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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just like the same divorce/changing team excuses last winter, posters again conveniently ignore Giolito's bad 2022 when he had a 4.90 ERA for just Chicago, gave up more hits in less innings than '23 and had a worse overall WHIP. At least Lucas didn't lead the league in home runs allowed, like he did in '23 -- hey, when he finally joins Boston's rotation this season, we'll have two starters wearing HR crowns from the past two years!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Both Abreu and Crochet will be 26 in June. With the surplus of young position players, the Red Sox have to be willing to swap Wilyer for an All-Star lefty starting pitcher. 2024 Abreu: 3.5 WAR 15 HR 58 RBI 125 Ks .253 BA .781 OPS Here's another young outfielder Boston recently traded, with age 26 batting stats in the year he also won a Gold Glove... 2016 Benintendi: 2.6 WAR 17 HR 73 RBI 97 Ks .276 BA ,766 OPS Here's one more BoSox farmhand who was once traded for a pitcher (except the arm was attached to a 37-year old), and his age 26 Gold Glove season... 1994 Bagwell: 8.2 WAR 39 HR 116 RBI 65 Ks .368 BA 1.201 OPS Moral of the Post: trade Wilyer Benintendi for Crochet... but don't trade any Bagwells.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least he didn't say the whole front office mantra: "I think we have to be open for business to improving our team profit margin." So the student discount tickets for cold Spring weeknights vs. loser opponents should be safe.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good thing for stats -- otherwise, the world only got to see Mookie run fast and make great plays in the postseason.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The White Sox only owe Robert $19 million. Would it be worth it to a rebuilding team shedding payroll to exchange him for Rafaela, who is under contract for $44 million? They might prefer instead a top prospect making MLB minimum wage.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's also the factor that Juan Soto is a great hitter. Mookie Betts is only a great all-around baseball player in every aspect of the game.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd be surprised if Breslow and Bailey don't focus upgrading the pen or at least stockpiling depth. Both are former MLB relievers, so they know 1). successful back-end pitchers are year-to-year (even Paxton, a starter, said this, recently); and 2). successful comebacks from injury by Hendriks, Fulmer and Whitlock are not guaranteed. Whitlock's best season is still his rookie year, and 2021 seems like half a decade ago. The plan seriously can't be to make a run with two healthy arms, especially one entering his sophomore season, and the other with undefined/multi-functional roles. Now if you told me the plan was to make a run with a mediocre rotation, backed by a lights-out bullpen, I'd believe it. LA just won rings conceding a loss by using an opener and resting its best relievers.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox need two legit back-enders to replace Jansen and Martin. Scott will make the most money in a bidding war with big-market playoff teams, so Boston should move fast on Yates and Estevez -- although this is a Dombrowski strategy, so don't rule him out in striking first. Robertson has been suggested as a veteran presence in the pen -- and where would we be without another old buck at risk to pull a calf muscle jumping out of bed in the middle of the night on the way to the bathroom?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's see: Soto wants $700 million, so $70M per year for the next decade. The Red Sox' entire payroll this season was $140M... so, ya, John Henry would probably jump at the chance to pay Soto half his budget. Hey, it's only a little less than double what Mookie says he would've signed for to stay in Boston (and what Henry refused to offer).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "our position player group is further ahead than our pitching group,” Breslow said. “And so as it relates to upgrades, it will require really elite talent in order to upgrade the position player group in certain instances. So we’ll kind of focus our attention appropriately." I perceive that last line of Brez-speak to sum up the passage thusly: "our position players look pretty good, but our pitching doesn't, so we're not going to blow our budget on Juan Soto when we can use the same dough on two starting pitchers, two good relievers and a back-up catcher."
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This should be worth it to both clubs. Keep the Big Four, Casas and Duran. Abreu is blocking Anthony, and is the top trade chip by default. I'm also not trading Arias this winter -- not with the uncertainty of Mayer's durability the past two seasons. One of them may be the shortstop of future Boston core teams, but Arias is noted for his glove, while Mayer's potential is more with his elite bat. Plus, Trevor Story is under contract for three more years, and the next time he goes on the IL we should get to see and evaluate Mayer on the big league stage. Trade for Crochet and sign Manaea, a starter who worked well with Andrew Bailey in San Fran in 2023. Sign Higashioka to partner with Wong. Higgie has a productive righty bat, hitting 17 homers last season. Spend the rest of the budget on the bullpen.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Why not? Boston hasn't acquired a starting pitcher who had a good first half for the White Sox and a bad second half in at least... a year.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Actively lowering chins, shaking heads, holding palms up, shrugging shoulders... grimacing grimly.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But if the Red Sox sign Pivetta, they can't get draft pick compensation -- which is the whole reason for offering him the Qualifying Offer... (they don't really want to pay anyone $21 million dollars for one year.) It would also go against team philosophy this decade of letting mediocre starting pitching go, so they could use the savings on more one-and-done disasters or two-year injured rehab body surfers who might ride a wave to shore after the All-Star break -- "not this one, the next one."
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Couple of ex-big leaguers and now blab hosts on MLB Sirius today said Pivetta could be a Cy Young winner one of these years! Like the Red Sox would ever let a guy like that get away...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bullpens as a missing structure in general were the main reason star hitters padded their stats in the days when starting pitchers were expected to go the distance. Imagine studs like Williams and DiMaggio licking their chops, waiting to swing against a guy in a fourth time through the order... especially if the hurler was tiring and his stuff was slowing down or not as sharp. And if a manager did have to bring in a reliever, it often wasn't a specialist, but someone just not good enough to make the rotation. Bombs away!
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The correlation has been one of the bummers of Red Sox fans' summers in this decade. Clutch may not exist to some, but not making contact can definitely make a batter unclutch.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dunno -- I muted whenever NESN played them yelling.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Babe: "When I won three rings in Boston, I batted last in the batting order!" Harry Hooper: "Ya, well I won four rings for the Red Sox -- as the leadoff hitter..."
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here are some more O'Neill stats per baseball-ref: his K-rate was worse than all American League batters who had enough plate appearances to qualify (Zach Gelof led with 34.4%). O'Neill's Productive Outs Percentage was 13.3% -- worst on the Red Sox (except for Trevor Story and Mickey Gaspar in SSS). Yoshida was the best regular at 42.9%. O'Neill's BRS Percentage (scoring baserunners, not necessarily with an RBI) was also Boston's worst among regulars at 11.8%. Yoshida led again at 18.6%. O'Neill's Percentage of Plate Appearances with less than two outs, and a runner on third -- who scored -- was also worst among Sox' regulars at 38.8%. The league average was 50.8%. Devers was at 57.1%. Yoshida again led the club at 72.2%.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dumb? This is the same front office smart enough to make Disqualifying Offers to Mookie Betts for years! Just think of all the money they saved on decorative bunting and paint at Fenway Park by not having a few more World Series in Boston.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hindsight my hindhalves.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or maybe they just want the draft pick from another team signing Pivetta... ... to hopefully compensate them for the one they'll lose from signing a better free agent.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shows how overrated the all-or-nothing offense was.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox want to keep Pivetta, they're going to have to at least give him the same amount they're paying Giolito (who has yet to throw a pitch for Boston): two years at around $40 million. Eovaldi also turned down a $20 mil player option, so he'll want at least two for $40... ... but both are probably looking for three-year contracts and closer to $60 -- or at least Wacha money (3 for $51). Signing several legitimate starters like Pivetta, Eovaldi and maybe Manaea or Severino may be preferable to Breslow and Co. rather than splurging on one big-timer like Fried, who Jim Bowden predicts will get around $174 million for six years.
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