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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I meant both. Gotta start somewhen with the staff anchors...
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not if your CBO is planning on building now for the then - which has been reiterated in several forms of Bloomspeak. Would that possibly mean he'll acquire and actually pay another guy who is AL East battle-tested... and four years younger and healthier than Paxton?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The hardest thing for Bloom isn't going to be trading Paxton (if someone else breaks down and agrees to part with a Joe Ryan-type pitching prospect). The hardest thing will be dealing one of his many middle infield prospects for Paxton's replacement. And then he'll also pick up Rich Hill for peanuts and crackerjack. Fans will be outraged when Paxton is gone... but Jordan Montgomery plus a legitimate pitching prospect is better for now and next year than Paxton and one of the surplus middle infield prospects Bloom has been stockpiling for this moment.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Geez, Moon, do you really think Washington would've snapped up 35-year old Ryan Brasier with the first pick of the Rule V draft if he was available to keep them out of last place? Bloom can't live it down because pitching is always the number one problem in Boston, especially developing pitching in the farm system, and there's no arguing that point -- no matter how many retreads he claims on waiver wires. And no one cares how old Ward was, he was still a mound prospect...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Those old teammates were just jealous of his green shoes. And that his wife was Miss Puerto Rico...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And most of us who watched the pitching staff last year weren't as concerned over losing Song (who Dombro took a shot on), but Thad Ward -- who the Nats immediately took with the first overall pick... Ward, now on the IL, maybe wasn't ready for the Show, but certainly had more promise than the trio you listed, among others that Bloom protected instead.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Last chance to trade for a Cardinals' starting pitcher: Montgomery, Flaherty, maybe even Mikolas, currently suspended "for acting goofy in Thursday's game" (NBC Sports headline).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Man, you called it on Turner heating up in July: .350 BA, .400/.600/1.000... 25 RBI Compare to Casas, now getting national notice: .350 BA .451/.800/1.251... 17 RBI
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is a fair post. Maybe even middle schoolers are too mature to actually blame the season on Kike, who only tried his best to do what he was asked by management. And even if Cora insisted he had confidence in Kike, it's still the responsibility of the front office to constantly look for ways to upgrade any and all roster weaknesses. Especially after AC ruled himself out as a SS option, having put on the recent front porch addition to his middle-aged physique. I tend not to dwell on actual dollar numbers and call ballplayers overpaid, when who among us would ever turn down salaries at market value for whatever services we would render (now I'll hang up and listen to snappy retorts...)
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Please, no more injury excuses when it comes to shortstop -- the most important non-battery defensive position on the field. You know, I know, we all know that after Bogaerts left, Bloom chose not to acquire a legitimate MLB starting shortstop going into the season. We can debate the reasons why the CBO rolled the dice with a career utility man who never played SS fulltime, the ghost of Mondesi, a WBC hero who played for four big league teams last year, and a Triple A guy who couldn't even make the worst club in the majors (not to mention a converted second baseman with an elbow wrapped in Tommy John underwear). But is there any doubt the shortstop debacle is a main reason the Sox are chasing a wild card, rather than sporting a record that would have them ahead of at least a few other contenders right now...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Take these broken wings and learn to fly. You were only waiting for Sale-Houck-Whitlock-Song to arrive...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cliff Notes version; too late in the season to get the whole story.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Where will Noah Song fit in? Philly DFAed him...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't be surprised if Bloom makes an in-between move that will have some posters in an uproar, and others defending him when it pays off a month or two later. But after "the best in MLB" just got swept by the best team in July, the Sox have to go for it now, right? Or do we wait and see what happens in San Francisco?
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was so underrated -- O'Leary going deep after Cleveland walked Nomar intentionally in the 3rd -- that history repeated itself later IN THE SAME GAME... in the 7th: Nomar walked intentionally, O'Leary homering again. Grand slam, three-run homer, 7 RBI, 12-8 Boston win. And Pedro relieved in the 4th and threw a six-inning no-hitter. Quick quiz: when the Sox were down 0-2 in the five-game series, who was Boston's starting shortstop in Game 3? Hint: Not Nomar, but his replacement went 2-for-3 with one run scored and one driven in.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... fertilizing the soil... in the Nitrogen Cycle! And a new pitcher will sprout from the same mound -- any year now.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My post was in jest. Of course Cora is doing a great job keeping his team in the hunt with a three-man starting rotation -- and even Maddux, Smoltz and Glavine had solid #4 and #5 guys to eat up innings in-between. As for poor Bloom's approach to signing pitchers -- there is no evidence of admission that Henry has ever tied his hands. All we can do is speculate.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Is that for posterity or for prosperity... ... or in hindsight, posteriority
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm certain I'm never right, once in a while.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The entire roster going into the season...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd just be happy with a higher career WAR than Jeter Downs' -0.7. So far, Nick Robertson is only a -0.4
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not only did the Sox subtract a negative, but finally added pitchers from the Dodgers. It doesn't matter that they're minor leaguers -- their Triple A numbers aren't bad, and were logged in LA's system, after all. Kudos to Bloom.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The flop low-budget signings or trades weren't exclusive to just Bloom. Remember in '19, when Dombro beat everyone by trading for the best available starting pitcher weeks before the deadline? The guy was 9-3 with a 3.83 when the Sox added him to their staff. Then for some reason, he went 2-5 with a 6.20. His name was Cashner...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd bet there is a lot of debate in Bloom's war room about Paxton, with hot lines open to all title contenders (not final wild card contenders vying to play maybe only two or three extra games on the road). If Bloom can pry someone's top 10 pitching prospect for Paxton, and then pick up a Rich Hill on the cheap, and if just one of Houck-Whitlock-Sale is good again, and Schreiber is healthy... the Sox might have just as much chance at making the postseason as they do right now. The thing that makes Paxton a better trade chip than even two months of Mookie is that there's no David Albatross Price attached. So maybe, just maybe, someone will be willing to give up a Josiah Gray, instead of a Jeter Downs. If so, Bloom may try it both ways... media and fans be damned.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have to reverse the order. Just going by a recent post naming Red Sox rookies of the year and prospects that almost instantly turned into stars (the following are just some): 60s -- Yaz, Tony C, Lonborg, Rico, Reggie, Boomer; 70s -- Fisk, Lynn, Rice, Evans, Rooster; 80s -- Boggs, Clemens, Hurst, Greenwell, Burks; 90s- Nomar, Tek/Lowe (both emerged from the minors), Val; 00s- Papelbon, Lester, Pedroia, Youk, Ells; teens-- Mookie, Xander, Jackie, Beni, Raffy... ... is that kind of production from the farm system normal for the average big league franchise -- or are Red Sox fans lucky and spoiled? Before Bloom, at least since the advent of free agency, Boston always sought to improve its chances by keeping homegrown fan favs and supplementing with talented primetime recruits... not just rehab projects and waiver wire pick-ups.
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