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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A few other AL rankings... Yoshida among leftfielders: 1st in BA and SLUGGING; 2nd in OPS, H, RBI; 3rd OBP... 5th in HRs, 10th in Ks, 14th in BBs... 8-for-8 in SB attempts... strange days, indeed. Verdugo among rightfielders: 2nd in BA and doubles; 4th in OPS, R; 5th in H... but here's the kicker -- among RFs with at least 500 ABs, dead last in HRs and RBIs. A corner outfielder for a contender has to do better than 13 HRs and 54 RBI.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right now, the starting rotation has the exact same amount of sure things going into next year as it did last winter: Bello and #5 man Nick Pivetta. Now think about the entire season, and who -- if any other guy -- would be the closest to a fulltimer? Yes, that would be... Cutter Crawford: best WHIP among starters, more Ks than Bello, and tied with Pivetta for best starter ERA. Sign one reliable starter, trade for a young one with potential, and somehow find a respectable righty power bat to protect Devers. Raffy's season, with rankings among AL third basemen: 1st in HR, RBI, Slugging, OPS; 3rd in H, R, 2B, BA; 4th in OBP, tied 4th BB, 5th in Ks... Those stats seem to justify top salary among position players on the team -- either that or fans lack perspective with the realities of current batting struggles throughout the big leagues.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gave himself up in Game Three of the LCS, to rest the rest for the Greatest Comeback in Baseball History, then won Game Five in extra innings -- when nobody could hit him... or catch him. Tito appropriately gave him the Game One start in the World Series; none of the five Sox pitchers were on that day, but the bats pulled it out. Wake was at his best (and worst) in the '03 LCS, with two good starts and Ws, and a loss -- only because he was supposed to be Scott Williamson an inning earlier.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, I heard him say on radio. But that doesn't mean his source was right.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The baserunning rule changes have certainly helped. I'd say: but you still can't steal first -- though we know that hasn't been the issue with the Red Sox vaunted O, tied for second in AL hits. It's moving the pieces around the gameboard... they're either really unlucky or really sucky.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But not enough gentlemen drove anyone home. The new GM has to break down and pay for Uber batters.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How bad is modern hitting? The year 1968 was the worst batting season in modern history. It's forever remembered as The Year of the Pitcher, when ace starters were MVPs in both leagues. It was so bad that MLB made major changes to the strike zone and mound to try to generate more offense. Yaz won the AL batting crown with an all-time low of .301. Danny Cater, a singles hitting first baseman, was second at .290 (a few years later, the Smart Sox acquired Danny in a coup for a lefty reliever called Sparky). Tied for 9th in the AL Top 10 in '68 were Frank Howard and Rick Monday with BAs of .274. Tied for 9th in the AL Top 10 in 2023 are Justin Turner and Adley Rutschman with BAs of .277. Btw, I'm not on board with acquiring Matt Chapman. He has 165 strikeouts -- 33 more than Boston K-king Connor Wong. I hate watching dozens of strikeouts more than a few errors per game. For perspective, 165 Ks would've been second in the AL in '68 (Reggie Jackson led with 171). Chappy is tied for 10th this season; that's how bad modern hitting is...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Splints, that's Bloom Era talk. The steward of suckitude is gone. Look forward... unless Henry and Co. stay internal and promote -- then, there's really no hope for change. Don't worry, though; Sam will still tell us it will be Craptacular!
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ha, just be prepared for some smartass to post: "Ya -- Devers can't get any worse!" Btw, I like our young outfielders starting or at least platooning next year. That doesn't include Duran, who is 27, in his prime, and may not improve anymore on D... but who I love turning singles into doubles, which may appeal to other MLB clubs and yield decent trade returns.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's only one intrigue left: can the Sox lose their last two, while hoping for a Detroit-Cleveland split, thus giving the hapless trio identical 77 win records? It could make the diff between getting the 12th overall draft pick and... breaking into the TOP 10, Bahbee!
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe the Sox are mum because they someday envision bringing Mookie back -- in a trade they know will have to include Bauer and Urias -- for a millionth-round draft pick.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is a good best-case, but you have to admit it can also be another "if everything goes right" scenario of too familiar long odds. In other words, when Rice was asked the other night what is the Sox' biggest need to improve for next year, he said, "Ballplayers." Also, even if the Sox are destined to suck again, the front office absolutely has to add new right-handed power hitters... at least to entertain fans. Because even if Story rebounds with a career year and bombs 44 homers, that only replaces Turner's and Duvall's missing HRs -- which were good enough to land us in last place this season.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's not that tall; more like a scapewoodchuck (though still cute and fuzzy). If Masa was as athletic as Franchy, he'd be a scapecheetah (except when the latter played first, and was a scapecactus). ... now those have to be at least 7s on the notin scale But seriously, is leftfield defense the real culprit in killing the Red Sox D? Or does it just bother people too much that the guy wears his pants so high...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora played for Francona, and Tito was always known as a players' manager, a guy who took care of his men (even when fullgrown boys like Manny earned whatever static he deserved from the media, opponents, even teammates). So maybe AC learned a bit about managing just from observing. Scheduled days off aren't a bad thing -- unless you're a fan who saved up and can only afford to attend one game, and your favorites aren't in the line-up. I know some posters don't like this, but is it really just coincidence that the Red Sox have had losing records every single August of the Bloom Era... after what many fans, media, and especially players felt were insufficient reinforcements at the trade deadline.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We can hear it now... Mr. Burns croning: "I'm the Number One fan of the man from Tennessee..."
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In '22, Wacha and Hill were ok, but neither top-of-the-rotation when they were signed by Bloom, or by their next clubs, for that matter. We knew that winter they wouldn't be enough, because they were prone to injury -- just like many others Bloom was counting on: Sale, Eovaldi, and the rumor of Paxton. But let's agree that no matter what Bloom's budget -- though he spent big on good hit/bad glove or good glove/bad bat position players -- he never signed the Sox most important need: a top free agent starting pitcher.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I give notin a 5 on the 5Gs scale... as long as Fenway doesn't turn keep transitioning into Pottersville. But I'm bereft of savagery today. It's a melancholy Saturday, raining for the fourth straight month here, with the Red Sox season about to end. All I have is a mellow tune for Cora to sing to free agents this winter, when he's opening up brief cases of cash Henry gave him for the '24 roster: "Please come to Boston for the Springtime I'm stayin' here with some friends, and they've got lots of room"
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Strikeout pitching, that doesn't get hit to third very often.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't be so sure Devers would be any kind of upgrade over Casas at first base. If you suffered through as many telecasts as I have this season, you'd know many of Raffy MLB-leading third-base Es were not on throws. And that doesn't even include bouncers that got past him, and were dubiously ruled hits, according to official scorers. Let's just say he doesn't have the hands of a surgeon over at third...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This one didn't change -- the day after the trade, Rice on TV told us that Mookie called him last night, with these words about Boston: "THIS is where I want to be." Jim Rice may not be anyone's favorite NESN analyst, but one thing he's never been accused of is being a liar. Or even an embellisher...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or circumstances when players look like they're not trying...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We sat here the past four winters typing about which positions needed to be filled or upgraded, which free agents the Sox should pursue, and which guys they could add to the roster to make the team better. We even offered plenty of reasonable trades that were accepted on Baseball Trade Values (which no interns posing as posters relayed to their Chief). But every offseason, Bloom pivoted to Plan C pitchers... almost as if his Plan A was to only ink Plan Cs. Now he pivots to Plan Couch.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But Mookie told us this summer when he returned to Fenway that he assumed he'd be signing with the Sox and play his entire career here! He said he and his fiance were even house-hunting in the Boston suburbs before the trade...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cloudy memory banks, but Lovullo did a good enough job when Farrell was ill to take over, but it would've been too insensitive to boot a guy going through serious treatments. Meanwhile, Arizona immediately hired Lovullo, and he's been there ever since.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe for LA -- Verdugo and Wong have 10.9 combined WAR this season, which beats Mookie's 8.3. That's a WAR profit, for only 12 years of Betts. Man, the Dodgers are stuck with Mookie.
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