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Then we should be World Series favorites -- like the Yankees were every single year the past decade -- and already are, again, because they got Stroman and Soto to compliment Verdugo. "Nice necklace, Alex... but there's a typo on your durag."
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But, they were speeding while injured! I swear...
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I live in Yankees country, so know Thorpe was their top pitching prospect -- but who knows if he's breaking camp in the majors this year. For this season, there's no doubt King is a big league starter, coming off '23 when he had a higher WAR and lower ERA than any member of the Red Sox woe tation. At least we know New York won't be giving us Fitts, since they already did.
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Held off commenting for two days so as not to sound negative... but if I posted the idea of SD trading King for Duran, I would expect an immediate reply to go something like: So you're saying the Padres -- whose rotation just lost Cy Young, Lugo, and Wacha (that only talksox regulars bash for leading the majors in winning percentage the past two years), plus MLB's top closer -- will want to give up their best piece they just got in a deal for their generational hitter... for a fast leadoff type with a shaky glove? How will San Diego diehards on talkpads.com react when they realize they effectively traded Juan Soto for Jarren Duran?
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Damelo.
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Cooper and Carbo would've been longterm and short term impact players, but the guy Yaz lamented most was Tiant. He didn't have much left, but Looie was a clubhouse leader -- and they let him go to the Yankees.
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I don't work for the Red Sox, whose front office has made their pitching a crappy joke for so long. So I won't ask if you've heard the one about their plan to improve a brutal starting rotation by just coaching them better.
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They're also both something that can fit in one hand... and be thrown. Unless you're a pitcher who just had surgery and was signed in the Bloom Era to rehab for at least another year, before you start chucking apples and oranges on flat ground -- and then progress to some Southern forests to longtoss them to wild animals -- before finally graduating to toss fruit salad in mess halls to prospects in the Destructional League.
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Fair point. Fisk was the future Hall of Famer, but he was already 32. Lynn -- who may've made Cooperstown if he played his whole career in Fenway -- was 28. I still can't get over that Mookie was only 26...
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In today's Globe, Dan calls Sam a human shield for John Henry (picture Sam with arms outstretched, in defensive position on the sidewalk, while the other 47 VPs stuff Henry into a limo). Regarding Epstein, "He knows the Sox farm system is mediocre with no pitching." "Theo can be honest about it while supplying some cover for the beleaguered Kennedy."
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2-10-2020 from the Pay Mookie! thread... 5GG Post #297: "I feel Mookie's career and contract will be defined by his performance over the next half decade, during which time I fully expect him to produce another 30 WAR and lead his new club to at least 450 wins. If he helps win another World Series, it will be worth it to that franchise and its fan base. Boston losing Betts can't be as bad as losing Babe Ruth, but I fear it will be the biggest Red Sox mistake since -- one that media and rival fans will haunt our sons with for a long time... especially, if the Bosox blow much of their savings on free agent busts filling unavoidable voids, trying to win back fans. Giving away Bagwell while a prospect was bad enough, but the Red Sox had a HOFer about to enter his prime... and couldn't keep him."
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Wish they would all lay off Sam, who has been nothing... but on the level with the Nation for all these years. Such a fountain of information, consistently updating fans on plans for roster upgrades and organizational direction in the marketplace -- our Old Faithful of Yellowstone Park (where a volcano will someday erupt to blot out the sun with ash... and Sam will reassure us of a sustained nuclear winter).
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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In related news, future GM Cooper Criswell announced that Roman Anthony has signed over the rights to his as-yet first-born son, Marc. "We know he probably won't be able to contribute until around 2044," said Criz, "but we like that we control him for the next couple decades or so." "... except 7th and 8th grade," added Sam Kennedy, telling the truth for the first time this winter, " -- no one can control middle school boys."
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In the end, Werner predictably looked to a TV show to solve the Bloom problem: The Sopranos episode when the mob holds an intervention for Christopher, then they all beat him up.
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Today's announcement of the season-long Netflix docuseries explains a lot. 1. The Red Sox must be saving any big roster moves for the first episode. That's good TV! 2. Now we know what Werner, Sam and Brez really mean when they stress the importance of winning the Series. 3. But don't be cynical -- does anyone actually think Theo is going to let this be a weekly expose of how bad Boston sucks? 4. And the owners can't possibly allow this to be a six-month chronicle of Fenway Park being invaded by fans from LA, NY, Toronto and St. Louis... can they?
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Maybe the reason the Red Sox haven't dealt for a front line starter isn't because they don't want to give up homegrown talent or improve the club... or the absurd We don't want to waste a good pitcher's prime before our young core of elite prospects mature into All-Stars. Maybe they just don't want to acquire a front line starter because then they would have to pay him what he's worth.
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Agreed. The easiest way back to respectability is to put a legitimate big league defense on the field. At least it gives fans hope, and shows respect to those paying for MLB entertainment. Another defense like last year's, instead, will look like they're not even trying to improve...
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"Boston is on the brink of doing something bold." Bold, as in confident and courageous? Yet, the Red Sox already have a roster worse than the last two years of last place ballclubs. Doesn't a professional sports team have to be confident and courageous to look its fandom in the eyes and promise to be competitive? Bold, as in strong and vivid appearance? They already have weight-lifting muscles on O'Neill and tattooed arms on Houck... and Duran -- unless he's traded -- has both! SI must just be talking about new Spring Training uniforms... Boston players will soon be wearing bold faced bold jerseys: RED SOX.
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Typo, second word: omitted "s"
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Reiterations of redundant rehabbing regurgitating redos = repulsive Re-dsox.
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Nobody to the Red Sox. Truck full of stuff to Florida.
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Good pitching usually beats overrated Sox hitting.
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Pham: clean-up batter for team that lost the World Series.
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http://research.sabr.org/journals/is-pitching-75-of-baseball
