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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kluber won two, and took the Bloom minimum!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's not just limit it to JD. He's one of four former Sox sluggers -- along with Betts, Bogaerts and Schwarber -- that Bloom has let leave on his watch. That quartet has combined for 126 home runs so far this season. Four players with the most HRs that Bloom has replaced them with -- Verdugo, Turner, Duvall, Yoshida -- have combined for 70 HRs.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I bet a lot of fans forget that JD started in RF the last game of the 2018 World Series in LA (Mookie started in CF); there was still no DH in NL parks. Sure enough, someone hit a fly ball over his head and he was like, "Whooooops"... I wasn't amused, since the game was only for the championship of the world. JD's production wasn't the issue most fans had with him in Boston; it was the strikeouts. On a two-strike count to JD, every Sox fan in the Nation knew what pitch was coming (no one even have to say that it was never a strike). Even when he was great and batting .330, JD whiffed more than anyone on the team, more than even Bradley, more than Papi ever did. Most Red Sox Ks in the JD Martinez Era: 2018-2022... JD Martinez. On top of that, he never opted out. His contract allowed him to sign and play elsewhere, but he kept coming back (be honest: who here secretly hoped JD would opt out after Dombrowski said, "We can't keep them all" -- so we could keep Mookie... or so we could keep Schwarber... come on, who cried when Old Yeller died?)
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's gotta be pitchers around the league just aren't afraid to throw strikes to him anymore, like when he was starting in the MLB as the leading RBI man for the WBC team that won the whole world!
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd like for the Sox to do what the Blue Jays did: continually acquire good starting pitchers. Toronto's entire top four in this year's rotation were added from other clubs: Bassitt, Berrios, Gausman, Kikuchi. None may win a Cy Young, but all have at least 28 games started with ERAs under 4.00... and the first three are paid between $22 to $25 million per. The Blue Jays aren't a perfect team, and their quality position players aren't much better than Boston's, but Toronto's pitching staff has the best team ERA in the league, and is headed to the postseason.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not mathematically, but when historians look back on 2023, they'll point to the trade deadline when the Sox were pretty much scientifically, social studiously, and physical educationally eliminated.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Verdugo is done. Job must be boring him, shaking his head all game. Just took an 0-2 fastball right down the middle...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Among NL shortstops, Bogaerts is third in WAR, behind Lindor and Swanson. Forget about his SD contract; if the Sox had just signed him for what they paid Story -- instead of Story, but at the same time... which most folks agree Xander would've taken at the time -- things might be a bit more positive around here these days.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Last night was the 46th Red Sox start this year of four innings or fewer, one shy of the 2019 team record. Fans are confident the rotation will shatter that mark by the end of the month. So for next year, shorten it to 6 with a combination with openers and bulk guys, including a few of your core seven bullpeners? I still have no faith in Bloom whatsoever to acquire enough talent to provide enough quality openings. A contrast of two organizations came in the middle innings of the Boston's 23-hit loss, when Baltimore brought in reliever and winning pitcher Shintaro Fujinami -- throwing 100 mph -- and Boston gave the ball to Zach Weiss (who they let wear the Bear Claw beard disguise, so fans wouldn't recognize him when he left Fenway). The O's got Fujinami from Oakland in a July swap for a Triple A reliever -- the Birds actually gave up a "prospect" -- that was a 14th-round draft pick who will turn 27 this month. Bloom swiped Weiss off waivers from the Angels, who've had pitching troubles since they let Nolan Ryan leave in free agency in 1979...
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The stats I posted were for entire pitching staffs, starters and relievers. We can make up all the excuses we want -- arms under contract from previous GMs, bad bullpen one year, bad rotation another, bad luck, bad viruses affecting the entire world -- whatever. The bottom line is that Red Sox pitchers under Chaim Bloom have allowed the most hits and hit the most batters in the American League over the past four years. Based on those two categories, the pitching staffs Bloom has assembled and chose to parade out to the mound for his entire tenure are the worst in the league.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are you saying the last three innings would be covered by rotating your seven-man pen? If so, the Sox would still need to find five new starting pitchers who can deliver quality starts... ... since this year, the team hasn't one single starter average as many as 6 IP per start.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or maybe he just blows at building pitching staffs -- come on, this has to be possibility, since it's only true for all four years he's been here. 2020-2023: American League MOST HITS ALLOWED: 1. BOS 4,668 MOST RUNS ALLOWED: 1. KC 2,628 2. BOS 2,571 WORST WHIP: 1. KC 1.418 2. BOS 1.391 HIGHEST ERA: 1. KC 4.78, 2, BAL 4.62, 3. BOS 4.59 ... and my favorite... MOST BATTERS HIT BY PITCHES: 1. BOS 256
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bradford today says Mayer's "slump" in AA was directly related to the same shoulder injury that just led to the Sox shutting him down for the season. He landed on it, trying for a triple, and it impacted his swing ever since. Fans shouldn't stress so much about this. Bangs and bruises tend to heal just fine when you're a strong athlete at the ripe age of 20. The difference between Mayer and us, besides the usual ( tall-dark-and-handsome, wealthy, already way better at something we've loved two-three-four times longer in our lives), is that his bosses are not only paying him not to work, but also providing room, board, and personal trainers to help with recovery.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have Teel at the top. Most important regular position on the diamond. Best catcher in this year's draft. A 1.72 pop time throwing out baserunners trying to steal; Realmuto leads the majors with 1.82... And Teel can hit...played on three teams at three levels so far this summer... with an overall batting average of .368, OPS .941.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Too extreme... can't we just exile him to a deserted island or something.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They weren't mad at the actual pick, just the actual CBO who wouldn't trade any of his other 75 SS prospects in a deal for an authentic MLB pitcher. That dream just didn't make sense.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kike was the unexpected hook-up at the bar where most attention was on the more glitzy. You even hit the jackpot with Kike on a few hot getaway weekends, where you barely left the hotel. But reality came a-calling with an attempt at commitment: piles of clothes and shoes everywhere, make-up bottles and brushes all over the bathroom... and erratic headaches and elbows full of bad timing.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Story and Duvall: comparable ballplayers who've had success at the big league level, not superstars or even stars, but guys who can augment legitimate contenders (like Adam did in '21). Both are good defensively -- but Story phenomenal (like Middlebrooks called him 89 times last night)? Maybe on the '23 Sox, by not throwing a ball into the dugout once a game. Both are also capable of hot hitting streaks -- but nothing near the consistency of a star batter. Duvall can homer in seven straight games (see late-August), then strikeout seven straight times (see Tampa). Thanks for using "perhaps." You're coming around. Now, if only Raffy would... (he will have better seasons than this one during his new contract years).
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This point has been underrated -- at least here, where some give Bloom so much credit, over and over, for outsmarting other clubs to get Whitlock, an oft-injured pitcher whose best year was as a rookie set-up man, and Pivetta, a #5 starter better as a bulk guy. Who were even above-average in a skill? Here's a few we hardly knew: Wacha (IL risk: he must pitch for a living), Schwarber the HR king (where would the Sox play a bad fielder?), Renfroe -- power with strong arm (and BO or something that moved him to six teams in five years), and Turner... raise your hand if you really think Bloom will pay the adjusted market rate it will take to keep him. At least the Red Sox' best player -- Chris Martin -- is still signed for another season (when he'll be 38).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hey -- Johnny Pesky said it makes the beer taste better and that makes the women look better... what are we waiting for!
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You've said that a lot the past few years. But has it occurred to you that maybe he just likes holding out a half-curled hand, maybe only with a half-crooked pinky and index finger extended, like a failed audition for an extra in a Big Bang ComicCon episode... "Live short and perspire"... the buzz could be in the challenge for a bored fantasy league team-builder-turned-MLB-CBO.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Perfect post that shows the worst flaw of the entire Bloom Era: add a player who "worked out fine"... then let him leave, and back to the "dumpster dive." It's like the guy has an eating disorder, and can't help himself... turning down nutritious meals, so he can jump back into the alley, scrounging for half-finished dinners behind the restaurant.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, but... in '21, IKF played for Texas -- which lost 102, with the third-worst runs allowed and ERA. Wonder how many of his extra assists were on relay throws, gunning out baserunners trying to advance?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What gives this old dinosaur agita is why do the Boston. Red. Sox. have to constantly keep running loads of pitchers through recycles of rosters, each and every year -- all year -- of the Bloom Errrrrr. When you find pitchers who prove they can be successful and happy in Boston, sign them and keep them. Has any pitcher who spent at least a season here the past four years left and then broke the bank of another franchise? And don't pretend ERod, Eovaldi, Wacha, or even Strahm aren't worth fair market value for legitimate big league pitchers...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... only if it's reported interest.
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