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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So he can walk in and get new free shoes every time his feet sweat? On second thought, if you're making half a billion, you can afford to have your personal assistant or someone else on her staff employed full-time just to open and lace up daily shipments, and neatly place in your locker before each game... or hike... or stroll downstairs when the chefs call you for meals.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is where they constantly blew it with Mookie. Every time they tried to lock him up, his market value had already exceeded their offer. But the Red Sox front office, arrogant in their lofty place in the upper echelon of big markets, never expected a kid in his 20s to refuse them.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Why is it threatening? Who is it threatening? I got it: Sox fans -- who know it would only be a PR move, and blow all winter money on a guy who can't even pitch next year (and maybe never again like he did in the past)...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The elephant on the baseline... jogging to first on grounders is a bad look -- everyone knows it, especially the guy in charge of the dugout. So, how can Verdugo get benched for not hustling, but not Devers... unless he has a nagging leg issue that management would rather not disclose.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox are just going to be run by committee, they don't need to look any further than this board. We've got advanced scouts everywhere -- Hugh in the north, MVP in the south, Dipre in the Caribbean... Moon can head analytics, Bellhorn as the voice of reason, Old Red the voice of treason (Sam Kennedy replacement), and Notin to settle arbitration arguments with irony that compels all to comply while laughing at themselves (they think). The Roster Recruiter -- by fan majority vote -- has to be Max, who will stockpile batmen, bats, and superstar lumberjacks to outbash any bad pitching and defense... and most importantly, keep customers entertained.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. Ideally, second base can be upgraded with more righty pop and fielding consistency. Unfortunately, most decent batters there are lefties. Home runs by RHH second basemen, 2021-23: 100 Semien, 58 Gleybar, 48 India. One intriguing candidate: Brendan Rodgers, who missed most of the season with shoulder surgery but is supposedly healed (I know, I know...). He's 27, won a Gold Glove two years ago, and is arb eligible on the last-place Rockies... so could be available.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    People can make fun of the Mets because their plan backfired (and they're from NY), but their fans can't fault ownership for going all in, and immediately rectifying mistakes by trading big contracts for prospects, and changing upper management. If you're a Mets fan, at least you know they're committed to win. Now.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    #3 for a guy about to enter his prime; the only time winning may be the priority is when an already rich veteran on his last contract desires one last shot at a ring 1. Money: lots and lots, commensurate with longterm production that you know your body can't possibly deliver 2. Weather: decent enough to give your body a chance to produce longterm; can't all be San Diego, but cities with miserable months of raw, rainy nights in the 40s need not apply 3. Vibes: crowds excited about baseball and baseball players in a place where winning matters (or the opposite of toiling in the Flying Dutchman of Domes in Tampa). Some guys leave Boston for #1, and while happy with #2, miss #3... examples: Fred Lynn, Bruce Hurst. Others bring #3 with them, like Mookie or Manny (whose better-body-by-chemistry was one of the rare few that sustained excellence in Boston after signing longterm).
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not from a GM but one of his players: "...going out and getting those big names — people who have done it; people have been there; people who are leaders; people who have shown time and time again that they can be successful in this league — is definitely going to help this clubhouse and help this team.” “… We have to do that to keep up. We’ve done a great job of growing some players here within the farm system, but sometimes you’ve got to go out and you have to buy. And that’s just the name of the game. “We’ll see what happens this offseason. Hopefully we can add some players and become a better team.” The above comments come via link from a player whose club traded its closer at the deadline and then just missed making the postseason (and not a cellar-dweller that refused to trade a veteran starter at peak value before he landed back on the IL).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe, but wouldn't it make even more sense to give two days rest to a guy who was banged up? "Many days before it happens" can still protect someone with a nagging injury -- the kind that doesn't land players on the IL, but affects their performance for months (look at Mayer this season, who played hurt for two months before they had to shut him down).
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nobody ever seems to remember that ballclubs, players and managers keep nagging injuries to themselves so that opponents won't exploit them. Oh, bone bruise on the thumb? Pitch fastballs on his hands! Strained hammy? Good, when he's on base, we can keep throwing sweepers instead of heat- i mean, sinkers... The media might just be told "scheduled day off" as a way to conceal the truth.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is where the Red Sox' front office always seems to miss the connection. Aaron Civale, native of Connecticut, grew up a Sox fan. Tampa traded a power-hitting minor league first baseman for him. Boston couldn't do that?
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But as we've seen, the big bats -- as long as they're acquired in their primes -- are a better bet. Semien played all 162 games. deGrom and Scherzer pitched 14 games combined.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    True, true, and maybe not... First, he'd have to pass medicals before a new regime would opt to trade any top prospects for him (one thing we have to assume is that a new culture in the front office has to give up shoveling waiting-for-damaged-goods to the fanbase). Next is the upside: if he's deemed healthy, and has three or four typical Trout years in Fenway, batting behind Devers and a table setter like Duran, it could revive the franchise. It will make it a lot more fun, and PR couldn't get anyone better than the best player of his generation to bring the brand back to relevance. (that is, unless Ohtani can ever pitch again like he did pre-surgery...) And Casas with his ever-improving OPS batting after Trout should give Mike more protection than the unwell-traveled Renfroe or (gag) Rendon -- 3.1 WAR total in four seasons for the Angels.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The winners' pitching stepped up and came through when it counted. Poor defense was a big factor for the AL losers. The Rays played like crap, and the Jays will never win with Bichette at short. I didn't realize the Rangers' D only committed 57 errors this season -- the broadcast said 18 in the second half (that's one less than Raffy made this year). Maybe we're maybe lucky the Sox didn't pick up Montgomery or Civale at the deadline and eeked in; it spared the Nation exposure for having its worst D in at least this century.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Those Red Sox teams in the 1970s were always making moves to acquire quality pitching. They swung trades for All-Star starters like Sonny Siebert, Rick Wise, Ferguson Jenkins and Dennis Eckersly. They also picked up Luis Tiant at a flea market, and when free agency began, signed the top AL reliever in Bill Campbell and World Series champ Mike Torrez. Ultimately, they couldn't go deep into October again until they cultivated pitchers on their own farm: Clemens, Hurst, Boyd, etc. But of course, the Sox never won any post-Babe rings until they went all in for big game hunters like Martinez and Schilling (with some foresight through the years by adding Wake, Lowe, Arroyo and Foulke).
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here's what does make sense: runs scored by the four eliminated losers in the eight wild card games -- Tuesday 0, 1, 3, 1... Wednesday 1, 0, 2, 1 Some posters believe that the Sox are only two pitchers away from contending... to qualify for the postseason, maybe... and then "anything can happen". But those scores would argue that complete pitching staffs of solid starters and stingy relievers aren't quite as unpredictable (granted, they've yet to face the four best clubs -- record-wise).
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox had a team OPS+ of 100... right at the exact league average. That confirms what our eyes told us all season: their vaunted offense was mediocre. The only teams above-average were Tampa, Texas, Houston, Baltimore, Minnesota, Toronto and Seattle... all legit contenders. One stat that stands out is team bases on balls; only three clubs drew less walks than Boston: Cleveland, KC and Chicago (legit sellers). Casas was tied for 12th with 70 walks. Devers was second with 62 (tied for 22nd). Then there were guys like Wong and Duvall, 22 walks each, Duran, 24, and Yoshida, 34 BB in 537 Plate Appearances (Wade Boggs had that many in just chicken dinner plate appearances every spring in the 1980s). The Sox need better swingers and better takers.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ef Eflin, he can go to the Devil (wearing a throwback jersey). I hope all the AL East teams get eliminated in their first rounds; I don't root for rivals. And the last thing the Red Sox batting order needs is more Ks. Chapman now has 40 strikeouts MORE than Devers this year -- who may have swung at every single pitch to him in the last six months. Bellhorn wants more bang for his buck than a left side of Story and Chapman? How about just more contact for the bucks... Times have changed, but it's still a fact that both Story and Chapman have each had seasons with more whiffs than any of the 753 big league batters who played during what is commonly known as the worst offensive season in Major League history: 1968 -- "The Year of the Pitcher."
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    NESN already announced plans for next season. They vow to give fans a rest every Friday -- the day before most get the weekend off -- by not broadcasting Red Sox games that night. Instead of last-place baseball on Fridays, NESN is scheduled to show classic black-and-white monster movies. It's all nostalgia, for a time when fans actually enjoyed watching horror on their TVs. My favorite was "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" -- Lon Chaney's Wolfman battles Bela Lugosi's Dracula! There was no dumpster diving in casting those roles; directors went right after the biggest names in mayhem.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It doesn't make sense that Cora told Bloom which dumpsters to dive in -- and then when the team sucked, blatantly stated, "The roster is the roster." Bloom infamously said the Sox were "underdogs" to justify not acquiring their requested reinforcements. But he made them underdogs -- he was in charge of assembling the roster, not the manager stuck with starting openers every other day... I welcome Cora having more input on front office decisions, especially regarding which players he'd like to keep, which ones he'd move, and ultimately, which free agents or guys on other teams he'd specifically target that can improve the Red Sox. No matter what you think about Cora, he knows a lot more about baseball than Chaim Bloom.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good list. Not that we have a crystal ball, but how many of the 13 will A. make the majors; and B. ever hit .300? Best case: A. 5; B. 2? Anyway, would you swap four for four star years of Trout? Like 30+ HRs in Boston? Is it worth it to deal with a Sale/Price albatross after that? Consider this: before this injury season, Trout had 11 straight years of .900+ OPS. Where are we going to find a RHH outfielder who can even post .850? The Sox haven't even had any OF that high since Mookie left...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. It's more that clubs would rather bring in a conga line of fresh arms, rather than most hitters become Ted Williams the third or fourth time through the order. Recall it was Ted that admitted sharp-eyed batters like he and Joe D. feasted off tired pitchers who were expected to finish what they started back in old-timey days -- and that he'd never be able to bat .400 in a game with modern relief aces.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But haven't the concepts of "durability"/starting pitcher/quality starts and even pitcher victories changed before our very eyes? Or are these issues just Red Sox-centric... It reminds me of the year my school district collected all the novels from elementary classrooms and redesignated and then redistributed them to higher grades; the books had become too difficult at all the old levels because kids don't read enough any more.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Teoscar Hernandez has a negative dWAR in every season of his eight-year career. He is not playing outfield for the woeful Red Sox defense, because a new GM will not fix anything by acquiring him -- unless we want another guy whose best position is DH.
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