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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, me... especially if you're sitting behind home plate. But I get better looking with every beer (until I can't see straight anymore -- which doesn't mean I'm drunk, because I'll either get full or fall asleep first, but it's probably just a night game).
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He didn't snap his neck, just put him on the IL with tendonitis!
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, no more hoping and wishing and praying. Bello-Yamamoto-Montgomery... and probably Crawford. The rest are either in the bullpen or suspended animation. The fifth starter will be some minor leaguer currently honing his craft in another organization, but soon to join Boston when whoever is in charge actually trades other prospects for him.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The forum just knew it could count on a few posters to literally JUMP at the slightest turn of a phrase in any post, just to defend the worst man in charge of the Boston Red Sox in this century.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The lead role in one of those after-school special, made-for-TV movies about a gangly teen's awkward attempts at gaining popularity with both staff and student body(ies)... ... carrying and showing off binders of his collections to lunch ladies in the cafe: "and here's my binder of career utility players... well, Marwin didn't work out, but Kike almost won the pennant; let's put him at short; and this book has pages of relief pitchers I got off waiver wires, DFAed by other clubs -- there's a good one in every center pocket: Whitlock, Schreiber, Bernardino... just ignore all the Bear Claws surrounding them on each page." Will he ever get a seat at the cool kids' table?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Still a lot of drama in this series: Managers hoping to stay out of last place and save their jobs; GMs hoping to get the higher draft picks and save their jobs.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Six frat brothers horsing around the shortstop position, pushing and shoving each other into the outfield grass. Two of them start wrestling, someone gets caught in a headlock... now there's only five.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kluber won two, and took the Bloom minimum!
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's not just limit it to JD. He's one of four former Sox sluggers -- along with Betts, Bogaerts and Schwarber -- that Bloom has let leave on his watch. That quartet has combined for 126 home runs so far this season. Four players with the most HRs that Bloom has replaced them with -- Verdugo, Turner, Duvall, Yoshida -- have combined for 70 HRs.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I bet a lot of fans forget that JD started in RF the last game of the 2018 World Series in LA (Mookie started in CF); there was still no DH in NL parks. Sure enough, someone hit a fly ball over his head and he was like, "Whooooops"... I wasn't amused, since the game was only for the championship of the world. JD's production wasn't the issue most fans had with him in Boston; it was the strikeouts. On a two-strike count to JD, every Sox fan in the Nation knew what pitch was coming (no one even have to say that it was never a strike). Even when he was great and batting .330, JD whiffed more than anyone on the team, more than even Bradley, more than Papi ever did. Most Red Sox Ks in the JD Martinez Era: 2018-2022... JD Martinez. On top of that, he never opted out. His contract allowed him to sign and play elsewhere, but he kept coming back (be honest: who here secretly hoped JD would opt out after Dombrowski said, "We can't keep them all" -- so we could keep Mookie... or so we could keep Schwarber... come on, who cried when Old Yeller died?)
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's gotta be pitchers around the league just aren't afraid to throw strikes to him anymore, like when he was starting in the MLB as the leading RBI man for the WBC team that won the whole world!
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd like for the Sox to do what the Blue Jays did: continually acquire good starting pitchers. Toronto's entire top four in this year's rotation were added from other clubs: Bassitt, Berrios, Gausman, Kikuchi. None may win a Cy Young, but all have at least 28 games started with ERAs under 4.00... and the first three are paid between $22 to $25 million per. The Blue Jays aren't a perfect team, and their quality position players aren't much better than Boston's, but Toronto's pitching staff has the best team ERA in the league, and is headed to the postseason.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not mathematically, but when historians look back on 2023, they'll point to the trade deadline when the Sox were pretty much scientifically, social studiously, and physical educationally eliminated.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Verdugo is done. Job must be boring him, shaking his head all game. Just took an 0-2 fastball right down the middle...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Among NL shortstops, Bogaerts is third in WAR, behind Lindor and Swanson. Forget about his SD contract; if the Sox had just signed him for what they paid Story -- instead of Story, but at the same time... which most folks agree Xander would've taken at the time -- things might be a bit more positive around here these days.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Last night was the 46th Red Sox start this year of four innings or fewer, one shy of the 2019 team record. Fans are confident the rotation will shatter that mark by the end of the month. So for next year, shorten it to 6 with a combination with openers and bulk guys, including a few of your core seven bullpeners? I still have no faith in Bloom whatsoever to acquire enough talent to provide enough quality openings. A contrast of two organizations came in the middle innings of the Boston's 23-hit loss, when Baltimore brought in reliever and winning pitcher Shintaro Fujinami -- throwing 100 mph -- and Boston gave the ball to Zach Weiss (who they let wear the Bear Claw beard disguise, so fans wouldn't recognize him when he left Fenway). The O's got Fujinami from Oakland in a July swap for a Triple A reliever -- the Birds actually gave up a "prospect" -- that was a 14th-round draft pick who will turn 27 this month. Bloom swiped Weiss off waivers from the Angels, who've had pitching troubles since they let Nolan Ryan leave in free agency in 1979...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The stats I posted were for entire pitching staffs, starters and relievers. We can make up all the excuses we want -- arms under contract from previous GMs, bad bullpen one year, bad rotation another, bad luck, bad viruses affecting the entire world -- whatever. The bottom line is that Red Sox pitchers under Chaim Bloom have allowed the most hits and hit the most batters in the American League over the past four years. Based on those two categories, the pitching staffs Bloom has assembled and chose to parade out to the mound for his entire tenure are the worst in the league.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are you saying the last three innings would be covered by rotating your seven-man pen? If so, the Sox would still need to find five new starting pitchers who can deliver quality starts... ... since this year, the team hasn't one single starter average as many as 6 IP per start.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or maybe he just blows at building pitching staffs -- come on, this has to be possibility, since it's only true for all four years he's been here. 2020-2023: American League MOST HITS ALLOWED: 1. BOS 4,668 MOST RUNS ALLOWED: 1. KC 2,628 2. BOS 2,571 WORST WHIP: 1. KC 1.418 2. BOS 1.391 HIGHEST ERA: 1. KC 4.78, 2, BAL 4.62, 3. BOS 4.59 ... and my favorite... MOST BATTERS HIT BY PITCHES: 1. BOS 256
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bradford today says Mayer's "slump" in AA was directly related to the same shoulder injury that just led to the Sox shutting him down for the season. He landed on it, trying for a triple, and it impacted his swing ever since. Fans shouldn't stress so much about this. Bangs and bruises tend to heal just fine when you're a strong athlete at the ripe age of 20. The difference between Mayer and us, besides the usual ( tall-dark-and-handsome, wealthy, already way better at something we've loved two-three-four times longer in our lives), is that his bosses are not only paying him not to work, but also providing room, board, and personal trainers to help with recovery.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have Teel at the top. Most important regular position on the diamond. Best catcher in this year's draft. A 1.72 pop time throwing out baserunners trying to steal; Realmuto leads the majors with 1.82... And Teel can hit...played on three teams at three levels so far this summer... with an overall batting average of .368, OPS .941.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Too extreme... can't we just exile him to a deserted island or something.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They weren't mad at the actual pick, just the actual CBO who wouldn't trade any of his other 75 SS prospects in a deal for an authentic MLB pitcher. That dream just didn't make sense.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kike was the unexpected hook-up at the bar where most attention was on the more glitzy. You even hit the jackpot with Kike on a few hot getaway weekends, where you barely left the hotel. But reality came a-calling with an attempt at commitment: piles of clothes and shoes everywhere, make-up bottles and brushes all over the bathroom... and erratic headaches and elbows full of bad timing.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Story and Duvall: comparable ballplayers who've had success at the big league level, not superstars or even stars, but guys who can augment legitimate contenders (like Adam did in '21). Both are good defensively -- but Story phenomenal (like Middlebrooks called him 89 times last night)? Maybe on the '23 Sox, by not throwing a ball into the dugout once a game. Both are also capable of hot hitting streaks -- but nothing near the consistency of a star batter. Duvall can homer in seven straight games (see late-August), then strikeout seven straight times (see Tampa). Thanks for using "perhaps." You're coming around. Now, if only Raffy would... (he will have better seasons than this one during his new contract years).
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