Hugh2
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It's as if some people don't understand Bloom can't go over the luxury tax, and they're mad at him for doing his job. It does appear that ownership is going to give Bloom the green light to go over the limit after this season.
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That's exactly what's going on. Ownership does not want Bloom to go over the luxury tax limit. A man can only do so much when you're starting off right up against it.
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The team has either been horrible all year and overachieved.......or they've been horrible for a short amount of time. If the latter is true, you're freaking out and NOT being realistic, if the former is true you're making the argument for why it was appropriate to hold onto resources and forgo going "all in" on a team that was not that good to begin with. Being realistic is understanding the balance of that situation. The Sox are either not very good and overachievers or they're really good and just struggling. You have to pick one and complain about it, we can't have our cake and eat it too.
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At this point, anything less than a WS win will be enough for people to complain. SEE! we should have signed EVERYONE!
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That's a whole lot of assuming for a guy who doesn't get all worked up over a little skid. Am I disappointed? yes, am I concerned? of course. But I'm not freaking out because a good team is doing what every good team does every single year. If they have an entire bad month and drop to 3rd I'll be very concerned. I call it how I sees it too, and I see this happen time and time and time and time again. And I call what I also see is people getting all upset and dramatic over small sample sizes. You guys do realize that teams lose? and that good teams lose to bad teams? and that even world series winners have losing streaks. We've had a bad 2 weeks and 1/3 of the season has yet to be played. That's plenty of time to recover, and plenty of time to fall out either. Enjoy the freaking ride and have a little patience before you start freaking out.
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I was here back then, up until around the end of 2013 when I took an 8-year hiatus.
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lol, the one caveat I enjoy about sucking is seeing other people freak out. Listen, this team could implode, this team could not make the playoffs. But it's even more likely they're just going through a funk and will be fine. 100 win teams still lose close to 40% of their games. Take your panties off and put your pants back on....there's plenty of baseball left to play.
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162 games.......realistically 100 win teams go through funks. Calm down folks, plenty of baseball left to play. We have enough to time struggle for a month and get super hot in September and take the division. It's going to be ok.
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I kind of missed the days where you could trade for a player at the deadline and then let them walk and pick up a first-round pick for them. In 2011 the Sox had 4 first-round picks, lol. I understand why the can't do that, and why they won't be going back to that, but it certainly would have made shopping at the deadline easier this year.
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My god.....look at all this whining, we went from winning to whining. There's still 1/3 of the season left. Teams have ups and downs. Ye of little faith in here.
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Someone is all hot and bothered.
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It's more than just being hot. Especially the way minor league baseball is played now, in the beginning of the year the WOOSOX played 3 teams the first month and two of them have among the minors worse pitching. It's about who they're playing and other various factors. A guy might be a GREAT mistake hitter and put up great numbers in the minors but a front office might be skeptical that he will replicate that in the majors where the quality of pitching is much tougher. As fans, we scout box scores, and often get angry when guys aren't moved accordingly, but these major league teams know what they're doing.
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Oh yeah, 6 HR's......so many bombs.
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Yeah, he's been very pedestrian all year in Portland. Only 6 HR's in AA as a bat first first baseman but let's promote him all the way to Boston based on a game you saw or read about. This has to be a joke.
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I think the question is what value is he to this team replacing Dalbec going down the stretch? A lot more than Bobby D.
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It's even more confusing because they gave Franchy all these reps down in AAA like this was the plan and now they're just not using him that way.
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Yeah, I don't get it. He's 4/12 since coming back up. Insanely SSS but you hope his lifetime OPS vs. RHP plays up and you get a decent platoon with him and bobby until Schwarber is ready. That....would make sense to me.
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Until Schwarber is ready I think you go with the Franchy/Dalbec platoon at first base. That will be much better than just Dalbec who has zero chance at hitting RHP. Dalbec is .561 against RHP vs. a .798 OPS vs. Lefties.
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He was replaced at the deadline, it's just not an immediate replacement.
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This was exactly what I thought was going to happen when they traded for Schwarber, then they didn't pick up a 1B. The Sox have the worse production at 1B in the MLB, that's your black hole offensively and defensively. Sox got Schwarber for one B evel prospect, they're throwing him at 1B. It's happening.
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So, 1B is not good for the hamstring but running around in the outfield is? I don't think so.
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I do too.
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I'm just saying, if his first game in a Sox uniform is LF/DH, I wouldn't rule him being our starting 1B by year's end. I just don't see who else it can be right now if the team wants to make a serious run.