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I put them on the block because they were both good this season and expiring (contracts, contracts!) after next. Martin was so good, that his value will never be higher (like unreasonable expectations that he'll repeat his near-perfect level). Guys like that can actually fetch something good in trade for a rebuilding GM... ... unlike, say, a lot of other names with baggage being floated on the boards.
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I'm the type who knows better than to count on pitchers rehabbing from major injuries or whose 35-or-over age makes them bigger risks to break down more often -- or, more likely, not to repeat levels of success every season they're closer to 40. The worst non-trade Chaim Bloom made wasn't at the '22 deadline, but this past summer when he didn't deal the best deadline chip of his career -- James Paxton, coming off a Pitcher-of-the-Month award, and bound to land back on the IL. So this winter, a new GM look should absolutely look into getting young talent for Jansen and Martin. No positions or areas fluctuate more than relievers and bullpens, and new ones are constantly being converted with live arms, new pitches and new grips.
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Be honest -- even if you're an eternal optimist -- pining once again for the once-in-a-franchise 2013 worst-to-first repeating itself -- "if everything goes right." No one is untouchable, because this team needs so much more than just two top starting pitchers. A blockbuster trade that even changes some of what are perceived as "stable" positions would still be a positive move, if it improved the team's overall line-up and chances. Would any fan really miss Martin, Jansen, Wink or Dugo -- or even Raffy's D -- if some new stars came to Boston and led them to the playoffs?
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Nobody's perfect, so no player is without flaws, but this is a legitimate question: which Red Sox player, at any position, was all-around solid this year? Let's put it this way: the guys who didn't strike out a million times all had problems catching or throwing the baseball -- or vice versa. And even the best pitchers either couldn't stay healthy or couldn't keep the ball in the park... ... except maybe Chris Martin. One guy, one place = LAST. Blow. It. Up.
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... who reigned for four months and drowned my garden, wiping out all squash and melons. But he strategically left the hot peppers, which are lethal on viruses.
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He almost read what you just called him, and is about to respond...
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Eovaldi was going to take the Red Sox offer, but Mookie's mother made him turn it down.
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Just a worn-out bill, crinkly, stuck in a dungaree pocket, sopped from wading into a trout brook to dislodge a rooster tail snagged on an overhanging branch of mountain laurel.
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Nathan Eovaldi is just being himself in the postseason. What he continues to accomplish shouldn't surprise any Red Sox fans... just like the label "injury-risk" -- which can be used for every single person who pitches baseballs for a living. But there is a difference between a guy who's oft-injured from someone "on the IL." As in: signing a pitcher and waiting a year-and-a-half for him to rehab, before he can finally play his first game... and then pitch great for a month, before he inevitably lands back "on the IL."
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Geez, all Tomase would offer are Mayer, Anthony and Bello... because we'd rather trade our best young pitcher for another outfielder.
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Leave Buckner alone. My main concern is the winter guy -- whoever they may be...
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Hopefully it's Yamamoto's
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I shouldn't judge; money just changes people. Look at Mookie -- he's going to invest in taking Spanish lessons this winter... just so he can communicate better with more teammates in the clubhouse. Dang, I did it again...
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Three fine upstanding young men for a bad motorcycle pilot on PEDs? Swell. Any new patsy who deals that trio for anyone other than a legit pitcher can join Bloom in the Classics book club this winter.
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I dunno -- but the guy who promoted Lawlar, Arizona GM Mike Hazen, is more highly regarded in the industry than I am. Just to prove it last week, the D-backs extended Hazen to run things through the end of the decade. Some suspect that was not a coincidence, with the Red Sox looking for a new CBOGMEIEIO.
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Why not? Is it because you think he'll be traded, or not ready? Lawlar is playing in the playoffs right now.
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And Bloom doesn't get enough credit for leaving Cora with only 3/5ths of a starting rotation in July, and instead suppling the openers and bulk men that led to a 15-8 month, when their runs allowed average was repeatedly only 2.757575757575758!
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And why does Cora keep playing Kike at shortstop for the Dodgers in the playoffs?!?
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If only they used a telescope to steal signs from a window above centerfield, with buzzers to notify players via underground lines installed by hired electricians -- like the New York Giants did to win the pennant in 1951 on Bobby Thomson's home run (the Shot Heard Round the World, the most famous HR in baseball history)... ... then maybe it wouldn't be such a "scandal" to those who really care, and could spend their time instead interpreting the "infield fly rule" and calling the baseball police on players pulling the hidden-ball trick and attempting to steal bases.
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Story's '23 dWAR was 1.0 with a .986 fielding %. Last year, Bogaerts' dWAR was 1.4 with a .983. Story wasn't quite "phenomenal" -- as described by employees in the NESN booth -- nor did he make much difference in wins and losses in the tank stretch. Bogaerts led the '22 Sox with 5.9 WAR, and wasn't "brutal, horrible, pitiful" or whatever other adjective fanalytics used to blame the season on him. Pitching is why the Red Sox finished last. It's always the reason a Boston team sucks. But poorly-constructed pitching staffs were a staple of the Bloom Era, in all areas at one time or another: bullpen, rotation, waiver wire bargain bin dumpster diving DFAed rehabbing rejects, and zero deadline recruits of MLB mettle to stop ensuing spirals.
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It helped Tek reminisce -- he was jotting haikus. Me and Derek Lowe scarlet moonrise breaking curse ... for Heathcliff Slocumb
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Hey, Max! If you're watching the AL playoffs on TV, you must be loving the Rangers: unbeaten so far in the postseason, with their league-leading offense -- and a bullpen this season that has more blown saves than actual saves! Then again, they also have the AL's best defense... But one guy I'd take in a heartbeat -- if Tex would ever part with him -- is Evan Carter: drafted out of a NJ high school in 2020 -- 33 picks after Nick Yorke -- nicknamed "Full Count Carter" for his selective strike zone coverage, fast runner, good outfielder; how much could a guy like this help a batting order in front of Casas... would Duran and Yoshida be a good offer? Ha
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It may be prudent not to automatically assume our veteran bullpen saviors will repeat the same success they had this year when they're a year older. Anyone watching the playoffs on TV may not be as dizzy as this viewer, but every contender seems to have an assembly line of primetime relievers who all throw over a hundred...miles per hour...
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Great question coming from an outsider. Here's one reply from a Red Sox fan who's been a diehard for 55 years: Four years is a long time to watch the team you've loved all your life suddenly and entirely change its approach to building rosters at the big league level. The fact that the club finished in last place three times means the new strategy obviously failed -- worse than any other in over half a century. The fact that the club recently fired the architect of the collapse -- no matter what materials he was allowed to use -- and the fact that organizational coaches of pitching, hitting and fielding were also fired, shows that ownership agrees it needs to change direction. ... and when you're an old fan, four years is a long time -- as in, I hope I'm still around four years from now when/if the Sox are legitimately back to contending on a regular basis.
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Do any Red Sox fans think the Red Sox actually did what was best for them the past four years? (and I'm not including those who never in their lives can imagine anyone worth getting paid "Blah amount dollars for playing a kid's game!")... ... but fans who truly want what's best for their team -- as far as being entertaining, with favorite star players they can root for and identify yearly -- like family members in their living rooms on TV every night -- heroes who regularly provide hope that Boston has a real chance to win and compete for first place and a World Series title...
