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Core Group Update (team control starting in 2024 inc) CC Wong (5) 1B Casas (5) 2B Reyes (4)/Urias (2) 3B Devers (10) SS Story (5) LF Yoshida (4) CF Duran (5) RF Verdugo (1) DH ??????? SP Bello (5) SP Kutter (5) RP Whitlock (5) RP Winckowski (5) RP Bernardino (5) RP Llovera (5) RP Murphy (5) RP Walter (5) RP Houck (4) RP Schreiber (3) SP Sale (2) CL Jansen (1) RP Martin (1) SP Pivetta (1) I'm sticking with this for now. $60M.....3 starters at $20M?
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One thing we should all acknowledge is that it take more than one or two superstars to sustain a team through 162 game season. You gotta pack the 26 man roster with good baseball players. As an example, bunch of crummy pitchers in slots 11-13 will kill a team at some point. Replacement players should be good enough not only to hold the spot for an injured player but actually contribute when playing.
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My only point was had we signed Nate instead of Kluber, we'd be in a better place. Sure he is on IL now but his 19 starts, 2.69 ERA, 11-3 record, 123 IP (Bello is tops for the Sox at 119 IP) sure would have helped. Let's move on..... We really need to do a better job this off season. F for starters and A for Martin and Jansen last winter.
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We do backflips when a starter goes 5 innings. That adds up to 150 innings pitched in 30 starts. Oh my, times have changed. Where have real man gone?
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My only point was it seemed as though the Sox did not pursue him hard enough for whatever reason. Many people on this board thought he was injury prone.
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I had to change out batteries on my key board. I cut and pasted the article from MLB.com. I didn't want to mislead anyone. Not my comment.
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It's incredible to think had we signed Eovaldi and not Kluber, we'd be closer to being in the playoffs. I praised the Sox for signing Eovaldi when they did, coinciding with the final year of Porcello's contract. Sadly I was okay with letting Eovaldi go four years later thinking we had better options. Live and learn.
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8. The 2022-23 free-agent field has been … not so great Look back at our list of the top free agents from what had seemed one of the deepest and most dynamic classes in recent memory, and there’s not a lot to make you feel warm and fuzzy right now. Without getting into all the specifics here, injuries have hindered the impacts of Judge, as well as top starters deGrom, Justin Verlander and Carlos Rodón. Top shortstops Trea Turner, Correa and Xander Bogaerts have all had less-than-dynamic campaigns, José Abreu is having the worst season of his career, and the most notable aspect of Willson Contreras’ year was that brief period when he was moved off the catcher position. Not every deal has been a dud, of course, and there’s a lot of time before the final evaluation of most of these contracts. But for now, it’s surprising how little impact has come from the upper echelon of last winter’s open market.
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Not much chatter here about what Kutter's been doing. He has to be in the rotation plans for next year, along with Bello and now Houck. His unique delivery and multiple pitches make him a legitimate starting pitcher.
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For every bad signing for the Sox, Yankees have done one worse it seems. Kike for 1 year $10M? Yanks signed Aaron Hicks to a 6 year $60M. Ouch. Kluber for $10M? Yankees gave Severino an extension, a 4 year $40M deal. What about big bucks given to Rondon? $160M? I guess it could be worse. Cashman could be our GM.
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I am officially off the G Whitlock bandwagon. I was in the front. I've been edging towards the rear and I jumped off last night. He's not right. I wouldn't trust him in later innings.
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Just to be clear. This was a New York writer who interjected maybe the Mets and the Yankees copy Braves' blue print that includes playing the best players as much as they can. Nothing more nothing less. Cora is a good manager. I only disagreed with him on one issue this year.
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Injuries have nothing to do with a scheduled day off. Not sure what you are saying here. 117-117 implies injury free AND no scheduled time off. We all know that Sox players get scheduled day off.
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Is our near future outfield comprised of Duran, Rafaela and Abreu? I hope so. I bet that's what Bloom is thinking. Now we just need a 2B.
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At this point I focus on games lost. We r 2 games behind Toronto Number of games played is varies from team to team. If you are not losing then in theory you are not losing ground.
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Yanks are down 2-8 vs Atlanta. Miami winning 4-1 over Houston. Seattle is losing 0-3. LAA is losing 0-5. All good news for the Sox.
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This has been a good year from my perspective with one or two exceptions. Emergence of Duran Casas Wong and Yoshida gets us closer to the assembling the core group and chasing titles. I am not 100% sold on Verdugo but Rafaela waits in the wings as a replacement in the OF. Our bullpen looks to be in capable hands for 2024 and hopefully some of our young guns will replace Martin and Jansen in 2025. Bello and Crawford appears to be keepers. Who knows what Pivetta will become. Tons of good news. Last 2 years will be quickly forgotten with a title in a near future.
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Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner. Over managing? I never understood resting a player after a multiple hit games. I wouldn't want to come out when I'm swinging a hot bat. Screw 'scheduled' day off.
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Maybe we should look for better conditioned baseball players.
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I'm actually surprised at Turner's number of games played. He's a gamer.
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2022 Braves (101-61) 162 games Olsen 162 games Swanson 159 games Riley 2023 Braves (117 games) 117 Olsen (1B) 117 Acuna (RF) 117 Riley (3B) 117 Albies (2B) 104 Rosario (LF) 101 Ozuna (DH) 096 Arcia (SS) 095 Harris (CF) 085 Murphy © 2023 Red Sox (118 games) 111 Devers (3B) 107 Turner (DH) 105 Casas (1B) 105 Verdugo (RF) 104 Yoshida (LF) Obviously Braves appears to have enjoyed an injury free season for the position players this year. That no one has control over. Maybe the favorable weather at home has something to do with it. April and May sucks in Boston.
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The MLB outlier blueprint Mets, Yankees should learn from The Braves also are not slavish to load management. Right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr., second baseman Ozzie Albies, third baseman Austin Riley and first baseman Matt Olson started in those positions Sunday night against the Mets for the 117th time in 117 games — and hit, as they often do, one-through-four in the lineup. Manager Brian Snitker isn’t looking for days to get his best players off their feet. ] “Playing every day is built into the culture here, handed down from Chipper Jones to Freddie Freeman to now these guys,” Weiss said. “It is the expectation. It is the group mindset.” The jest of the article is analytics play but it's not the end all to everything. They value eye test from veteran coaching staff starting with the manager. Why do our guys need a day off all the time?
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That was crazy. The batter before hit it out but was snatched by the CF for Seattle. Then the next guy hits a HR. That should have been the game winner. Seattle lost 5-3 so good for us.
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Looks like Bello will need an extra day's rest so Houck maybe inserted if we have several games with no days off. He's getting closer to last year's innings pitched. They will watch him closely.
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Toronto goes to Philly, we play the National, we're down 2 games in the loss column.
