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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Big win for the Sox, who now have to brace themselves to play a pair vs. a Braves franchise that called Boston home for 77 years (starting in 1876)... but then fled Beantown -- 71 seasons ago. Compared to the inconsistent Red Sox, everyone knows how much better the Great Braves are: Atlanta has one more entire win than Boston! While the poor Sox only lead the majors in WAR for pitching staffs and outfielders, the balanced Braves with all their young stars signed to longterm team-friendly contracts sport a superior edge in the most important department: Defensive Efficiency: Atlanta .708, Boston .707.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I assumed he was referring to board members -- and our own diminished baseball skills: typing quips, resisting remotes, spectating with both eyes closed... Re. MLB batting woes -- the infestation of sweepers calls for adjustments contrary to the approach that landed most ballplayers in the majors. The hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball, but anyone who makes it has to be able to hit a fastball. However, adjusting to other types of pitching determines how long they'll actually stay in the big leagues. The answer to connecting with offspeed junk or even sharp breaking stuff isn't to try to hit farther or even harder. If I still had my peak hand-eye coordination and muscle mass, I'd be looking at long, daily BP offerings, watching spins, and cutting down my swing with a focus on sweet spots and the opposite field... taking the breaking the other way.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Earl Wilson had a pretty good career: led the AL with 7.7 WAR in '66, received MVP votes in '66 and '67, pitched a no-hitter, hit 35 home runs, won 121 games, avg 215 IP in 11 years
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Vaughn Grissom is the starting second baseman for the Boston Red Sox tonight, batting seventh behind DH Dom Smith. Time to tear open that Topps wax pack...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just hope he stays off the stationary bike if there's a big screen TV in the room. Those ex-White Sox aces can get psychotic when healing. Better keep him away from City Connect uniforms, too (at least if there are scissors in the clubhouse). On second thought, can we keep all Red Sox players away from yellow jerseys?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Twins hitting conjures a pair of siblings (identical or fraternal) swinging the bat. It's cool when they're related and bat back-to-back in the order.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Speier's report on Garcia just dumped a cooler of ice on him.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How dare any business discriminate against an employee, based on his competency in the workplace.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope, they're idiots for paying him $38 million, which he'll collect after he opts to not opt out, and instead double his rehab expenses...
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Typical '24 Red Sox ORGANIZATION... just read an article this week on MLB.com that ranked him the Sox' #1 hitting prospect.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think it must be a weird coincidence that the parent club also has a pitcher named Slaten, who is fifth in WAR and sports 0.52 ERA in 10 Major League games so far this season.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's going to speak in a weird really high voice?
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's just a lot of Presidents of Vice. There must be ashtrays and spittoons all over the room, devises tuned to gambling sites (among others), texting during pitches, and outbursts of the most vile and graphic swearing.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In the Red Sox Staff Directory, there are loads of names in Baseball Operations departments, including Baseball Operations and Administration (travel, clubhouse, medicine, etc), Baseball Research and Development (mostly analytics), Minor League Operations, and Scouting. But at the top of the list there's the Executive Management Team -- which includes 18 Vice Presidents. This is not a drill.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In defense of Breslow: don't criticize any dumpster-diving this week, because replacing injured players by acquiring an actual first baseman at the end of April, then getting another, while also signing a glove-first shortstop the first day of May is so un-Bloom. Brez is making moves, not waiting for any awesomeness to emerge by pushing a round Franchy into a square pizza box or back-peddaling Arroyo into the outfield. Pablo played infield like Kike, and he's gone... Valdez is finally starting to improve, but was already told to pack his bags. The new CBO is decisive.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Williams couldn't believe how any other ballplayer couldn't mimic his slight uppercut swing by practicing it with their glove hands while standing around in the outfield on defense.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean 30 years. Mata is the homegrown version of Mondesi. Wasn't Mata the Sox #1 pitching prospect before the pandemic?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't think there was a seat there in 1946 -- just long metal benches, like the ones at high school games -- no backs, no armrests, no red chairs.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The rate of rotation injuries in Boston before May 1 should be a major concern. Even if it's not partially a risk in Bailey's plan, the next logical step is an overhaul in organizational training for young pitchers. Maybe Kyle Boddy from Driveline, with its state of the art professional ballplayer training program, has already begun to implement that...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fair point. But how do we know the staff emphasis on less 4-seamers and more sweeping slurvey pitches didn't over-stress the arm joints of the four starters who've already missed some starts? Bailey is definitely the star signing of the winter -- so far. But when Bellhorn calls him an alchemist, I worry of the infamous chemist who mixed a popular green paint that rich families used on their bedroom walls in the Victorian era. Suddenly, people fell ill and started dying, as if poisoned... until investigators found one of the ingredients they were breathing: arsenic.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's easier to root for "Bobby DEE" even if he's not playing good D... ... rather than cheering "Garrett C!" -- that could be a Yankee name.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It is my goal to convince you to stop lamenting Giolito. There is absolutely no guarantee that he'd perform any better than he had the past two seasons. And if he didn't, the Sox wouldn't be in the playoffs after the first month. But if he didn't get hurt and continued to throw like in his recent past, we'd all be calling him the next Kluber and hammering Breslow. The positive of Gio's injury is that it gave other younger pitchers an opportunity to flourish -- and they have.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Bello-Houck-Crawford can all produce entire quality seasons, this will indeed be the best homegrown class in over a decade. Hopefully, they can form a core staff, but with a ways to go before they equal the Lester-Buchholz-Papelbon era -- when each made multiple All-Star teams in Boston. I'll remain skeptical about whether owners spend more on pitching -- especially if the young cheap guys do well, while their one big winter signing mends on the sidelines.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Starters pitch to more batters, assuming they throw multiple innings. A five or six inning start equates to retiring up to 18 batters -- again, assuming a quality start with limited damage in between. It's the main reason WAR mongers value starters so much more over relievers (who may only retire 3 batters a night, even when doing their jobs). It's also why clubs always want to try stretching out effective pitchers; because it takes 27 outs to win a game... unless it rains or there are ghosts.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Your own words were "pitching already more established".... than Verdugo, Urias, Benintendi? Those guys were all big leaguers...
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