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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They can't be all talk anymore -- not this winter. Except for Sam, because that's all he does: "On behalf of the owners who are actually here today but refuse to answer questions lest they get booed at future fanfests and Bruins games, I'd like to introduce our scapegoat for the next four years who's as good as the old one in scrabble, but can also beat the entire front office in cornhole -- righty or lefty -- which proves he is a winner, since all we care about here in last place are championships..."
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez plan to improve Red Sox defense: “The ability to generate swings and misses in the strike zone is kind of the time-tested, foolproof recipe for success, because you're not influenced to a great extent by balls in play." Mission of stat posters: find pitchers who don't pitch to contact. MLB K/9: 1. Strider 13.5, 2. SNELL 11.7... 5. CEASE 10.9; WHIP: 5. BURNES... Sign Snell, trade for Burnes or Cease... and also sign HADER (13.6 canine).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow likes power arms with stuff (what CBO doesn't). And stocking up on strikeout pitchers may be the fastest way to improve the defense. In one winter it may be tough to rearrange an entire outfield, get a new second baseman, and somehow address the two elephants on the infield corners (who happen to be the team's best hitters). But spending money and/or trade capital on a few lights-out pitchers can be a quick fix; the D can't E if it don't touch the ball!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The in-joke was that Brez' kids became Cubs fans and Dad traded one of their favorites at the deadline... but he wouldn't "name names" (poster rushes to fangraphs...)
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're kidding. Bloom never played pro baseball, nor for the Red Sox, nor won a World Series in Boston. You may not think those things matter, but being able to relate to uniformed personnel and empathize what they're going through matters to the team (even if you did like the Vazquez trade, you have to admit hearing or reading how the clubhouse soured on Bloom for the way he handled it).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox want you to know they're so done with the Chaim Bloom Era. Sam and Craig both made sure their opening comments stressed the same message about our new CBO: 1. He knows what it's like to play in Boston for the Red Sox; and 2. He knows what it takes to win (2013 ring). They also spoke about how Sox fans deserve to root for sustained contenders... ... the rest of the Q and A centered on upcoming efforts to get better; Breslow noted a few times that will include players getting better, as well as getting better players. For the latter, he said he has no restraints about spending money or prospect capital. As a mostly ground-ball pitcher, Breslow knows the value of tight defense. How he fixes the D is just as intriguing -- and maybe harder to imagine -- as who he recruits for the rotation.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Close... Matt Lament!
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Quick quiz: name the Red Sox' pitcher selected to the AL All-Star team the year after a famous curse was broken. Hint: he wasn't called Pedro, DLowe, Schill, Wake, Back-to-Foulke or Wily Mo... and was not an embedded Yankee.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sure, look how unreliable Eovaldi was in October -- and November!
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All the baseball sites projecting dollar amounts for free agent pitchers have Yamamoto landing a deal worth the combined equivalent of say, Montgomery/Gray/Lorenzen... (feel free to substitute Imanaga or ERod). If we all know the Red Sox need many new reliable (consistently take the ball on regular turns) starting pitchers, we should expect a guy like Breslow to have already charted a rotation plan. Maybe it's to get Giolito and Flaherty at discounts and change hip/grip angles...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nobody's selling -- not even Bloom at the deadline. Heaney chose to sign with Texas, and has had to work an entire additional month in uniform, compared to Red Sox pitchers.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You better have statistical metrics to back that up, or at least some of a few numerous miser ables will find at least one conjugated verb or dangling modifier in your post to reverse engineer, just to argue a point they didn't make because they have no takes at all except for the subjective realities that just formed at their fingertips from sneering at qualitative data that can never be proven right or wrong or left all write.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tough choice, if salary offers were similar (as reported the last time he signed): ... pitch for a last-place team in a region with months of raw, cold rain in the toughest division in the history of Red Sox forums... ... or pitch for a World Series contender in a division featuring baseball weather.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's even carrying over into MLB. Every FOX commercial for a month has shown the same ballplayer strutting the diamond -- tall, dark and handsome -- but nameless... The singers can only crone: "Hey, YOU!"
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Their front office made them the Overdogs. Players must hate it when they lose Hall of Fame pitchers and MVP hitters, and all management can do is rely on rookie call-ups like Carter or replacement types like Jankowski, and either of their top two starters in innings pitched -- Dunning and Gray -- out of the bullpen every game.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Looking at that list, the one guy (besides Bogey) I was all in for was Mitch Haniger. He would have surely supplied the right-handed power subtracted from the line-up with the loss of JD Martinez... ... at least I got the math operation right -- Haniger was only minus-3 WAR.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nobody could get close to Spot, who lived under the staircase on 1313 Mockingbird Lane. ... maybe Eddie (mold glove winner)
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are Bogey's numbers hypothetical? Bloom and his cohorts gave Story $141M for 6 years... or $23.5M per. Then they offered X a $30M extension, which would've brought his opt-IN contract to 4 years for $90M... or $22.5M per. Not only were they insulting Bogey, they were blatantly telling him: we value the new guy more than you. Bloom's not stupid -- he studied Homer (not Whiffer)... bottom line: the Red Flops wanted Xander to refuse, opt out, and leave. Or they arrogantly thought he'd stay at their price, since he was never shy about professing his love for Boston -- just like Jon Lester. So they never even tried to negotiate, until they ultimately offered Bogey a last-minute deal equivalent to Story's (according to Alex Speier). Since WAR is an overall evaluator, comparisons seem fair, but even with similar values, they were and are different player types. But only one had proven he could excel in Boston, the AL East, and win two World Series rings.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox dWAR in the Wild Card Era (1995-2023) According to bb-ref, most of you probably guessed the best Boston fielder the past quarter century was a shortstop. Yup, John Valentin: 3.0 dWAR in 1995. Next in line was Betts in '16 and '17 at 2.7 and 2.6... followed by Nomar in '02, 2.5, then Beltre and Pedroia, tied at 2.4 in '10/11. The best '23 Red Sox defender, and top catcher in dWAR the past 28 years, is Wong, listed at #20 with 1.9 dWAR. Mookie and Pedey were in the Sox' top 33 five times each; Jackie Bradley made it three times. Bogaerts is listed #36 for his 1.4 dWAR in '22 -- the same season Story landed at #60 for his 1.0 dWAR at second base.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lucky for Kinder the Exit Dropocity only registered a mercury level of 0.15. But what was his Fins Above Replacement Minnow?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And Maury Wills was on TV shows that were only on one of three channels -- that everybody watched every night... back when people of all ages watched TV shows.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Holy crap - I meant all NL SSs. And Bogey only hit 19 HRs and 58 RBIs, what a bust. Lucky the Sox chose another guy who has batted .227 with a .287 on base and .398 slugging the past two years instead.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not arguing with the mighty metrics, but big league baseball can certainly use more batters who don't always swing from the heels, and instead shorten up and put the damn ball in play. Arraez led the majors with 160 singles and a .354 batting average -- and what batting order couldn't use that consistency. Bogey led all shortstops with 118 one-base hits. In 2017 I sat a few rows from home plate at a Fenway game when Bogaerts got up with the winning run on third. He literally choked up and punched the pitch into right field with just his arms for the walk-off. Nobody booed.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one said anything about quality. Bogaerts makes better contact -- as in more contact is better -- because he strikes out 10% less than Story... over their entire careers.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I automatically mute all betting features in pregames. Nothing against the hosts all dressed up in expensive clothes hoping you'll give them more money; this is the life they've chosen... ... but the old-timers in the booth pretending gambling is good are all sell-outs. It reeks of kick-backs from other companies that value profits over the well-being of the populace.
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