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Let it be known, in 2023, in the greatest division in the history of never, the only AL East team with a winning record in October was the Boston Red Sox. October 2023 W-L Boston 1-0 Tampa 1-2 New York 0-1 Toronto 0-3 Baltimore 0-4 We're Number None!
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The Shamwow guy can't hit or catch, and the angry band shouter always gets picked off base. Wolly Bully is just another DH.
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Not doing enough at the deadline had a lot to do with the team only winning 78 by the end of those years... ... on the field, in the dugout, in the bullpen, in the clubhouse. Red Sox W-L '22/23 March-July 107-102 August-Oct: 49-66
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Howard Hughes of MLB: designs and flies a twin-engine around the world in his prime... becomes a total recluse later in life.
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I don't necessarily agree. The Astros are always favorites precisely because of their title experience. The Rangers are doing it with postseason vets like Eovaldi and Seager, while the Orioles chose to just roll with all inexperienced young guys -- and they paid for it by not paying for it. The Rays and Jays were done in by sloppy D, which almost makes it ok the Sox didn't squeak in and get exposed on the national stage and laughed right off our TVs.
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It all depends on whether the "new" direction will actually be new, or just status quo with a different talking head tip-toeing through the tulips. If a new, decisive GM comes in and swaps assets for younger talent -- discernible to even our senile eyeballs -- than my take is the average Red Sox -- so sick of what they've been seeing -- will be on board... ... looking forward to legitimate sustainable improvement.
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Nobody's job is safe. It's not like the Sox are loaded with five-tool stars. Who is even a three-tool tool: Verdugo can catch and throw, mostly hit (despite a season-ending slump)... not much speed or power. Story (catch, run, sometimes hit w power)? We got a lotta dual-tools... or is that duel-tools... eating Square Peg pizza sitting on round stools.
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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?!?
