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Dave Dombrowski is known for depleting farm systems and handing out big contracts .. quite the opposite of Jerry Dipoto. The Red Sox face the tough choice of going halfway and hoping for breaks or implementing a full-blown rebuild.

Someone like Seattle GM Jerry Dipoto, who has recent experience building a farm system while dumping big contracts .. and leading a team to 90+ losses in a "stepped-back" season. But not Dipoto specifically.

The 2012 and 2014 Red Sox were 34-47 (.420) at home: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2012-schedule-scores.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2014-schedule-scores.shtml

The Seattle Mariners don't regret packaging All Star closer Edwin Diaz with the burdensome contract of Robinson Cano.

Jerry Dipoto! ... who spent six weeks as an adviser with the Red Sox in 2015, hired six days before Dave Dombrowski came on board.

Good news indeed.

notin carries too much weight with Red Sox ownership.

FiveThirtyEight now lists the Red Sox postseason chances at less than 1 percent: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-mlb-predictions/ ... which are still better odds than those of my Seattle Mariners, who were nipped 21-1 on Sunday in Houston. FanGraphs has the Red Sox postseason chances at 1.1 percent: https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds

James Paxton turns 31 years old in November.

The Red Sox and Mariners could get together for a golf tournament each October. Or not.

In only 84 games this year, Kyle Seager has posted a higher fWAR (2.7, valued at $21.7 million) than David Price or Jackie Bradley Jr. https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=9785&position=3B#value I suspect Seattle will keep Seager and his $19.5 million annual salary for veteran leadership despite his negative $23.6 million value assessed at this website: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/

The Red Sox are 7-8 in interleague play where the National League holds a 158-142 advantage this season.

Eduardo Rodriguez remains under team control for two more years in his third and fourth passes through arbitration. Where does the lefthander fit in the Red Sox window of contention?

I would poke fun only at one of the forum's most respected posters (whose fine humor I could never match).

Only fifty bucks?

After the games of September 5, 1964, the St. Louis Cardinals were tied with the San Francisco Giants for third place, 8.5 games behind the league leader, needing to pass the Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies for the National League pennant and the only route to the postseason: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=1964-09-05 However, the Cardinals, who went on to win the 1964 World Series, had 27 games remaining in the regular season. After the games of September 12, 1995, the Seattle Mariners trailed the California Angels by 6 games in the AL West, and the New York Yankees by a half game in the Wild Card race, with only 13 regular-season games remaining: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=1995-09-12 The Mariners finished the regular season tied with the Angels, beat the Halos in a one-game playoff to advance to the postseason, toppled the Yankees in a five-game AL Divisional Series before falling to the Cleveland Guardians in the AL Championship Series. The 2019 Red Sox have remote chances of advancing to the postseason.

Your subjective Sunday question -- Has it ever been done when down this much from 2 teams with so few games to go? -- was answered with pertinent information rather than the called-for yes/no response.

Moving the goal posts to 24 games to go, the 2007 Colorado Rockies were only one game behind the two teams the Rockies needed to pass to grab the Wild Card slot: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=2007-09-04 The 2019 Red Sox could advance to the postseason but their chances are slim.

The 2007 Colorado Rockies needed to pass all three teams -- the Cubs, Dodgers and Phillies -- because only only one Wild Card slot was available in 2007. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=2007-09-01 The 2019 Red Sox need to pass only two teams because the league now has two Wild Card slots.

The 2007 Colorado Rockies were three games back needing to pass three teams with 27 games to play; the 2019 Red Sox are five games back needing to pass two teams with 25 games to play. The 2007 Colorado Rockies had three more teams that were within 1.5 games of their record; the 2019 Red Sox are 7.5 games up on their closest challenger. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=2007-09-01

On September 1, 2007, the Colorado Rockies were three games behind the Philadelphia Phillies for the single Wild Card slot but needed to pass the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs as well to advance to the postseason: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=2007-09-01 The Rockies went 20-7 the remainder of the regular season to grab the Wild Card slot and sweep through the NL Divisional and Championship series before being swept by the Red Sox in the World Series.

Nothing has changed. The Red Sox will play to win every game. The Sox could advance to the postseason but their chances are slim.

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The Boston Globe's Alex Speier weighs in on the Red Sox chances: https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2019/08/29/with-month-left-season-just-what-are-red-sox-chances/EacYkwSKRoDEbX1nkf3aiP/story.html?et_rid=1739401789&s_campaign=108stitches:newsletter

MLB Trade Rumors weighs in on the Red Sox chances: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/08/can-the-red-sox-mount-a-late-season-comeback.html