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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Great perspective. The question for longtime posters to answer honestly: in which era did you feel more happy as a fan? For me, it was the near-half century when the Sox were winners 87% of the time -- certainly not when they were losers half the time. To look at another way, consider '67 to '03, before any rings -- no one can say Boston fans were en-titled then... but personally, I'm more entertained when my team is mostly good, because there's always hope following winners. Over the past decade, a lot of us pretended we still had a chance while looking up at all the other clubs in the division. Ya, the wild card exists, but most of us are also realistic to know when the glass is half-suck.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except no one ever said a team finished dead fourth.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox fans really want to believe that. But do posters on the realistic thread really believe two good pitchers are all it will take to make Devers, Casas, Yoshida and Duran good fielders, or Wong and Story hitters who won't strike out in one of every three at bats... or anyone to claim second base... or a rightfielder who'll stay out of the doghouse? Many changes need to be made, but all can't happen at once. Looking forward to the winter meetings...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Recruit and develop pitching, and fill the roster with a supporting cast of position players skilled on both sides of the ball that supply the manager with personnel good enough to collaborate on a winning team? It would sure help that cause if the CBO worked for a big market team owned by a billionaire...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What do we call it when our team fires its failed CBO and hires a new one to purportedly revamp the starting rotation, retool the entire organization's pitching development, and somehow refurbish the defense? Reports last fall are that some Fenway season-ticket holders refused to attend games and even lost money on Sox-Yankee tickets. If Breslow isn't exactly rebuilding, he was definitely brought on board for some serious resuscitating.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. Here's a question for team sports fans who care about a billionaire's budget: is it possible to overpay for stability?
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even 6 years at $27M AAV is $162M total. Let's assume he is productive for the next four -- say 30 starts per in his age 31, 32, 33 and 34 seasons... before injuries and IL stints inevitably take their toll. That still equates to around $40M a year for the next four -- because that's basically what a team will be paying for... and it will be worth it to them.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Monty waits until Yama signs with whoever wins a NY bidding war, then a desperate club like Boston will give the big lefty $30M AAV... ... which will be worth it to a rebuilding team like the Sox, because no Qualifying Offer attachment means no lost draft pick.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course not. The top starters will wait until the Yamamoto bidding breaks the $300M barrier, then the rest will "settle" for $200M.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's a long time? He's going to get five years -- say for $100M -- so is it worth it if he produces another three like his last three? Is anyone a $33M AAV guy? The Mets thought a couple of 40ish were $40M men a year ago...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, that's never been the plan in Boston this century, in the Land of Buchholz (the Sox' last homegrown All-Star starter). Wonder: if Leiter was still on the board in '21, do the Sox take him over Mayer? Texas did, and instead of drafting a guy described to have Seager-like talent, the Rangers signed the real Seager...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Unless someone is complete damaged goods -- which is highly unlikely with modern due diligence on medicals -- free agents are really just pays... The biggest mistake media or fans (who care) make when dissecting contracts is obsessing over the years; no player is ever literally paid to produce for the entire contract, because all GMs and depts. know attrition is inevitable with age. Some clubs will always pay big for the front end of long contracts because they want to be good now.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think in WAR it's Darvish, 31 bWAR and counting...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed, but Dice K's stuff was billed as mythological during the bidding. We're still waiting to see (or not see) the gyro-ball... And he turned out to be an injury-risk, as well -- as any MLB org should've suspected with a guy whose pitch-count in Japan tournaments was 250...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Especially if it's just Yamamoto, who'll be joining the majors a year younger than the similarly-hyped Daisuke Matsuzaka (but most likely at a lot longer contract). The Sox inked Matsusaka for six years. Boston got 9.5 WAR from Dice K in his first two seasons, then -0.3 WAR over his last four...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But if you're a first-year CBO counting on Sale, that's horrible.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    c) Ohtani's team found him a New Balance store on the West Coast.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But if this statement isn't too ridiculous -- "Their inability to develop pitching isn't the problem" -- on a Red Sox forum where the majority of posters say it is... ... then the majority of talksox just must be ridiculous, instead.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wikelman had the highest strikeout rate for starting pitchers in the minors -- and his ceiling is only mid-rotation? What does a guy have to do for Soxprospects.com to rate a top-of-the-ro ceiling, lead the minors in no-hitters rate?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But why draft pitchers when the best players are always shortstops?!?!?! Just convert them all to the mound -- they're shortstops, so they can play anywhere! Or trade them for pitchers -- like when we... hold on... thinking... like when the Sox traded Mike Aviles for John Farrell (I know he was the manager, but at least he used to pitch).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When it comes to pursuing free agents or the possibility of swinging trades, the only voices I trust less than MLB reporters (except sometimes Alex Speier) are those from the Red Sox front office. For fans who look daily for moves their team can make to improve, the baseball offseason can be excruciating, empty and deceptive (with lots of politics, gamesmanship and public relations that conspire to the latter). All of the above has come to define Red Sox Nation since the days of Dombrowski, who'd tell the public he was going to get a closer or an ace or two -- and then be the first GM on the boat to actually reel them in.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Target sells an entire box of Twinkies (10 count) for $3.69... and a small container of organic blueberries for $3.59. The total for 10 Twinkies might cost a penny more apiece, but you get more than double the food: 13.58 oz compared to 6 oz of berries! And Twinkies never expire! Archaeologists have even found perfectly preserved Twinkies in mummies' sons and daughters inside the great food pyramid.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bad pun. Or as you say, "unsuspected." Or as Yogi said, when a teacher asked if he knew anything, "I don't even suspect anything."
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's gonna take a Gambrell?
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bregman is an exception -- 8-year career average of 28 HRs, 99 RBI per 162... with a 13.3% K-Rate. Bregman has a career OPS of .861 -- higher than everyone on 2023's entire Red Sox line-up of vaunted offense... which included five guys with over 100 strikeouts. Bregman has never fanned 100 times once...
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