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  1. notin
    I see two, with one bullpen slot likely slated for Zack Kelly and one bench slot going to ? I am assuming everyone is healthy, Sandoval starts , and Crawford goes to the bullpen, and Oviedo chose to Worcester until needed…
  2. notin
    Most likely. But with Romy out, IKF can handle any needed 2b platooning. But what about keeping Mickey Gasper (career MiLB .814 vs LHP, .490 vs MLB LHP but only in 40 PAs) to platoon with Duran at DH in Cincinnati where they should face LHPs Nick Lodolo and Andrew Abbott in games 2 and 3? Or keeping Gasper allows Wong to DH those games with no risk of losing the DH…
  3. notin
    The Sox open with Cincinnati, where they should face lefties Lodolo and Abbott. But Houston and SD, the next two opponents, will only have RHP in the rotation. So against Lodolo and Abbott, do they keep Duran in the third spot? Drop him down? Or use a RHH DH? And who is that? Eaton? Wong? I think they’re better off with Duran at DH than Eaton. I could see Wong, but that’s a little risky. (Although with Contreras, IKF, and possibly Siegler, they are not short in emergency catchers.). Romy doesn’t solve this as he is likely to platoon with a Mayer anyway….
  4. notin
    But he signed a deal in time to miss the entire contract with an injury…
  5. notin
    Is Giolito asking for the world plus the next one or something? There’s no reason for him to be still unsigned…
  6. notin
    I thought more like a gap power guy. And he came right out of the gate with a .874 OPS that first year…
  7. notin
    I was one of the original “How exactly does that work?” guys. Any team acquiring Duran is trying to win; teams trying to win don’t trade #2 starters…
  8. notin
    It’s been status quo, but they did win 94 games last year…
  9. notin
    Actually WAPM proved more accurate than time travel for short term predictions, all within one season. But wasn’t so good at spanning the years. If it was, I’d have published those tactics or sold my services around MLB by now…
  10. notin
    I think the Jays are more likely to miss the playoffs than the Yankees, but for some reason both Fangraphs and Baseball Digest predict the Yankees don’t get in. My first thought was “maybe Baseball Digest’s primary source was Fangraphs. But no way. Fangraphs tries to be cutting edge statistical analysis, and Baseball Digest is probably the most Old School of all mainstream baseball sources. They only recently embraced OPS. So that these two sources both independently came to that same conclusion both baffles and excites me…
  11. notin
    Or maybe their being geniuses - thinking if we hide the game from people, then they’ll work even harder to seek it out and see why. Next season the plan is to move all these games and the postseason from Peacock straight to an undetermined location on the Dark Web…
  12. notin
    So maybe he only becomes the Mayoral Assistant of Ding Ding City…
  13. notin
    … and MLB doesn’t want anyone to watch games, as they are moving the Sunday national broadcast from ESPN and the postseason from FOX both over to Peacock. ESPN also did some midweek games that will also be heading to Peacock. I assume Apple gets more games this year as well…
  14. notin
    I think the analysis is “Boston did not make the moves I wanted so they disappointed me. I don’t care what Toronto did so they met minimal, barely existent expectations.”
  15. notin
    … said every weatherman ever..
  16. notin
    Playing time, plus a more hitter-friendly ballpark that transformed Travis Shaw from a stopgap infielder in Boston to the Mayor of Ding Dong City…
  17. notin
    There are plenty of scenarios where the Sox miss the postseason; none of them are the one you’re predicting..
  18. notin
    Especially since the Sox are very unlikely to get that next regular season win at any point in the next 4 weeks…
  19. notin
    The thing is, today the Sox have a better team than Baltimore and Tampa. Thats actually difficult to debate against. Are the Sox ss good as Toronto and NY? On paper, they are hetting Yankees should be the tops in this division (until I factor in Bret Boone aka The Equaloser), and Toronto and Boston are roughly equal or at least close. But as a 162 game season wears on, plenty can change. And a lot of it will…
  20. notin
    Dude, their lineup is much worse. Especially with the early injuries to Westburg and Holliday. Although to be fair to the Orioles, they are getting pretty used to playing without Westburg. But they might be relying too much on Roman Anthony’s former high school teammate Coby Mayo to pick up the slack.
  21. notin
    But you apparently had no idea Judge had started 310 out of 324 games over the past two seasons, which is my point - you’re evaluating the Red Sox vs what you wanted them to do and not even looking at other teams, just giving them credit. 1. Toronto is credited for signing Cease and completely unknown Okamoto, but no mention of losing Bichette and Bassett 2. Baltimore is credited and expected to revert to the 91-71 team’s from 2024, despite no longer having Corbin Burnes (15-5) and Grayson Rodriguez (13-4), who accounted for 1/3 of that win total. 3. And now the Yankees “get Aaron Judge back” despite that he never left. I guess you were referring to those 4 games he sat out?
  22. notin
    Cole is returning from his second TJ. What’s the track record for pitchers returning after TJ #2 just stepping in to pitch right where they left off?
  23. notin
    Not to mention his argument that the Orioles would magically revert to the 2024 team’s 91-71 record despite no longer having Corbin Burnes and Grayson Rodriguez (combined record 28-9). They did add the mega-talented but oft-injured Trevor Rogers to pick up some of that, but overall I am sticking with my argument that a lot of these evaluations of other teams is being done without actually looking at those other teams…
  24. notin
    Baseball Digest had their 2026 preview, with their predictions for AL pistseason AL East 1. Toronto 2. Boston (WC) Yankees in 4th, missing the postseason AL Central 1. Detroit 2. Kansas City Not sure about KC over Cleveland here. AL West 1. Houston 2. Seattle
  25. notin
    90 wins and 4th place, FYI, is actually NOT reasonable. The AL East isn’t going to be that dominant and those teams do all play each other. Also your faith in Baltimore is solely based on getting Pete Alonso, right? And not on scoring 110 runs fewer than Boston last year and already losing two starting infielders?
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