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Posters love to cite individual opponents who have crappy stats -- especially guys who moved to other teams recently -- but in Aesop's Fable it's just a fox failing to reach the grapes and saying they're probably sour anyway. There's nothing shameful about being a fan hoping your baseball team acquires good players to make it better. -
Like Boston, Milwaukee doesn't hit home runs. But what the Brewers do have are many more "sluggers." In team slug, the Brew crew is middle of the pack, while the Sox are near the bottom. But consider this: MLB stats lists 82 batters with Slugging Percentages of at least .423. Boston has three regulars: Contreras, Rafaela and Abreu at that mark. Milwaukee has seven (and Yelich is not one of them); that's almost an entire batting order. The Brewers have also drawn over 100 more walks than the Red Sox. So more baserunners being driven around by more gappers equals more runs. They're better batters.
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Pitching for a last place team instead of a first place team.
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Lou Gorman, but the bangs missed when the rising sun blinded the aim of the hit men hired to take him out for trading Bagwell. Then he had lunch.
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Tolle needs to drill the first batter in the thigh, then strikeout the side and tell his defense, "Sit down, men."
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Not a surprise the umpiring crew didn't eject the racist who started the chaos. By now we're all too used to arbiters who are supposed to have the public's trust not holding a Washington instigator accountable.
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Ya, well, I'm on Chad Tracy's side complaining the umps didn't eject the instigator: the racist pitcher who called a man who plays for the Red Sox -- the team I root for -- "boy."
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Breslow literally said he needed to add more bats last winter, which he failed to do. Many of us posted all offseason our concerns with the batting order, especially after the one that faced the Yankees in the playoffs. And then the season began and continues with the worst offensive team any living Red Sox fans can ever remember seeing. (Yet, there were a few who bought into the Brez blab that Boston could win with pitching and D... and more than a few who predicted 90-plus Ws). Overall, the rotation has been good, but we all know the club probably won't even finish .500 unless they add some legitimate big league lumber. The question remains: is it even worth the cost at this point? It's July.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I'll take Bichette and here are my stats why: his 8-year 162-game averages of 4 WAR, 94 R, 94 RBI, 193 H, 39 2B, 24 HR, .290 BA, .793 OPS. The Red Sox really need a couple more guys with such numbers. Story in 11 years is most similar: 5.1 WAR, 94 R, 96 RBI, 162 H, 37 2B, 30 HR, .262 BA, .808 OPS. Contreras in 11 years is also close: 4.5 WAR, 79 R, 84 RBI, 145 H, 31 2B, 27 HR, .260 BA, .818 OPS. But Story is 33, Contreras 34. The former was good last year; the latter is good this year. Players go through ups and downs. Bichette is only 28... and not a prospect, but a proven hitter in the big leagues. -
In education, are exceptional needs the same as special needs? Moon? Kimmy? My brain is just barely ordinary, but if it was excessively ordinary it would be remarkably unremarkable. It's ok, my birthday is this weekend when in teen numerical parlance I turn indifferent. That's right: officially inconsequential.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Theo added Schilling, Foulke and ARod for a second, and that turned out alright. -
A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Of course they base it on dollars, but does that always make sense? Even if a team or owner (cough, Henry) eschews market prices for ballplayers, isn't the goal of a contending roster to include winning All-Stars on the payroll? It's hard to win when you're afraid to eschew more than you can swallow. -
A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
BTV has a logic and a system, but there's something wrong with the notion that a comp pick of an unknown amateur "prospect" who hasn't played one inning of pro ball has more value than a Major League starting pitcher with a 9-1 won-loss record and 2.69 ERA for a last place team. -
Boone took a glove out to the infield to try and play defense at the end when he didn't trust any of his players. But they wouldn't let him, so he used five infielders... because we all know Duran either whiffs or hits it to the outfield. They're in a New York state of no-mind.
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As unusual, the Red Sox no longer need a translator for Raffy -- but there are actually serious people worried that the CBO needs one for the trade deadline.
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Not yet on the operating table, but may be on the gurney. Always inclined to recline, but not while driving (though sitting in traffic, which is actually just steering).
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But we all circled this on the sked as the weekend the Sox would shank the Spanks with three rookie starting pitchers.
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Nervous what Breslow will do if the Sox sweep tomorrow... Last time they looked this good vs. NY he traded their one true power hitter. And after their biggest victory by 16 runs this season, he fired Cora and the whole non-Bailey coaching staff.
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Don't tell me what I'm saying when I asked you why SD wins. It's not a quiz; I honestly don't know why. Good point about another stat the Sox suck at. Instead of asking you why they don't walk more, I will say this: perhaps Boston's crappy hitters don't walk because they don't know the strike zone. Continued ABS challenge failures only empower pitchers to go right at them and get them out in the strike zone, as well as chasing balls in the dirt, flailing at sweepers and sliders in the other box, and hacking at balls in their eyes. No one gets pitched around because no one is feared, not even Contreras who no one even cares enough about to fight for real.
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Your post is one long half a take. If Mason Miller is hiding the rest of the Padre bullpen, then why does SD have a winning record? They hit as bad as Boston. As for home runs, New York's batting order boasts four MVPs (when healthy) and all four were most noted for the longball. Try calling homers overrated to Yankee fans, who know the only way their team can score at home is to pop up to right field. All my life as a player and fan I've thought HRs were overrated, but not in the current all-or-nothing MLB. On an average team, a couple solo shots are so much more feasible than stringing together say, three singles in an inning -- twice -- to produce two runs. In this horrid year for the Red Sox, is it so hard to imagine them winning just five more games and into a Wild Card if Breslow had only supplied the roster with a few more big league power bats?
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We interrupt this lost season for another freaking BOMB off Garritt Assclown!
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I-witness Portland game: Holobetz is an animated guy on the mound, nodding with calls he agrees with, throwing harder when he's squeezed, hopping on and off the mound, whooping at the end of innings. He throws from a lower arm slot, bending his long frame with a release point just over his shoulder -- not easy for hitters to pick up -- and is consistently in the mid-90s with his heater and a hard slider. With 10 Ks per 9 average and barely any walks, he is nearly MLB ready. Jofrann Garcia can crank -- crushing BP pitches to all fields, batting clean-up, and gunned two guys out trying to steal. Reminds me of Francisco Alvarez at this level, and should be a big leaguer soon enough. Bleis lined two hangers out, hitting them off his front foot. More mature at the plate. Liendo is a smooth fielder.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
No more leash, and I'm ready to help you pull up all those yellow flags around the invisible fence perimeter. -
All that matters to me is if a baserunner's toe comes off the bag by a micrometer that no fan can clearly see on TV replays or from the stands, and not even an umpire standing over the play can definitively discern. But let's delay the game an extra five minutes to scramble our senses about it.
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The Red Sox are last in the majors in home runs, making comeback wins and late-game Ws a lot harder. The Yankees lead the majors in HRs, which can certainly bail out a lot of bullpen issues. The Padres have Mason Miller, the most automatic closer in the business.
