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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You were active on the forum all offseason, and don't recall several hopeful posts trying to compare or argue about how Bloom's veteran signings could mean a worst-to-first-like turnaround, similar to 2013? It wasn't just here, but other places (maybe NESN?), but I specifically remember warning that the '13 club already a star core of Ortiz-Pedroia-Ellsbury-Lester-Buchholz etc. All we knew for sure about the '23s is they had Devers and Sale's doctors.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, surprisingly mediocre. Most posters here expected Bloom's new smorgasbord to either conjure the '13 Dempsters and win it all... or slap-fight with the '22 dumpsters to repeat 78 Ws.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gee, thanks for your expert analysis, correcting me for being "way off base." I'm sure the Red Sox will be World Series contenders the rest of the decade with sluggers like Jarren Duran and Kike Hernandez batting after Raffy Devers. Those guys are such longball threats, pitchers will have no choice but to groove fastballs center cut to Devers in every at bat. Bombs away.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the record actually improves, and the Sox finish over .500, could next winter finally be the offseason where Bloom doesn't just strip it all down again and sign another dozen Kluber/Kikes to one-years?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I saw him live a week ago and posted he looked like the best hitter in the Portland line-up -- way better than Yorke or Rafaela. The way he ripped the gaps, and ran, would make him a good guy to bat in front of Raffy. But a big bopper that foes fear to go deep could help Devers unlock the .333 righty-Miggy hitter we know is inside him... not feeling he has to crank every pitch to the moon. He could still hit 30 HRs and win the batting crown, and contribute more consistently to the Sox attack. And hopefully, not have to one-hand a pitch off his ankle anymore like last night (still a line drive in the book).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed, but a projected half-a-billion dollar contract would seem exorbitant in Bloom's Boston... can you even see him spending that much on two separate free agents -- a pitcher and a hitter?
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hamilton's just wondering how many homers or stolen bases he needs before or if he ever gets the call to go NorthEast.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Way to talk Sox, guys. ... but better clarify, or get crucified on technicalities: Worcester is technically SW from Boston. Driving from Southern New England, going from Hartford to Boston, Worcester is about halfway UP, near where 84 meets the Mass Pike... just take 290 to WOO.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're getting good at this... (except for Oakland, then the when is 2023)
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    To maximize the investment in Devers, the Red Sox could really use a tag-team partner in the heart of the order, a Manny Ramirez to the new Big Puppy. But it doesn't have to be an all-timer -- just a Manny Machado-type hitter... not leg-spiker (the Sox can always use a Manny Sanguillen or Manny Mota). Is it unfair to automatically assume either Duvall or Story will return from wrist/elbow injuries and provide more protection behind Devers than Duran (batting 5th)? The reality is there's not much longball in the pipeline. After Raffy's 13 HRs, the batter with the most home runs in the entire organization is David Hamilton (11) -- a guy playing in the same state, just south of Boston, who the Sox value so much that they instead signed and promoted a Triple A infielder from the worst team in baseball. Marcelo Mayer, ranked the #3 overall prospect this week by ESPN, has seven four-baggers (tied for 3rd in the organization). The Red Sox' next-best prospect, Roman Anthony, #49 overall, has one homer...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Any place is the standings is a good place to start with an ace starter. He can put a contender over the top, make a mediocre team a contender, and pull a bottom-dweller out of the cellar. Stopper is the most important position on the field... and they mark his spot smack-dab in the middle of the diamond, centered and elevated above all others.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Also don't forget Eovaldi was publicly critical of Bloom's half-ass trade deadline... maybe Nate was miffed he didn't get moved to a contender.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The very nature of pitching a baseball is unnatural, throwing overhand with an appendage that grows underhand. Most MLB pitchers don't age well, and many tendons and ligaments at younger ages are already unwell... ... in this age of testing, when PEDs can no longer extend or create Hall of Fame careers -- feel free to fill in any and all names from those bygone days, when everyone was suspect (except Yankees, who only juiced because they were such good teammates).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We have yet to know if Bloom can... We know the Sox can afford one... But we don't even know if we can identify one... Is Ohtani a good investment -- a guy whose pitching career could end suddenly in a number of ways that a non-batter/baserunner can't? Is Urias a good investment -- about to enter his prime? Is someone on the trading block worth four of our top prospects?
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Still can't believe the Boston Red Sox DFAed a guy who throws a hundred miles per hour like Kaleb Ort... what, do they have an intern studying all the insultants on talksox?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Considering his intermittent turns through the rotation, it's a valid concern. But we have to assume Bloom didn't extend him (his first "core" guy locked up at reasonable multi) to be a reliever...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't recall any posters that defended the Price signing, and I wasn't on board when Sale was extended. Those contracts are and will always be extremes in Boston about the risks of overpaying for damaged goods (physically and mentally). But Eovaldi wasn't ever getting the biggest contract in the history of pitchers, and was good enough and stable enough to get re-signed for two years at market rate. And no one will be surprised the next time he goes on the IL. Meanwhile, he's pretty good. Bloom doesn't sign starting pitchers for more than a year, though... so be prepared next winter to replace Kluber with the next Kluber. It's what we do these days in Boston.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's bull. There are a few posters obsessed with payroll burdens at the back end of contracts, and other posters who don't care that every pitcher breaks down eventually, and would rather see investments in guys that are good bets at the front end. There are even some that argued through the entire tenure of his Red Sox contract that Eovaldi was overpaid, even though he led all Boston starters in innings pitched and lowest ERA from 2019-22. I'm not arguing guys like Eovaldi and Wacha have improved as pitchers after leaving Boston. Maybe new ballparks, new defenses behind them, and new opponents with weaker bats have something to do with their success. But they don't suck, either.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wacha just must be pretty lucky. Last year he goes 11-2 for a last place team, and this year he's 5-1 for another club under .500. And he's only one win behind another ex-Red Sox ex-teammate who leads the majors in innings pitched! But this season is still eovalding...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox are the greatest last place team (tied with Toronto) in the history of the ALeast, then the Yanks have to be the best third place team in the history of this month. New York is now three games better than the next-best third-place team -- the Angels (closing fast, blanking Boston). Don't worry -- Sox' bats will break out bigly next month when they get to face the dredges of the NL -- the Reds and Rockies (interspersed around series with Tampa, Cleveland and NY, NY... I gotta wear shades).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, over the winter, some posters argued Kluber was the better "pitcher" -- as if a wily senior more likely to get by on guile... it certainly wasn't stuff last year, when Kluber was a .500 starter who lost the final postseason game for a playoff team, and Wacha was an .846 starter on a last place team.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... game-planning, remembering hitters' strengths and weaknesses -- from past and present series and same-day at bats or swings -- setting up batters two or even three pitches in advance, and calling pitches according to the pitcher's actual stuff that day... ... after an especially successful day for a battery, you often hear the pitcher marvel, "I never had to shake him off once." And as for running the defense, don't forget the two most important words a catcher can bark to his hurler (it's not "throw strikes")... groundball to the right side: GET OVER!
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ha. I want to say that's usually for guys who were never good in Boston, but there always seems to be a Braiser. Just checked team stats = seven pitchers this year with negative WAR: Bleier, Braiser, Kluber, Littell, Ort, Pivetta, Whitlock. A guy like Bleier has never been a good Red Sox (seriously, first pitch 3-run jack to Carpenter?), but it's understandable we cut Whitlock a little more slack...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fair enough. Have to think a lot of catchers are affected by the pitch clock and new disengagement rules resulting in better jumps for baserunners. Look at St. Louis and Contreras. Wong, leading all MLB catchers in dWAR, is either better than we all thought... or on a fielding hot streak?
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wacha lowered his to 3.58 yesterday... must be the mild temps of Mission Beach. For those wondering why Mookie jumped at LA's contract offer with a similar AAV as Boston's, maybe it wasn't just Covid uncertainty. When Jim Morrison slurred, "The West is the best," maybe it wasn't just because of parties and group-- naaah.
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