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  1. notin
    Durbin’s not a stud, but at a bare minimum he’s a pretty good wingman…
  2. notin
    If Mayer had maxed himself out in AAA and forced a promotion, that’s one thing. But he was called up to replace an injured Bregman and stuck around long enough to get injured himself a couple times. If he went down and got some AAA reps it’s not the worst thing. And as someone who called gorbCheng’s promotion two months ago, he isn’t the answer either. When his OPS drops under .600 about 100 or so PA from now, opinions on him might vary…
  3. notin
    Cheng has a career .382 OPS in 11 PA, but apparently that’s good enough to crown him Barry Larkin 2.0…
  4. notin
    And I’d be fairly surprised if they didn’t modify and attempt to improve it after one season. The goal is more consistent strike calls not based solely on the most insanely difficult decision any official has to make in any sport, not to have teams win games because they are better than anyone else at self-umpiring…
  5. notin
    If anything, the best players probably in many cases make awful coaches. If your hitting was based on having elite batspeed, for example, how exactly do you teach that? It’s like thinking Jacob Misiorowski would be a top tier pitching coach by advising his staff “Just throw the ball 105 mph.”…
  6. notin
    I don’t even get that complaint. Apparently the Sox had too many players for the OF/DH roles but no backups? And what level of backup did people expect? Were the Sox supposed to acquire Teoscar Hernandez and bench him until Anthony got hurt? They had Yoshida and Nate Eaton. Not exciting but who has better? It’s like last year when Casas went down and the same cries about not having a backup 1b. Well thr players who fill those backup roles are the Abraham Toro/Rowdy Tellez types. The Sox weren’t going to get someone like Michael Busch and bench or outright him until Casas got hurt…
  7. notin
    Most of the legendary winningest managers in MLB were not great players. Certainly some were. Joe Torre was arguably a Hall of Fame caliber player before inarguably becoming a Hall of Fame caliber manager. But no one is making the case for, say, Terry Francona making the Hall as a player…
  8. notin
    But once his hot streak ends, it’s not like he suddenly reverts to his slump. He’ll fall somewhere into the giant grey area in between. He did this last year, too, when his OPS was just over .500 at the end of May, and then was a .775 hitter the rest of the way. That wouldn’t surprise me if he did it again…
  9. notin
    It’s always home runs and closers - the two panacea in baseball. The Sox are last home runs, but they’re tied with Tampa and trail Milwaukee by 3. Yet somehow those teams are a combined 96-62 despite having worse bullpens than Boston and equal ability to come back. Home runs get overrated. Teams have 6200-6400 plate appearances over the course of a season and the top slugging teams hit 200 home runs. The other 97% of those plate appearances matter. The Sox do have offensive issues and need to score more, but if you think a handful of home runs equates to an equal amount of wins, you’ll be disappointed fast. Mason Miller is not why the Padres, with similar runs scored and run allowed have a much better record. Chapman has 1 BS and Miller’s performance serves to hide the numbers of the other Padre relievers - the ones pitching the bulk of the innings…
  10. notin
    He doesn’t want anyone being evenly remotely optimistic about this team..
  11. notin
    And THAT is what happens when you ignore the bullpen…
  12. notin
    So Durbin was supposed to carry the team this year?
  13. notin
    So you’re saying Bill Belichick wasn’t a good football player?
  14. notin
    It’s actually quite bizarre…
  15. notin
    Whether or not we did is one thing, but did Breslow?
  16. notin
    This is just not true. In fact, it’s common to decrease/damage/destroy your run differential by adding hitting because the new hitters are worse defensively. And hitting isn’t more the more consistent aspect. Players have bad seasons at the plate, too. Not to mention, hitting isn’t the weaker part of the game as hitters are at the disadvantage. Theres a reason no hitter has ever batted .500. Maybe there’s more room to improve upon hitting because of the inherent role it plays in the nature of the game, but because those same players play defense, it doesn’t necessarily impact the run differential positively…
  17. notin
    Again so you’re saying it NEVER works because it failed this one time? Hint: Don’t. It’s easier to find a bottom 5 scoring team that made the WS than a bottom 5 run preventer that did.
  18. notin
    Hmmm. Exactly what I said to my daughter when she asked about Cora’s firing. Except the part about paying her…
  19. notin
    Sometimes you have to decide, is tjis selling low? Or just abandoning a sinking ship?
  20. notin
    Guerrero is also 35 with a long history of issuing a surplus of free passes. If someone is willing to pay for his 12 good innings, jump before the twelfth bong…
  21. notin
    Wilyer Abreu
  22. notin
    What did he say?
  23. notin
    Gray has a $30mill team option that he can opt out of if the Sox exercise it. We really kinda have to move him..,
  24. notin
    Cora repeatedly backed out of that squabble. Probably no coincidence that 1) Cora wanted Bregman for 2b and not 3b despite Bregman being the reigning Gold Glove at 3b, and then 2) Cora refused to be the one to tell Devers he was moving to 1b (despite that technically being Cora’s job). Breslow clearly isn’t doing much right this year, but the fact that Cora TWICE stepped out of the way when it came to changing positions of MLB’s worst defensive third baseman might say a lot about Devers himself…
  25. notin
    The Sox take chances on players like those two all the time. And like every team, the bulk of those chances do not pan out. The Sox do have the occasional late round success story, like Connelly Early (5th round) and Hunter Dobbins (8th round) for example.. And everybody loved Mayer - he was a surprise to fall to 4. But he was the top-rated talent in the draft that year by all the third parties. Of course, “top-rated” talent hasn’t always been worked out for Boston. See Groome, Jason…
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