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Absolutely no way in hell. If you have a starter quality pitcher, you let him start. Whitlock is such a pitcher. That's what the management has stated they want to do. He's under team control for another 5 years. If a guy can take the ball every 5th day, 32 times a year, then that's what you do with him. Starting pitching is more expensive than relievers. We can have cheap options in Pivetta and Whitlock. Sale Eovaldi Pivetta add Whitlock Houck If we find others in our system, then you let them compete for either as a starter or as a reliever.
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Not Barnes....he needs to go on a 10 day sick leave. He has said that fatigue factors into his mechanics being out of whack. He needs rest. That's what he's told us. Cora should listen to him.
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Fatigue has nothing to do with Barnes' demise. He's not spinning the ball as he did earlier in the year.
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Luckily Rays got this one wrong. Heading into the season, most expected that Renfroe would be the starting right fielder against lefties and an occasional righty. After all, he was non-tendered by the Rays before the Red Sox got him for the modest price tag of $3 million for one year. However, Renfroe has emerged as a mainstay in manager Alex Cora’s lineup, starting 108 of Boston’s first 125 games. Renfroe has 22 homers, just one fewer than J.D. Martinez. The right-handed-hitting veteran has held his own against righties, belting 14 homers to go with a .755 OPS. Defensively, he’s been tremendous, leading the league with 14 outfield assists.
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I'm officially dead. Someone has already invented clustering factor in baseball? And you kept that secret from me? I've been a fan for over 50 years and that is first I heard of it?
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Because I want Devers to bat with runners on base. Why not? That's where he hit most of the year until Cora started to jack around the lineup. You just go against me to just go against me don't you. It's ok......just my observation.
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Cora was stubborn about Kike but he moved everyone else around the last month. Now it's Schwarber instead of Verdugo and our 1-5 looks solid.
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Cora finally saw my e-mail and placed Schwarber second in the lineup. Stupid to put Devers 2 when you have Schwarber. I swear I can do his job. They'd don't even have to pay me.
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They play good defense. They're able to score despite not having bunch of $10M hitters.
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Nothing good happens without quality starting pitching staff. Need starters that can right the ship when the team goes south. Now we're down to Chris Sale because our manager doesn't trust Houck. He trusts every other lousy pitchers on our staff.
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you beat me to it.
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We have $30M in dead money. Our luxury tax payroll for 'active' players is $180M. Think what we could had added for $30M? Maybe we wouldn't have signed Richards, thus giving us a war chest of $40M. That doesn't include not having Sale for most of the year. We need to get through the Pedey/Price phase. It's possible we're looking at 2023 for going all in when JD/Eovaldi is gone. That's total of $70M. It will be time to take another shot at an ace.
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But we've decided as a team, defense is secondary. That's our team. We can't complain about it. We know what the Rays are. We are not them. They can manufacture runs. They play good defense. When we can't outhit the other team, then we're in trouble. We need to fix our pitching staff this winter. Don't give me bunch of mediocre pitchers. We are not built to play Defense. Just look at our SS. He's an offensive player. I don't care that he doesn't make any errors. He has no range. That goes for the entire team. Just look at our infield. I have no idea what Bloom's teams will look like. Can someone tell me? PS many moons ago, Indiana Pacers publicly stated they wanted a running team. But they kept drafting guys like Clark Kellog and Herb Williams, epitome of non runners for NBA.
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I see that E Rod is getting hammered by hapless Rangers tonight. No fire, no passion, 'oh well' he says. Get some real pitchers. Please!
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Here we go, a double and a walk......Rays, Yankees and Blue Jays all won today.
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Devers and Schwarber should bat 4th and 2nd.
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Between Devers and Schwarber, the latter should hit second.
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Call me crazy but if I'm the owner, I'd take a chance on Syndergaard.
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It goes back your thought of strengthening the staff by acquiring #1, thus making Sale #1,#1A.
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What is Sox identity? Without looking at historical stats, I've always felt Red Sox teams always hit. But we didn't win between 1967-2003. Came close but no cigar. (used 1967 because that's when I became a fan) What changed in 2004? Did our pitching become stellar in the years we won it all? Was it because of 1-2 punch at the top of rotation? I think the answer is resounding yes. Just going by my perception. We are/were pitching by 'committee' this year and they were finally exposed for not having an ace. Eovaldi is not an ace. E Rod is not an ace. Then our bullpen fell apart. We need a #1 alongside Sale for 2022.
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Sure looks like a good hitting lineup going into 2021 .916 Schwarber .914 Xander .896 Devers .893 JD .800 Renfroe .792 Arroyo .791 Kike .769 Verdugo We're basically in top 5 in AL in runs scored (4th), have 91 more runs than the Yankees but we trail them. What's amazing is Rays are tied for first in AL for runs scored, 40+more than the Sox despite only having 3 players with OPS in 800's.
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Sox's high ranking is based on 3 players, Casas, Mayer and Duran. Downs moved out of top 100 faster than a delinquent renter. Casas is probably couple of years away and maybe Mayer will be the replacement for Xander. If we can't win even with additions of Sale, Houck, Duran and Schwarber in the lineup then there are serious flaws with this team. Maybe we're just not very good.
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I don't see him NOT getting a two year $26M deal at the end of 2022. That's the calculation I don't see not happening.
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Where did that JD will forego his 2022 salary of $19.325M for a new 3 year $45M crowd go?
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It still remains to be seen if this was worth it from losing what they did. Maybe they lost nothing. But from the perspective of uplifting the entire Yankee fan base, it's definitely worth it. Sox are exactly the opposite. Lets just hope staying 'pat' will pay off. Hopefully before 2030.
