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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have faith in the remnants of this roster. They can do it! And I've already given permission to stay away from Fenway Park to all those miserable patrons who squeeze into kindergarten chairs and try to look comfortable. You may all now uncross your arms! As for all posters with wrist injuries misdiagnosed as typing finger sprains, strains, tears and carpool tunnel issues, take the rest of the season off.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all want good projections for our sanity. But pitcher injuries alter athletic careers like no others. Look at Giolito: multiple injuries, finally has a good year, then is too sore to pitch in the playoffs. Teams were scared to sign him in free agency in the winter, until one finally took a chance on him... and now he's having elbow issues again. But that doesn't excuse all our top young position players who keep missing time on the field as core members of the next late Red Sox team. Casas, Anthony, and now Mayer is hurt again? We need to scout more bodies like Ceddanne Rafaela's, put together with pipe cleaners and rubber bands. He's always diving and bouncing off of something... and always in the line-up.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good post. Always evaluating and updating. The extensions are worthy of more debate. If Anthony gets a C for his brutal season and injury, then Crochet can't be any higher. We can only hope both fully recover and resume reaching their potential. Not doing that (or regressing) is also why Campbell and Bello are barely passing and why Rafaela is raising his grade.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was an issue all winter for the diehard baseball fans who know that kind of batting order craves a balance with a mix of well-respected and feared veteran bats that stress out foes, drive up pitch counts, and elicit "mistake pitches" for the young-uns to feast upon.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If they were ever good again, imagine how much money they can make. They might even be able to afford ingredients to make Coors taste like real beer again. I once visited a saloon out there where Coors was the cheapest on tap, but all the local cowboys drank Bud.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hunter Goodman: All-Star catcher, right-handed bat, legit power (half his home runs are on the road). The perfect centerpiece to rebuild around for a horrid team like the Rockies or Red Sox. Why would Colorado consider trading him? How about a haul of pitching prospects that could headline their rotation? Name your arms: Eyanson, Witherspoon, Phillips, Holobetz. How many? Gotta give to get. Throw in Duran as a change-of-scenery guy, take back Jake McCarthy as a speed replacement and help change the culture (McCarthy was a captain and leader as an All-State record-setting running back in high school).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are you suggesting Sam Kennedy actually lied to us? The royal rooters of inanity I mean loyal looters of sanity?!?!
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Get hit over the head enough times until all the nerve endings are dead and it's hard to feel anything anymore.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The reason Breslow's trades are often condemned isn't just because ex-Sox are playing well elsewhere. It's because a lot of the guys he got in return aren't good in Boston. Dombrowski's deals won a ring. Beeks for Eovaldi... and no one cared that Espinal made the All-Star team for Toronto after Steve Pearce was MVP of the World Series. That's a swap every Sox fan would make forever.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except they turned into the Beastie Boys. At least they were able to replace drummer Teel with Narvaez (top hit: "It Don't Come Easy").
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And looking at how Boston's top position player prospects have fared in the majors, I have no taste whatsoever for tanking to get a top draft pick... ... and I get being patient; I was ok with Pedroia's slow start in his rookie year (when Remy was saying, "play Cora"), but he was surrounded by studs in the batting order. I was concerned with Anthony's K-rate last season, when no one else thought it mattered. Plus, it's alarming when "youngsters" the Sox projected as core stars are actually going backwards: Bello, literally, and Campbell, who's down in the AAA .220s with four Ks the other night.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They just told who it will be: Romy.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But-but-but... my ex-wife was so good to me for parts of two decades -- why should I be bitter about the horrible way she treated me this decade? This. Entire. Decade. Happening right now.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course he'll net minor leaguers, but he's our best chip to get prospects who don't have "Pitcher" listed next to their names. If I have any say, I'm holding the Chapman auction until the last possible second for the best available BAT, preferably one that can reach green seats in fair territory.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shhhh... a golfer is about to hit a ball that isn't moving on the ground right in front of him ... shhhhhhhhh.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Three of the four established big leaguers in the starting line-up are already having at least decent seasons: Contreras, Rafaela, Abreu. So any fan or front office analyst not in denial basically has to bank their entire hopes on whether Jarren Duran can turn back into a 9 WAR player. That's unrealistic. The only certainties -- this summer -- are that neither Anthony nor Casas are returning from bat-swinging injuries to swing their bats with any authority, and Story isn't bouncing back from a hernia operation in his mid-30s to party like it's 2025. And not even a combination of Theo Epstein, Dave Dombrowski and Branch Rickey could trade the bullpen for good replacements in the batting order, along with the next Bregman-Devers All-Star hitter.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yep. Said the same thing yesterday The problem is it's doubtful Breslow is getting back what he really needs in a firesale: good wood that keeps the fire burning... ... unless someone overpays for Chapman, who could be the one guy -- the gem of the deadline -- who may define the fate of Brez. All the rest of those names, including Gray and his contract, won't return much more than a similar list of names from the prospect ranks.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I didn't mention the rookie pitchers because we all know why the Sux sock this year. And the weak back-up plan is also part of the problem, because none of those listed additions was expected to provide the All-Star quality punch the line-up needed. But let's not pretend for a second that the Red Sox weren't counting big time on the bats of the Big Three the past year, based on their longterm investments in KC and Ant, while ignoring spending on legitimate support for them in the heart of the batting order.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hard for anyone to argue that recent top-rated prospects like The Big Three of the Boston farm system have been overrated -- so far... but overrated by whom? Posters on fan forums? The Fenway PR department? Absolutely; we all live for next homegrown hero to lead us to the promised land. And Red Sox Nation has been blessed for decades with young players bursting from the minors into almost instant MLB All-Stars: Fisk, Lynn, Rice, Clemens, Boggs, Mo, Nomar, Bogey, Mookie and Raffy to name a few. But it's not our fault professional evaluators and pundits named Kristian Campbell Minor League Player of the Year, or Roman Anthony the #1 Prospect in baseball, or rated Marcelo Mayer with the best defense and hit tool in the draft. Maybe the hype got to them all too fast and they've struggled with adjustments. Guys that good have little experience ever failing at baseball in their entire young lives. The Sox are just unlucky right now, but there's plenty of time for good careers (as long as a people person and not a robot doesn't bat them leadoff and clean-up right away).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Franklin Primera is first (haha) in OPS: 1.337 in 76 ABs. But if he sticks at catcher, he could change his last name to Receptor.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    SIX is the actual number of starting positions that we listed as woeful in the batting order: C, 2B, SS, 3B, LF, DH. I know it's unreasonable to expect that many replacements to have consistent pop (beyond the warning track) or even swing righty to take advantage of the home park where the Red Sox can't win this year... ... but expecting just one new guy to make that much difference is just as unreasonable; the pitching and D have been good, but come on -- I'm not looking at just eeking into a Wild Card but what has been traditionally needed on legit Boston World Series contenders. Check out the individual OPS+ leaders for the '18, '13, '07 and '04 (even '03) squads. Seems like they all had five or six batters pushing 120+ -- or 20% above average, which bb-ref considers All-Star quality. The '26ers have only Contreras and Rafaela over 120 OPS+. "Wanted: three or four batters who reach base more than usual and don't often stop at first base." Better plan on running that ad in the MLB Classifieds through the next two winters and deadlines at least...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom went to Yale so he totally understood the value of an established postseason hero in his prime in big market Boston vs. a guy who played on the other side of the world in a league equivalent to Triple A, plus another who never pitched on a big stage whose arm was cooked.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Saw the thread title and thought you meant Eovaldi... ... who, since he signed with Texas in '23, has 15.5 WAR (not including the postseason he went 5-0). 2023-26 for Boston: Bello 5.5 WAR, Crochet 5.4 WAR, Chapman 4.7 WAR, Crawford 4.1 WAR, Whitlock 3.7 WAR, Houck 3.1.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let me see if I can quantify that in terms of Clutch... Point Five means there are five letters in Clutc -- so, yup, he's almost Clutch. Most of the time.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Keep Good WiLL! A star right-handed power hitter is exactly what the Red Sox need more of -- like four more of them. Trading your only All-Star for a return of promising prospects just means another five-year rebuild... or however long fans are willing to wait for another Big Three hopefuls to fulfill hope.
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