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  1. notin
    Kluber has a higher AAV than Wacha. Safe bet years were a huge factor here…
  2. notin
    Do you think willingness to sign a one year deal was a factor? Eovaldi clearly didn’t want one with Boston…
  3. notin
    A Ted Williams movie would - like all movies - need struggling and an opposing character. If you just told the story of his life, you’d have a boring history lesson. People engage in a movie when there’s a struggle to watch a character overcome. We liked “Bill Durham” not because we were invested in Nuke LaLoosh, but because we cared if Crash could drag him to the Show kicking and screaming about having to do it Crash’s way. “The Rookie” (the Jim Morris story starring Dennis Quaid) tried to force this controversy on us with the character of Morris’ father, and it flopped in a big way. Shame, because Morris’ story of a 36yo science teacher who suddenly vaulted himself into MLB should have been more fascinating. So what would the Story of Ted Williams move be? What would Ted be trying to accomplish and who would be trying to stop him? Until someone can tell that aspect, I don’t think there odd a good movie to be made…
  4. notin
    No idea why they keep rolling that alignment out there. We do have other options…
  5. notin
    We lived through Manny Ramirez in LF for nearly a decade. And got two rings with him out there. Yoshida won’t win any hardware, and might end up as a DH. But his glove won’t kill this team…
  6. notin
    That’s a better point, but not the one people are making right now…
  7. notin
    But my point about why I didn’t mind re-signing (not from that post)!stands - like Eovaldi sand Sale, he’s hurt all the time. That he went uninsured through June 3 this year didn’t change that.
  8. notin
    It’s amazing how much everyone hated the 2022 Red Sox but also clearly thinks letting any of them all go was a huge mistake. “We should have kept Wacha! We should have kept Eovaldi! We should have kept Vazquez! And Bogaerts and JD!!” Heck, I’ve even heard that we should have held on to Matt Strahm!! Did everyone sleep though 2022? Because no one seemed to enjoy these guys when we had them. Or were all the problems with that team because of Austin Davis?
  9. notin
    Again - I need a like button…
  10. notin
    To be fair, they have had over a century to update it…
  11. notin
    72 was the highest number ever retired for a player, and it was for Fisk in Chicago. But the Cleveland then-Guardians retired number 455 to honor their fans for a string of 455 consecutive sell-outs..
  12. notin
    The Sox should be fined every game that wall is not padded. And the Cubs should be executed for using brick…
  13. notin
    We need a “like” button…
  14. notin
    There’s some cool retired number trivia I never knew. Like - what’s the highest number any MLB team retired?
  15. notin
    Well, it wasn’t 11 different players. Three teams retired it for Frank Robinson. (Cincy, Baltimore, Cleveland). And as it turns out, Arizona (Luis Gonzalez) and KC (Frank White) did retire it for non HOF talent. Still an excellent question. I had to look it up…
  16. notin
    This statement is not true…
  17. notin
    I was thinking 8, since the number used to be reserved for catchers. Yogi Berra and Bill and Bill Dickey for example. Plus you have Yaz, Ripken and Pops Stargell. But I looked it up. Not 8…
  18. notin
    Well, I mean I saw one day where EVERYONE wore it…
  19. notin
    Yes, Bloom was relentless in pursuing that one year deal…
  20. notin
    Wait until next year when they’re complaining about how Kike is succeeding for another team and how it was a mistake to let him go…
  21. notin
    Understandable, but I penalize Speaker for not wearing a Sox uni often enough. Dewey has no such issue and also belongs in Cooperstown…
  22. notin
    I’d go Dwight Evans before Speaker…
  23. notin
    Jimmie Foxx is far and away the most underrated hitter in MLB history…
  24. notin
    Mayer had only played Rookie ball at the time. Hopefully they were not signing MLB free agents with him in mind…
  25. notin
    But when he re-signed Kike, Story was still healthy. I don’t mind that they have Kike a shot. And they still had Chang in case things didn’t work out. But now it seems like they just want to force things to work out with Kike. Despite clearly not feeling that way when Chang was healthy. So I think this is partially on Bloom for not at least calling up Hamilton (or my choice in Rafaela, but really, what’s the argument against Hamilton right now?) and partially on Cora for not starting Reyes at SS…
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