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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... because this isn't raystalk, jaystalk or lasvegasnomadstalk
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The obvious miss was letting Beltre become a Hall of Famer for someone else. The subtle miss -- that some of us predicted at the time -- was not resigning Lowe, who went on to lead the NL in games started four times. And the Pedroia extension, as much as budget fans complained about it, was initially a win. Pedey continued to star at what was a below-market rate (compared to his contemporary, Cano)... until being assassinated by Machado.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even if Ant-Teel-Mayer are all up by '25, rookie years like Lynn-Fisk-Nomar aren't automatic (just saying the Sox can't assume they're going for it with 1/3 of a line-up going through normal growing pains)... ... however, that can make establishing the stability of the top of a rotation even more vital now. Like we all keep saying, it all starts with starters...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's a different vibe on the board today. Almost everyone getting along, hoping for the best. It's like separate nations forgetting petty disputes to support each other during the threat of an alien invasion.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just read today's Red Sox Beat by MLB.com's Ian Browne about O'Neill... and got Deja Boo. The following bold-faced excerpts were directly copied and pasted (no keyboard mice were harmed in the process): could be a bargain -- and a low-risk, high-reward one... to be motivated in walk year... needs to stay healthy... ... and those were just comments about me, as a Red Sox fan.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sitting around waiting to lose another offseason, I make a bad pun, and within minutes three guys reply, taking me seriously. Shows you how edgy old Sox fans are getting these days. And I haven't even had any eggnog yet today...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Inexplicably, the Red Sox still employ some of the same folks in their front office that traded a Hall of Famer in his prime, and last week gave up the key piece in that deal for the main return of a Double A pitcher. Irony? Execs who can't find a way for Betts that fits plans for sustained contention spin him for a guy who actually Fitts...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We know all the big-time players in these free agents sweepstakes: big markets determined to outbid each other, and legitimate postseason contenders looking for additions to put them over the top. We'd all like to think the Red Sox ownership and front office is rejoining all their rivals' intentions this winter. But none of us will believe it until/if it happens...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With Bellhorn's revelation from the Atlantic -- "someone in the Sox organization as saying the approach under Breslow is remarkably the same as it was under Bloom" -- Sox fans now have to question if the new CBO is really just another mouthpiece. Even eternal optimist Moon is starting to accept we're all being duped. If we go back to one of the reported reasons Dombrowski was fired -- that he ignored or dismissed the longtime voices in many departments -- it's worth wondering now if Bloom was ever really in charge. Does it really make sense for a company to hire an inexperienced young man to outrank veteran execs, many of whom were pushing two decades of company service? Does it really make sense that the Red Sox have now just done it twice in four years -- while keeping all of the same front office staff who have been there forever?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not that Sox fans are upset they didn't get Ohtani. It's just watching other teams -- competitive clubs serious about upgrading year after year -- improve their chances ever winter by adding available talent. Ohtani can't pitch, but any batting order is better if it features the MLB leader in OPS... ... and now we face the reality of all those legitimate big market teams he didn't sign with that have lots of money to spend on players the Sox actually need.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I could be me, but I doubt there are any fans of any baseball team that would be upset today if their club just signed Ohtani. I know there are some who "can't believe someone paid that much money to a guy to play a child's game" -- just like every single time an athlete breaks the all-time contract record, since the beginning of free agency almost half a century ago (and even before that when owners showed gratitude to stars during the Reserve Clause). But Ohtani's not just the greatest two-way ballplayer of all-time... he's one of the most famous people on the planet. He's Elvis. The Dodgers aren't always right, but they always make a plan and are decisive. They knew exactly what they were doing when they traded for Mookie, and when Ohtani becomes an over-priced DH, they'll cut their losses. And move on to the next marketing target for their sustained winners... while the sustained losers gripe about their record, wishing they at least had stars to root for and give them hope.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've been inclined To believe they never would
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except Werner is on record that we're now going full throttle, and Breslow has more than once mentioned trading prospect capital to improve the team. He couldn't mean victor santos... my keyboard wouldn't even let me use capital letters to type his name.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Half of them won't be ready to pitch until mid-summer, but Sam swears they'll be better than any old trade acquisition we can make at the deadline.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Disagree. The best hope for significant rotation improvement are third tier brass: Breslow, Bailey and Bloom (the latter for prospect capital he wouldn't trade that will soon be dealt...). The Standstiller Bees are about to become the Uphiller Bees.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The price of the rest of the big name free agents just jumped a hundred million apiece (according to agents with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads)... Sox better jump on Lugo while they can afford him, because all the elite starting pitchers that were waiting on Ohtani are being now fitted for pinstripes -- black and blue.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget Montgomery and Scherzer at the deadline... point being, the champs were never afraid of adding expensive starting pitching. All year. Meanwhile, interesting article on MLB.com today regarding teams' glaring needs. The first mentioned for Boston? CATCHING. ... the list is based on Fangraphs' projected WAR by position. The Red Sox catchers are rated 28th, with this note, "No team had a higher strikeout rate from its catchers than Boston in 2023, and none of the Red Sox backstops rated as a positive defender" (latter determined by FG's Fielding Run Value). Maybe Maldonado isn't just a Cora binky, after all.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Too many mushrooms in his peanut butter...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With our defense? If it was just a handful, you know we'd drop it. Then again, if it was only a footful, we'd probably boot it.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Texting him right now. Should have a reply soon... he's... still researching.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Henry may not be loudly insane -- like the Ghost of trade proposals past, or the pandemic poster who called Agent Orange "the greatest president in the history of this country!" But JH has been known to simmer before impulsively erupting into action -- like driving to WEEI to voice a stance, or flipping his wallet at his CBO to sign Raffy, after deciding two better all-around homegrown stars were not worth keeping at market values...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez is definitely taking a chance that Tyler O is a change-of-scenery guy. Not a confidence-booster for Sox fans sick and tired of Bloom fliers -- especially if this means there will be no spending on an outfielder who's actually good now, like Gurriel. I also don't like the assessment that TO's a former "Gold Glove LF who can play CF and RF." Sounds too much like Duvall, another injury-prone righty power bat. Duvall was not the answer in CF, Duran isn't either (and good luck, Yankees, neither are Verdugo or Judge). Yet speculation by the Globe's Julian McWilliams is Duran would play LF "if he isn't traded", with O'Neill in CF... Then again, word from the brass is they prefer Yoshida play offense and defense, so don't mark him down as the new DH just yet. There has to be at least one more move for this outfield...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Does he throw 97 with a change-up?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    O'Neill is everything Verdugo was not: a two-time Gold Glove leftfielder, a guy who hit 34 home runs in his one full season ('21), and a right-handed batter. Most importantly, on bb-ref's Similarity Scores, Tyler O'Neill's most similar batter is.... Wily Mo Pena! Also a factor - Ty cost two borderline fringe depth pitchers instead of free agent money, the better to be saved for legitimate big-time starters...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No place below us... above us, only BaltimoreTampaTorontoNew York
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