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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Have you ever lived in San Diego? Even visiting for just a week makes hair turn blonde and jelly bellies disappear -- public transportation is roller blading!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Only a half dozen clubs in the big leagues have a better offense than Anthony getting on base, a few guys stealing, and a few others hitting 20 homers? Twenty MLB batting orders can't do better than that? Really?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good point; I was also in favor of Sale's extension. It was below Price's market-setting deal, and Sale jumped at it -- which was suspicious, since at the time he was the most underpaid star pitcher of his day. Even more urgently, I wanted Eovaldi extended, too. Nate was just coming into his own... 2019-2025 WAR: Eovaldi 16.4, Sale 14.9. (stats do not include postseason, where Eovaldi went 7-2 and won another ring, while Sale was 0-1 and mostly unable to compete).
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can't believe I'm about to attempt to be a voice of reason. Crochet is everything this team -- and any team even in a rebuild -- covets to build around: an ace, a Number One, the All-Star starter who pitches and WINS Game 1 in a playoff series (circa The Bronx '25). If the Red Sox are dumb enough to trade Crochet, they deserve to suck and never wait til next year again. Just like the Tigers. Say they actually do trade Skubal -- for a haul -- and even get some prospects that develop into a core of The Next Good Not Great Tigers, then they'll still be searching all over again for another ace Number One pitcher... just like Boston craved for years since Sale got hurt in the season of the best Red Sox team ever. Keep your aces. Pay your aces. Cover your aces.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was his parents poor decision to give a newborn and future big leaguer a name that begins with an E. E Suarez has already appeared too many times in the wrong places of box scores. In case anyone is nervous, he has more career errors at 3B than Raffy (but hasn't led his league as many times). And now we know why he likes to be called Geno. At least G Suarez is a gamer.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Stanton was Rivera's lefty set-up man all those years Boston finished second. Red Sox Hall of Shamer.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Timlin! But I blew it because he has more rings than Ortiz: two with Boston ('04, '07), two with Toronto ('92, '93). I only remembered him for his Foulke lore in '92, fielding and throwing to 1B for the last out... on a bunt by another future Red Sox, Otis Nixon.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox Reportedly Aggressively Interested in Predicting Trade that Aligns with Line-up (with missing link) And now for the partial answer to this weekend's trivial question of which Red Sox Hall of Famer won the same amount of World Series rings as David Ortiz -- and yes, he was a teammate of Papi's: first name is Mike.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, it's always easier to catch sometime during their deathtime (they don't move as fast). Speaking of rings, what newly appointed Red Sox Hall of Famer actually won as many World Series rings on the field as David Ortiz?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's on second, I Don't Know's on third -- unless he stays healthy for the entire season for the first time in his pro career.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pressure a Boras' client? I dunno; I'm still in shock how much they paid instead to a pitcher whose average fastball is 90 mph. And I preferred Suarez over Framber and Cease. But the Red Sox -- who in the past year drafted or signed dozens of pitchers 6'6 with extensions?!?!?! Btw: Houck walked past me on Lansdowne St last week and he is gigantic. I know he's listed as 6-5, 225 but he looked closer to 250 or 260 (maybe it was his big winter coat).
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    To let posters know -- no matter what NESN.com headlines say -- they really don't "like" Geno.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So cutting him would be an option. Actually, I just saw a Fanfest interview where AC tells TC that Moran is an option.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's on second.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's hard to say the Red Sox are better than last year because they just added Suarez to the rotation. The guy is a ground ball pitcher, and Boston lost its best infielder -- and has yet to replace him. It defeats the purpose of recruiting a pitch-to-contact starter if you don't surround him with stellar support in the field. Crochet-Suarez-Gray might be as good as any trio in the majors, but don't forget the strength of the '25 Sox was Crochet-Giolito-Bello taking regular turns, with career-years from Whitlock and Chapman closing. Rational posters have cautioned about expectations for Chappy to repeat his automatic 9ths, but what about Whit (1 earned run allowed in 27 games through the '25 second half)?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This all started 60 years ago when Koufax and Drysdale held out together for a month before the 1966 season. Imagine two Hall of Famers asking to be paid at the top of their market. LA did, and eventually made them each the first pitchers with salaries of one hundred thousand dollars.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No matter if they make another $100M or $200M, these are young men who will never have to work another day in their lives. Right now. What's the risk, really? They continue to perform at high levels for two or three years and then sit by their pools or vacation beaches, waiting for agents to present new bids for millions more -- or they really go all out, pushing through aches and pains to win a title or two and even more recognition... which just might net them a permanent limp, but hundreds of millions more. In other words, they can't lose -- unless they do something really bad that turns the public against them for the rest of eternity (it happens sometimes to "celebrities").
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is where a good year from Contreras is vital. Let Duran and Story run, and with 1B open, teams pitch around Anthony at their own risk. But good point about Ant angle: Roman Candle > Roman Anthills. And the cheerleaders were just learning their '26 chant: "Roman Anthony, he's our man -- If he can't do it... Whoooooooo?"
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That hole in your #3 slot is very real and very scary. Marte is ideal, but Hazen says no deal. If so, the best option is Paredes, but Cora would never bat two lefties in a row, followed by two righties in a row... so Anthony may still wind up batting third. Nico Hoerner doesn't slug but can get on base and run. He'd be ok batting in front of Roman. Right now we're looking at Duran-Story-Anthony-Contreras-Abreu. And if Geno joins them in Florida, fans will feel the breeze from the Sultans of Swing And Miss all the way to Alaska.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox may view Contreras the run-producer who'll drive in Anthony in the L-R order. But with WiLL 4th he won't provide much protection for Roman if the latter is leadoff. And now without Bregman, it will be just too easy to pitch around Roman -- when he's hot -- and go after another big whiffer. This is one of two reasons I don't want Geno Suarez (the other is his D). Obviously, the batting order is still missing that one more quality contact bat, which we can't or shouldn't be distracted from after just pivoting to another quality pitcher. Just remember, even if Contreras is the viable replacement for Devers the offense won't even be as good as last year until they replace Bregman.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I know batting your best or most dangerous hitter leadoff is the trend -- like Ohtani or Schwarber -- but the Red Sox' offense is so weak, we really need to maximize Anthony's hard contact skills. I'd bat the guy with the second-best On Base Percentage directly in front of him. That has to be Duran -- who most of us lament just doesn't get on base enough to bat leadoff. But his 2025 .332 OBP is by far the best of the returnees... Look at these craptacular OBPs: Abreu .317, Story .308, Yoshida .307, Narvaez .306, Rafaela .295, Mayer .272 (do we really want the two worst batting in front of Roman?). Contreras, a bat already slated by Cora for clean-up, reached at a clip of .344 last year. Paredes was .352 -- he'd be a good get.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Franklin: not just another whiny elite fan who got off by electrocuting himself flying a kite connected to a metal key in a lightning storm. At least he invented the woodstove, which is what saved me after losing electricity for weeks in two different weather catastrophes. Ben was also smart enough to invent the library, so future generations would have a place to go to use computers. He also thought the national bird should be a turkey instead of an eagle (he knew what was coming). If hired by the Red Sox front office, Franklin would erect a statue of Ben Affleck for robbing sacks of money from Fenway Park, which made all games cashless from now on,
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Why wouldn't there be? Is someone supposed to boo because the Red Sox just signed a good pitcher? A lot of posters' worries were only based on the facts from most of the offseasons of this decade. The Sox were also only the last team -- out of 30 -- to sign a big league free agent. Ranger Suarez can't hit third in the batting order, but no one is going to argue that Boston didn't just improve.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just because Suarez is the longest free agent contract the Sox have given in half a decade doesn't mean they weren't trying! The front office has told us every year they're all in full throttle so why wouldn't we believe this administration? Things didn't align -- it happens... over and over again. Why would fans whine, anyway, when all they have to do is pay annual increases for ticket prices, concessions, cable, streaming and new shirt colors? Ranger has no opt outs! (the Sox must actually want to keep him in Boston, while The Window's propped open with a shattered maple Old Hickory).
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A trade is next, and besides Roman Anthony, the only other player who should be off-limits is Ceddanne Rafaela. A ballclub built around pitching needs good defense to maximum that strength. Boston led the majors in errors and was one of the worst teams in Defensive Efficiency. The Sox just lost their best infielder, so the last thing they need is to also lose their best outfielder. Ceddanne robbed dozens of batters of hits, led the AL in assists, and was tops among all MLB outfielders in dWAR. A team with crummy D doesn't trade a guy like that -- or move him to second base. MLB Sirius was discussing why they thought Andrew Jones should be in the Hall of Fame. Not only is Jones the career leader in big league history in outfielder Total Zone Runs (second overall to Brooks Robinson), but he actually helped three teammates already get into Cooperstown... tracking down mistake pitches by Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz for over a decade.
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