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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The one thing I remember and liked about Baty that I saw in person in the minors is that he always tried to hit to the opposite field, which kept his head on the ball... and would play well in a home ballpark with a 37-foot high leftfield wall that is 310 feet from home plate.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even wanting him gone?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sure, but perch are often confused in name with pickerel, which are from the pike family and known as walleye in Canada. As long as they keep all the carp out of our waters, because carp are an invasive species. If only the DEP (Department of Environmental Pollution) could hire a school of masked piranhas to patrol lakes and ponds... though I've never known fish to wear masks before this year.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Everyone should speak the native language of their country. So all English speakers that live in the U.S. should learn how to speak Algonquian... but wait, didn't their ancestors once enter the continent across the mythical land bridge to Alaska? That does it, anyone east of the Mississippi needs to speak brook trout -- not rainbow trout or brown trout, because those were imported -- but brookie: the one true indigenous freshwater species.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    SECOND BASEMAN. More importantly, what's the latest word in the Chicago area about trading Nico Horner to Boston? It's Febrooary -- the first month of Spring Training 2026. Sorry, I'm looking for reputable sources, most of which have become extinct since flip phones (though those are making a comeback because they have to be opened to use -- and won't automatically call my sister any time I'm near my dumb phone).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was a big gamble at the time, but before testing. My patience. But back then, most frauds saying not to believe your own eyes and ears were in the shadows with Mulder and Scully.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think Betancourt is the only one originally drafted or signed by Boston. Javy Guerra, traded by Dombro in the Kimbrel deal, was one SS converted to pitcher. But like Duran said: out of about 400 (this century). Then there was Frankie Rodriguez, who all the baseball card mags in the 1990s touted as a mighty pre-Ohtani two-way prospect. He never played shortstop in the bigs, but did have one single for Seattle in 1999, and tied me for zero MLB homers.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All we ever heard is that shortstop prospects can move anywhere on the diamond. Still waiting for one to convert to pitcher. Wakefield and Tolle could hit homers, but they were first basemen...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    February is in three days. But it will always be "still early" on Red Sox message boards, all the way until the trade deadline every summer when nothing you hope for ever gets added.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, I don't wanna be a downer, but then I looked at the thread title: "A Realistic Look at 2026"... It's great the starting rotation looks deep, but I always feel a team is defined by position players, the regulars who play every night and not just once a week. Argue all you want about pitching, then again the Sox starters may not be better than even Texas: deGrom, Eovaldi, Gore, Leiter, Junis. I really like Ranger Suarez; he reminds me of Luis Tiant coming off the '75 World Series. And that team with so much promise went into 1976 with a rotation of Looie, two other All-Star pitchers in Wise and Lee, and a winter acquisition headed to Cooperstown: Fergie Jenkins. The '26 Sox have a handful of pretty good guys on the field and in the batting order, but no stars. That '76 Boston club had Hall of Famers like Yaz, Rice and Fisk, plus MVP Lynn, Dwight Evans and Cecil Cooper (Most Similar Batter on bb-ref: Don Mattingly). They won 83 games.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is what most of the forum has been saying all winter. But when you post it, it sounds like... most still agree. And Jimmy with a "y" is still pickin. The dogs of doom are howling more.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thanks -- some strong quotes: extremely advanced hitter... rarely swings and misses... such a smart hitter... If he is indeed all those things, then I bet the pop-up issue is from taking his eye off the ball while trying to show extra-base power. At some point in the minors, all position player prospects try to homer their way into the big leagues.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston certainly needs a good starting second baseman or third baseman from outside the org, and a righty-swinging outfielder/DH for Cora to carry and sometimes platoon or pinch-hit for whichever lefty-swinging outfielder isn't traded. In the playoff batting order, Refsnyder led off and Romy cleaned up -- those are the two hitters I'm removing, except your proposed '26 order has Duran 1st and Abreu 4th -- which is ironic, because one of them has to go. Your order isn't bad, and Cora loves the alternating L-R-L-R set-up, but I can't see any way the Red Sox will keep three lefty bats like Duran, Abreu and Yoshida to share DH, a corner outfield spot, and a seat on the bench. Duran is just too antsy to sit around the dugout as a full-time DH, and Abreu is a two-time Gold Glover that Cora already said needs to bat against both righties and lefties this year...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't get The Athletic so didn't see Law's complete quote that included the year. I just read NESN.com's recap of his opinion on Arias, doe a deer a female deer.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Second and third in the batting order.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I hate all of these infield options today (especially me at 2B). If they're really building the team around pitching, then they really better acquire an actual good infielder -- and not convert an outfielder or rely on career back-ups. Really, I think it's folly for us or those we pay money to cheer for their team to even consider either of the last two choices.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The middle infield is going to be ok. Keith Law said if Franklin Arias was a college sophomore, he'd go Number One Overall in this year's draft.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have overlooked Refsnyder all winter. But you're right -- -- for this year's offense to just equal '25's, we still need two bats. Two good bats. The season will open with our 21-year-old savior in the batting order, the guy who went deep off the NL's unanimous Cy Young winner. But what if Roman Anthony, with little protection in the line-up, feels the need to try that vs. every pitcher? He seems mature, but sometimes the pressures of expectations have a way of causing fluctuations in young men...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    February starts this Sunday. I'd try out for to play second base for the Red Sox, but wrecked my wrist shoveling snow. My current past present future tense is notnow or never. Any other candidates to degrade the position?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nowadays, there are even some people wrong about predicting the past.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... just taking the stairs
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not disagreeing with you, but I still think some front offices -- in their rush to pursue cutting edge technology and cutting staff in the field -- risk missing the personal interactions of astute scouts with top prospects that help determine intangibles that launch angles or arm extensions can't measure.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... especially after Mookie got there, felt the sunny warmth of Southern California -- compared to the raw New England nights that taunt athletic bodies -- and almost immediately received the contract offer he was hoping to sign in Boston. Sorry, everybody, this post is boring to some, but easier to type staring out the window at two feet of snow that I know I have to shovel.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not looking who specifically to blame, because relying on analytics over eyewitness scouts may just be the company model adopted after watching Moneyball a dozen times. Same thing with not giving star players a no-trade clause. This front office is full of lifers with a pattern of dumping longterm salaries, which they may like at the time of the signing -- or, I dunno, maybe just offer as PR stunts so guys like us will like them... The trade option is definitely an opt-out for the front office.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That, and trade your Hall of Famer for a haul of prospects from LA. Half joking, but I admit I insisted Verdugo be part of that deal -- while some here said there was no way. I wasn't happy with Wong, though, since the Dodgers held back at least two better young catchers. But not landing a starting pitcher was the worst part of that trade... especially after Bloom -- who had zero good pitchers in the pipeline -- rejected the one arm LA included from another system, and took a shortstop named Jeter. There was no way he was fitting in. Of course, then there was the argument of What do you expect for one year of Betts? -- when it was really 13 years, which had to be Friedman's plan all along. For that, I expected Josiah Gray and Kiebert Ruiz, who were later traded for another Hall of Famer.
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