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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We know all the big-time players in these free agents sweepstakes: big markets determined to outbid each other, and legitimate postseason contenders looking for additions to put them over the top. We'd all like to think the Red Sox ownership and front office is rejoining all their rivals' intentions this winter. But none of us will believe it until/if it happens...
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With Bellhorn's revelation from the Atlantic -- "someone in the Sox organization as saying the approach under Breslow is remarkably the same as it was under Bloom" -- Sox fans now have to question if the new CBO is really just another mouthpiece. Even eternal optimist Moon is starting to accept we're all being duped. If we go back to one of the reported reasons Dombrowski was fired -- that he ignored or dismissed the longtime voices in many departments -- it's worth wondering now if Bloom was ever really in charge. Does it really make sense for a company to hire an inexperienced young man to outrank veteran execs, many of whom were pushing two decades of company service? Does it really make sense that the Red Sox have now just done it twice in four years -- while keeping all of the same front office staff who have been there forever?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not that Sox fans are upset they didn't get Ohtani. It's just watching other teams -- competitive clubs serious about upgrading year after year -- improve their chances ever winter by adding available talent. Ohtani can't pitch, but any batting order is better if it features the MLB leader in OPS... ... and now we face the reality of all those legitimate big market teams he didn't sign with that have lots of money to spend on players the Sox actually need.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I could be me, but I doubt there are any fans of any baseball team that would be upset today if their club just signed Ohtani. I know there are some who "can't believe someone paid that much money to a guy to play a child's game" -- just like every single time an athlete breaks the all-time contract record, since the beginning of free agency almost half a century ago (and even before that when owners showed gratitude to stars during the Reserve Clause). But Ohtani's not just the greatest two-way ballplayer of all-time... he's one of the most famous people on the planet. He's Elvis. The Dodgers aren't always right, but they always make a plan and are decisive. They knew exactly what they were doing when they traded for Mookie, and when Ohtani becomes an over-priced DH, they'll cut their losses. And move on to the next marketing target for their sustained winners... while the sustained losers gripe about their record, wishing they at least had stars to root for and give them hope.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've been inclined To believe they never would
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except Werner is on record that we're now going full throttle, and Breslow has more than once mentioned trading prospect capital to improve the team. He couldn't mean victor santos... my keyboard wouldn't even let me use capital letters to type his name.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Half of them won't be ready to pitch until mid-summer, but Sam swears they'll be better than any old trade acquisition we can make at the deadline.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Disagree. The best hope for significant rotation improvement are third tier brass: Breslow, Bailey and Bloom (the latter for prospect capital he wouldn't trade that will soon be dealt...). The Standstiller Bees are about to become the Uphiller Bees.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The price of the rest of the big name free agents just jumped a hundred million apiece (according to agents with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads)... Sox better jump on Lugo while they can afford him, because all the elite starting pitchers that were waiting on Ohtani are being now fitted for pinstripes -- black and blue.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget Montgomery and Scherzer at the deadline... point being, the champs were never afraid of adding expensive starting pitching. All year. Meanwhile, interesting article on MLB.com today regarding teams' glaring needs. The first mentioned for Boston? CATCHING. ... the list is based on Fangraphs' projected WAR by position. The Red Sox catchers are rated 28th, with this note, "No team had a higher strikeout rate from its catchers than Boston in 2023, and none of the Red Sox backstops rated as a positive defender" (latter determined by FG's Fielding Run Value). Maybe Maldonado isn't just a Cora binky, after all.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Too many mushrooms in his peanut butter...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With our defense? If it was just a handful, you know we'd drop it. Then again, if it was only a footful, we'd probably boot it.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Texting him right now. Should have a reply soon... he's... still researching.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Henry may not be loudly insane -- like the Ghost of trade proposals past, or the pandemic poster who called Agent Orange "the greatest president in the history of this country!" But JH has been known to simmer before impulsively erupting into action -- like driving to WEEI to voice a stance, or flipping his wallet at his CBO to sign Raffy, after deciding two better all-around homegrown stars were not worth keeping at market values...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez is definitely taking a chance that Tyler O is a change-of-scenery guy. Not a confidence-booster for Sox fans sick and tired of Bloom fliers -- especially if this means there will be no spending on an outfielder who's actually good now, like Gurriel. I also don't like the assessment that TO's a former "Gold Glove LF who can play CF and RF." Sounds too much like Duvall, another injury-prone righty power bat. Duvall was not the answer in CF, Duran isn't either (and good luck, Yankees, neither are Verdugo or Judge). Yet speculation by the Globe's Julian McWilliams is Duran would play LF "if he isn't traded", with O'Neill in CF... Then again, word from the brass is they prefer Yoshida play offense and defense, so don't mark him down as the new DH just yet. There has to be at least one more move for this outfield...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Does he throw 97 with a change-up?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    O'Neill is everything Verdugo was not: a two-time Gold Glove leftfielder, a guy who hit 34 home runs in his one full season ('21), and a right-handed batter. Most importantly, on bb-ref's Similarity Scores, Tyler O'Neill's most similar batter is.... Wily Mo Pena! Also a factor - Ty cost two borderline fringe depth pitchers instead of free agent money, the better to be saved for legitimate big-time starters...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No place below us... above us, only BaltimoreTampaTorontoNew York
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Imanaga there's no heaven... it's easy if you try
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Come ON, have a little optimism. Sox will still be the fifth-best AL East team!
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez hired El Guapo for security for the sit-down... mainly to keep Pablo Sandoval from anywhere near the building.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Frank Zappa: "Moving to Ohtani soon..."
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Chaim Bloom, Winter Weekend 2023: "You better be ready to surround that bet with a whole lot of talent or you’re not going to win… To back up that bet we needed young talent back in the organization, so we made the move that we made with Mookie..."
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe, but anywhere near the zip code of Fenway you need to pay $50 bucks to make sure it isn't towed.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe, but their front office has to be looking for any way to improve; it's not all about money -- gotta give up something good to get a good return. Plus, they might not view Gelof as the high profile guy (drafted 20 picks after Bloom chose Jud Fabian at #40... who refused to sign, then went #67 the next year to the O's).
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