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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Haven't you been listening? President Sam Kennedy said in an interview yesterday the Sox will start hitting home runs as soon as the weather heats up. How hard is that? LAME it on the weather... because none of the other 29 teams have had to bat in crap cold and even snow this month. But we keep paying for tickets or NESN no matter how much they SUCK, thus... The President knows the Nation is dumb, so he just continues to lie every single time he opens his mouth (that felt good for some reason). -
And... "Stan Musial" -- the favorite of little boy John Henry, who could never imagine as a kid his team trading away his idol.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
People looking for excuses can point to all the free agents from last winter that have had bad starts and say, "At least we didn't waste all that money." But by the end of the year, and probably mid-season, most of that top talent will adjust, course correct and win out. The waste will be spending on guys who weren't good enough and assigning them to a manager who can't help but use them. You knew as soon as Romy went down that IKF -- a benchwarmer whose specialty is defense -- would bat whenever there was a lefty pitcher. -
Yup. But it's ok to call out an idiot announcer who can't even be bothered to fact-check dumbass claims fed to him from the research department. "Devers had a Gold Glove in Boston"... what the intern really typed, that his fool editor erroneously added two big Gs to, was "Devers had old love in Boston" (then we all got older).
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WHA-- and risk ruining him for life!?!?! What do you think is, a war where teenagers kill or be killed at the behest of fat politicians who grew up so rich and cowardly they never had to serve? No! This is a kids' game, that young men play... how can you possibly subject a guy to the horrors of coming in last place?
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Size only matters when Breslow drafts pitchers, but not when he trades for infielders. And meal portions in the heart-attack capital of the world. And when buying a garment manufactured on the other side of the planet (get the XXL, trust me).
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At least a few batters got the memo about keeping their heads still and hitting to the opposite field. Duran found The Wall twice -- welcome back, Jarren. And Wong hit one to right field that OB said was out of 30 of 30 Little League ballparks. Lou said it would've been over the second wire between the telephone poles across from his driveway -- but not the third... so it was just a triple in Driveway Ball, not a homer.
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Isaiah Kinda Failure
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Durbin, it's "Pull the ball in the air!" NOT Pull your head and hit air.
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OPPO double! A real swing!
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In their 24 games this season, the Red Sox have scored in the 1st inning 4 times for 5 total runs. Opponents have scored in the 1st inning vs. Boston 10 times for 17 runs.
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Some were just waiting to come in because they didn't want to watch another leadoff man strike out.
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Can we just skip leadoff tomorrow and just start with the #2 batter? The Yanks can have the out, but at least it will cut down on our strikeout total.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hey -- when all Boston's execs are in their front office, they're the smartest guys in the room. -
A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This may be blasphemy to all the front offices that swear by the batting philosophy espoused by Driveline to "pull the ball in the air" -- but how's that working out in the majors, Red Sox? Crusty old fans like me grew up reading Ted Williams' bio and his hitting bible, "The Science of Hitting." We've known about the "slight uppercut swing" since we were kids -- but we were also taught by normal humans that the most consistent approach at the plate is to turn the top hand down on contact for line drives and to "hit the ball where it's pitched." Pitchers aren't as stupid as Ted thought. If they know everybody's trying to pull, they'll constantly work off the outside corner for flailing chases or at least roll-over grounders. Look familiar, fans of futility? Hall of Famers with god-given, elite hand-eye shouldn't be MLB batting coaches, because to them, it all came natural. Neither should guys who never made it be in charge of those who did. When Boston hires new batting coaches, bring in ex-big leaguers who maybe didn't have the gifts, but succeeded by learning to use the whole field. -
You're just saying that because when Anthony leads off games this year he's batting .095 with 38% strikeouts. And he looks miserable. But last year Roman hit .320 with 28% K-rate leading off 27 games. In comparison, Duran batted .212 leading off games with a 34% K-rate last season. The year before when he was an All-Star, Jarren batted .243 with a 28% K-rate leading off games.
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Sonny Gray Placed On 15-Day IL By Red Sox
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Steve Drumwright's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It's sad and it's sweet but his legs were complete when Gray wore a younger man's clothes. -
Rivera may not crumble under the big lights since he just pitched a month ago with his entire country screaming for him at a big party in the sold-out stands.
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Sox have a lot of promising ex-college arms, but 6 foot-7 inch Rivera schooled a lot of pro hitters in the WBC as Puerto Rico's go-to guy.
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This is actually a hitters' post for drewski... seeing the name Hillenbrand did remind me of the '02 Sox that had four legit All-Stars (won't bore you with their stats), including Manny, Nomar and Johnny Damon. They won 93 games BUT didn't make the playoffs... ... so their new GM that winter went out and acquired another batting champ to play 3B, a home run hitting 1B, a 2B good enough to bat third in the postseason, and a Hall of Fame DH. In '03, eight Red Sox had 85 or more RBI and five of them received AL MVP votes on a club that would've went to the World Series with any manager not named Little. The GM was Theo -- who still works in Boston. Why can't they let him make moves like that again?
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If Paredes' WAR is actually Below a Replacement Player, then the Red Sox could just have a poster play third -- and it wouldn't cost anything. We're all below replacement players... but not replacement posters! Well, a 1970s Farrah Fawcett is probably still a collector's item to someone... but not worth an Abreu. I was thinking more like the Incredible Hulk I got at Store 24 and hung on the back of my dorm room door.
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Question of the week: are you optimistic?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I would say the 11 other AL teams are optimistic about pitching against the stars of the Eccentric Kool-Aid Flaccid Test by Tom Whiff. -
We worked on our pitchers throwing high and inside whenever a batter squared. The idea isn't to bean a guy, but to get him to pop up into a double play... ... because every single batter in the history of high school baseball -- whenever they got the bunt sign -- went after the next pitch, no matter where it was: 10 feet outside, over their heads, underground, in the parking lot at DQ. They can't help themselves, even when it's not a suicide squeeze -- it's an obligatory rite of passage, like talking to the redhead at the drive-in in The Outsiders, even when you know you don't have a prayer.
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It's not easy if you've never learned it, but that's maybe the point. Professional batters presumably have the best hand-eye coordination in the sport. Guys who made it to the majors used to have all the basics mastered on the way up... maybe this changed when clubs just started promoting god-blessed athletes like Deon Sanders. If they have split-second pitch recognition and reactions that allow them to check swing, then they can also pull back on pitches they can't bunt. But metrics also decided this century it's not worth it to bunt anymore (they didn't poll Red Sox fans who'd rather watch their favorite whiffers win in extra innings more often). Some wonder if programs in high school, college and the minor leagues no longer teach bunting? How many of us remember at any level taking batting practice: we weren't even allowed to swing until we bunted one fair towards first, then towards third. And the next swing was a fake-bunt slash (another lost art). Of course, those who do make it to The Show likely get there from hacking away and are just out of practice.
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Which is stranger than his contact rate -- are the inconsistencies of supposedly better pitching causing Ceddanne to be more hesitant out there? In past years he looked more confident, like he knew he always needed full sprints off the crack of the bat.
