Hugh2
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I'd also say the Sox do draft pitchers, roughly just as many pitchers as position players. The thing is they usually don't draft pitchers with their first couple picks, and the few times they have the last decade they've gone bust (Groome, Ball). I feel the Sox inability to develop homegrown starting pitching is truly a combination of factors. 1. their bias towards up-the-middle position players early on in the draft 2. Their ability to scout, draft, and develop arms. 3. Luck, I think luck plays a large role in it because developing pitching is really really hard and effectively you're trying to predict a human being's future. Which is also hard. Can't do anything about #3 but 1-2 you can. And as you said, it takes 3-4 years to even notice those changes. For all we know they've made changes and have a great system in place now.
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Oh, I'm being sarcastic, I think this move is a real head scratcher. I will say though I'm optimistic about his role in a bullpen, I think he could be good there.......but after ONE appearance down in AAA?IDK.
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But, he had that one good relief outing?
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I don't even want Kike looking at SS. Don't even look over there.
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Murphy has an ERA north of 7.00 LOL, he did look good coming out of the pen. He might really take to that role, but still....that's literally a ONE game sample size. Now you can see why the Sox are hoarding depth at the MLB level. I really hope they plan on investing in pitching next year.
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I have a very vivid memory of it, because I got a lot of pushback around here for suggesting it. Obviously opinions differentiate wildly on this board. But not many wanted Nate around here, even less wanted Wacha back.
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More options coming soon with Duval back.
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Now they can put Kike in CF and Reyes at SS and turner at 1B and sit two of Duran/Yoshida/Casas/Devers vs. tough LHP.
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What was the alternative move?
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I thought it was a no-brainer, but 2/3 of this board at the end of last year did NOT think that way at all. I highly doubt Nate keeps up the year he's been having, and if he does.....good for him.
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I specifically remember listing Nate as a player the Sox should offer a QO too. When I did that on this board there was a lot of talk about not signing Nate. Some, wanted him but not offering the QO.
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Patience is usually a skill set that is highly predictive of MLB success. As a matter of fact, it was Yoshidas patience that drove me to defend him early in the season when 1/2 the board was sold that he was a bust who could not hit. Casas is going to be fine.
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Casas OPS over the last month .758 MLB Average OPS in 2023 .727 I know it doesn't look pretty, but given his age and inexperience there's a lot of reason to expect him to adjust and only get better.
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After his slow start he's had a .750 OPS on the season. Not great, but that's an MLB player. I think he will be fine in the long run.
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I'm more patient than most, and I'm in full support of leaving Casas in there and letting him figure it out BUT at this point I also wouldn't be angry if they sent him down either. It would not be the worse thing in the world to sit him down and explain to him that they still view him as the 1B of the future but he has some things to figure out. I don't know how well Dalbec will hit. But it's worth giving him a few weeks here. His RHB would compliment this lineup nicely if he's figured it out. That K% is still really high, he might just be feasting on bad AAA/AAAA pitching but there's only one way to find out.
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Robo umps are on the way folks, pitching framing will not matter and neither will blind umps.
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$18 million is too much for a guy who (at least offensively) is looking like he could be a perennial all-star for the next few years???? OK.
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He might not have been allowed to, still, that was 3 years ago. You'd think by now he'd be able to bring over a guy or two he liked.
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I really don't think anyone can use Martin Perez's year last year as a benchmark. If anything shows Bloom was on, just got the year wrong. But Perez has a very long career and stat line of being 1/2 as good as he was last year. Last year was an anomaly.
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Average ERA was 4.27 last year. I think that would be very welcomed on this team for 164 innings. 150 innings is the new 200. But his WHIP and FIP and BB/9 were well above average. If he gave us this year what he gave last year that would be fine. He'd look great in the 3-5 role on this team. Not the "Upside" we were promised but for what he was and for $10 mil whatever, he's fine. Well he's not fine he sucks, but the signing itself wasn't bad. It just didn't work out. Stands out more when the overall team you built isn't that great either.
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The Kluber signing was fine at the time, if he was pitching as good as he was last year no one would be complaining about him. It's ok. It's also ok to be upset that a signing didn't work out as intended. Last year's pitching market was thin and the high end of it was filled with age and injury risk. Verlander was older, DeGrom was an accident waiting to happen, and only 2 years younger than Kluber. I think you can critique Bloom for building this pitching staff, that's fair because he's been here for 3 years now, but I think it's also fair to recognize last years market was not the year to do it. I'd expect bigger things next year in a much more robust pitching m arket. Also, if "developing" homegrown pitching is the goal.....that takes more than 3 years. Still, looking at the pipeline there does not seem to be too many exciting guys on the farm unless someone pops.
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Nobody wanted Eovaldi last year, nobody…none of you. We remember. People were even angry when he was offered a qualifying offer. Just stop with the Nathan talk. It’s a 100% hindsight argument.
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Offering Wacha a QO doesn’t seem like such a bad idea now
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Good stuff, now with JD the fall-off appears to be more pronounced than the last several years. Maybe thats a coincidence and this is a SSS....or it could just be that he wears out quicker and it's getting worse because he's getting up there with age. If the later is true, he probably falls off a cliff in a month. If he doesn't.....good for him. Turner is fine though. He's certainly not hurting the team.
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The Red Sox starting rotation -- long term
Hugh2 replied to Fan_since_Boggs's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hes 26 with not even a full MLB season's worth of at-bats......he's a kid to me.