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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Most adult fans are aware their favorite sports teams are owned and run by business men trying to turn profits. But all fans know it costs them (or their parents) good money to watch and support those clubs. Reasonable fans don't demand a World Series every year -- just give us entertainment worthy of our hard-earned investments... and show thanks by continuing to invest in us.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I predict the Sox are really looking forward to June, when they travel for a pair of three-game series in Seattle and Colorado. They'll score 30 runs vs. the Rockies, and then the PR Dept and fans can brag that Boston's highly-rated offense averaged 5 runs per game on the road trip.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hey -- it could happen: 85 regular season wins and a Wild Card + 13 more in a hot October/November... when the Great Pumpkin finally returns to the pumpkin patch with candy corn for all good little girls and boys. The key won't be a middle-inning reliever with good potential horizontal sweep traded for in the last minute of the deadline as the Red Sox' one major summer acquisition.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It must be a new fetish. When Breslow won the 2013 World Series, he was listed as a shrimpy 6-footer. The only key pitchers on that postseason staff at least 6-4 were Lester and Lackey. Andrew Miller was cheering in the dugout but didn't make the roster.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dang -- I forgot KC on the outfield depth chart. His one elite skill was impersonating Barry Bonds at three levels in the minors... for one year (then the genie smashed the bottle).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    re. Yoshida, maybe -- and this is just winter blab until the Sox GET AN INFIELDER -- maybe they're waiting to see if a surgically-healed Masa can hit 20 home runs in a season... now that he's cleared to pump those inflatable dumbbells again. Think about this: each of Boston's outfielders (listed anyway) possess at least one elite skill -- Anthony On Base, Abreu throwing, Rafaela catching, Duran running... but what's Yoshida's? Contact, not striking out? He's not quite batting crown contender, Jacob Wilson level. If Masa can power up in the WBC and carry that over into the MLB, his value would soar considerably. Twenty HRs doesn't seem like much -- unless you play for the Red Sox and only have two returnees who reached that last year.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not worried about Bichette's offense. He's one of the few batters who can take massive cuts with his first two strikes and then shorten his swing and hit line drives. Someone with elite hand-eye can always adjust. Bregman has a similar approach at the plate, and is a much better fielder... but four years older.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good exercise. For some of these guys, I looked at the past half decade, and total hits. With about the same amount of XBH, here are 162-game averages for singles, as well: Bichette 130, Bregman 100, Marte 99, Devers 94, Contreras 80, Suarez 73. Bichette missed half the season in '24 and is the only one still in his 20s. Clearly the best hitter...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We're using a lot of syllables... maybe just "earned" as in earned WAR.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm starting to rethink the nomenclature for OPS. Guys aren't literally "hitting" .825, but more like reaching and launching .825.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If this was an argumentative poster, you'd read that Bregman and Abreu were with the line-up, Casas hasn't been a practical part of the batting order since 2023, and Mayer has yet to swing a reliable bat in the majors. But I'm not a guy even wondering what happened to Duran's game in Sept/Oct, because to me he's always been an elite athlete aspiring to become a consistent MLB ballplayer (I guess they're all craving that, though his talents give him a better shot).
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's funny -- because the Sox only scored 35 runs in Games 4 and 5. No, seriously. (I know, I sound like the posters who lauded Boston's TOP FIVE offense all summer -- which reflected totals based on breakfasts of egg-and-cheese omelets once a month, and bowls of Special K all the other days...).
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not even close. I was at Fenway for Game 3 of that '99 ALCS when the Sox lambasted Ohmygoodnessgracious Roger Clemens, 13-1. After Pedro shut down the Stanks in the top of the 1st, the rocking Red Sox greeted Roger before his Showah with the loudest two at bats I've ever heard in person: Offerman triple, Valentin homer. It doesn't matter if Boston outslugged Cleveland in the ALDS to get there, or lost the pennant to three-peat NY; in that one game alone, the Red Sox ripped 21 hits, 4 by AL batting champ Nomar Cherrygarciaparra.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe a lot of fans already forgot the names from the '25 Red Sox postseason batting order, but it's going to be hard to forget that was Boston's worst playoff line-up of all-time. As far as being undermanned, Anthony was injured -- but that's one guy. The rest of the roster was undermanned because of the CBO and his bosses.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Oh, sure -- Giolito hurts his arm and can't start in the playoffs, and now they want Raffy to pitch in. The next thing you know, they'll use a batting order full of bench warmers in the Bronx, and then ask Raffy to bat in two or three spots. How's he supposed to knock himself in, if he can't face Cole every at bat.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The problem won't be Sogard, who tied Nate Eaton with Bregman last year for the team lead in postseason double. The problem will be if the Red Sox have to rely on Sogard and Eaton again to lead the team in playoff double in 2026.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nothing a few protein shakes can't cure.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Those 90 games were similar to the 85 career postseason games of David Ortiz: 17 HRs, 61 RBI, .947 OPS. The similarity was that all those guys DHed... (though Papi did play some snazzy World Series 1B in NL parks).
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I get you want to trade our WAR leader, and best pitcher acquired in the Devers dump. I'd do Duran and Harrison for Marte, too. But you'd also include Romy... Romy Gonzalez?@! Our only .300 hitter for a guy who batted 20 points lower? Cora will be apoplectic; he's already lost his other platoon lefty masher. What if Romy grows back his mustache?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mention of Hunter Greene reminds me of this week of half a century ago, when the first major free agent signed -- Jim Hunter. It was New Year's Eve 1974 and we were either at a high school party or about to go to one when it was announced on TV: Catfish signed with the Yankees. Damn, nothing worth celebrating there (except among the few New York fans present). This isn't a post calling for offseason patience among Sox fans -- or any baseball fans. Unlike other sports, there's no set free agency season except Winter, which now drags on into Spring. But it isn't our fault there's now just a flood of constant info outlets that post daily about this crap even before the previous season ends -- keeping topics relevant and anticipation ripe through the cold months of waiting...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good stats, and while I may be the biggest critic of the all-or-nothing goon who hits 40 homers in between 200 strikeouts, I've watched too many Octobers lately to ignore what I see: Home runs win playoff games and are essential for teams that want to go deep in October. It's just the reality of MLB these days -- mainly because how good pitching has become. Close games are more likely to be settled by one batter hitting one out, rather than three guys stringing together three singles... ... or even a walk to a fast runner and a double, which is how NY beat Boston in the game that Eaton didn't score with two outs on Yoshida's single up the middle that was thrown in the dirt and bounced past 1st. That happened, but it was far from the norm of Springer homering the Jays to the World Series, and Smith homering LA to the title.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good breakdown. How about we just call Henry a big league owner, and spending to stay competitive comes with the badge. He may argue that trading resources is an alternative to signing free agents -- but scouting, drafting and developing those prospects (even surrounding them with non-prospects and coaches so they have can have on-the-job training) costs money, too... ... amiright or amibidextrous?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Unlike the savings from Devers' contract dump, Brez never promised to "repurpose" the salaries the Sox escaped from losing those others. Bloom, however, bragged about trading Mookie so he could sign Kike and Garrett Richards (i heard Chaim say it in person). Sam Kennedy did once tell us there was a way to keep both Betts and JD Martinez. Of course, they didn't -- which probably explains why he's still Prez (if the Sox canned Sam, his salary could've been repurposed). Here's some advice, but promise not to repeat it: condemn the past. From now on, let's just hash the future.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Devers hit 15 home runs in 73 games for the 2025 Red Sox. Then he hit 20 more in 90 games for San Francisco. Technically -- realistically -- criminally -- however it can be phrased, here are the batters that joined and hit homers in Boston uniforms after the Raffy trade: Yoshida 4, Lowe 2, Eaton 1. That's not even half of Devers' HRs before he left...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It ain't what they call rock and roll And the Sultans play Creole. Creole.
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