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Keep wishing, fanboy, and let the pros handle the pros. You just lube up with enough $12 beers so you can squeeze into your $150 grandstand seat behind the pole, but finish your $7 Fenway frank before the 7th inning stretch and we'll let you sing-along for free with Neil Diamond.
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I can't trade Miguel Bleis this year. When your team is an annual cellar dweller, you don't give away the one guy in the entire system that some scouts or media say has five-tool potential. Have to give a franchise-altering impact player a chance to develop, especially after missing almost a whole season with injury. And until Bleis shows he's back on track, no other club is going to be willing to swap anyone with top of the rotation promise for him -- and that's the only return that can justify a deal.
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Please, come to Boston for the Springtime You can pitch cold wet nights and wreck your arm ... sang the #1 fan of SamBrezBaileee
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The Sox are reportedly interested and plan to go all in on an offer that includes 100 months of incentives, with an opt-out after 95, when Roki has a good chance to live to 30.
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Fan cynicism evolved because of Sam Kennedy's constant ******** that the Red Sox are in it to win world championships. Rational fans have only seen lateral moves so far that make them longshots to even get them out of the basement. Breslow's looking to add young pitchers who'll be part of the core moving forward. One or two of those would at least give a glimmer of hope for improvement in the future. Forget about a bridge year. Fans would be happy just to find some shallow waters jutted with stepping stones that aren't too slippery...
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Come on. The disappointment isn't that any of the starting pitchers who signed so far are great, it's just that all are better than the one guy Boston inked. At least they were last year. And as usual since the Bloom Era began, the only ballplayers the Sox have added this offseason are question marks and hopefuls: can Giolito reclaim past glory? can O'Neill stay on the field? can Grissom play D good enough to keep his bat in the line-up? If everything goes right, they will replace Sale, Verdugo, and one of the lost bats of Turner or Duvall -- from a fifth-place team... The big disappointment right now, more than any Bloom offseason (Betts and Bogaerts were just depressing), is that despite a change at the top of the front office, and a promise by one of the owners, the Red Sox have not made any major moves to improve. There are still gaping holes in the rotation that even casual fans can see -- but will as many of them still pay to keep watching?
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
"If everything goes right" is an overused cliche that became a mantra for the Bloom Era Red Sox. So far, nothing has changed. But I just can't digest the Giolito contract, which seems disrespectful to fans of a team devoted to a true rebuild. Are we recruiting core players for a better future, or just trying to survive the present. Do we root for him to return to a Cy Young candidate and catapult us into fourth place... only to see him opt out and sign elsewhere for big bucks a year from now? Better yet: if everything goes right for a fourth-place finish, Bello wins the Cy, Pivetta is Bulk Guy on the All-Star team, and Giolito doesn't suck. Instead, he eats innings to give the bullpen a break... but mediocre enough not to opt out. Then we can bring all three back in '26 to shoot for third. -
They will be twice as good as the 2020 Red Sox! I'll bet my 1988 Surf Book that Boston will at least double the win total of the '20 losers.
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My first idol was Mike Andrews, a second baseman with some pop in the late-60s. A better hitter than fielder, he actually got MVP votes in two years and made an All-Star team when the Sox were good. Later on, Andrews was famously fired in a World Series for making an error... out of baseball at age 29, but made life better for others as chairman of the Jimmy Fund for over 30 years.
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Might not see a lot of kids wearing Eovaldi jerseys, but you can be sure Nate's a star alright with teammates of his three postseason clubs: '18, '21 Sox, '23 Rangers. But kids are relevant in today's discussion, because growing up rooting for favorite players is a big part of baseball fandom, including shirts, posters, cards, autographs, etc. Fans get attached to stars, and some semblance of roster continuity is important, even in the era of free agency. It's obviously not the same as last century, when families were on first-name basis with the same starting line-ups being described on their radios for a decade or more on some clubs (ex: Brooklyn NL mid-1940-50s, Detroit AL 1960s). For the most part, we all want to cheer for teams of players who at least seem like they care about winning as much as we do. And fans definitely care about good groups that fall short or don't even reach the last game of any season. The human element makes us empathetic to our heroes, and in some cases, root even harder for them the next time... ... if only the owners pay them what they're worth to keep wearing our laundry.
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I didn't make up that nickname or have an epiphany. "Moneyball" the movie was the historical document that told us all we needed to know about John Henry. What was alarming and now disheartening to some of us was that Henry had already won so many rings from spending big -- in money and prospect capital -- and presumably made so much profit (based on the value of the franchise), and then decided to regress character to his Brad Pitt scene... back when the old curse was still hovering through the fog and filthy air.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Depends how you define "widely." If you mean analytics departments and fans who embrace modern metrics, maybe. If you mean baseball strategists from the first one hundred or so years of professional baseball, maybe not quite as wide. Since every batter is unique -- with various individual skills -- variables like On Base Percentage, working the count, hitting behind the runner and making consistent contact all make the label "best" subjective in many ways. The only guaranteed fact is that the first three hitters in the batting order will get at bats in the first inning. -
Only after Curly replaced Shemp. It was like Mirabelli driving the cruiser and delivering Stephen Drew.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I've said it many times; I have to ensure Raffy gets up in the first inning. For modern Red Sox starting rotations, first-strike instant leads are too important to not try for every game. As for Casas, with his keen eye and how he works the count, I can envision some modern manager trying him as a Schwarber-type leadoff batter. Personally, I'd prefer another OBP man in front of him, to optimize Tris' run-producing potential. -
For all his Zoom calls over the years, he never once exposed any colleague on his screen to germs. Not sure about viruses, but zero communicable diseases...
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Curly could never control himself in the clutch, especially when the organist played ''Three Blind Mice." He had that nasty habit with the cheese, and threw his weight around on too many grounders. Yet, the franchise gave him the big extension to finish his career as a Stooge, because he was the fan favorite.
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It's all conjecture, but reducing payroll or "clearing the books" isn't a novel strategy before a company sale. Some may question the Devers extension, but there has to be some star power to make the laundry more attractive than just jerseys on hangers.
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Great point, and even if Henry is determined to win cheap, there comes a point when lost public trust has to damage the brand. Though maybe he doesn't care too much if he's planning on selling soon...
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Branch Rickey was played by Indiana Jones... ... and I think Dombrowski plays Jimmy Stewart in the MLB
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Ignore what we all know he did or didn't do the past four years, and see how his firing may be perceived by owners as the best PR move going forward. For three months, it raised expectations across Red Sox Nation that big changes were actually in store. But by now we know: it was just cheaper than signing better players at fair market value. Don't worry, they'll allow Breslow to make a splish soon to restore a glimmer of hope... something like one of the Three Stooges shooting a hole in the canoe to let the water leak out.
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There's no doubt Henry wanted to mirror the Tampa Bay Way when he hired Bloom. And we know the mighty Rays have made the playoffs the past five years in a row, while the Sox mostly flopped. But it is worth noting that Chaim Bloom's last season in Tampa was 2019, and before that, the Rays missed the postseason in seven of the previous eight years he was in their front office. So maybe part of the problem was that the Sox just hired the wrong exec to transform them into TBNorth... (which Henry might admit if he ever talks to the media or public again).
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And I disagree with posters who convince themselves any certain offseason is devoid of talent, and the Sox must be waiting for a better crop to choose from, next winter. This Boston roster is so bad -- and has been on the pitching staff since Bloom took over -- that every offseason has players available that can help improve the Red Sox. They just choose not to invest. As far as pretending a window for contention will open as soon as the mighty prospects arrive in '25 or '26... is it really reasonable to expect Teel to instantly become a Rutschman-type leader behind the plate? Mayer to morph into Corey Seager his first year? Anthony to duplicate Bellinger's rookie stardom? All three may become or surpass such comps, but it may take half a decade for any of them to mature into stars (by then, maybe for other teams).
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It would be easier if they'd admit they won't Pay Guys. It has to be better PR if a team is honest with its fans. Moon once noted even the Houston Astros leveled with fans back when they were, uh... armor-plating their team bus. And everyone survived. Massachusetts doesn't even have open carry...
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Luplow riled up Todd, who always gave his sister Lisa noogies on Saturday Night Live.
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Last line left off a few words: "Further additions appear more likely to the middle or back of the rotation to BEFUDDLE FANS' depth PERCEPTIONS and EXPLOIT THEIR GULLIBILTY."
