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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tied for least world titles this decade! The snoring '20s have just been unlucky.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Every time the president opens his mouth it's a lie.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's ok to cite regular season stats, but after watching the entire postseason, the best hitter for anyone was arguably Brewer SS Cooper Pratt. Now some may say the rookie just got challenged with a lot of good pitches to hit. But it's also possible he was developing into an above-average batter before our eyes vs. top competition... just like Jeremy Pena, when he was WS MVP a few years ago. People can find stats to show how weak Milwaukee's offense has been the past two years when they won the most games in baseball. But there's no dispute the Brewers hit when it counts because they're good.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right now, I'd say Mead is a better bet. He didn't injure himself three times in past 12 months swinging a bat... a pitcher did. And I wouldn't count on Eli White coming back good as new next season, either. He's looking at a tough recovery. As for Duran, even if the Sox don't move on from him, he's too unreliable and they still need to add a legitimate bat that can play LF and/or DH. Signing Arozarena makes too much sense -- but I won't say he's earned his cents (now obsolete).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And then flip Nada for Cero, and combine him with Futura Estrella for Dustin May.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Offseason officially starts today. Internet already loaded with crazy trade proposals for the Red Sox to trade their best prospects and proven youngsters for one guy to play shortstop... ... as if Bobby Whit or Elly or Abrams are even available -- or even great enough to bring a title to Boston without Tolle at the top of the rotation and Abreu manning RF. Shortstop is not an area of need -- not when you already owe one guy $25 million to play there, and you have the AL's highest-ranked two-way prospect waiting to take over. Boston is not one bat away from a deep October run. We just saw the best team in the American League -- a club with four or five bats better than any Red Sox not named Willson -- hit .182 in the World Series.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd drink that once in a Red Moon.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That declaration right there is why I don't like ranking entire batting orders based on individual OPS. O (as in On Base%) matters most in the scenario you present: to provide the most opps for RBIs from your best PS -- that's where O+PS are connected. If my Plus Sluggers don't do the job in the heart of the order, then I need the rest of the lineup to deliver; so for #6-9 guys I care more about BA... I don't want batters taking strikes down the middle looking for bases-loaded walks. Put the ball in play when it matters. It's not luck. The Brewers' C-2B-SS-LF core are better than the Red Sox' where it counts... and when it counts. Besides Wild Bill behind the plate -- who is way better -- the rest have K-rates worse than league average. But there's no disputing Milwaukee gets it done, with the most MLB wins the past two years.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And Booser the night before for Tampa. I didn't realize Drohan was second to Miz in IP for Milwaukee this year (Harrison had a good first half). Nothing personal, but I'm ok with ex-Red Sox pitchers failing in the postseason. Especially Dustin May, who all of sudden is throwing 99 mph. To me he'll always represent both flops of the Devers trade and the '25 deadline.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I forgot, it's "company policy" not to give a no-trade to any player you sign, for when you want to get out of paying him all that money you literally agreed to in the last place. (so sick of liars)
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "If Bregman wanted to be here -- " spewed Sam Kennedy... ... here, let me finish: "-- then he'd want a no-trade clause so he could stay here!" How hard was that?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And I don't care, because I don't know if I will be here in 2029 or 2030 -- or if those years will even be. I care about next season -- 2027, just like I cared about last season when it was happening or the one before that... ... watching the impotent Red Sox offense suck in Yankee Stadium as a final act, two seasons in a row. Because Boston wasn't good enough. And go ahead and use the excuse that Bregman was on that 2025 playoff team -- ya, he played coming off an injury... and he had clean-up man Romy Gonzalez protecting him in the batting order, instead of Raffy Devers. Now is only what matters, whenever now is. But that's just me; I'm sure there are plenty of Red Sox fans looking forward to 2029, when we might be really good.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Big Four say owww! Password says eightsixsevenfivethree0nine. And Casas says do-dodoot-dodoot-dododoot-doot...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Platoons aren't going away, and we're watching a World Series where each team platoons half their positions depending on which arm they're facing... ... though I have no prob rooting against a club that pinch-hits for its #5 batter who homered earlier in the game (like the Rays did the other night). But it's nice to develop such quality depth for use off the bench. The Red Sox, though, seem to have issues lately with prospects turning into solid big leaguers, so the smartest front office in their own room gets to pat itself for signing DFAs like Gonzalez and Jones to DH.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    BB-Ref's Most Similar Batters (... these were the only Red Sox with enough pt to rate): Adley Rutschman: Tyler Stephenson Curtis Mead: Connor Norby IKF: Maicer Izturis Trevor Story: Willson Contreras (not a misprint) Caleb Durbin: Kevin Orie (3.2 career WAR) Jarren Duran: Brandon Marsh Ceddanne Rafaela: Danny Santana Wilyer Abreu: Austin Meadows Connor Wong: Freddy Fermin (not Freeman or Vermin) Romy Gonzaelz: Adonis Garcia Masataka Yoshida: Les Flemming (more filling!) Triston Casas: Tommy Joseph Ready for a deep run?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Best of two, with ectoplasmic extra inning if necessary. Game 1 at WC team with the worst record, Game 2 at WC team with better record. If they split, the tiebreaker is played right after at the Game 2 park like extra innings with ghost runners until there is a winner to decide who advances. So the best team gets the advantage of having last at bats. The networks and gambling sponsors will love it.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The past two Red Sox years haven't even felt like the playoffs, partly because they didn't even play in October this season. But here's the real deal: I don't care what anyone says about MLB's current playoff alignment -- any team that makes the playoffs should be rewarded with at least ONE HOME game.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow's words in the final press conference indicate the strategy for adding power to the offense won't come from offseason acquisitions. Instead, the Red Sox will count on strength and conditioning programs and longball coaching. Brez gave up a lot this summer for Rutschman and Mead, and there's not a lot left to deal for legit MLB bats. It's understandable if the Sox wait to see how/if both will hit when fully healed. All we can do is hope for the best. And also be honest and admit no one has any idea how/if Roman Anthony will ever again be as good as new.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one will admit it, but paying Bregman $40 mil to get out of Devers' contract of $300 mil was worth it to the front office.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd be happy if he doesn't bat leadoff, for several reasons (mainly because it would mean the Sox added new talent at least at the top of the order). BB-Ref's 162-game averages for Anthony, based on the small sample of his young life: 17 HRs, 60 RBI, .271 BA, .371 OBP, .803 OPS and 5.9 WAR (seems high, unless he's a Gold Glover like Rafaela, whose offensive stats were similar in his 5.7 WAR year). Maybe it's the On Base Percentage -- a polarizing stat on talksox these days... But let's just say Roman is fully healed and plays a full season with those numbers: will that be enough production from the Face of the Franchise to boost Boston INTO October 2027? Or does Breslow need to add some serious bats around him?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I mocked that approach from the beginning of September -- because we all knew in the end it wouldn't be easy to just push a start button and get everyone summer hot again. I wonder if the Sox didn't can Cora in April, still had their historic summer, and then tanked the final month and got obliterated in the Bronx... if then, he gets fired? Because that's the aftertaste that lingers now, looking back on the great progress of a club that won three less games (including a W in the playoffs) than the previous season.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    November 2003 to November 2004: Schilling, Foulke, Timlin, Bellhorn, Reese, AROD (briefly), Cabrera, Mientkiewicz, Roberts... Theo Epstein did better, because the Red Sox won the AL pennant and World Series championship.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I wouldn't say "all." I doubt many parched fans bellied up to the bar and gasped, "Gimme a shot of Paxton or Hendriks or Giolito or Sandoval... and hit me in the head with that bat and put me in a coma, then wake me up when I can sip it in about a year-and-a-half to two years from now."
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's just for gas to drive to Boston and to park a mile from Fenway.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That would be ideal for a front office that cares so much about controlling that extra year of a baseball player that 9 out of 10 times is no longer with his original organization by then anyway. But maybe it won't matter in the new CBA. More likely, they'll still be locked out...
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