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with the O's! everyone deserves a chance to bat once a year against Bel-- I mean 40 mph! -
Never confuse the Betts trade with any other, since it will always be the worst Red Sox trade of our lifetimes. Mookie was 26 when traded -- just about to enter his prime. He wasn't over-the-hill and had just reached the trailhead. He has 42.5 WAR in LA so far. In the same five plus years, Wong/Verdugo/Downs have a combined 15 WAR. That qualifies for international WAR crimes.
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Sox are averaging 10 runs scored per game in this whole series! In road games this entire season, Boston has averaged 5 runs scored per game!
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Teams that suck always have choices. They can do nothing and keep playing their mistakes that they've blown money on, or they can make changes... ... like trading established veterans to make room for as many young and hungry prospects as they can bring up. That option might be tough to watch, as youth adjusts to The Show, but at least their development is more intriguing than doormats that feature deteriorating skills of over-the-hill players. One can keep you watching, the other can keep you retching.
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The Red Sox owe Bryan Bello $50 million dollars. Basically, what they paid Giolito for one good regular season. But Bello is under contract -- and gets to pitch in Boston -- for at least four more years.... and then he has a player option for $21 million in 2030. Or the team has a buyout for $1 million dollars. Keep on smilin. The least Cora coulda done is left Bello in to set a new record for home runs. He is the poster child of Cora's cryptic comments about locking up young talent to longterm contracts -- before they prove themselves. If a guy isn't secretly hurt, then when we consider young multi-millionaires, there's always the question of hunger. Not to eat, but to continually drive themselves to succeed. Maybe, just maybe, that was the additional "dynamic" to which Cora was alluding.
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That one is still mystifying. If it was just a Boston front office mistake, we could understand because that's where each Assistant Vice President is the smartest guy in a phone booth. But all the minor league evaluators and presumably observers got together and named Campbell Minor League Player of the Year. Something had to happen besides pitchers writing a book on how to exploit KC's swing. Right now he's got a 33% K-rate in Triple A with one homer (geez, he'd fit right in on the parent club). But I've watched him carefully many times in person, and he still does not look like a big leaguer at any position. And tonight's preview -- not starting line-ups yet -- lists him back at 2B?
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Because in six years when he's earned market value, the smartest men in last place won't have to pay him what he's worth.
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Bello's gonna be nibbling on Triple A buffets soon if he doesn't. Tolle took a big bite outta the rotation last night.
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Question of the week: are you optimistic?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
After Atlanta owner owner Ted Turner made himself manager in 1977, I think MLB made a rule banning such idiocracy. Those Braves lost 101 games and finished dead last, 37 GB. Hall of Famer Phil Niekro had 8.5 WAR and led the league in innings pitched and strikeouts. He didn't prevent anything. -
Most sane observers have already noted that Contreras would be a good supplement to an actual big league batting order. He's not a superstar elite clean-up hitter, but he's been the Red Sox best defensive player on the field by far.
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In each game of the sweep, the Boston Run Preventers actually held the mighty Yankees under the league average of 4.37 runs per game. The Dead Sox also prevented themselves from scoring more than 3 runs total, which they've only done in actual games 44% of the time. If Boston keeps up this pace of scoring less than 4 per game 56% of the remaining schedule -- we know they can do it -- they will finish with a record of 69-93. Imagine those of us who predicted the under of 87.5 Ws. I feel like Nostradumbass.
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Don't fire Cora unless you gut the entire coaching staff. You can blame the manager for how he uses his roster, but are the coaches actually coaching by helping those players improve or overcome adversity? Posters looking at Bregman's batting average or OPS love to justify not signing him, but conveniently forget he was the real batting coach last year -- in the cages during practice and in the dugout during games. Even if Fatse said the same things, the players listened to and respected Bregman. Data-driven owners and CBOs can't quantify that when setting a limit on dollar signs. That goes for the front office, too. No one will shed tears if Breslow goes, but the rot at the core of the baseball ops has stunk for far too long. Other clubs and organizations that prioritize employee morale do better than the Boston Run Preventers, who immediately reward a rookie pitcher with a demotion after three shutout innings vs. the first place Yanks. Instead the Sox keep two utterly unreliable relievers so they can blow the game the next night.
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Anthony's 21 and hurt again? Guys like that are supposed to play all the time, while 36-year old pitchers with sore hamstrings sit and watch. Or did the PR-conscious Sox decide to save him from further embarrassment at the hands of tough Yankee pitchers at home, only to unleash him on the road away from an irritable fan base...
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Just as long as we don't trade Eduardo Rivera! The Red Sox still have to wait for his stock to plummet, once they anoint him the NEXT HALL OF FAME CLOSER NAMED RIVERA... all this is bound to happen once they trade Chapman for Larry not even Lance Parrish at the deadline (I know he's 72, but he can still hit bombs in Old Timer's Slow Pitch down in FLA).
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Brez better be on the phone with other clubs just as desperate to make changes. Arizona owes Marte $90 million. Give them Duran and their pick of one of his college pitchers from last year's draft... but they have to take Story, too. Trevor's only owed $55 mil (including a team buyout in two years), compared to Marte's contract. And the new acquiring team can decide if they want him to play SS or 2B to replace Marte, where everyone already thinks Story would be better at this point. He has no veteran leadership with the Dbacks and wouldn't be dissed to be handed a starting job anywhere.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Haven't you been listening? President Sam Kennedy said in an interview yesterday the Sox will start hitting home runs as soon as the weather heats up. How hard is that? LAME it on the weather... because none of the other 29 teams have had to bat in crap cold and even snow this month. But we keep paying for tickets or NESN no matter how much they SUCK, thus... The President knows the Nation is dumb, so he just continues to lie every single time he opens his mouth (that felt good for some reason). -
And... "Stan Musial" -- the favorite of little boy John Henry, who could never imagine as a kid his team trading away his idol.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
People looking for excuses can point to all the free agents from last winter that have had bad starts and say, "At least we didn't waste all that money." But by the end of the year, and probably mid-season, most of that top talent will adjust, course correct and win out. The waste will be spending on guys who weren't good enough and assigning them to a manager who can't help but use them. You knew as soon as Romy went down that IKF -- a benchwarmer whose specialty is defense -- would bat whenever there was a lefty pitcher. -
Yup. But it's ok to call out an idiot announcer who can't even be bothered to fact-check dumbass claims fed to him from the research department. "Devers had a Gold Glove in Boston"... what the intern really typed, that his fool editor erroneously added two big Gs to, was "Devers had old love in Boston" (then we all got older).
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WHA-- and risk ruining him for life!?!?! What do you think is, a war where teenagers kill or be killed at the behest of fat politicians who grew up so rich and cowardly they never had to serve? No! This is a kids' game, that young men play... how can you possibly subject a guy to the horrors of coming in last place?
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Size only matters when Breslow drafts pitchers, but not when he trades for infielders. And meal portions in the heart-attack capital of the world. And when buying a garment manufactured on the other side of the planet (get the XXL, trust me).
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At least a few batters got the memo about keeping their heads still and hitting to the opposite field. Duran found The Wall twice -- welcome back, Jarren. And Wong hit one to right field that OB said was out of 30 of 30 Little League ballparks. Lou said it would've been over the second wire between the telephone poles across from his driveway -- but not the third... so it was just a triple in Driveway Ball, not a homer.
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Isaiah Kinda Failure
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Durbin, it's "Pull the ball in the air!" NOT Pull your head and hit air.
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OPPO double! A real swing!
