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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If it fell into two feet of powder it would be as silent as an owl floating from one tree to the next. But after the freezing rain we're getting turns the snow to an ice cover, we'd hear a big crack when it hits, then a little one after it slides off and breaks your toes, then a bigger screech like the crows begging for stale bread.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yours was a well thought-out post, but I'm only quoting the first part of the first line because I think it's evil to trade any of those guys right now. I suspect the Red Sox offense will strain to score enough runs to support their great rotation and back end bullpen -- and we'll need all the bats on the roster that can contribute. Boston's best offensive players, at whatever definitions analysts want to use -- ops, contact, pop, speed -- include the following Top 10, however they're ranked: Anthony, Contreras, Story, Duran, Abreu, Yoshida, Durbin, Rafaela, Narvaez. (Casas and Romy are currently ineligible. Mayer and Campbell want to be eligible). All of them have their issues. That's why we're going to need them all.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one else on the forum thinks it might be a bad idea to get rid of a good hitter on an offense that might only be barely good? Rephrasing: why would a team that is committed to pitching and defense -- and not offense -- think it wise to dump their career leader in batting average (minimum 1200 PA)? The 2026 Red Sox need as many bats as they can get! Why cut a guy that bugs posters because he's short, runs methodically and plays left field 20 times better than Manny (Yoshida dWAR -2.4, Ramirez dWAR -21.7)?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ward will play in the majors this year. It might only be a few games, but he'll get a call to fill a roster spot for someone on the IL, maybe just to pinch run in a pennant race. A). it wouldn't make sense for a good team to trade Ward, because he can be useful. B). a bad team might play him more just because he'd come cheap and might fill some seats. C). if Ward gets called up in Boston, pray it's for scenario A... if it's B, the offense leads the league in strikeouts.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Campbell should never sit on a big league bench at his age. How can he possibly go off that way like he did for two months in the minors one summer? I have no problem with a professional veteran hitter like Yoshida in the dugout. He has just as much 18-home run potential playing part-time as all the other projected 18-homer regulars.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kristian Campbell hasn't shown that he can hit MLB pitching with any consistency, or even other team's pitching prospects in Spring Training. He has also not show he can play any position on the field at any level with any consistency... Let's all be honest about this guy: he needs to play every day all season at a level he can master on both sides of the ball before the Sox even think about bringing him up -- to play every day somewhere on the major league diamond. He can't sit in any dugout and just watch; it's already too late for that.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So true -- gotta go back a couple decades at least, like when Papelbon, Lester and Buchholz came up. Before that, try four decades (this being the 40th anniversary of the '86ers)... ... not just Clemens, Boyd and Nipper from that rotation, but right before them: the 1980 Triple A Sox had a staff with Bruce Hurst, John Tudor and Bob Ojeda -- all three were Top 5 finishers in Cy Young voting in their careers. If Witherspoon, Valera, Eyanson and Phillips can do that in Boston, we should always be in contention.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Haters here might also note that the coaching staff of the defending WBC champs are batting Masa Yoshida clean-up, ahead of Okamoto and Murikami. But what do they know.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Last vestige of the worst trade in the history of baseball in our lifetimes.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Could be; they're all either primetime or breakout hopefuls. I hate to be the voice of treason, but everyone realizes most Spring Training pitchers are stretching out workloads or trying new pitches in game situations this month? Spilly on MLB Sirius was telling a ST story when he and his teammates battered around Brad Penny, who was averaging 87 mph that day. Two weeks later the regular season began and they faced Penny again... who smoked them with heaters at 97 mph.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There is the possibility that all four of our BIG FOUR outfielders are slightly overrated here by optimistic posters. There's also the reality of way too much angst about the forum's favorite roster punching bag, our FIFTH OUTFIELDER -- who will play regularly in the field for the defending world champions in an international tournament this month, but apparently never an inning for the defending AL East Wild Card losers. The possibility above is that the entire quartet is prone to high strikeout rates... unlike Yoshida. I don't love double play grounders to second, but a line-up of whiffers can benefit from a few contact guys, too. So where can he ever fit in?!?!? A: somewhere in a batting order with excessive swing and miss. That said, I'm amped that all five of them are getting experience and hopefully, added confidence from regular reps in the WBC.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox players have a lot of confidence in Pookie Jackson, clubhouse wizard.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I hate to say it, but he reminds of Duran when he first came up: an elite athlete trying to be a baseball player. Learning how to hit at the pro level is only one aspect -- because as we've seen, the defense can only be honed with countless game reps. Example: KC playing CF last night vs. the PR WBC team -- man on 1st, single up the middle, and the baserunner took advantage of the sleeping centerfielder and hustled to 3rd. Campbell made a rushed throw high and off the mark. A professional outfielder should be embarrassed and sprint after every base hit and position himself for a good throw for the rest of his career.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    First day for their WBC teams: Yoshida, Rafaela and Anthony go deep. (Ohtani, Schwarber and Judge toe the shallows). Only 17 more homers before the Red Sox hit 20.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can you-- Yoshi just hit a golf ball over the dwarf red maples in his own backyard!
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can say that again: There is NO excuse for dumping an MVP future hall of famer great citizen fan favorite.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    These international showdowns are all part of a hoax to distract from the thousand times his name shows up in plate appearances on documented box scores for Theo Epstein's organization.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What the-- This isn't April Fool's; it's still Maaaaaaacchh!!!
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What about Braiden Ward! He crushed two pitches at 5 mph in between the plate and the mound, then his legs exit veloed out of the box at 95 mph. Two more hits, two more trips around the bases (once he even scored). But in his 3rd AB he blew it: 50 mph pop-up. Another foe feed on NESN, this time Toronto's. When Cespedes got up, they called him Yo Alien. His proud parents Romulan "Romy" Balboa and Klinger Klingon cheered from outer space.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can't find their stats, but I bet Ward's Exit Velocity running out of the batter's box is faster than IKF's.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    One thing hard not to notice so far this spring: whenever Braiden Ward gets in the game, he's almost instantly on second base (and not as a pinch-runner for somebody already there). When Duran gets chugging, better get out of his way. But Ward's speed actually looks different -- he flies. Sorry if I found something in Spring Training that can't be dismissed as overblown Florida stats.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No relation to David Alias Ortiz. But you can bet the past participle (has jogged around bases over 500 times) will be watching -- along with us -- the future tense at SS.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    FLOPS = FL + OPS... or any good Spring Training stats of prospects that veteran fans immediately dismiss -- (unless a veteran big leaguer has good FLOPS, which surely forecasts a career year). But FLIP = FL + IP... can always be excused because whatever any pitcher does in Florida is the result of stretching arms back into game shape, practicing new grips and prescribed gradual ramp ups. So which posters are already wearing their FLIP FLOPS?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bottom of extras in a tie game: sac bunt the Ghost to 3rd, then sac bunt him home. You're a professional batter with elite hand-eye, holding the bat horizontally in the way of the pitch. If the pitch is higher than your bat, pull back and try again on the next pitch.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So just swing from your heels in case the pitch hits your bat!
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