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Everything posted by 5GoldGlovesOF,75

  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sure, look how unreliable Eovaldi was in October -- and November!
  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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!"
  7. 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.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Looking at that list, the one guy (besides Bogey) I was all in for was Mitch Haniger. He would have surely supplied the right-handed power subtracted from the line-up with the loss of JD Martinez... ... at least I got the math operation right -- Haniger was only minus-3 WAR.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nobody could get close to Spot, who lived under the staircase on 1313 Mockingbird Lane. ... maybe Eddie (mold glove winner)
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are Bogey's numbers hypothetical? Bloom and his cohorts gave Story $141M for 6 years... or $23.5M per. Then they offered X a $30M extension, which would've brought his opt-IN contract to 4 years for $90M... or $22.5M per. Not only were they insulting Bogey, they were blatantly telling him: we value the new guy more than you. Bloom's not stupid -- he studied Homer (not Whiffer)... bottom line: the Red Flops wanted Xander to refuse, opt out, and leave. Or they arrogantly thought he'd stay at their price, since he was never shy about professing his love for Boston -- just like Jon Lester. So they never even tried to negotiate, until they ultimately offered Bogey a last-minute deal equivalent to Story's (according to Alex Speier). Since WAR is an overall evaluator, comparisons seem fair, but even with similar values, they were and are different player types. But only one had proven he could excel in Boston, the AL East, and win two World Series rings.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox dWAR in the Wild Card Era (1995-2023) According to bb-ref, most of you probably guessed the best Boston fielder the past quarter century was a shortstop. Yup, John Valentin: 3.0 dWAR in 1995. Next in line was Betts in '16 and '17 at 2.7 and 2.6... followed by Nomar in '02, 2.5, then Beltre and Pedroia, tied at 2.4 in '10/11. The best '23 Red Sox defender, and top catcher in dWAR the past 28 years, is Wong, listed at #20 with 1.9 dWAR. Mookie and Pedey were in the Sox' top 33 five times each; Jackie Bradley made it three times. Bogaerts is listed #36 for his 1.4 dWAR in '22 -- the same season Story landed at #60 for his 1.0 dWAR at second base.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lucky for Kinder the Exit Dropocity only registered a mercury level of 0.15. But what was his Fins Above Replacement Minnow?
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And Maury Wills was on TV shows that were only on one of three channels -- that everybody watched every night... back when people of all ages watched TV shows.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Holy crap - I meant all NL SSs. And Bogey only hit 19 HRs and 58 RBIs, what a bust. Lucky the Sox chose another guy who has batted .227 with a .287 on base and .398 slugging the past two years instead.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not arguing with the mighty metrics, but big league baseball can certainly use more batters who don't always swing from the heels, and instead shorten up and put the damn ball in play. Arraez led the majors with 160 singles and a .354 batting average -- and what batting order couldn't use that consistency. Bogey led all shortstops with 118 one-base hits. In 2017 I sat a few rows from home plate at a Fenway game when Bogaerts got up with the winning run on third. He literally choked up and punched the pitch into right field with just his arms for the walk-off. Nobody booed.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one said anything about quality. Bogaerts makes better contact -- as in more contact is better -- because he strikes out 10% less than Story... over their entire careers.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I automatically mute all betting features in pregames. Nothing against the hosts all dressed up in expensive clothes hoping you'll give them more money; this is the life they've chosen... ... but the old-timers in the booth pretending gambling is good are all sell-outs. It reeks of kick-backs from other companies that value profits over the well-being of the populace.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... or Vampire Dust, like Bello turned into when pitching in the daylight.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    OPS is one metric. Bogaerts makes better contact, period -- a .291 career batting average for a shortstop is excellent. Story hasn't even approached his career .265 average in Boston. Xander's career K-rate of 18.1% is also superior to Trevor's 28.2%.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not going to re-read old threads, but let's not pretend posters didn't question the Story signing nor surmise Bogey would've stayed for a similar deal... at the time. With all the big-name middle infielders hitting free agency at once, Xander and his agents knew he had equivalent numbers and deserved a market-correction salary if he opted out. But he certainly talked like he was open to extend if the Boston brass just gave him a little respect. To their ignominy, it was the opposite.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course not. While not "phenomenal" like NESN constantly insisted on air the last two months, he's a good big league infielder who can run. We'll see how the new regime views Story's future. Right now, unfortunately, he represents the second-biggest failure of the Bloom Era: the replacement for a longtime fan favorite who loved Boston, who was recruited prematurely and paid what Bogaerts most likely would've signed for (who was instead insulted with a lowball, one-year offer). Some posters who dig budget threads can gloat over the bloat of Xander's SD contract. Most of us sense the Sox would've been a lot closer to the playoffs with the shortstop all year who led the NL in OPS+... Meanwhile, Story's struggles to stay on the field and produce in the batter's box only leave a bitter taste in the mouths of Red Sox fans -- -- desperate for reform from the radical change in their team's direction the past four years.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I agree -- with the juxtaposition of "has" and "been"... Story was once a star, in the National League in a city that isn't Boston. He's not even close now. His OPS in 43 games this year was .566... the two worst qualifying batters in baseball were Tim Anderson at .582 and Javier Baez at .593. They're not stars anymore, either. Story's flaw is pointing the barrel of his bat at the ground behind his back, from where he can't whip it into position through the strike zone in time to make consistent contact with big league pitching. His deficient tool is a bum elbow, which has kept him from full-time status in each of his two Red Sox seasons, and maybe even contributes to his flaw.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thanks; that's what I meant -- that maybe Breslow had a few more Cubs' prospects targeted to develop into the next Steele (and that maybe now, he'll try to steal...)
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom wore a tuxedo and still couldn't close the deal!
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I tried calling Chaim, but he can't come to the phone right now...
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