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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox were kept in Czech, they might be able to get a hit off the plumber or the gynecologist who pitched in the WBC.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Houston will demand Durbin? They might demand he's not in the package... But your two pitching prospects are a fair offer for Paredes. And of course the Astros will ask every team for their top 3 overall prospects first for Alvarez. But this isn't Juan Soto at age 25, when the Yankees got him and Trent Grisham for five guys, including two top pitching prospects... ... which is what I'm offering, along with a new monster-sized hitting prospect, for Yordan, who next month will be 29. But people can forget about Houston getting a haul like Washington did when Soto was 24.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I never played on grass, but had a beer sometimes in between games of a hot doubleheader. But I've been sober all day, and would give up a package of just about any Red Sox for Yordan. He could be one of the few gamechangers in his absolute prime that puts this group back into contention. Paredes or another guy like him just won't be enough to save this offense. If you don't want to waste what may be the last Crochet-Chapman year, gotta go big. For the current and future core, I have to keep Abreu, Anthony and Arias; sorry, the infield is just too unstable going forward -- maybe only Mayer is a key guy going forward. Otherwise, how would Houston feel about this trio for Alvarez: Eyanson, their choice of Tolle or Early, and Justin Gonzales? They'd get this year's breakout minor league pitcher, another MLB rookie starter, and a future Yordan who just made the Top 100 Prospects list...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Temps would have to be sub-zero to make them colder than they already are. But if they made contact and didn't break in half, Sox could have a few frozen ropes.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Then go hard after Yordan Alvarez. If he's even remotely available, there's no one else in baseball like him to help solve what ails Boston. Keep our own A's: Anthony, Abreu, Arias -- not to be unreasonable, but because Red Sox position players throughout the system are either not that good or at least overrated in New England. Houston needs pitching to reboot, and that's Boston's strength. Come on, Brez -- you drafted 89 D1 arms for this moment.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and that's to Bill Mueller, for ripping the RBI single through Rivera. For perspective on that unlikely feat in that situation, consider this: how many current Red Sox batters would even make contact, and of those, actually put it in play? Answer: negative two. Fred would be typing Game Over when the Yankees got out of their cabs arriving at the Stadium in the afternoon before the game.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tell the Giants if they pay 90% of his contract, we'll take him back and put on the Riff-Raffy Restricted List... where he can only be activated to suit up and bat against Cole for the rest of their careers.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He doesn't always come through -- because he's a baseball player -- but we've seen him repeat heroics more than most for three years now.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But why do we need to eat now when we'll just be hungry later? Who needs to wear clean clothes when they're just going to get dirty? What's the sense in combing my hair when someday it's all going to fall out.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "We just keep running into good pitchers." Night after night after nightmare.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Personally, I had a lot more fun watching the Red Sox all those years when they were slugging and scoring runs. There certainly seemed to be a lot more fans cheering during those games. And as much as I like Lou Merloni, I couldn't stomach him last night saying that the Red Sox keep running into so many good pitchers. Is it possible this Red Sox offense makes so many pitchers look good? Maybe my despair is easier to take in those 11-9 losses when a couple Red Sox pitchers blow a slugfest. Comparing that to losing a pitchers' duel is a numbers game for me, when I'm more frustrated watching 9 or 10 inept batters basically offer little hope of scoring, inning after inning after inning.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was over when Varitek, age 29 and coming into his own having a career year, dove for a pop foul and broke his elbow on the dumb wooden on-deck logo. So three legit star players went down. This year we have Crochet and now Contreras out. Anthony was kind of a star... in the WBC and team yearbook and preseason media guides. But there's no Manny still in the line-up.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In 4+ years, including post-seasons, since Kyle Schwarber left Beantown, he's blasted 228 home runs. In their Red Sox careers -- Boston's entire 2026 starting line-up has hit 224 homers. But Schwarber just didn't fit in here. To use a notin simile: that's like looking at a three-car garage with a Pinto, a Gremlin, and a Pacer, and saying there's just no room for a mint 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez now scrambling in the bleachers to recruit enough bodies to fill out a Nine so they can finish the game. What's their LBR? (no one squeezed into the box seats could move with their arms folded and pasted across their chests).
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Durbin just hit into an inning-ending DP and OB said the side was retired. So I give credit to all the former Red Sox players who just decided to hang 'em up.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But what's our OPS?!?!?!?!?!? Remember, doubles and triples are included in the S... which in Boston also factors into LOB. HRs -- as someone reminded the forum AND BREZ today -- immediately count on the scoreboard.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I read an eval on him at the time that said he could be a GG at either. I don't remember the source, but I didn't make it up. I also saw him in person make special plays at short with range nobody else had in Boston at the time or since.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right -- it's like they were worried he'd turn into another Mookie so better lock him up cheap so they wouldn't get excoriated for trading another generational player when refusing to pay him fair market value. Comparisons may seem absurd now, but in the minors Ceddanne had more pop, could run, and was said to have a big league Gold Glove in CF and SS. That's potentially a five-tool star that could become very costly... when Betts was in the minors, no one projected him in the majors to win a batting crown, hit 3 homers in one game six times or make himself the best defensive rightfielder in the game.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This year it's the bar (Sox are driving more fans to drink) -- or at my recliner, because I don't drink and drive. Second would be at the cororner.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They can't make it much lower and they won't push it back, so we all know MLB will revert to their tried and true solution -- especially if there's another obnoxious lockout and they're desperate to bring back fans: JUICED balls (that batters hit).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When two batters K in front of the home hitter, you get a lotta solo shots.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Somewhere on the top shelf of the safe in the front office is a secret formula that only these geniuses devised that calculates which approach saves the company the most money. Locking up a group of young players longterm at team-friendly terms in case one of them becomes a superstar worthy of top of the market value is one trend. As a fan, I prefer they pay controlled guys minimums and then market value when the times comes -- which Boston doesn't seem to mind, either, to appease the base... as long as there's not a No Trade clause so they can dump them sooner than later. The reason I'm on board with the latter is that it would appear to provide more budget flexibility to fill roster needs with legitimate talent year to year. But don't trade Mookie Betts, you complete and utter baseball no-minds!
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This regime doesn't mind long extensions for youngsters -- and it really isn't about not having to pay true market value for a star in his prime... because that really hasn't happened, has it? (If someone can think of an example of a Red Sox rookie or second-year man signing longterm and then reaching an age where his status made him a ridiculous bargain, please chime in. I'm not talking Pedro, who was a Cy Young when he got to Boston, or Papi, who kept agreeing to team-friendly contracts... but young guys). The reason is the same reason that caused Bregman to walk: No No-Trade clauses... because as soon as Henry tires of paying someone what he offered, he dumps him.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dr. Breslowstein and his office full of Igors did the mash a year ago, congratulating themselves for their Campbell creation. But then the monster turned on them and now no one can control him. We all know the reasons he was demoted a year ago, but every time I see him swing now it looks like he's hurting himself trying to pull the ball in the air. Yesterday: tying run on 3rd, winning run on 2nd -- a single could've been enough... but KC tried to kill the ball. I know the minors don't put as much emphasis on winning, but being a walk-off hero can't hurt a guy's chances at getting noticed by a parent club in desperate need of offense.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You asked two. The first one is totally your assumption. KC was 0-for-4 with two bad Ks and a questionable approach when a four-run homer was unnecessary to win a one-run game. From my observations of watching Campbell in person in games several times this season, Campbell has not shown he is a big leaguer. He looks the same as he did last year: a pro athlete, but not a major league baseball player. Have you even seen him hit this year? Arms, legs and head are all out of synch, with no consistency from one AB to the next. Guys who can't mesh those working parts in games in the minors aren't considered for the next level. When Anthony, an outfielder/DH went on the IL, why didn't Eaton get promoted over Gasper? Eaton can run fast on the bases and in the outfield. But Gasper has had Woo's most consistent bat and the Red Sox need more.
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