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  1. oldtimer
    What makes me think the lackluster performance could continue is the first two months performance. To dismiss it out of hand in my opinion is overly optimistic. Our BP is shaky and our hitters are more average this year. Could they perform better? Certainly they could but also they could continue as they have for the last couple of months which would mean trouble.
  2. oldtimer
    No place that I see to comment on the draft, but in some ways it might facilitate making alterations to the team, perhaps in 2020 but more likely further along. Watching the draft is like watching grass grow. Very boring and in the Red Sox case I see the rules as particularly harmful. First ick at 43 aand 2nd at 69. No shot at top talent unless one thinks other teams are foolishly passing on such talent. Competitive balance still isn't being achieved, with a lot of clubs essentially packing it in by the AS break.
  3. oldtimer
    We'll see if your optimistic thinking is justified. At what point would you believe the Sox are out of it in 2019, should we continue to play lackluster ball? Ten games back in the loss column with 3 teams ahead in the wild card race? I am not saying it will happen just would be interested in how long your optimism would hold up?
  4. oldtimer
    No excuse for Barnes. Two walks and a balk. Awful stuff. I will add that we have no range at SS. Of the 3 hits through there tonight, a quicker SS gets two of those.
  5. oldtimer
    I agree totally with what you say. If there is a solution, then it is for our existing players to pull out of their malaise and try to perform closer to last years standards. We have a little money for BP help so that is not by itself going to save the season. Maybe getting guys healthy could help. JDM in particular is fighting a sore back and he is a key hitter in the lineup. If we can't make the playoffs, I would play some of our hopefuls late in the year and hope to find a gem in that way. I would not trade away our keystone players just in the hope of winning a couple of more games this year. In my view we need to keep, Bogaerts, Beni, Devers, Vasquez and Betts. I would also think hard before parting with a young inexpensive player like Chavis. I would be careful not to jettison other existing field players unless we could find better but our utility capability is getting old and find themselves on the IL all too often.
  6. oldtimer
    I don't see the Sox making any moves until the break and only then if we still have a significant chance of making the playoffs. What can we do other than add a reliever if we have a shot? Depends a great deal on how we perform in that period. If we are out of it, then it would be reasonable to call up our best prospects and see what they can do. Even with a playoff hope, I believe we will need to make major changes going in to 2020. Time for Pearce, Nunez, JBJ, half the BP, E-Rod, Leon at least to go. Pedroia is not coming back. Time for the front office to strenghten our prospect list and to avoid harmful long term contracts to players going past their prime. Pedroia's 8 year being the poster child of recent bad ones. We have the highest payroll in the league and the resullts are not reflecting it. It's hard to justify that position with a 500 team.
  7. oldtimer
    I think you have been overly optimistic. Look at our table setters and what they have done of late. Look at JDM. We relied on those guys last year to produce and they are way off their games so far . We know we have problems in other areas but to have problems scoring with runners in scoring poosition, striking out at a high rate, and only having a couple guys producing at any time is a major weakness. This season is close to a lost cause and we are only in June. There aren't any easy answers other than the club seems to need motivation and it isn't happening. Where will it come from, Cora?
  8. oldtimer
    Men on first and second and one out, in the old days hitters might choke up to put the ball in play and score a run. Holt couldn't make contact. Chavis is a diffeent story as he is not haqandling heat at this point.
  9. oldtimer
    Both Betts and Beni need to do more. At least eni hit a hard line drive.
  10. oldtimer
    When your up to your ass in alligators, its too late to drain the swamp.
  11. oldtimer
    Our hitting is fairly solid with Chavis going through the first year of needing to make adjustments and JDM with a sore back. When our team faces top notch pitching, like the Yankee bullpen, they all have trouble and we are no different in that respect. Our pitching has been strained due to injuries to starters and the need to find a BP or Minors starter every 5th day out. Eovaldi will be back and should help with that. Our weakest area is our BP and that has been heavily used. We traded away a lot to get last years national championship and we are carrying Panda's and Pedey's contracts which limit our financial capability to maybe one BP acquisition. The decision to do more than that would mean further consequences to the team and might not even get us a wild card. I'm for just limiting to a BP acquisition and accepting whatever that can bring us. If we don't get to the wild card level then so be it.
  12. oldtimer
    Behind 3 and having to face the Yankee bullpen is no bargain. Not to mention, keeping them from scoring more will be a challenge. Tough start to the series.
  13. oldtimer
    I think there are signs that the Sox can play better. The hitting seems to be picking up of late and when healthy our starters are quite effective. Our main bugaboo is the BP that has looked bad recently. If that can't be rectified, we could well be a 500 club. With the Pen doing a better job, we could get a wild card berth. I doubt we catch the Yankees this year.
  14. oldtimer
    The short stints for starting pitchers these days mean that a hitter often will not have more than 2 AB's against the same pitcher in a game. Hitters don't get to see a pitcher often enough to get as comfortable as when starters were in for 7 to 9 innings. I think it is harder today to use the lefty righty idea effectively because of it. I am an advocate of deciding on a set lineup and staying with it, barring injury or needs for rest.
  15. oldtimer
    Red Sox pitching and especially the pen, seems to be breaking down. Two big losses in a row to Cleveland when we need to go on a run. We are scoring and that is not the problem.
  16. oldtimer
    Pretty sad for the pen to give the game away last night. No leaqd was safe.
  17. oldtimer
    Came in tryiing to nibble and instead blew 2 runs without registering and out.
  18. oldtimer
    I hate when our relief pitcher comes in with a 3 run lead and walks the first batter. This was a weak hitter. Think for christ sakes.
  19. oldtimer
    Good situational hitting by Devers, Bogie and JDM. chavis might shorten his swing with runners on 2nd and 3rd and one out, but he is young. We got lucky with Holt but he did force Cleveland to make a play and they didn't. 3 runs is a nice lead and with the Yankees losing tonight we stand to gain a game if we can play solid defense.
  20. oldtimer
    His average is slipping of late and his strikeouts seem high but when I looked it was 7 in the last 7 days. Not good for a leadoff hitter but more than we would like certainly.
  21. oldtimer
    Cross your fingers and JBJ has looked better this past week. Hope he can keep it up.
  22. oldtimer
    The type of injury that he was being treated for sounded like wear. If it was a torn MCL or ACL that could have been repaired and he would be back playing by now.
  23. oldtimer
    Pedroia was given an 8 year extension when he was 30. I am generally opposed to contracts over 5 years for a 30 year old. Whiie its true his initial OPS was still healthy, joint issues to knees where bone is on bone don't develop overnight. My belief is that the Sox missed or ignored the likely increasing degredation of Pedey as a player. The reality is that Pedey's value to the club was still acceptable for the first 3 years of the contract and has dropped to zero now. Probably lower than zero because his contract $'s diminish any chance of obtaining a suitable replacement at that position.
  24. oldtimer
    If we take a realistic view of the season, it appears the Yankees will play .65 ball with the rest of the league and we need to match that. In addition, head to head, we need to win the two series in May and June enough to pick up a couple of games. Coming into July down by 4 1/2 games would not look like an insurmountable challenge. Clearly we cannot afford to lose further ground and expect to catch the Yankees. Even the Rays will be a stubborn obstacle for us making the playoffs.
  25. oldtimer
    I agree. We are struggling with injures and illnesses to the starters. We were resting players at times, yet we still played well enough to come close and post a 1 for 3 record against the Astros. We have a ways to go but Price is coming right back and Eovaldi is also soon. It's not gloom and doom and we could well make a run at the top. we are in a bit of a hole but lets see how the next week plays out.
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