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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Always fun to shut up multitudes of New York fans on a Friday night, bleeting like seals in a circus: https://nesn.com/2023/06/yankees-fans-celebrated-foul-ball-not-walk-off-home-run-vs-red-sox/
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't have employee lists, but have to assume some current guys have worked for the organization since before Bloom was hired. For example, GM Brian O'Halloran has been around for all four rings this century. If anything, some of us are still waiting for and wondering when Bloom will recruit other like-minded execs from actually successful franchises that share his vision.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Stills was more succinct about the Bloom Era: There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Someone is going to say he hit two homers in his very last game last October and figured something out... like Bloom said Wacha did down the stretch in '21 (or like Kluber didn't in '22). My question is what did JD do differently to have 15HRs in only 200 PA this year? Did NL analytic departments just not watch video of him in a Red Sox uni?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Jake's my boy! I talked to Jake in the gym. He asked me about you. (from Sixteen Candles)
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I saw Yorke from the stands at a game I reported on a month ago. He had the exact same stance as Story last year, and struggled with it. Maybe you missed my post.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Trevor Story, the guy who draped his bat down behind his back and was often too late bringing it up to the hitting zone last year; he led the NL with 191 Ks in 2017, when he had a 34.4% whiff rate. He fanned 122 times in only 94 Red Sox games before an injury ended his season, but still finished second in team Ks to Martinez' 145. JD's K-rate was 24.3%, Trevor's was 30.8%.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't like it. Story was a K king with it last year, and Yorke and Rafaela will need to adjust their stances if they want to stay in the bigs when they get there vs. nighty 100-mph velo.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. Duran is best drilling balls in the gap and flying around the bases -- the type of guy in his prime a line-up needs batting in front of a guy like Casas, in his prime. I don't know if they'll ever bat 1-2, but if the Sox' best hitters in the next half decade are Yoshida, Verdugo and Devers (when he rebounds), with Mayer the best prospect, that's all lefty swingers. The new GM will have to add a couple premium righty bats... among his many priorities.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    AC gave him the ball with a one-run deficit and watched with the rest of us as Kluber gave up eight straight hits. These weren't bloopers and bleeders, but a 4th of July fireworks display of bottle rockets, roman candles and cherry bombs. Amidst the carnage, I actually wondered if the one guy who could've stopped it, chose not to because of some secret animus towards either the player... or the exec who acquired the player.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Our Opening Day starter?!? The one single offseason addition to the rotation to replace Eovaldi-Wacha-Hill?!? The inning regurgitator with downside?!? He's already done and represented enough to get both the CBO and manager fired. If they cut him now, their use of him is irredeemable. If they keep him, and he somehow rebounds to throw a scoreless middle inning of relief here and there, at least they can pretend to have discovered a redefined role in his solar plexus eclipse.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A lot of finger pointing today. Most are straight up in the air, with the back of fists aimed at the dugout and front office. But maybe the blame is really on... ... us: Red Sox fans. We're so invested, we type daily about a baseball club, even for half of every year when they're not playing. We still follow them, even when they suck -- which has been 75% of the entire Chaim Bloom Era. Fans of other annual last place teams usually abandon ship until a rebuild puts them back in contention. Red Sox fans, however, are addicted to baseball, and Fenway, and NESN, and absolutely deserve to complain when the product on the field is crap, and the politicians employed by the franchise continually tell us what we're seeing is only part of a means to a beginning. But still we watch, hoping they're not actually lying.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Klubes really stuck one to the team."
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Too late to be still early. Only another 1.5 to be rebuilt!
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope. This will either be Kluber's last game for Boston, or Cora's...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The skipper is passively aggressively challenging the chief baseball officer.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Straw, the guy who tripled, has a slugging % of .289.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nunez just called. He said Kluber can't throw at batters for swinging too hard anymore, because his slowballs can't hurt them.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I tell you the harm: Hamilton has a lot of letters that would have to be tackle-twilled to a Red Sox jersey. Every letter must cost a couple bucks apiece. Just think of the savings for Bloom every time he recalls Ort.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't get me going on Bloom's famous fallbacks: Franchy at 1B, Arroyo in RF,, Downs at SS (instead of Graterol, an actual big leaguer the past half decade), Valdez at second, Kike at short, and Mondesi at nowhere...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And sometimes, an arm is cooked, no matter how many new pitches and adjustments an old pitcher can master. What do all the years of data on Kluber mean for this season? Even if he suddenly develops an unhittable knuckle-ball and hangs around for another decade, past data for the way he used to pitch doesn't really pertain.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    WAR and Pieces
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can see not spending large and long on starting pitchers over 30 -- especially after Henry broke his motto and got burned on both Sale and Price. I can see not spending large and long on a good but not great shortstop who may be unproductive playing at a less impactful position at the back end half decade of an 11-year contract. But I can't see not filling the line-up with legitimate big league gloves. They're plentiful, inexpensive, and to me, maybe the best investments for a front office obsessed with one-year deals and annual turnover. Crap defense is an embarrassment, unacceptable, and the quickest way to turn off viewers, who are more sure-handed with TV remotes than Boston's entire infield.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But... but... BUTT -- it gives us flexibility to sign more one-year dears next winter!
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He proved he could be successful. Just shows again how stubborn perceptions get exposed by reality. Through the various levels of pro-am ball I've participated in over the decades -- playing, coaching, watching -- this question, paraphrased here, always comes up: Is he good or just doing good (well...)? All-Star rosters at amateur levels used to be determined by merit, with voters selecting worthy players based on their seasons, often with statistics as credentials. Nowadays, I see Little Leaguers have to try out for All-Star squads, in front of evaluators who don't know the kids or haven't ever seen them play in actual games. So naturally, anyone with a good arm and decent wheels makes the team (even if he's 0-for-20 with 20 strikeouts). Does he look good or is he actually performing? Now someone will say, 29 other teams ignored Wacha before he signed with the Pads. Yup, he proved them all wrong.
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