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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No doubt about the modern proliferation of pay-to-play travel ball. With greater population comes greater participation. However, there's now also year-round soccer, hockey, basketball, spring/summer football practice, and lacrosse (an organized sport that didn't even exist in my youth). And those are just a few other team sports that vie for dwindling attention-spans. The point isn't that less kids play baseball these days, but less kids eat-sleep-and-play baseball all day all summer, like when it was truly the national pastime. Less reps, less muscle memory, less fundamentals. For proof, take the airplane test. Next time you're airborne -- either right after takeoff or coming in for a landing -- look out the window at all the diamonds in towns and cities you pass. You can see dozens of diamonds... but never any kids -- spring, summer or fall... (except when in uniforms, supervised by adult volunteers in organized leagues).
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In 1979, Willie Stargell -- who was 9th on the Pirates in WAR -- was named co-MVP of the National League, along with Keith Hernandez. Pops received 10 first-place votes, compared to 4 for Hernandez. Stargell was also voted outright as MVP of the '79 NLCS and the '79 World Series. That's a lot of voter integrity in a lot of secure venues.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Story so far is ahead of Chang in this stat: 2023 K-rates -- Chang 30.4%, Story 36.4%
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Every preseason, New York has the greatest team in the history of never.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Getaway DAY game, 2:10 start. The Red Sox '23 WAR leader -- Brayan Bello -- is 0-4 with a 7.33 ERA in 6 DAY game starts this year...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Post of the day. If we're all being honest, how many of us would insist we joined this forum as cheerleaders, to gloat in glory and congratulate ourselves for choosing to root for the first MLB team in this century to win four World Series!
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Managers have lost jobs because of this very point. But blame pie also gets served to those who provide a skipper with his wayward crew (never metaphor I didn't like). Devers was inherited, as well as promoted prospects from Dombro days. But do Bloom acquisitions always have to require pitchers who can't throw to bases, outfielders who miss cut-offs, catchers who get picked off bases, and Verdugos acting like wingnuts?
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Our starters go short Bullpen turns to... Cold beer and guns in my pick-up truck!
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Story in just 8 games has a solid DWAR of +0.3, and some of us hate him because he hasn't starting hitting yet. His OPS is .518. He is not, repeat, not winning freaking games for the Sox with his defense." That was a great line, summing up fandom...
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The only names on this list that may be good bets in Boston are Devers and Casas. I know others will still be under contract, but may be moved by then if somebody new is running things. Mayer seems like a favorite for Fenway right now, but two factors may be put his status in doubt: 1. a possible major blockbuster trade by a new regime totally overhauling this franchise; 2. the surplus and development of "60" shortstop prospects drafted or signed in the Bloom Era, making anyone expendable...
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    Neil Diamond.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For Boston, this game just got Grave,man. JT has seen fire and rain...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Astros just bunted in a man from second. Base. The next time the Red Sox do that will be never.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gold Glove Awards have been presented for 65 years, so maybe some of the managers and coaches who voted in the beginning are retired by now. For the past decade, Gold Glove candidates have either qualified or were nominated to ballots in part by a sabermetric Defensive Index developed by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Benintendi has played leftfield in the majors for eight years.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Devers' issues right now at third may have extended above and beyond his glove and arm... and neck.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I agree, and posted as much last week. Turner adjusts depending on the count, and it would be great if he could adjust his teammates' approach accordingly.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, but being voted the best leftfielder in the league one year, and a finalist in another, means he's pretty good -- at least compared to his peers.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boggs looked pretty good at third as a Red Sox his last few years. I also had younger eyes back then.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Raffy is Raffy -- he's in his prime and though he has improved since he was 20, he's still wildly inconsistent -- compared to all other third baseman in the majors. Since he came to the bigs in 2017, Devers is dead last in Fangraphs' Defensive Runs Saved. Arenado and Chapman are tied for first, with 91 DRS... Raffy is -50... negative Five-Oh in Defensive Runs SLEIGHED. But it's not like guys playing their first full season in the MLB like Casas or Yoshida can't improve on D. Remember, when Boggs came up, he was also known as good-hit, no-field -- but he worked hard in practice, and became a Gold Glover. Rice wasn't too hot a leftfielder, either, at first, but he finally mastered the Monster after a million Pesky fungoes a day.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For percentage of population, you're probably right -- for a lot of reasons. As far as the "baseball gaffes" spectators have been suffering through lately, chalk it up to less player instincts or muscle memory -- whatever you want to call it, kids just aren't growing up getting the diamond reps they once did, playing their own versions of playground or cul-de-sac baseball all summer long. But posters should also remember that those MLB clubs from 40-50 years ago were just as diversified as nowadays. The Reds, A's and O's of the 70s were mixtures of good to great blacks, whites and Latinos. In Boston, the last MLB city to integrate, the Impossible Dream team is fondly famous for starting Red Sox Nation as we know it. But they couldn't have won without multi-cultural contributions. Who can name the six different blacks or Latinos that started World Series games for the '67 Sox?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    On the solution of Devers moving to first base... some guys make a smooth transition -- Youkilis won a Gold Glove, and Boggs played over half his rookie season there (when Boston already had a .300-hitting third baseman in Carney Lansford). Then there's Miggy Cabrera, a negative dWAR in every season of his 21-year career. Same with Vlad Jr., in five years so far. Remember back when posters wanted to move JD Martinez to first base? He just turned 36 and still has never played one single inning there in 13 big league seasons. From Moneyball: Billy Beane to Hatteberg, "It's not that hard, Scott. Tell him, Wash..." Ron Washington, "It's incredibly hard."
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boiling it down to basics presented here recently: the '23 Sox offense is pretty good, albeit frustrating at times. In any season, we'd all take our chances with a line-up with six guys with an OPS of .800 or better: Devers, Turner, Casas, Duran, Yoshida... and Pablo (.816 in 45 games!). Since we can't live in the future, here's some contrast -- the '04 champs (pre-deadline) had an entire starting nine over .800 -- Manny, David, Trot, Tek, Nomah, Millar, Damon, Bellhorn, Mueller. They also had a five-man rotation that each threw between 178 and 226 innings (Bello leads '23 with 119 IP). It was a different time, the steroid era. But back in the nicotine era, the '75 and '67 Red Sox each lost the World Series in seven games while missing a Hall of Famer in Jim Rice, or another 22-year old slugger on a Cooperstown tract in Tony Conigliaro. Each hero missed the entire Series with injury, as Boston barely lost to the best NL team of each decade... Bloom said it's time to bet on Devers, and surround him with talent. Some of it just may be coming from the farm. Soon. Do you believe in magic? Yesssssss.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At this point, I'd settle for multiple outings. This is my way of finally praising Llovera, who looked good for a couple of innings vs. the Skanks. Of course, it easier to pitch with a big lead. At least it should be...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... but not the Rocky statue.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nothing needed to know besides: 1. plays a kid's game; 2. gets free uniforms and equipment; 3. team covers transportation, meals, massages 4. club owners bribe him to play forever with 331 million-dollar bills
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