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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think most of us are tempering our excitement because we know the staff isn't loaded with strikeout pitchers, and our worst fielding position is shortstop. The Sox are the AL's third-worst in defensive efficiency, ahead of only the pitiful A's and White Sox.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boone and Bloom both drive the GM trend of acquiring damaged goods. Antique cars sell cheaper if they need restoration. The problem is a lot of them sit in garages too long waiting for the proper parts.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Verdugo is looking great, but let's not pretend that all of a sudden Mookie sucks. Betts has more XBHs, and is just starting to heat up. Yes, Mookie has played middle infield half the time -- not because he's a versatile utility man, but because he's LA's best player. He has zero errors for the first-place Dodgers.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not a revelation for Yoshida -- he just went back to the successful approach that we saw in ST and the WBC. And he didn't have a lot of "critics" either, since it's not like hand-eye talent doesn't translate from one continent to the other with the same size home plate. Bloom had the critics for signing him for so much money, because some scouts wondered whether he could handle big league velo. Masa looks pretty competent out in left field, too.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    60 mph blowing out at Fenway... Klubes can't throw anything near Jays' bats.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, he was our top WAR monger in 2020, and even received an MVP vote. That's one good youngster Bloom acquired in trade, and I was adamant we were getting him in the Betts deal. Remember when other posters or writers thought the best we could do was AJ Pollock or Dom Smith or guys the Yanks wanted to dump like Don't-Call-Me-Clint Frazier or Miguel Andujar? Come on, for 12 years of Mookie? Seriously, would the Friedman Dodgers or anyone ever swap one of their best prospects for just two months of Mookie... As for Wong, good for Bloom again. At the time, Connor was at best LA's third-best catching prospect, behind Will Smith and Keibert Ruiz.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Doesn't that make him the ace of this rotation? Like the medium... but not the kind that talks to ghosts (though if he has a connection, then wake up the damn Bambino; we can use another lefty)... or maybe the median, a safety guide rail between lanes going in opposite directions.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A trade for a top pitcher has to hurt. Seattle had a disappointing first month, but their rotation is set for years. They also have budding stars in the outfield and behind the plate. Want to target one of their young starters under control? For instance, second base and DH have been below replacement player spots so far for the Ms. Wonder what the Red Sox can get for, say, Nick Yorke? According to BTV, Yorke is worth +9.8. Now let's look at some of Seattle's desirable under-30 starting pitchers: Castillo (even with his big contract) +58, Logan Gilbert +72.7, George Freaking Kirby +99.7! Ulp.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My point has always been to start with starters, and then build around them. Not wait until the position players are deemed finally good enough to get serious about a rotation.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Imagine how vastly different the outlook would be if ownership looked at the competition and suddenly decided to go for it -- and actually forced Bloom to acquire a top starter by trading some prospects? Right now, Cole is the only sure thing separating NY and Boston (not a peep out of Crankee fans about the IL, which have been initials for the Sox roster lately). In reality, we all know that pitching addition management is waiting on is postage paid and named Paxton, who finally proved he can get minor leaguers out!
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... especially on a New York Yankee-Aaron Judge-loving website posing as an impartial platform purportedly highlighting heroics of all other 29 teams equally.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I see your point, though some deals - depending on how they work out - open up new holes that have to be filled with other deals. One can even be contingent upon the other: if we trade Manny for ARod to play short, then we can swap Nomar for Magglio Ordonez to play left...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'll always root for him, especially for three reasons: 1. being the most dominant, unhittable pitcher I've ever seen in person; 2. bringing Machado to his knees; 3. fixing my cell phone for me so I could take a pic of him posing with my son.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hey -- MLB.com's new power rankings are out. The Red Sox, who just climbed to a fourth place tie with a winning record in the AL East, are ranked 20th. New York, which only lost yesterday by 13 runs and are now tied for last place, is ranked 12th... because, after all, they're the Yankees!
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That does it -- for the rest of this season, I'm not drinking out of a full-size glass. From now on, I'm using a shot glass, and filling it to the top.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd rather the returns turned into stud pitchers... but Bloom did the best he could by attaching a Hall of Famer to ensure the Sox got rid of Price.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Battenfield is also a good name for a hitter who doesn't use pine tar.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The most positive thing about Sale today isn't his stats or that he beat the below-average hitting Guardians... ... it's that when the game was on the line, Sale toughed it out, came up huge and left the tying run on third. He left it all out there, hit 98 on one pitch on the NESN screen, jammed Bell into tapping a one-stitch heater and got Gonzalez on a grounder to first. Then he even came back out in the 7th to get one more lefty. Hopefully, he didn't hurt himself -- and I'm not joking. Sale may not be able to baffle the best hitters anymore, but today he showed he still has the balls to compete and contribute big time.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Eovaldi isn't Kluber, Sale or Paxton in their prime -- but he's better than all of them and a legit #2 right now. That's something the Sox don't have. How much better would Boston be with Nate, who started more games and with a better ERA than any Sox in April... and with Bogaerts (and the return of the juiced ball) at short?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The new schedule -- less AL East games! -- might help the Sox win more than last year... and I will be the first to applaud the entire franchise if they win as many as 81 and finish .500. But the sked, in my opinion, was always an overrated factor in the Sox making the postseason, simply because the Rays, Jays, O's and Skanks all play less games vs. each other, too. There are three wild card berths at stake for October, along with three division champs. The schedule doesn't make it any easier to qualify for the Red Sox...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What have we learned after the first month? The AL bEast is a monstrosity, with three best teams in the league plus a big Bronx cheer for the World Series favorites... ... and coming up last -- but neither slow nor fast -- are your extra ordinary Sox, riding the spin cycle in the incongruous throes of instability. If they spelled it Socks, this would be the year you can only find one when folding the laundry (the other foot will drop out of a linen closet later, after hiding in a fitted sheet). With key pinstripes catching up to Boston on the IL, the New Yorkers are only one good starting pitcher better than the cellar dwellars. Imagine the stark changes in the outlook here if Bloom and Co. could acquire just one, reliable, consistent, healthy top-of-the-rotation starter? Just one...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I gotta say you are being very rational with your summaries lately. I want to be optimistic, too. I want the Red Sox to at least be alive for a postseason berth into September. I have high hopes for Bello and his stuff, but realize it may be a year or two before he strings together quality starts or better yet months of quality starts. As for the rest of the rotation, I just don't see such a happening for any of them... unless improvement is defined by two good games in a row. Houck has been ok, but is he already at his ceiling as a starter? For the others, we can hope and wish and pray... but this staff sure looks destined to bounce between a few games over and a few games under .500 into the summer.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe I haven't been paying attention closely enough, but has Bleier ever had a good game for the Sox yet?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, besides Bello's fingernail (growing pains?), when OB notes how this rotation is unlucky... do people say 90-year old drivers with vision problems and dementia are unlucky when they accidentally drive the wrong way on the interstate? Or are the unlucky ones the other drivers around them (those would be Red Sox fans during the Bloom Era).
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Because it's no use complaining about the absolute worst starting rotation in the big leagues that's not a flock of lame ducks soon flying south to Las Vegas... The current Red Sox front office won't sign, draft or trade for any frontline pitching, so why even bother talkingsox about it.
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