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  1. notin
    Paul DeJong!!
  2. notin
    I do think a Jersey that says CROOK on the back might be a statement-making financial surprise…
  3. notin
    Narciso Time!!!
  4. notin
    He has always had decent splits vs LHP. But that might be where his skills as a Major Leaguer end…
  5. notin
    But he’s really never been a good fit for a leadoff hitter…
  6. notin
    I don’t care as about the logic behind it. The Sox needed an opening day starter but in the end all of the rotation spots will get 32-33 starts. The order matters very little, especially since the 5 pitchers in the opening day rotation are all unlikely to never miss a start…
  7. notin
    Refsnyder is a big step down from Duvall…
  8. notin
    The Sale thing couldn’t be more overblown. Besides cashing the largest paycheck on the team, what exactly has Sale done in the past 3 years that has earned a stranglehold on the role of Opening Day Starter? I think you might be spending a bit too much effort about a minor change in the role of a starting pitcher who has as many wins since 2018 as Michael Wacha had last year…
  9. notin
    The Phillies started out 22-29 last year, fired their manager, and then squeaked into the postseason and rode their momentum to an NL pennant. If the Sox are close to that record after 50-ish games, I expect Cora gets fired …
  10. notin
    Maybe not mediocrity, but if the goal is to run this team like the Rays, it will involve more of extending younger players, presumably to very team favorable contracts, and rotating out the aging, expensive players rather quickly, all while making sure they had a steady stream of minor talent capable of doing the job. And while they’re off to a great start extending their postseason streak to 5 years (already longer than any such streak in Sox history), they also missed the postseason each of the 4 years before, in which they were under .500 each year. So would you accept that level of success? 4 years under .500 followed by 4 (and counting) years of making the postseason?
  11. notin
    The Pirates are 7-4 and might not be as bad as we think. Certainly they’re off to a good start…
  12. notin
    I don’t think even shortstop for short term is ridiculous. His throwing speed dropped, but not to the slowest in the league among shortstops…
  13. notin
    The bottom is is a bunch of random strangers on a message board all (well, not really all) agreed this was a huge off-season for Bloom? And why exactly does that matter? I think what you meant to say was “we all (well, not really all) agreed Bloom needs to prove something to us as a random group of strangers on a message board.” But that actually means surprisingly little to Bloom and Henry. The reality is none of us knows what Henry expects from Bloom and for how long. And none of us knows whether or not Henry has gone all Bob Kraft and decided winning is nice but awfully expensive and maybe he can tolerate cheaper mediocrity for a while….
  14. notin
    It’s certainly the lowest ranked in MLB for a while. But as the Henry Era is a couple decades old, we’ve seen lower payrolls back when everyone spent less…
  15. notin
    Disagree. Devers is absolutely the Sox hitter you want up with the bases loaded. Sure he’s better against RHP, but no way does Tampa let him bat against a RHP with the bases loaded…
  16. notin
    A kitten could hit the ball out to right in the Bronx. Luke Voit won a HR title there! Luke Freakin’ Voit. The guy hit 68 HRs in 280 games as a Yankee and hit 26 in 200 games everywhere else!!
  17. notin
    I do not get Cora’s insistence in Kike as a leadoff hitter nor his insistence that OBP machine Yoshida is a cleanup hitter…
  18. notin
    Story’s arm injury brought him down to Dansby Swanson level. If the surgery works, he might not be the DRS machine he was in Colorado, but he could still even be above average…
  19. notin
    They don’t have other starters. Whitlock and Houck have shown to be a dynamic backend of a bullpen. But it is easier to fill that role than a starter. Look at Winckowski last year. Some said he wasn’ta Major League pitcher. So far this year, he’s been a lights out reliever…
  20. notin
    The Sox dropped from a .518 winning percentage before Bloom got here to a .505 winning pct since. That’s basically going from 84 wins to 82. And that includes a punted 2020 short season. Also the farm is vastly improved. Dramatic much?
  21. notin
    What’s wrong with Story as a shortstop?
  22. notin
    Whitlock isn’t the problem tonight. The Rays’ staff hasn’t given up a run since Friday…
  23. notin
    … and in the outfield, where Duran has proven to be dreadful. He struggles to hit, is worse in the OF. And the one thing he does worse than hit and field is post-game press conferences. Tapia, who has 308 more career starts than Duran, is probably always going to be the better starter option…
  24. notin
    Not if St. Louis paid some and/or the Sox sent salary back… DeJong + $6mill for Brasier and Refsnyder. DeJong costs $1.5mill towards the CBT…
  25. notin
    I keep saying DeJong. Get on board, will you?
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