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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Whadaya mean -- Giolito is lost, Uwasawa is found!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hatteberg was Moneyball. Lowrie was in Touching the Game, Alaska: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440357/
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lowrie was in a movie (or portrayed in a movie). Romero is the Mondesi of the minors.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Would everybody be ok with the Roman Candle if he hits 20 homers and steals 20 bases his first full year, then has a 4.8 WAR the next, while leading the Sox in postseason runs, hits, doubles and SBs as Boston wins the World Series? But suddenly, before he gets a raise, they trade him for a Franchy who can't play outfield or infield, and a minor league arm connected to a mustache? Then he'd be Benintendi.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The plan must be to outbid the Dodgers and Yankees and Mets and Rangers and Dombrowskis for Buehler and Fried... uh, wait- that's only if the Big Three actually are good. Remember, on Bloom's last fun weekend in Massachusetts, he said they traded Mookie because the team wasn't prepared to surround him with talent (and it allowed them to sign Kike and Garrett Richards!). But then, ominously, he said with Raffy, they were "willing to make that bet." What if Bloom was fired right before he was about to join the high rollers -- like Henry feared he'd be a new Dombro... and that would make Breslow an old Bloom. Aaarrrggghhhhh!
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It only matters for the Grapefruit and Cactus champs -- because the Orioles and Dodgers look great. Spring Training records don't matter for the other two .600 teams -- Detroit and Boston -- because they were trying to look great. Especially the Red Sox, with their 13-2 home mark -- tops among of all 30 clubs; they were only good at home because they played their big leaguers vs. visitors' minor leaguers (which the other 29 teams do, too).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sure, but these lists are current -- Cole is on the IL, so he's out of the top 10. Also, Glasnow made #10 over kajillionaire teammate Yo Yama, who bombed in his debut (though he's still somehow #30-something overall...)
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's funny how Burnes was 8th in NL Cy Young voting last year, but now that he's on everybody's darling Orioles, he's the second-best starter in both leagues.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    5GGlyphs flips the script: Tor- Bos- Bal- Tamp- NYY
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I feel like Jon Stewart... I -- I can't -- I can't do this again... ... "once we're good enough, then we'll be good enough to spend on top pitching" -- bu-but YOU'LL NEVER BE f***ING GOOD AGAIN WITHOUT GOOD f***ING PITCHERS!!!!!@#$%^&*!!!!
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Why would the Red Sox want to pay a guy who was good the past two years for three different teams, when instead they could blow twice as much on a guy who sucked for three teams?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Many have surmised Boras blew it with his clients this winter -- and that the entire industry also knows something about Monty that precluded anyone from giving him market value. But that doesn't excuse the all-out Red Sox from going all-in on Giolito, who admitted he had basically no other solid offers. The Sox front office, chaired mostly by lifers with more job security than Supreme Court jesters, outbid themselves on Gio this year and Yoshida last year -- doesn't quite make them smarter than everyone else...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not saying Montgomery would be a Red Sox today if only Brez offered $26 mil, but it's irksome that the Sox finally admitted they are all-out (opposite of all-in) and yet still decided a few months ago it was a good idea to blow $39 mil on another pitcher who sucked the past two years. If the plan was to add a veteran innings-eater to stabilize the starting rotation, which -- even if you're not going for it this year -- is invaluable in any rebuild to the development of younger starters and preservation of relief arms going forward, then it's depressing as a fan when your team changes its mind in the same offseason.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or even hit a train with a minor league homer...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "I was abducted by an alien business plan..."
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If people want to totally dismiss ST results, ok -- but then maybe it's not automatic to bet big on the mighty Baltimore O's. The Red Sox had the best home record in baseball in exhibition games, which maybe isn't a big deal, but it doesn't suck. Fans of clubs that had crappy home records -- when most of their big leaguers faced road teams of mostly minor leaguers -- might be worried, though...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    1. sign three more Criswells 2. TAKE Sign on the FIRST pitch 3. leave Bernardino -- who was good last year and even better this Spring -- in the freaking majors 4. Hit. The. Cutoff!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the offense is really the key to the season, then Fatse and the batting coaches have to emphasize a better approach to breaking balls. Voices in the booth talk about the revamped Sox pitching focus on offspeed stuff, and how it's reflecting a trend in the game. Every position player that makes the majors had to be able to hit a fastball, with elite hand-eye coordination. But guys that can't recognize or get fooled by sliders, curves, sweepers and change-ups -- and flail, get constantly banged on check-the-check, or even just try to pull and roll over... have trouble staying in the bigs. It's not only newbies like Ceddanne or Abreu, but Story, Wong, O'Neill, Masa, just about anyone but Raffy, who has superior bat-to-ball skills (and can line bouncers off the dirt if he wants). Casas and Duran improved last year -- and we can only hope that a guy like Grissom, who doesn't K a lot, gets here ASAP.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the business model is not to spend to recruit reinforcements outside the org -- or (excuse me, Brez) not invest in "external" talent -- until all the prospects we're counting on ultimately make the bigs -- then why throw money away on dumpster dives when we can just develop our own paid-for putridity. We have new magic pitching experts who are going to defy every other evaluating voice in the industry...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Slaten will make trading veteran relievers possible. Maybe we'll get the next ERod, who was acquired for a veteran big league reliever. Maybe we already have him in Sandlin, who I have high hopes to take a regular turn in the rotation later or sooner. Maybe by then we won't be doomed to cite the good half-seasons of a guy like Pivetta... nothing personal, moon, but when I read that post I thought, This is what they've reduced us to... Btw, Pivetta's career ERA as a starter is pushing 5, same as Giolito's the past two seasons.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, it's prob more a reflection of the desperation for pitching across the game (and the sorry state of elbows). But for a team with such putrid pitching prospects, you'd think it would be worth it to protect as many as possible, instead of blowing a million bucks a shot on future dumpster roulette.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox came in last two years ago and added a two-time Cy Young... and sustained their status woe! Can the Sox even lose the division? Don't they need to be in contention before they can blow it?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You have to admit one thing we've all been frustrated by the past half decade is Boston's catastrophe of a developmental pitching department. So when several Red Sox minor league pitchers get Rule V drafted by other teams the past two years, it's understandable when fans wonder WTF.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... but they had a playoff game! Most intense one-game everything-on-the-line showdown between the two best teams who also hated each other the most. (I actually had predicted a Red Sox-Yankees one-game division tiebreaker, back when my pals and I made annual preseason predictions every year... only, it was in 1976 -- when NY exceeded and Bos failed).
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    His patience at the plate puts him on base more than anyone, so ideally he'd bat right in front of Raffy. But Cora loves Duran at leadoff and we all know there's no way he'll bat three lefties in a row... .... maybe Yoshida's translator can tell Cora how his WBC team batted five lefties in a row and won the world!
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