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  1. notin
    Why? Sox fans seem to be the only ones who think Renfroe is better. One year ago, Renfroe was available solely because a small market team didn’t want to pay him $3mill. Meanwhile another small market team was willing to pay Bradley $36mill. That trade isn’t why Devers, Verdugo and Kike are all slumping and why Dalbec and Vazquez have disappeared. Bradley isn’t even the worst hitter on this team…
  2. notin
    Bradley is a better overall player than Renfroe. I don't mind that trade. But why is no one is bashing Dombrowski for the $40mill the team is still spending on two pitchers we can't use?
  3. notin
    If we had an offense, we'd have a winning record. A closer? Maybe a better record, but even that depends on how Cora used him. (For example, if he did not bring him in for 4 outs last night, no difference, But this team has not been giving up 8th and 9th inning leads. They do it much earlier and never get it back..
  4. notin
    I didn't know MLB still had home runs...
  5. notin
    Easier than firing all the hitters...
  6. notin
    Bashing Bradley is a bit silly. This team has scored 2 runs in the past 23 innings against an Orioles AAA pitching staff, but the bottom of the order is the problem?
  7. notin
    I’d like them both nailing down the ends of games. But the Sox have multiple pitching needs and Houck and Whitlock can only fill two. I have faith in both of them in just about any role, but still, only two roles. But either way, this team (or any team) shouldn’t get 7IP of 1H 0ER starting pitching and yet still leave the bullpen with a mere single run lead to protect. Especially against an Orioles’ staff featuring no starters most people ever heard of, including many Orioles’ fans and possibly some Orioles’ players…
  8. notin
    Most recent report is the opposite. https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2022/04/garrett-whitlock-will-start-again-for-boston-red-sox-on-wednesday-tanner-houck-to-remain-in-bullpen-for-now.html Now it’s Houck in the bullpen. Houck could very be a formidable closer, but probably was not available yesterday due to Cora’s insanely and questionably quick hook of Hill on Friday…
  9. notin
    Sadly, no. Right now in don’t think it matters who pitches against them. This team has less firepower than the Salvation Army…
  10. notin
    All those extra inning losses were 1 run losses. They struggle to push ghost runners across. None of this will change no matter how they re-arrange the pitching roles. They need to hit, and it’s going to be tough to get some offense from outside the system…
  11. notin
    Very few closers get 6 out saves anymore. And there is a reason for that - it decreases their availability in subsequent games. I was all for Whitlock/Houck ending games all off-season. Of course, once both showed they were effective, numerous have said “THEY BELONG IN THE ROTATION!!” Which of course will happen a few more times. But thinking “hey let’s move Whitlock to the closer!” is just using him to solve today’s problem. Just like it was when he people called for him to go to the rotation. Meanwhile, this team isn’t scoring. And they are extremely unlikely to score more with a new closer. Sure they may win a couple games they wouldn’t have, but they will also change some wins to losses. Because that solution ignores the team’s most serious problem- that they don’t hit!
  12. notin
    How many games would that have fixed?
  13. notin
    If the Sox use Whitlock as a traditional 9th inning closer, which they should if Cora wants him available everyday, that would only affect one game so far this season - Springer’s home run. This loss was on the offense. The pitching isn’t the problem. The Sox pitching has allowed 4 ER in the last 4 games, and you’re saying “that’s too many!!”??? A team gives up 4 runs in 4 games and only wins twice, and re-arranging pitching roles is the solution?!?! Offense. Get it help…
  14. notin
    The offense is the problem. Whitlock will continue to pitch key innings all year. But this is a team that has scored 0 runs in 26 of their last 28 innings and has two home runs in their last 120 innings. A new closer won’t solve that…
  15. notin
    If he was a true closer, would he have pitched the 8th?
  16. notin
    Sox pitching has given up 4 ER in the last 37 innings and the team went only 2-2 in that stretch…
  17. notin
    The Red Sox are the only team in MLB where the ghost runner on second isn’t in scoring position..
  18. notin
    In the first four innings of the first two games, the Orioles have had 0h and 0BB. Their only runner reached on an error…
  19. notin
    But Downs is done. Everyone says so..
  20. notin
    That’s what they also said to Darwin and Erathothenes and Pasteur and a few others…
  21. notin
    And you’ll also stick to avoiding questions, I see…
  22. notin
    But what you’re missing is the frequency. You isolated 3 games in an 86 year stretch (really two. Game 6 in 1986 doesn’t belong this list), and think that’s equal to a team that has been in the hunt nearly every year for two decades now. Now, post season expansion helps, but do you think or not that the last 18 years are the most successful in team history? They certainly haven’t been loaded with the best players in team history, but that wasn’t the question…
  23. notin
    Well then if you never heard it, it’s clearly true. Just don’t muck up your credibility with stories about groundballs going through Buckner’s legs…
  24. notin
    I mean, they hired Bill James in 2003 and started piling on titles in 2004. They adopted a boring "take lots of pitches" approach that worked for years but made games maddeningly long. They spent money, but they stopped caring about RBIs and focused on OBP and other stats. They had their flops, but overall it has been an extremely successful approach. Hell, this year was Mike Wacha on anyone's radar? If you have NEVER heard this theory before, I guess they just don't discuss this stuff in the sandpile you bury your head in..
  25. notin
    Good old revisionist history. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN198610250.shtml Scroll down to the bottom of the play-by-play. The score is in there, too...
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