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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe they already have. Except Kennedy, whose job it is to always fabricate a process to mislead the masses.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    SIX syllables?!?! Luckily, I just finished my first beer... indeFATigable
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    From this highly-touted group, I'd say four regulars, who if they hang in there long enough should have two All-Stars (that it, two selected to an AS team, but without MVP votes or HOF WAR). The odds are so against an actual group making the majors together in two or three-year spans, and then all becoming immediate All-Stars or even Rookie of the Years... ... like the Braves: Acuna, Albies, Riley, Harris etc. Plus, though the Sox have a history of homegrown stars, there are plenty of overrated prospects who also fizzle out, once they arrive in the MLB (and leagues develop "books" on them). Guys that are really young have plenty of time to develop talents, but that's also extra time to pick up bad habits, unhealthy lifestyles, and subsequent injuries that may hamper progress. To that end, there's something to be said for drafting solid college stars like Matt McLain -- he may have a lower ceiling than 5-tool teenagers, but there's a higher floor to count on...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nothing wrong with optimism on prospects, especially nowadays when fans can actually see them perform (and assess/project), with so much live or recorded video available. Speaking of DD acquisitions, it's hard not to look at the Phillies' success and these free agent signings: Harper, Wheeler, Realmuto, Castellanos, Schwarber, Turner (even Kimbrel/Strahm this October). I'm prob forgetting some, or maybe some signed pre-DD, but are any Philly fans complaining their front office has saddled them with albatross contracts that will haunt them years from now?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In '22 and '23, the answer is obvious -- according to any media covering the club, including Papelbon in the NESN studio. But the Sox didn't fall in '21 until the postseason, when the lack of bullpen reinforcements -- compared to the team that won the pennant -- kept them from the World Series.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The same thing happened the year before with a different core. The roster just isn't good enough. If we're honest, 2021 -- when they persevered despite a post-deadline stretch where half the team was out with Covid -- was the anomaly... with the same maligned manager in the dugout.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here's where the front office may be counting on the future even less than selling the fans on counting on the future. How many of those prospects -- Chaim: "you know what's coming" -- will not only stick in the majors, but become big league stars? Longtime fans (basically, the majority of fans these days) are spoiled from so many Red Sox rookies becoming almost instant stars -- one wave after another: Fisk/Rice/Lynn to Clemens/Boggs to Greenwell/Burks to Mo/Nomar to Pedroia/Youk/Ellsbury to Papelbon/Lester/Buchholz to Bogaerts/Betts/Devers etc etc etc.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I really appreciate your analysis, especially when posts see both sides -- like today's optimism/pessimism preview. But I also think it'd be best to cut back on the pipe when looking at the last-place roster, and thinking the addition of two top pitchers will make the current personnel that much better. It's not like there are any rumors of candidates for new Chief Officer rushing to Boston the past month, so maybe not so many view the Sox as quick fix title contenders yet...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Bloom is soon to be rehired
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can I have a hit off that pipe?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Does anyone really believe a team with the worst defense is just two pitchers away from becoming good again? No matter which starters Boston lands -- unless they're Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson clones -- the fielders will still have to make plays behind them. If the Sox actually do hire someone from the outside to run things, it very well could mean they're open to also making major changes on the big league roster. Would it be so surprising if at least one major shake-up of position players happens -- where maybe they actually move a big contract to make room for another? One of Story, Yoshida or even Devers could be gone, if it's all part of a package that makes the club better.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Vito: JH, speaks with a whisper Tom: Tom Sonny: Chaim... for whom the toll booths Michael: AC -- today we settle all roster business Fredo: Sam... "I'm smart, too" Luca: Lebron, sleeping with fishes Johnny Fontaine: Neil Diamond Clemenza: Papi Tessio: Manny Connie: that's Sam, too, shrieking, "Michael!!! You killed my Kluber!" Carlo: Kluber Paulie: Kike Joe Pesci?: Pedroia... not in the current Red Sox movie, but still should be, so they're not so damn soft
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    She actually traded an All-Star for an All-Star. The nerve of some people.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's pretending that? Here's my quote in the post you replied to: "Some posters love to argue against acquiring pitchers who are injury-prone' or 'IL risks' -- but nowadays, are any not?" They are all big risks -- old guys, young guys, Bearclaws, even mop-up position players who throw blooper balls slower than Little Leaguers -- ALL of them. So should GMs avoid signing the good ones -- the pros who have the stuff to top a rotation, lead a staff to the postseason, and better yet, those who have proven themselves in Octobers past? Raise your hand if instead you'd rather just load up on DFAed or rehabbing projects who if lucky may combine to get within three or four innings away from Neil singing: "To believe they never would..."
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If only Bloom had signed more indestructible rocks of the mound like Richards, Hill, Wacha, Paxton and Kluber.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    George knew what he was doing by always stockpiling starting pitchers, and he was also right on targeting big game "warriors" -- like he knew he was in trouble when Epstein (not Cashmen) landed Schilling. Some posters love to argue against acquiring pitchers who are "injury-prone" or "IL risks" -- but nowadays, are any not? Has arm history EVER slowed down Nathan Eovaldi on a big stage in October?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This may actually defend those who welcome "anyone but Bloom" to run the Red Sox. Henry could've picked any poster on talksox as CBO four years ago, and -- nothing personal -- there's a good chance Boston would have finished dead last in the AL East at least 75% of the time. Well, except maybe Jax -- who would've made sure the Yankees were World Series favorites every single season. Uh, wait a minute...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Doesn't matter; the next GM will get canned four years from now.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    2020 And this was a poorly constructed team 2021 And this was a well constructed team 2022 And this was a poorly constructed team 2023 And this was a poorly constructed team Of course, these are only opinions, which somebody reminds us of every day we bask in the glory of typing speculations and assumptions. Some posters even pass on misinformation, with smarmy, "So you're sayings..." (even when you're clearly not saying). Meanwhile, there will always be those who defend the baseball acumen of a guy who studied Classics at Yale over a diamond lifer who spent parts of six different decades either playing or managing in the big leagues. According to the media, a few critics of John Henry have even refused interviews to run his club because "he fired Bloom for doing what he was hired to do." Do they really believe Henry told Bloom to cut payroll, restock the farm, and build the MLB roster bad enough to suck 75% of the time?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... or trading "prospects" for big leaguers. Remember this summer, it was Cora who said something like, "Building up the minors is important, but the majors is what matters most."
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora will quite possibly have more of a say in how the Sox build the roster he has to make work. That has to be a better situation than what Bloom gave him the past couple years. No matter what one's opinion of Cora's performance in the dugout, a guy with his boots on the ground knows more about the needs of his team -- and which players are candidates from other clubs to target to fill those holes.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The average fan only cares about won-loss records and the standings. We don't grade on a curve. Prospective home-buyers researching school systems might look at test scores, but pleas from low-performing districts of limited budgets and historical mismanagement will only cause a run in the other direction.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There are basic facts in a profession driven by Won-Loss Records: If a team loses more than it wins, it is a loser. Finishing in last place -- no matter how many clubs are in the division or how good they are -- is still last place. The last one. A last place loser is a failure. Circumstances that lead to it can vary, but there is no doubt that losing and last place is a season of failure. Every time it happens again, excuses become more inexcusable.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox' weatherlytics dept. attributes Braiser's success to LA's smog gravitating his pitches, as opposed to Boston, where it rained for four straight months and his grips slipped. But Kennedy promises they're looking to interview new meteorologists who can teach pitchers to throw more meteors.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Proof that mid-market clubs don't have enough interns to masquerade as posters on other clubs' fan forums.
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