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9/27 Rays @ SOX 6:10PM ET
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
That's because miles are a standard unit of measurement. Our analytics dept. is all about modern metrics. So our staff does throw a lot of pitches that are hit at least 160.9344 kilometers per hour. -
Years from now when the Red Sox finally win again, inside reporters will collaborate on a tell-all podcast exposing front office bonus pay to any batter in Sept. '23 that intentionally whiffed at outside sweepers in an organizational tank that eventually led them to drafting their famous 21st century curse-breaker: Kookie -- the son of Mookie -- Betts!
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Post was in ref to the Yankees playing call-ups in September, and the Sox not playing their recent call-ups. It had nothing to do with Casas or Duran. If you stopped watching the Sox this month, you spared yourself the sight of beaten veterans flailing away at three straight pitches, and if they did make contact, jogging to first -- sometimes even dropping their bats for a second before trudging back to the dugout. Ya, those guys are really trying to impress scouts around the league to offer them new contracts over the winter...
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None of the Sox' relievers in 2019 were as trustworthy in the second half, which may have been why Cora felt he had to use Pivetta to finish games in the LDS, and even a cooked Eovaldi in the LCS. Meanwhile, Houston's 6-man relief crew -- fortified by legit reinforcements at the deadline -- allowed zero runs in sweeping the last three LCS games to get them into the World Series.
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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I'd give it to Martin. He was the best player at any specific position all season. -
A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Then there's the theory they signed Story so they didn't have to pay Bogaerts. Remember, it was company policy to add players at $2 million dollar salaries, so they could dump similars who were due market rates of $3 million. -
Unlike the Yanks, the nefarious Sox haven't started energy guys like Rafaela every game, instead of tired old vets going through the motions. If we played all the young guys going balls out, we might get worst draft picks next summer. Whooped 'em again, eh Josey?
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This is the ideal scenario, and one many of us extolled for at least the past year. That is, if Crawford/Houck/Whitlock/Pivetta are actually good enough -- the only one we truly know, as far as potential, may be Pivetta. The big problem may be that none of them are 100 mph strikeout guys -- which means, we have to rely on the defense. Yes, it will be better. But someday soon, the new GM has to address the elephant on the hot corner...
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Does anyone here think managers might make different bullpen decisions, depending on whether they actually have a good team or bad team? For example, if you have an offense like the Rangers -- who have scored over 100 more runs than Boston -- you might bring in your best reliever in a close game, with the confidence to catch up. But if you're the skipper of a tanking club that is 0-for-Kajillion with RISP this month... maybe you don't chase... wins...
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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This post sums up my feelings -- and fears, when Bloom was hired -- all along. Even blowhard Kevin Millar has said the same things: it's all about star power. And that includes multi-tool position players combined with ace pitchers. I'm glad owners fired Bloom, but only if it truly signifies the end of the Bloom Era (which was never about the guy whose name will forever mar this period in Sox history). As for Bloom's legacy, I refuse to laud him for doing his job and drafting players who someday may become big leaguers. On draft day, every GM, along with an entire front office staff, crosses off names on a list until it's their turn to pick the best player available. What really defines GMs are players they acquire from other organizations -- and not just signing free agents (if their owners allow it). If Abreu and Valdez become MLB regulars -- for what became a few months of a back-up catcher -- that deal will be known as Bloom's best move. -
To me, true contenders are built not only to make the playoffs, but to win in the postseason. And that almost always come down to pitching: two starting pitchers can make a big difference -- as long as they're a #1 and #2 -- with a deep bullpen of good set-up men and a lights-out closer. There are exceptions, but usually any deficiencies are exposed. Boston's first three World Series winners this century all had ace starters and automatic closers. The 2018 champs featured three Cy Young starters and a hot rover. The '21 Sox fell short because they had a bad bullpen. But even better arms couldn't sustain a run through October for the current Sox, whose pitiful defense would sabotage even the great pitching staffs of the Baltimore Orioles from 50 years ago... although maybe the best skills of those O's pitchers was to induce batters to constantly hit the ball to all-time defenders Mark Belanger, Paul Blair, and Brooks Robinson (RIP, Human Vacuum Cleaner).
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Bearclaw is wearing all those stick-on tattoos to make it look like he's Houck tonight. But we're not falling for it...
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I think you meant some are beyond approach...
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Dugout conversation after the 1st... Cora to Houck: "Dude, BP was at 5; this is the real game, now." Tanner: "I know. I was serving meatballs because I wanted to see if someone could drill that lazy slug at third for me."
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I've only been watching or playing baseball for half a century, but in almost every game uniformed personnel in dugouts try to steal signs from third base coaches to baserunners, who they try to pick off from the mound or the plate with special plays; they even have a sign of their own for pitch-outs! But not once did any of those players or coaches ever receive such hatred.
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Honestly -- this might be the first time I've ever said this as Sox fan -- there is not one single player on the entire MLB roster or in the entire farm system that I wouldn't include in a trade, let walk in free agency, or just cut and say goodbye. This big league club is so far from contention -- legitimate World Series contention, SamKennedy -- that I'd like to see a new wheeling-dealing GM come in and engineer a multi-team blockbuster trade that cleans house of about 10 players from Boston and totally turns over the line-up and rotation.
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Cora's team broke secret codes? From other teams giving secret codes to deceive opponents? OMG!!!!!!!!!! How can we ever trust any of them ever again? Why, just yesterday a poster on another thread typed, "It is extremely rare for any Major League manager to give a completely honest appraisal..."
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WHA- ? The Sox just awarded him their Defensive Player of the Year Award for minor leaguers! Don't we need better defenders? And didn't we see enough of Hamilton's D skills in Boston this year? Skilly organization...
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Most people here appreciated the job Cora did this season with what he was given to work with, because very few of us ever thought mediocrity playing out of position to back a mound crew of injured, has-beens or never-has-beens would contend. The magic show he performed with openers when the Sox had the best record in baseball for a month literally kept them from flopping into the depths of other last place teams. In hindsight, AC blew it; it's his fault the Sox won't get a top-5 or 6 draft pick next summer...
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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The Sox have actually been fifth-best in the AL East three of the past four years. They are only last in the only division they inhabit. So they only suck in the world in which they exist. -
Have you been talking to the special assistant to the GM in LA? He just said this about something similar that happened in Boston, back in the Bloom Era: "Mookie, they offered him a nice contract and he turned it down. He wanted a number I guess they didn’t feel comfortable with. To lose Mookie and not get anything for him would have been pretty tough." (preceding brought to you by Ron Roenickie, a guy fans neither cheered nor jeered when mouths couldn't move on cardboard cutouts from the stands)
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Yes -- and when he does make it, the Sox definitely need to change the color of their socks on their city connect unis.
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Trout, Soto, Harper did damage in the bigs when they were 19. Devers and Bogaerts made it when they were 20. Anthony will be 20 next May; he was born in 2004... born under a good sign, with a red moon in his eyes. Got himself a bat.
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Some reporters are prone to try to beat others to scoops, though Rosenthal seems to be more right than wrong, with more league-wide sources (the guy gets around)... as opposed to, maybe others in the media who may start rumors hoping they come true (I'm not naming names). Lackey wasn't too happy about fans in 2013 cheering him, after they booed the two previous seasons he actually pitched in Boston (he missed all of '12 w TJS?). Imagine front-runners cheering someone who wins the World Series, after booing him when he had an ERA over-5.00 and led the AL in runs allowed and hit-by-pitches while getting paid $34 million dollars.
