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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was all over the under of 87.5 and C- because Brez never replaced Bregman in the batting order. He finally replaced Devers with Contreras, and I don't accept that Anthony was a replacement last summer because Roman deserved to make the team right alongside Raffy last spring.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We're all patients of history. I swear I read posts on some forums recently where typists gave the CBO a grade A and predicted 95 wins. But we'll never know if those anonymous posters were Brez loyalists planted there to deceive the base.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe he caused his own spasms from throwing his hands in the air watching too many pitches fly over the fence.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida: zero hits, .500 On Base percentage. But we don't want a guy like that on this offense, because he'll only clog the bases and set up the defense for a double play.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kudos to your optimism -- I implicitly invited the forum to respond about losing to star power and road crowds, and you're the only one to reply. Sox have their brightest star starting on the mound today and have their home crowd on Friday. Early will be pitching in the weekend series, too, so momentum could turn. Maybe even Sam Kennedy will be there (if he really wanted to be there, he'd be there). But kudos also to drewski for calling out Breslow for managing to not re-sign Boston's one All-Star position player and team leader when the guy clearly wanted to be a Red Sox the rest of his career. We don't have to be April Fools to note we're already feeling the impact.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's easy for fans to overreact when their favorites start the season in dead last place. And people who post 365 days a year about a baseball team may possibly be prone to overanalyze... (some who used to hammer me no longer post here, so I'm glad to take shots at myself). So if we excuse the opening series where the home team got a boost from a giddy crowd at a time when hope springs eternal, what's left to describe the two Houston debacles? One serious take: star power. Altuve and Alvarez have as many home runs in the two Boston games as the Red Sox do in their 6-game season. And it's no fluke, because the first guy is a Hall of Famer, and the second is one of the most feared sluggers in the world; the Sox can't match either. It's also folly to blame 25 strikeouts on tough luck running into two good Astros starting pitchers. Maybe the front office is afraid to admit that the Red Sox offense is bad enough to make McCullers and Brown look better than they are. They're talented pitchers, but so are Suarez and Bello...at least they're paid that way.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. If they move to the NL Central.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anthony needs a day. The first three Ks were an immaculate sombrero: 3 strikeouts on 9 total pitches. Just for bad measure, he whiffs for a fourth time. But there is hope: the last three ABs each produced a foul ball. As for Breslow's six NL Central imports, at least Contreras can play first base and mix in an occasional line drive. He looks the most likely to earn legit AL East status. Regarding the others, heed the words of a famous rock band from Boston: Life's the same, it's Monasterio Life's the same, except for my shoes Life's the same, you're shaking like tremolo Life's the same, it's all inside of you
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Confession: I call him "son" -- with American Legion stats from an app last summer... and no, I wasn't the official scorer. I'm not sure how it calculates "hard hit" but suspect the input is "line drive" or "liner" -- though I dunno how a hard one-hop grounder or deep flyout that is crushed factors in.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What would you call a guy with zero Ks who leads the team in hard hit balls?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe the plan is to showcase Mass Attacker...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Their athletic gifts are elite, but I'm just not confident either will have consistently good years with the bats. Story has only had one good year in Boston. Injuries have been a big part of that, but he's now 33 in a sport where most feel a big leaguer's prime is 28-32. Trevor keeps himself in shape, but Father Time could care less because as we know, every new sprain or strain in the mid-30s becomes a part of your forever after. Duran has had one great year, followed by a good one (though not All-Star Quality according to bb-ref). He can nab flies in the outfield and bags on the basepaths, but they've shown they can get him, too. At least we know Jarren will post, so we'll take the contributions and hope they're mostly positive. Our feature film would still be better with multiple nominees for Best Supporting Actor surrounding an annual Oscar favorite.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    P.S. -- and fans shouldn't let him forget it, since what we'll be watching won't let us forget it.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not denying any of this except me being unfair. I didn't say they sucked, but they're not elite, either. Both Story and Duran would be complements to a good batting order, with power and speed to contribute. However, this club has lacked star contact hitters for a long time now and Breslow let one leave this winter and didn't replace him.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not concerned about supposed slow starts from Red Sox batters. I'm more concerned that what you see is what you get. because I've felt that this offense has been overrated since last season. Elsewhere, Bo Bichette had a slow start -- but you can be sure he'll hit. The only thing I'm sure about with Story and Duran is they'll have a lot of swing and miss, Anthony will have a lot of pressure for a 21-year old, and Contreras the big bopper has never hit more than 24 HRs in his decade in the majors.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The subtle warning sign for this team was that on his one K, Rafaela was given the green light on 3-and-0 vs a pitcher who just threw 7 straight balls. And the Red Sox were trailing, with Anthony (who wasn't yet ice cold) on deck. Did Cora give Ceddanne an ill-advised green light at that moment, or do all Sox batters have that option now? I ask this because Merloni or Middlebrooks was talking how 3-1 pitches were not guaranteed to be fastballs anymore, and a better fat pitch might now be 3-0... But the way most of these hitters hack and swing and miss, it may be better to hope for a walk sometimes.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No matter how good our rotation is this season, they all aren't going to pitch shutouts every night. That could be trouble.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox can just win 20 games more than they lose the rest of the season, they'll still get to 90 Ws... ... but that's not just winning 20 games (I have to keep reminding myself). And I admit that early in the offseason I was hoping they'd sign Ranger Suarez... but to fortify the rotation -- not INSTEAD of a bat.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The rotation has been inconsistent, with good starts by Crochet and Early, and bad starts by Gray and Suarez. But how much does that matter if the Red Sox' first four batters at the top of the order have 25 strikeouts in 63 at bats for a 40% K-rate? And be honest, which is more insane -- the whiffs for Anthony-Story-Duran-Contreras, or the fact that Rafaela has only fanned once? This offense is what it is. Durbin isn't going to hit zero, but the only thing hilarious was the prediction that Fenway Park would double his home run production because he's a high fly pull hitter -- has anyone seen him pull one deep yet, including in Florida?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course, but as someone already said, what else do we have to go by so far? It's still Early, and no matter the stats say, HE still hasn't allowed a run to score.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Any eyeball test can includes stats they read, like this weekend's AL team average of 4.53 runs per game... ... the Red Sox' RPG is 3.33 -- with only Cleveland and KC below them.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The batting order is only a problem because of the names that aren't in it that left or never got here the past two years: Soto, Devers, Bregman, Schwarber, Alonso, Marte, Bichette, Paredes and Nico Hoerner, who sat in the corner on a bowtie spider that belongs to insider- Ken Rosenthal.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But what really made the Blue Jays better than Boston and every other AL team last year? This is what announcers repeated all during the postseason: Toronto's offense was near the top in batting average and the bottom in strikeouts. And the unbeaten Jays are right there again through the first weekend of this season.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I only watch one team in one sport on TV where the most runs win. But being a longtime Red Sox fan, it's hard getting used to the type of team playing when the most run wins.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When it comes to average -- say, in a 10-game span -- there's no difference between a couple games scoring 10 runs and a couple more scoring zero, as long as in all the others they score 5. But will agita-filled Red Sox fans who watch most of the games be happy to witness a few scoring 20 while the majority of the rest are stress fests all summer where Boston barely plates 3 runs or less... Here's their 10-game sample: 20, 20, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0 = 52 runs divided by 10 = 5.2. "Our record might be 3-7 or 4-6, but hey, we average seeing Boston score 5.2 runs per game," nobody will ever claim. Stats may be earefutable, but games are often eyeballfutile.
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