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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bregman wasn't voted to the 2025 AL All-Star team by the fans. He was selected by his peers as a reserve for the first half of his one year as a Red Sox. His defense was ok, but barely above Replacement Player level. He stole one base on the season. For what other reason could players around the league base their votes? He had a .921 OPS in the 1st half, then injury affected his offense in the 2nd half, when he slipped to .727. Overall, the Sox lost a third baseman with an .821 OPS. Devers was .921 in his last stint as a Red Sox. Refsnyder was .838. Lowe was .790. All left, and only one newcomer has approached those numbers. Breslow -- who I praised today for his 2025 offseason acquisitions -- left this year's roster incomplete. And we all knew it before this woeful season even began. No one can say otherwise.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Third-hand? That must be the one that arranged seashells into 8647 -- which old Red Sox fans recognize immediately as an homage to team Hall of Famer Bruce Hurst. In '86 the lefty ace starter wore number 47 when he was about to be named World Series MVP -- until his staff mates blew Game 6. He even outpitched Cy Young MVP Roger Clemens! But McNamara should've started Oil Can in Game 7 and let him go as long as he could, then brought in Hurst to finish... thus, eliminating the temptation to hand the ball to anyone in the bullpen whose eyes were frozen in the headlights of infamy. Again.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bregman, because the team is not as good without him. There's evidence the entire offense is not the same this year because of the huge hole Breslow left in the batting order -- which all of us worried about all winter long, especially after AB signed with the Cubs. No one can measure the positive effects Bregman had on both the young and veteran hitters in Boston, but we know plenty of them extolled the virtues of Alex's feedback in the cages and reviewing videos. Contreras is good, but most of us knew without a doubt the Sox needed two All-Star bats to improve. Is this even debatable? Suarez, who I wanted the Sox to sign, was added after the Gray acquisition -- when the rotation was already looking loaded with depth. Sure, anyone can use hindsight and point to injuries to three starters and setbacks to a few more supposedly returning -- just like lamenting losing Vaughn Grissom because he's hot now... so far (but not Hammy).
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I acknowledge it's just hard for some to accept qualitative data that they can't graph or measure with numbers. And I have nothing against Durbin, an obvious target for other fans who can't appreciate his contributions because his body may not fit the perfect Aryan. But flashback a year: do you think it was luck that the three All-Stars Breslow acquired in the '25 offseason all made the All-Star team again last summer?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right, Anthony has had no issues this year being served curveballs in the dirt every at bat because there's no reason to throw him a pitch he can actually reach with K-king Story directly behind him in the batting order instead of Bregman. And there's no logic to consider factors that new players have to adjust to when they change teams like new pitchers, new ballparks, new umpires, new time zones, menus, language, groupies -- all that matters are stats.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Again, over and over with the stats of a bygone Sox player toiling elsewhere. And once again, we have no idea how that same player this year would be performing -- better or worse -- if he remained in the heart of the order in Boston. In Fenway Park. In the AL East... ... or how guys like Anthony would be faring if he wasn't billed as THE face, arms and legs of the franchise, but instead had with the same protection in the line-up and same veteran presence in the batting cages of the guy whose locker he was stationed next to in the clubhouse last season. Or if that guy would be traded or DFAed by now for standing up for Fatse.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now we know where they reassigned Tek: charter pilot.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My post was solely about position players -- guys who play every day for six months, not once a week. But Brez says he's glad you drank the Coolaid and pivoted to his pivot. And now you get to hope Sox starting pitchers throw shutouts every night... ... or at least don't leave the mound with runners on base and Weissert taking the ball.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... because once he's rich for life and no longer "hungry," he'll win annual Cy Youngs and the Sox won't have to pay him market value! But if he tanks, we'll just eat all the money and raise prices on tickets, concessions and parking. Money for nothing, chicks for free.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox fans knew better. But he should be ready mid-season -- no, next year -- when he'll be better than anyone we could trade for at the deadline. Lied Sam Kennedy, over and over and over again.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tek was writing Haikus: A catcher receives Breslow thinks his change-up's good He has no fastball
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I could care less about that if a player is a current fit on the front end. At least you know with a guy like Bregman, your investment is for more than just a bat and glove. And by now, Red Sox fans should know better: will any savings lead them to offer or acquire a longterm contract for another free agent All-Star position player? They never replaced Mookie or Xander or Raffy with new star performers whose production approached theirs when in Boston (please don't bore me with that trio's stats since, because it has nothing to do with this statement). Instead, the Sox have the worst offense in the majors. Forget about if this is their worst team in half a century; how about that this is the worst Red Sox team to watch for pure entertainment value. Some posters use examples of past failures in Boston loaded with batting champs and home run hitters, but those clubs were at least fun to watch. Most were contenders, and if they weren't, they were interesting.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ok, you did a lot of work on this list, so your penance is up for saying anything posters complain about regarding this current front office is stupid. My sardonic Bailey post wasn't meant to be disparaging to him, of course, but to those who want to fire any coaches for something any player does later, when he no longer works with them. As if anyone can control anyone. Hammy's a better bunter -- why, because he practiced and made himself one, or because his new coach suggested he hold the bat at a 45 degree ascending angle instead of that fireable Old School Boston guy who wanted it parallel to the ground -- like we were taught in the Sychodelic Sixties and Schlitzaholic Seventies.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bulking up from throwing Louisville javelins.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But don't light a cigar like Henry, or the head might catch on fire!
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Is Ward still suspended for throwing a bat at a pitcher who threw a ball at him?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's absolutely selective. I was talking about Andrew Bailey and all the starting pitchers they selected to trade who became better after they left (though Sale probably didn't work much with him since they were basically passing each other in and out the door). But we all know why Bails didn't lose his job -- Brez hired him... maybe even with the intent someday of promoting him to manager.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's get this out of the way right now: (from my pal, Al): "Buster Olney is generally viewed as an institutional reporter who acts as a direct conduit for information from front offices, team executives, and the league office, placing his reporting reputation closer to the owners' or league's side rather than that of the players." ... and today, he tweets the Sox crap offense can be blamed on the new rule restricting base coaches from leaving coach's boxes. These new limits insinuate they couldn't pay quite as close "attention to details" to help batters -- because that's where we knew Boston's latest smear campaign would go.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez got mad that Hammy got better than Durbin and blamed the Red Sox coaches? Ok, but why does Bailey get to keep his job, when every pitcher they trade gets better elsewhere: Sale, Priester, Harrison, Pivetta, Elmer. Actually, another test for the pitching system might be how the pitching prospects they traded this winter develop, like Clarke.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gotta ask why it's suddenly revisited this week. Don't have any doubt there will be more dirt as the summer sludges deeper into the gutter, like 0-2 home runs given up by Weissert.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They kick everyone out the door and make up crap about them on the way out. There's already a story about Cora getting fall-down drunk on team flights back when he was coaching for the frikin Astros. I just don't want to hear it. Get well soon, Red Sox.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like the optics of Tracy as a younger alternative to manage underclassmen he successfully coached in the minors... ... but after reading all the post-mortem stories smartly published by beat reporters before the front office can do its usual smear campaign on departing employees, it's probably fair to question if Chad will actually be able to act on any changes except those ordered by Brez and Bailey's Flying Circus. And I feel bad for the new coaching staff of old pros like Epperson, because unless they pull off a miracle comeback, it's likely egomaniac Breslow will clean house again after this debacle of a season so he can finally do what he's wanted from the start: fire any voices of reason and replace them with an entire administration of sychophants and yes-men enablers.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right, imagine stupid posters agreeing with stupid professional baseball writers and stupid professional baseball analysts on stupid MLB channels that have said all winter and all spring that the stupid Red Sox CBO never replaced BOTH middle of the order bats he lost or got rid of in the past year, leaving the stupid offense with a stupid hole smackdab in the heart of the stupid order. Last in Home Runs, but more importantly, last in On Base Percentage, last in Slugging Percentage, last in OPS. Last in the AL East.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Contreras replaced Devers production at the position he refused to play. Breslow never replaced Bregman -- and though some posters are happy not to commit all their billionaire's money -- the Red Sox are still minus an All-Star middle-of-the-order bat and clubhouse leader (why would a last-place doormat with the majors' worst offense need a guy like that...). According to the piece Ken Rosenthal and others just wrote about the power-mad insecure Brez, maybe there was a reason we didn't know about for why there wasn't enough urgency to bring back Bregman: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7239320/2026/04/29/craig-breslow-alex-cora-red-sox-coaches-purge/
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe both or maybe the young hitters just regarded his words more because he had actually starred in the big leagues. But we do know he was a veteran voice immediately respected by teammates once he joined. It's hard to say Breslow ever replaced that in the clubhouse. But the dugout silence to Contreras challenging the Brewers one night says a lot.
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