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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And reiterates why some posters thought the Sox should've just paid the price to hang on to starting pitchers that did work out in Boston: Eovaldi and Wacha (see AL Innings Pitched 2023-26). Then maybe they don't have to trade their maybe catcher of the future for Crochet, and the next year trade 2 maybe Crochets for their next maybe catcher of the future.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No politics! dog timmad!
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not used to a talksox poster taking the overdog in a week like this.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A career minor league manager who was just given a 3-year contract because he is not Alex Cora? Put it this way, it would be shocking -- no matter how pointed the questions get -- if he doesn't say "... ultimately, these were my decisions."
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sam will spew the most general unfinished quotes: "Ownership has the utmost confidence in Brez and Chad..." (to not spend big and longterm on elite position players, and instead to use the roster of rehabbers and never-has-beens) Brez will talk in circles: "Our analytics department prides itself in optimizing pregame preparation for the coaching staff, which would otherwise be bereft of cutting edge paradigms that align with organizational philosophies morphed into policies." Chad: "Ya, I guess."
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Again, returning from the moon after a year, I'd see a winning record and a postseason berth. Decent season, right? Then I check the data: one-fourth of a season world beaters and 75% of the rest of the schedule total losers. And the way it ended -- getting absolutely obliterated by arch rivals -- couldn't have been more obscene. Indecency bias.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mickey's only 30; that's like 4 in dog years.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He'll be ok. We're on our last gasps.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Hendriks, Sandoval, Buehler, Giolito and Campbell were all terrible" -- guys signed hoping for past glory (Campbell's was in the minors) "Chapman deal was great. Gray and Contreras trades were very good. Suarez signing is good, I think. Crochet trade was good." -- guys signed in their primes at market prices (though Chappy did re-emerge) There's seldom no mystery or magic to You Get What You Pay For
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In other words, darn near the worst in the majors in the two most important slots in the batting order. At least our middle and bottom are invisible in the postseason, too.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He'd make a better forum name (since he just had Sam Horn's half of a rookie season): Last-Gasp Gaspers.com
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I tried not to type about that, but it's an image the epitomizes the pit of this pendulum.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He impressed the Front Office by following orders with their predetermined pitching changes. Though it didn't matter where he batted guys in the line-up... The roster, as his predecessor said many times, is the roster.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Imagine after last year's 90-win season (one W in the Wild Card) we went on a trip to the moon or somewhere without wifi and just returned. "What? Boston won less games and got freaking destroyed by the Yankees this time in the playoffs?!?" Who in their right or left minds would think that was an improvement for the Red Sox? And worth extending for 3 more years the CBO who built that roster...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's a pretty good one. Don't forget Narvaez, so 3 arms? (his throwing arm, not the ones that swing a bat) ... and I was going to blame moon for posting too much about "next year" before we were even crushed yet in this year's playoffs... So how does everyone feel about all the crap coming out about the Front Office forcing Tracy to piss off Sonny Gray so they won't have to worry about paying him a star salary ever again? Not to mention alienating the returning veterans and free agents who may cross Boston off their potential list while earbuds are blasting Led Zep's "Communication Breakdown"...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At age 22, the last Red Sox outfielder some evaluators called baseball's top prospect had 20 home runs, 20 stolen bases and 90 RBI. The next year he scored 103 runs, batted .290 and had a 4.8 WAR. Sure would like to see numbers like that for Anthony before calling him a star. Andrew Benintendi hasn't came close to those early years, but hasn't been a total bust, making an All-Star team and winning a Gold Glove despite injuries and uniform changes. And note to Brez -- it's no coincidence that young Beni was able to produce those Boston stats because he was surrounded by legitimate big league TALENT.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With THIS org? His face will be on t-shirts, press guides and pocket schedules -- they're printing next week! Arias had better stats at two levels than Anthony's last seasons at Portland and Woo, and Roman was instantly anointed MLB leadoff -- even though he didn't bat there for Epperson or Tracy or WBC manager DeRosa, who hit him 6th. But even if Arias blasts 30 HRs per in the majors, you're right. They'll bat him 2nd... because that's where analytics tells them to.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I just wish announcers would leave Ramone alone. And the Sox stop batting him leadoff. Anthony is not Betts and he's not Ellsbury and he's not Damon and he's definitely not Remy. And he's absolutely not Ohtani or Schwarber because he's not going to blast 50 HRs without striking out 300 times a year pulling his head at sweepers until both his hands fall off at the limp wrists. What he maybe could be is a Lynn-type lefty with almost Boggs-type hand-eye targeting the Great Wall of Monster... which is better damage done with somebody else on base in front of him... ... so let's all admit -- not only does Boston badly need a Yordan-Rice-Caminero of their own in the heart of the order (which an entire Nation covets) -- but the Sox also need a legitimate leadoff man to get consistently on base in front of their best hitters. It would be great if the latter is Arias... unless he turns into a middle order impact bat and not a pumpkin like all the recent prospects except Chase Meidroth.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Your post makes sense... unless Tracy was ordered by the FO in advance to pull his starting pitchers before they faced Yankee batters a third time each night. Can you even imagine Cora doing that -- and giving the ball each time to Miller, a guy who sucked for a month. If you recall, Crochet fell behind 1-0 in last year's WC, just like Tolle and Gray did... except the only reliever Cora used that night was Chapman to nail down the W.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Team stat totals is certainly one way to look at it. I see baseball as the sum deeds of isolated individuals. All it takes are two clutch guys who have been there and done it over 800 times combined in the regular and postseason, two NL HR champs (including the current king)... ... like Schwarber and Harper, who in what would've been their final ABs of the year went back-to-back to tie it up in the 8th, until another All-Star went deep to win it in the 10th. And of course Dombro's club had the lockdown starting pitchers to keep them in the games so the big boys could keep on cranking on. Must be nice to have 3 of the top 4 pitchers in NL WAR, all at 6 WAR or better... (not to mention pitchers as the top 5 on your own team WAR list, just ahead of your two future Hall of Fame sluggers). Btw: such arm depth is why the Phils could let another All-Star like Suarez walk (but not to the mound in the AL WC).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And the Phillies -- also on the WC road with a record similar to the Red Sox -- live another day because of home runs. And lost the day before on a homer. But where Brez pivoted to run prevention, Dombro has always been about starting pitching and HRs (Price, Sale, JDH Martinez). We all know which plan costs more and why Henry changed CBOs.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow has spent big on exactly one hitter: Bregman. And some poster thinks that overpay was entirely worth it to ownership for one year in a master plan to dump the 10 year contract of their only established HR power.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox just need one bat: the one that Manny Ramirez swung from 2001 to 2008... with '01-08 Manny swinging it.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Complain all you want about usage of the Red Sox pitching -- they used 10 pitchers and 8 gave up runs (all but Chapman and Weissert)... ... but this sums up the diff between NY and Boston: the Yanks' legitimate offense was so deep they could overcome the loss of their Hall of Famer, and not even start another 30-home run slugger -- Garcia, the NL slugging leader acquired in trade for 4 prospects. The Red Sox' ghastly batting order, in contrast, slotted two players cut by non-contenders in key spots -- two years in a row: Romy clean-up in '25, Jones leadoff in '26. In Beancounter Town, it's cheaper to pay an office full of Asst. VPs to scour the waiver wires than it is for established bats.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least the Sox gave him a driver back to Boston. They didn't want the kid to tear a pinky using the blinkers. But no excuses from Roman -- gotta respect that. In an interview with J.Webster he admitted his wrist wasn't healed when he came back but then said no one is 100% this time of year.
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