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  1. notin
    Hamilton wasn’t that bad when he was here. He basically filled a role and got relied on too much due to the failures of others. Of course in both cases, that other “failure” had a bad stretch of 100 or so PA very early in their career. And yes, the Boston media has always been horrible about magnifying ex-Sox players. I’ll start the bidding with Bob Lobel, the most annoying sportscaster in media history, and his oft-repeated “Why can’t we get players like that?” for every highlight wuth a former Sox players. Gee, Bob, maybe because you whined about him endlessly when he was here…
  2. notin
    Oh i dont think stats translate - even OPS+ - but I do believe struggling isn’t always just because of new geography. Stats do convey that struggle. Plus Theyre facts, while “he’d hit if he were here” is an alternate reality pipe dream. And I certainly don’t give ex-Sox or players the Sox avoided a pass for their new locations while holding new Red Sox players to a completely different standard. Some injuries are probably inevitable regardless of geography. We call them elbow injuries…
  3. notin
    Somehow I struggle with “his goal was to get out of the game” was higher on his priority list than “f*** these guys and their back-to-back home runs.” Especially from a guy as mercurial and volatile as Valdez…
  4. notin
    I think he meant when Gibson played.
  5. notin
    That might be a dangerous precedent. Especially with some unpredictable types like Manny Machado, not to mention some of the immature types like Pete Crow-Armstrong and Alec Bohm…
  6. notin
    At some point, it’s probably important to realize a major league fastball strikes with more force than a pellet fired from a riot gun. You know, the weapon police use to subdue people that are out of control…
  7. notin
    I wonder where he thinks anyone can find just such a pit. There can’t be too many of them…
  8. notin
    That was actually his twin brother, Coleb Durbin…
  9. notin
    Yeah Valdez is a new breed of horrible. Gibson is just another run-of-the-mill *******, like many other professional athletes only maybe a little more so. I assumed Valdez’ anger issues contributed to his lack of interest this off-season. But he got paid, so why learn?
  10. notin
    And the notion that any contract can be traded after a hot streak is pure fallacy, unless it’s a really, really extended hot streak. Like 2 years long…
  11. notin
    Bob Gibson was probably not the best example of a sportsmanlike human being. Most stories kind of portray him as a major *******…
  12. notin
    And if you replace Durbin with Manny Machado, we’re even better because Machado can make pays at third base the others cannot…
  13. notin
    … which was nice except he had the job for a few months…
  14. notin
    Yes. Can he play it well? No idea…
  15. notin
    I was all about Marte or Paredes. Not sure AZ was wild about my Duran/Bello offer. Never even returned my calls…
  16. notin
    Or go with my other alignment with Yoshida at DH, Anthony (when back) in LF, Duran in CF, and Rafaela, Mayer and Story at 2b, 3b and SS in some arrangement that doesn’t have Story at SS. Durbin can sit out for a bit. Or call up Braiden “the Unlikely Savior”Ward..
  17. notin
    Well, let’s not forget about Story and, until 4 days ago, Duran. As little faith as I have in Durbin, I do think he can reach Abraham Toro production…
  18. notin
    But the point is that largely the same post-Devers lineup that was producing 4.84 RPG last year Is now only producing 3.71 RPG (not counting their 5 runs off Weston Wilson). And while they’re without Bregman, they do have Willson Contreras putting up Bregman numbers from last year…
  19. notin
    Maybe Grissom wasn’t as bad as we thought when he was here. Atlanta was in love with him at some point for some reason, and even appeared hesitant to let him go. This front office definitely has very little patience with the young players they try to use. They have fan-level patience and not FO patience. Probably need to listen to me more. It’s working for other front offices…
  20. notin
    That’s fine to give them credit, but when this year the same players were dreadful right out of the gate, were those same coaches accountable?
  21. notin
    Just get 9 bats and figure out where they play later? I’ve never seen that work. Durbin (admittedly my focus) isn’t the problem because they chose position over offense in the same way Schwarber would be the problem because they chose offense and ignored position. The Sox did need an infielder. There’s no getting around that. The problem is that Durbin was clearly not the infielder they needed, at least not yet. Of course most of the hard-hitting free agents that were available, at least as free agents (Bregman, Bichette) are not off to much better starts. And the rumored trade candidates only seemed to be available at the expense of the more notable names on the young pitching depth chart.
  22. notin
    Not really. Unless you’re trying to make it one. The Sox have paid pitchers to be injured before. But we focus on the miniscule ones like Kluber and Sandoval as horrific wastes, yet still lament the bigger spend as one the Sox should have seen through
  23. notin
    The offense was decidedly worse after Devers, plummeting from 4.86 runs per game with Devers all the way down to 4.84 runs per game after trading him. That can amount to as much as TWO FULL RUNS across 100 games. Thank God the pitching and only the pitching stepped up so this team could overcome this catastrophic deficit!
  24. notin
    So cutting bait after spending $108 million for 140 IP from across 4 seasons from Chris Sale falls where in this lesson?
  25. notin
    It’s nice when they improve, but you can’t schedule it. The Sophomore Slump was thing decades before anyone gave an extension to a controllable 22yo. Anthony is hitting the ball roughly the same as he did last year. Mayer is a little worse. But neither has just fallen completely off the pace. Narvaez is actually hitting much, much better than last year, but he is striking out a little more and walking a little less, For some of these players, this will eventually show up in their baseball card stats…
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