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Damn -- Wong read my post upside down. -
Moreno is trouble here but in swing mode -- don't give in... elevate!
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That may be too logical for Sox execs in their poison ivy towers. But you're right -- if he's good enough to make the majors in a pennant race in September, then Arias is good enough to hone his craft with big league teammates next year whenever they're not playing actual games (winter conditioning camps, Spring Training drills, MLB off-days, lockouts, pandemics, etc). How is it bad for a young batter to continually face deliveries from pitchers like Chapman, Tolle and Bello?
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A Realistic View at the 2026 Red Sox Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Fans love Seigler, but we have to expect an infielder to be demoted when Story returns. Unless Jones or White gets DFAed. Mona's going nowhere, not even the bench. Tracy has years of experience managing Sogard, so maybe more confidence in him? -
A Realistic View at the 2026 Red Sox Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Looks like Yoshida will be out for awhile. That means Anthony can DH when he returns. When the Sox face a left-handed pitcher, Anthony can play LF and either Story or Monasterio can DH. Neither is replacing Sogard at 2B. He's one of the most solid all-around ballplayers on the roster, and the perfect guy who can get on base from the #9 slot in the batting order so Anthony at leadoff has somebody to drive in. Mead's fracture has to be entirely healed before he can impact a baseball that won't impact his wrist. Best hope for him is the postseason, like when Schwarber missed the whole summer in 2016, then raked for the Cubs in the World Series. -
Glad he's protecting his rehabbing finger by keeping it in his back pocket! Even if it's not BP, all those reporters waving pens and notebooks and recording cellphones can be dangerous.
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Haiku: Pass Yanks for second Let them come to Fenway Park When green leaves turn Red
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Or the dumb Dbacks' advance scouts told their pitchers to throw him pitches over the plate -- or weren't they in attendance in Pittsburgh? I was honestly pondering as much watching last night's game. And shaking my head.
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Poor Peggy -- pestering her hubbie for love all those years (this is how we know it was TV fiction). And then, of course Al Bundy ends up with Sophia Vergara. Like that part was realistic... ... and now you know why we'd rather watch the non-fiction Red Sox flop around with the worst offense ever for over two months before they sold their soles of their Nikes to become the greatest team in the history of this summer.
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But how active: cheering and swinging on the railing in front of the dugout with Seigler... or diving in the SS hole to rob Devers, swiping second on a pop-up slide, and yanking one onto Lansdowne when it's late and close?
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Like when the Yankees only traded for ARod because Boone got hurt playing winter hoop?
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The 27 Yankees who played in Triple A this season.
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I was a teen in the Seventies and rue the hbp by Ruhle, but in the late-70s media got on "Fragile Freddie" Lynn for missing games with various maladies. Uninformed fans also booed Yaz for low production in the early part of the decade when he always played hurt (I swear he taped his bat to his bad hand and wrist). But since I played baseball until I was 60, I always reference the movie Major League, when an ex-girlfriend tells the catcher, "You're still the little boy who never grew up." The decade of the 2010s should be the obvious answer, because that's when my son was born. But I kept playing ball in a competitive old-timer's league with ex-pros and ex-D1 stars until Covid. This decade I've lived vicariously coaching and watching my son through Little League All-Stars, Legion and travel ball... ... so this is still an open-ended answer.
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Talk Sox Podcast Questions, 8/17
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Alex Mayes's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
We've seen both the offense and pitching struggle lately. What -- in your informed opinions -- can either or both be attributed to attempts at adjustments by a certain Badly Rushed Man? -
I was supposed to grow up in the Seventies, when Southern rock was the soundtrack of my baseball fandom. Music and the Sox often overlapped as big parts of my culture. Before we went out on weekends, there were plenty of early nights spent listening to records, talking ball and toasting beers to favorite ballplayers.
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Sandoval's job down the stretch is to stand out on that mound once a week and make sure key guys in the bullpen get a night off. He's the Pitching Dead, Breslow's depth buried six feet under, excavated and brought back for another inning when already trailing 7-0. Think that's not important on a team with postseason aspirations? Chappy, Tyron and Miller all sent flowers to Sandoval's elbow after the game.
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Now we just have to fix Rutchsman.
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He just read my post and looked like a pro hitter again: took two pitches, then barreled a fly to center. This could be the turning point!
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Just to confirm what I'm seeing: went back to Gameday on MLB -- in the last two games, Rafaela is 1-for-7 with 5 Ks. Pitt has thrown him 22 pitches... he's swung at 20. On half of them the problem may be his bat... when instead he needs a shovel. The reason fans get to complain isn't because we think we're as good as Ceddanne. It's because we're disappointed, since we know how much better he is (but isn't it easy to imagine if any of us stood in the box and took a level swing in the zone as soon as the pitcher picked up his front foot that one or two pitches out of 20 might eventually hit our bats?)
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Four pitches to Ceddanne, four swings -- the last one he only missed by 98 centimeters.
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Maybe I missed a few ABs, but has anyone seen Rutschman barrel a single pitch yet? Even on a foul? It looks like he's pulling off with every swing, like he doesn't want to make contact because it may hurt... And I don't care who returns, but DO NOT BENCH MONASTERIO. Andruw has 12 doubles in the past six weeks; that's one more in that span than the AL doubles leader, Rafaela, who is now back to hacking. at every. single. pitch. The point is, the Red Sox just don't have that many good hitters, and have no choice but to ride anyone who is hot while they're hot. Or they're not.
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All great lists of albums, but I couldn't find one old hippy with Allman Brothers' At Filmore East. Still one of the all-time best live LPs -- with tye-die video on youtube -- and it didn't even include "One Way Out" or "Trouble No More"... (which are on Eat A Peach; also highly recommended).
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Why would any club want a local player with a swing tailored for its home ballpark who grew up a fan of the team and was eager to sign with them, when they can instead draft a guy who lives thousands of miles away who'd rather go back to school than agree to get paid to play in one of the best baseball markets in the world? As long as the Red Sox front office always picks the Best Player Available on their draft board, they're covered for ignoring all the other intangibles that used to matter to all the old timey scouts they fired who weren't laptops or tablets. Good thing a draft didn't exist yet when hometown hero Tony Conigliaro signed with Boston. Otherwise, the Sox wouldn't have had a kid hitting home runs at Fenway when he was 19, or leading the league in HRs when he was 20.
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Devers Trade looks fantastic now....
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to bobo52's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He's not declining in San Fran; when they ask him to play 1B, he says yes. But if he was only a DH, he'd be reclining... between at bats. -
Machine Head -- now there's an all-time rocker overplayed so much in the day (at parties, not radio) that all songs are still memorable half a century later... ... except maybe "Pictures of Home" -- play it! Only 7 songs on the album!
