or the other.
  13. 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?
  14. He was thnking of making 2022 better with Hosmer and 2023 better with Urias. Problem was, neither could pitch...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. So? If they WIN on the cheap, I'm fine with it...
  18. Explain how it isn’t failed attempts at both…
  19. 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…
  20. 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…
  21. 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…
  22. Point? He was right but reality was a little inaccurate…
  23. 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…
  24. They’ve already had major injuries to the rotation. Giolito isn’t having one of those minor tendon replacements…
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