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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's the criteria for a good DH? Yoshida only DHed 49 games, but compare his season numbers to more full-time DHs: 2023 DHs (min. 100 games at DH) OPS- Ohtani 1.066, Ozuna .905, JD .893, Soler .853, Yoshida .783 BA- Ohtani .304, Yoshdia .289, Meneses .275, Ozuna .274, Jimenez .272 HR- Ohtani 44, Ozuna 40, Soler 36, JD 33, Jimenez 18, Yoshida 15 Ks- JD 149, Ohtani 143, Soler 141, Ozuna 134 Meneses 130, Jimenez 93, Yoshida 81 ... clearly, Masa doesn't homer or whiff enough for the role.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Still can't believe Bloom gave Bearclaw to Cora, and he tried him on the mound!
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kluber looked out of position just wearing a Red Sox uni...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget these Opening Day delights: Marwin Gonzalez starting in leftfield in '21, and... Kluber starting on the mound in '23 (threw out the first pitch; Rutschman hit out the 7th one).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    One. The guy who plays Neil Diamond in the 7th inning of every single game, rain or shine, win or lose... signifying to all to get up, stretch, sing, dance, and sprint to the beer line for last call.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Optimal Pitch Synthesizer" ... my college roommate had one of those for his band.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And they got rid of the CBO who assembled that jugular knot.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all participated in the day to day execution of Bloom. I'm really looking forward to change, even if Breslow uses words only Chaim can understand (and Sam will pretend he does).
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm leaning to Lourdes (almost-mighty): Gold Glove finalist LF, All-Star this year, 24 dingers (albeit most in NL West parks), homered in three straight postseason series... pre-arb, free agent in '25 -- he's like a righty version of Verdugo.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ben and Pitt passed on drafting Mayer for a catcher they're already converting to the outfield. Maybe they didn't want to pay what it would cost to draft the Top Rated Prospect in the Draft... and let the Sox splurge so they could trade for him later at his minor league salary. Nah, who thinks like that.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They can't be all talk anymore -- not this winter. Except for Sam, because that's all he does: "On behalf of the owners who are actually here today but refuse to answer questions lest they get booed at future fanfests and Bruins games, I'd like to introduce our scapegoat for the next four years who's as good as the old one in scrabble, but can also beat the entire front office in cornhole -- righty or lefty -- which proves he is a winner, since all we care about here in last place are championships..."
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez plan to improve Red Sox defense: “The ability to generate swings and misses in the strike zone is kind of the time-tested, foolproof recipe for success, because you're not influenced to a great extent by balls in play." Mission of stat posters: find pitchers who don't pitch to contact. MLB K/9: 1. Strider 13.5, 2. SNELL 11.7... 5. CEASE 10.9; WHIP: 5. BURNES... Sign Snell, trade for Burnes or Cease... and also sign HADER (13.6 canine).
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow likes power arms with stuff (what CBO doesn't). And stocking up on strikeout pitchers may be the fastest way to improve the defense. In one winter it may be tough to rearrange an entire outfield, get a new second baseman, and somehow address the two elephants on the infield corners (who happen to be the team's best hitters). But spending money and/or trade capital on a few lights-out pitchers can be a quick fix; the D can't E if it don't touch the ball!
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The in-joke was that Brez' kids became Cubs fans and Dad traded one of their favorites at the deadline... but he wouldn't "name names" (poster rushes to fangraphs...)
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're kidding. Bloom never played pro baseball, nor for the Red Sox, nor won a World Series in Boston. You may not think those things matter, but being able to relate to uniformed personnel and empathize what they're going through matters to the team (even if you did like the Vazquez trade, you have to admit hearing or reading how the clubhouse soured on Bloom for the way he handled it).
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox want you to know they're so done with the Chaim Bloom Era. Sam and Craig both made sure their opening comments stressed the same message about our new CBO: 1. He knows what it's like to play in Boston for the Red Sox; and 2. He knows what it takes to win (2013 ring). They also spoke about how Sox fans deserve to root for sustained contenders... ... the rest of the Q and A centered on upcoming efforts to get better; Breslow noted a few times that will include players getting better, as well as getting better players. For the latter, he said he has no restraints about spending money or prospect capital. As a mostly ground-ball pitcher, Breslow knows the value of tight defense. How he fixes the D is just as intriguing -- and maybe harder to imagine -- as who he recruits for the rotation.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Close... Matt Lament!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Quick quiz: name the Red Sox' pitcher selected to the AL All-Star team the year after a famous curse was broken. Hint: he wasn't called Pedro, DLowe, Schill, Wake, Back-to-Foulke or Wily Mo... and was not an embedded Yankee.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sure, look how unreliable Eovaldi was in October -- and November!
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All the baseball sites projecting dollar amounts for free agent pitchers have Yamamoto landing a deal worth the combined equivalent of say, Montgomery/Gray/Lorenzen... (feel free to substitute Imanaga or ERod). If we all know the Red Sox need many new reliable (consistently take the ball on regular turns) starting pitchers, we should expect a guy like Breslow to have already charted a rotation plan. Maybe it's to get Giolito and Flaherty at discounts and change hip/grip angles...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nobody's selling -- not even Bloom at the deadline. Heaney chose to sign with Texas, and has had to work an entire additional month in uniform, compared to Red Sox pitchers.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You better have statistical metrics to back that up, or at least some of a few numerous miser ables will find at least one conjugated verb or dangling modifier in your post to reverse engineer, just to argue a point they didn't make because they have no takes at all except for the subjective realities that just formed at their fingertips from sneering at qualitative data that can never be proven right or wrong or left all write.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tough choice, if salary offers were similar (as reported the last time he signed): ... pitch for a last-place team in a region with months of raw, cold rain in the toughest division in the history of Red Sox forums... ... or pitch for a World Series contender in a division featuring baseball weather.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's even carrying over into MLB. Every FOX commercial for a month has shown the same ballplayer strutting the diamond -- tall, dark and handsome -- but nameless... The singers can only crone: "Hey, YOU!"
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Their front office made them the Overdogs. Players must hate it when they lose Hall of Fame pitchers and MVP hitters, and all management can do is rely on rookie call-ups like Carter or replacement types like Jankowski, and either of their top two starters in innings pitched -- Dunning and Gray -- out of the bullpen every game.
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