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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bradford trade proposal today: Duran, Yorke, Perales for Cease, Jimenez... I'm in. Brez?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Enough of lesser. Lesser is worser. Lesser is valued below a replacement vowel -- an O away from Losser... and if you lose an S, it's just Loser.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even other factors may tip the scales... West Coast: warm weather, close to home, happy faces vs. East Coast: crap weather, far from home, scowls for wearing your pants too high
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not if he starts trading prospects... which is the only alternative for upgrades, unless the owners let him SPEND, as promised...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dunno -- maybe the media sensed that opting out was highly unlikely for a pitcher who'd average 1.0 WAR over the last three years of a contract still worth $96 million dollars (that total does not include money he forfeited by staying home during Covid). This is not saying that anyone expected Price to barely pitch better than a replacement player... just that no one, especially David, felt there was another sucker out there who'd pay him more to do it.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For this fan, it was all about the fall of 2019, when the media started saying the Red Sox couldn't afford both JD and Mookie, Dombrowski said, "You can't sign'em all" and Kennedy pretended, "There is a way we can keep both JD and Mookie..."
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not going to say Breslow's familiarity with Stroman makes him more likely to be offered a Boston contract (because notin would argue that nothin has anything to do with nothin). But Breslow and Stroman are former colleagues who recently worked in the same department together in another big market city... just a few months ago.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm shifting my hopes, and now prefer to keep any prospect deemed by the org as a future star -- with the general plan to lock them all up longterm as soon as they're proven big leaguers. I'd rather watch a young core of bordeline All-Stars or 4 WAR warriors grow and contend together for the next 5 to 7 years than to give them up in a deal for a veteran who will cost a lot more to sign for less prime production. I'd rather the owners and front office just decide to spend on free agents, especially the guys without qualifying offers who won't cost draft picks. Yes, that means the Sox may take a tax hike and lose some other flexibility, but so what -- it happens, they'll be better shortterm, and longterm... and the future core they keep can offset picks or int. signings they'll lose.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's gotta be some analysis done in somebody's R&D dept. on this. Pitchers are bigger, stronger, faster, and thus more injury-prone? Where is the data when over-training superseded over-throwing (in the days of complete games... or Japan)? Or is it something in modern cow's milk that builds muscle and makes tendons and ligaments brittle at the same time? Should any human drink the milk of another animal... or only their mother's milk when infants -- like every other creature on the planet?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Imagine you've just been promoted and got a huge raise, entrusted with spending the company budget to improve production and increase stock value. But instead of investing on recruits who are tried and true in the industry, you take a big chunk of the funds to the race track... to bet on the favorite, granted (almost a sure thing, according to odds' makers). That kind of stunt may be tolerated by ownership after you've made them kajillions more by boosting the brand... but first move?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sunday morning COLDstove in RSNation blabs: Brez and the rez may disagree. Isn't it folly for a first-year CBO to gamble so much on one guy so MLB-unproven? For what it will ultimately cost to bet on Yo Yama, wouldn't it make more sense in a rebuild to use the same amount to sign two other established big league starters? Or will going all in on this winter's big mound prize be looked upon as bold... ... even though the bold moves most hinted at in Breslow's early pressers were more connected to trading prospects or feng shooing the front office...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just wondering, now that two relievers are in charge of fixing the pitching: if the Sox get outbid on the top handful of free agent starters, if they would pivot to stockpiling a power bullpen as an option. Instead of breaking the bank for Hader, Brez could probably sign two other guys who throw over 100 mph -- Hicks and Fujinami -- plus, add a recent Bailey pupil in Manaea as swingman.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Rafaela and Abreu will be graduates. Bleis will jump the most in '24 and make the majors in '25. He's still the Sox' 5-tool prospect, but slightly forgotten because of injury and Anthony's ascension. The latter, along with Teel and Mayer, will all get MLB tastes next season; maybe not a cup of coffee, but at least shots of expresso by September. Also, if Breslow somehow restructures Boston into contention, don't be surprised if an arm or two gets called up for the stretch run: Gonzalez or Monegro (if they dominate the minors), but more likely a Guerrero or Fernandez (if they're still in the org and not dealt). Most likely to move up fast on the farm are NazzanZ or Anderson, but the star could be Cespedes. Pure hitter who may force a big league promotion: Hickey. I don't know enough about Castro; never seen him play. Someone please elaborate...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With how hard pitching is to secure, project and develop, why aren't there more cases of these best-player-availables being converted from shortstop to the mound? They all have cannons, and already can presumably hit the vicinity of a first baseman's mitt from deep in the hole... Holy crap -- Frankie Rodriquez is 50! Wasn't he just on the cover of a baseball card prospect mag? There's gotta be some smart CBO somewhere -- say, an ex-MLB pitcher whose specialty is revamping pitching R & D for an entire system -- that Boston can hire to do this faster than you can say Javy Guerra.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As usual, my post -- like just about anyone's -- isn't all-inclusive to make a point that can't be picked apart with a specific stat by another poster always in the mood to argue. I know this has been rehashed plenty of times before -- some have even pointed out that Houston rebuilt with top picks, but not so much #1 overalls wasted on two pitching busts... but later first-rounders like Bregman and Springer. But it's hot stove with no real Red Sox news so far. I was merely commenting about one aspect on the vagaries of baseball's amateur draft, and how even the highest of high picks is no sure thing -- especially when it comes to choosing a guy who looks like the best future pitching star each year. Skenes is the latest, just like Leiter was automatic a few years ago (Jack must have won a few Cys by now...). Nothing is guaranteed, but perhaps we can at least agree that of all the major sports, the baseball draft is the most dubious, as far as the top of the first round altering a franchise.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All those departments full of scouts, analysts and developmental cases -- and only two sure things (sorry, Harold). That's more of a crapshoot than postseasons in the Wild Card Era. There have to be more than three wild cards who've won the World Series, right? Of the top of my concussed cranium, I've got the crappy '04 Sox, '19 Nats and Eovaldi's Rangers...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In the entire history of the draft, 1965-current, there have been exactly three #1 overall picks to make the Hall of Fame: Baines, Junior and Chipper. That's in over half-a-century. Harper will be there someday. Zero pitchers drafted first overall are in Cooperstown. Cole leads all #1 pitchers with 41.2 WAR, followed by Price 40.3, Strasburg 32.3, Benes 31.5, Moore 27.9, Belcher 26, McDonald 20.8. Grim pickings...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We didn't have an ace, king, queen or jack in the rotation for most of last year. Bloom dealt Cora a couple of 10s (1 yr/$10M), but when they tried to double down, the whole table busted. That made a lot of us yak...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Final thought on pitcher wins... or is that team wins in relation to specific pitchers: I have to agree with Old Red that the order of rotations do matter, at least from series to series. All wins may count the same in the standings, but there is a reason teams sometimes line up their best pitcher to face another club's ace -- because they feel that gives them their best chance for victory... and if it's head-to-head vs. a division rival, we know that might count even more (at the risk of reopening another old controversy). Plus, if it's a playoff series, we all know every team wants to open with a Game One W... and ideally also have their best available again for a clincher or to stave off elimination later on.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ohka and Oka J were fine.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, the old Boston needed a closer to end road games, when most fans still hanging around in the 9th were Red Sox fans (except in the Bronx, where they're rabid zombies). But lately, fickle Fenway has been invaded by tour buses of opposing fans on road trips. So to counter all that negativity, the Sox have had less closing situations the past few years.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I told them to lock up Imanaga the day he posts... and hire Koji as a bullpen coach... and DiceK as a gyropopcorn vendor.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. But he only plays short when he's not pitching, and always bats clean-up. He's also the quarterback, point guard and first-line center -- if he plays hockey... and always dates the prom queen (which usually doesn't last, with so many underclasswomen to choose from). But that doesn't mean Bichette at 25 can't thrive at a less-demanding position; he's not Hanley in his 30s clunking around out there waiting to become a fulltime DH.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... or one of Bloom's 75 high school draft picks...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... is it really impossible to imagine that they might think their magic is better in the 9th -- when cheering fans are on their feet, anticipating the almighty save (SAVES = $$$), with the game-ending, fist-pumping adrenaline/RedBull/BlackBeauty rush of happy teammates swarming the mound in celebratory climax?
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