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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Take a pitcher and pay him to run away and star in Breslow and Bailey's Greatest Show On Earth.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I get what you're saying, but they really can't trade middle infield prospects for pitching if other teams refuse to deal arms for middle infielders. Sox fans wouldn't fret so much about this, if they were confident ownership would still pay market prices for top of the rotation free agents.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Moore had four of the seven hardest hit balls of the college world series. Led D1 in hits. The Red Sox should draft him just so we can all post that he can always be traded some day for pitching. Even though Boston never trades middle infield prospects for pitchers, we need to be able to say they will, over and over again every year.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Casas is going to the All-Star Game! ... as an announcer. ps: he can never hurt his mouth, talking too hard.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    OB: "The Sox have exceeded expectations..." CB: "I'm very careful to never say that..." ... because it would be like admitting a CBO didn't properly supply a roster with players good enough to play this well. OB: "Why isn't Cora signed for next year?" CB: "I have a new position, and we agreed not to distract by talking about it until after the season." So... does that mean Alex will evaluate Craig, and decide whether to keep him around? (some peeps did think this, during Sam's diligent CBO search).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget when Giolito was lost for the season, some of us didn't go all doom and gloom. 1. He sucked the past two years, and the Red Sox not only bet they could fix him, but gave him an opt-out if he regained past glory (why was that a good idea, again, for a franchise bereft in pitching?)... 2. Some of us saw the Gio injury -- along with the Sale trade -- as an opportunity for the younger or more inexperienced arms on the roster to establish themselves as legitimate starting pitchers worthy of a regular turn in the rotation. 3... and yet, all of us saw the need for a veteran top-of-the-rotation presence to teach the back-to-back doormats how to win again asap -- even, as a scant few of us claimed, the future stud position players weren't quite ready to become big league All-Stars all at the same time!
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    An owner willing to take on another pitcher contract that's owed over $70 million... If Breslow is allowed to trade any decent prospects, it will be for a more affordable pitcher they can try to lock up for a more reasonable extension. Realistically, the best Sox fans should hope for is a Jack Flaherty, who will be paid about $7 million for the next three months, before he becomes a free agent again next winter.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Something to mull: if paying Cora market value isn't in Red Sox longterm plans, then Breslow won't hesitate to trade Jansen, Pivetta and O'Neill by August 1... because, who cares if he pisses off a lame duck? Boston has 14 more games before the deadline, can go .500, and be a few games ahead or behind a wild card spot... and the front office can still easily justify selling. If someone offers Breslow a Cole Ragans for Jansen today, he'd jump all over it. Would you?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The trade proposal was for both -- RHH bench guys, even with good splits, just aren't enough vs. a tough lefty like Ragans, as we saw last night.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    By the '18 postseason, it was obvious Sale and Eovaldi were trending in opposite directions. Anyone who questioned Dombro extending Sale worried about the aches and pains that limited his second half of '18. Anyone who watched Eovaldi pitch six extra innings in Game 3 in LA saw a guy throwing 100 mph with offspeed stuff that led the playoffs in WHIP. Nate still had IL issues, but also was great in '21 (and '23, winning another ring).
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe this is a factor -- look at the list, and identify who was actually a star in his prime when the Sox signed him (I'm not counting homegrown extensions, which have always been a staple of stable franchises): Price, Sale, JD... with Nate entering his prime. I'd say a majority of astute fans, media and industry people thought Price and Sale were overpaid, because one wasn't worthy of the largest contract for a pitcher in history, while the other wasn't that durable. The latter was also a risk in signing Eovaldi (as was Story... while Yoshida was unproven). We got what we paid for in JD Martinez.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good job on the proposals. I wanted every one of the pitchers you listed to join the Sox before the Jays paid what it took to land them. I just can't get include Teel in a deal, because potential star catchers are so rare. I know Wong is improved, but this may also be his peak... Instead, I'd have to include Mayer -- but only if Vlad is part of the return. It's ironic, that every year I've been on this board, posters have advocated drafting the best player available -- invariably a shortstop (the position the best amateurs always play) -- and it's ok to stockpile a surplus, because you "can always trade them for pitching." The Red Sox keep drafting and signing middle infielders... and yet, never trade them for pitching.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Braves' GM insisted at the time Grissom was going to be a star. Instead, he's just another meteor in what has become an annual summer shower over Fenway. Sale, Story, Paxton, Mondesi, now Casas, Hendricks, Fullmer -- rooting for the Sox, wishing upon fallen stars and never-ares (I'm not counting Pedroia and his career-ending injury, a tragedy almost at Tony C level). It's not a modern issue, either, because the champion Red Sox outfield of Betts, Bradley and Benintendi averaged 148, 145 and 146 games per year as regulars in the 20Teens. Compare them to the great unit of the Seventies, when Fred Lynn was mocked as Fragile Freddy; in his first five full years as a Red Sox regular, Lynn averaged 141 games, same as Dwight Evans (not including half a season missed with a knee injury). Jim Rice averaged 156, but that includes a couple hundred as DH. So why the current trend? Can't say we get what we pay for, since Sale and Story were made epically rich. Bad luck? Bad planning? Bad mojo for fans of four flags?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Give him a break! Don't you get how hard it is to pick a lane when you're going full idle? ... unless coasting downhill.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't even remember Kike at second base (where Cora called him the best in baseball, when he signed)... probably because he was so good in center in '21. Of the others on the list, Story was the best on D, but the guy who made the biggest impact -- as an acquisition to bolster the line-up -- had to be Iglesias. He was ineligible for the '21 postseason, but stuck around cheering like a player-coach (like Pedroia in '18)... some posters pointed out Joe Churches lost a step, but he's still solid -- and learned how to hit in his 30s: '21 Boston .356/.915 '22 Colorado .292/.708 '24 Mets .338/.852 How dumb of us to suggest re-signing him, when there were so many other worse choices for our CBOs to recycle through...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Luis Medina, Red Sox at your feet. Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Realistically, Breslow knows he'll need to part with one of Mayer-Anthony-Teel-Campbell if he wants a controllable under-30 big league starting pitcher this month. The lower level prospects may turn out to better players, but rebuilding clubs always ask for MLB-ready or near-ready guys (the Top 4 could all feasibly make the majors by the end of next year). The handful of teams giving up on even a wild card can just sit back and wait until the last minute of the deadline to take the best possible package from desperate GMs. Smart CBOs, though, should be able to land a rental or two before then...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Because it just sounds like it would hurt -- even wearing the proper protection.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Go to Woo" is the most-dreaded phrase in the clubhouse for the not-blowing-bubble guys (bubble guys who really don't want to blow).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duran's "F*ck 'em" t-shirt being sold out at 30 bucks a pop pissed off the talksox young guard (my 13 year-old).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even if Criswell throws no-hitters in Worcester this month, they won't bring him back to Boston until the deadline so Sam can tell us he's better than any starter they can trade for.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When the interview was over, he bent his index fingers, then held up the other ones to the fans.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Every poster on this site is permanently banned from the Dads of Bailey Horn for knowing more about baseball than everyone that gets paid to work in pro baseball. Criswell was just named International League Pitcher of the Week.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sorry, I guess I was being too defensive here. How can guys that run an entire minor league not know who's good or bad, when all they have to do is look at stats.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Defense has always been a question, but Yorke enjoyed success last year, taking home Eastern League’s Defensive Player of the Year honors at his position." (J.McWilliams, BGlobe, 3/17/2024)
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