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  1. Hugh2
    exactly, this team is both depressing AND boring. Pitching and defense is a lot sexier when you WIN
  2. Hugh2
    That was certainly a frustrating season but at last they finished above .500 this team is on pace to lose 90 games. I'd say this season is worse (so far). I mean if falling off a cliff is the criteria here then I'd say 2011 is up there too. But even then, with these seasons at some point there was hope and excitement. These Sox have literally sucked from the very beginning.....much more depressing to me.
  3. Hugh2
    I don't disagree that to some extent this is fluky. But besides the rooks who are they banking on? Story, Contreras? Where are the adult, all star, elite level proven leader veterans leading this team? They don't exist and teams that win often have them.
  4. Hugh2
    It seems more and more that we are seeing extremes with contracts. More guys are signing longer term deals at younger ages for lower AAV in later years while older vets are signing shorter term deals with much higher AAV. This is conjecture and perception, I don't have any stats right now to back this up.
  5. Hugh2
    The real tragedy is I still think guys like Mayer and Anthony have bright futures, but they're finishing their development at the MLB level surrounded by losing. As Lou Merloni would say, you need some adults in the room. Sox did well to improve the pitching and defense, but they paid the price for it by completely neglecting half the roster and it shows.
  6. Hugh2
    Of all my years watching baseball, this might single handidly be the most depressing team I've ever watched.
  7. Hugh2
    f***....I'm going to 44 in a month. Time to live it up.
  8. Hugh2
    RIP John stantonian.mp4
  9. Hugh2
    Getting? it's been old.
  10. Hugh2
    While not huge, Eaton does have 264 big leagues PA's with an OPS 75 points lower, was a full 100 before Durbin got off to a slow start. Eaton has way more swing and miss in his game. 26% k rate
  11. Hugh2
    Despite almost 2,000 PAs between the minors and the bigs showing better results? He's not better offensively. RIGHT NOW, in one month he's hit better in AAA than Durbin has at MLB. That' doesn't make him a better hitter.
  12. Hugh2
    I've never heard of this expression before.....but I like it.
  13. Hugh2
    I'm 100% not missing that at all. A point I've been driving home here is there is no silver bullet fixing this team and even if Eaton was a marginal improvement over Durbin it's not going to move the needle, I'd say I'm the opposite of missing that.
  14. Hugh2
    I get he looks better under the hood, but in the end results matter. I pay more attention to those things nowadays too, especially when trying to predict what a guy will do in the future but sometimes it just does not matter, there are players in mlb who have below average bat speed but put up great offensive numbers. Durbin and Eaton have well over 3,000 PA's in the minors between them and Durbin has clearly had better results. If EAton had better bat speed and we were comparing small sample sizes I'd agree with you but we have a lot of results on the field that say otherwise.
  15. Hugh2
    I'm in no way shape or form trying to sugar coat antying here. Crochet going down stinks and it's very worrisome, hopefully it's nothing too serious. If he does miss significant time, one small sliver of goodness that comes from that is his opt out in 2031 is dropped and the Sox pick up a $15.00 option in 2032. His age 31, 32 seasons.
  16. Hugh2
    Yeah.....the whole team sucks right now. There's very little going right. I think we get stuck in this tunnel of believing there is some kind of silver bullet to fix this team and I firmly believe that when you start acting on that you're just as likley to fudge things up even more and hurt the future even more. At the end of the day, there's nothing that can be done that will help this team if the players they have on this roster don't start hitting. I've made the case that Durbin is a better offensive player than Eaton, even if I'm wrong so what? Maybe Eaton comes up and does perform better is his .610 OPS going to raise the bar???? It sucks, and I know fans don't want to hear this but.......it is what it is.
  17. Hugh2
    Is he??? Durbin vs. Eaton AAA .858 ops vs. .799 and Durbin has put up most of his at bats younger AA .755 ops vs. .731 Durbin 23 vs. Eaton 25 Eaton also has a milb K% of 21.7% vs. Durbins 9.1 k% He's striking out almost 2.5 times more than Durbing Durbin has a BB% of 10.7% vs. Eatons 8.75% Durbin has a career ops of .685 in the majors vs. Eatons .610 what am i missing???
  18. Hugh2
    Why? Durbin has been better than him at every level. I'm not saying the Sox shouldn't have tried to do better than Durbin, but just because he's been dissapointing doesn't mean Eaton was the answer.
  19. Hugh2
    Arias went 0-4 Dude is falling off a cliff!!!! But even his outs were loud, the center fielder on the other team made a leaping catch at the warning track to rob Franklin last night. I'm not sure how much longer they can hold him down. I know they like that 250 PA threshold, and he should reach that in about another month. I think we certianly see him in Worcester sometime early summer.
  20. Hugh2
    It might not be out yet, Patreon supporters get the podcast a few days earlier than everyone else.
  21. Hugh2
    Even on the last soxprospects.com podcast they were talking about him and saying that even though the results aren't there yet the stuff still looks really good, he's just working on some things.
  22. Hugh2
    I can't remember the last time the entire top ten got off to such an amazing start, obviously the news with Valera is a bummer but the system is looking up. About the only thing to be excited about in Sox nation nowadays.
  23. Hugh2
    Sox are 2-0 since the firing.....BreSLOW is a guiness 😎
  24. Hugh2
    There seems to be a WHOLE lot of "this guy" doesn't look like he did. Who does look good? Contreras and Abreu have been fine and that's really it. Maybe Connor Wong? he has the 3rd highest OPS on this team. If Wong is your 3rd best offensive player something has gone horribly wrong. Players who are playing below their level of talent or past performance either offensively, defensively or both. I just deleted the first few names I typed, it's pretty much the whole roster.
  25. Hugh2
    Ok BUT is that really going to fix anything? yeah maybe that helps keep guys like Duran/Anthony in the lineup to get them going but they also need to get Story/Mayer and Durbin going too who hypothetically should be better offensive players than Rafaela as well. It's rearranging the chairs, and if we need to get other people going shouldn't we also be looking to get his defense going too? He won a gold glove last year and is 25 how could his defense possibly of fallen off? I'll reiterate my earlier point, we are searching for a silver bullet that just doesn't exist. reality is this team stinks, and unless people start hitting they're going to continue to stink no matter how you shuffle the defense.
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