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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I'm glad you included Pablo -- tonight's leadoff batter! -
Maybe... is it possible that batting statistics in Worcester are just a tad inflated due to park dimensions and jet stream conditions? For instance, Dalbec is a 4A monster this year, and legend has it, he hit one 515 feet. That's like 258 minor leaguers away from home plate (one of them hopping on one foot)! Rafaela is also CRUSHING it (as Youk says), but for those fans wondering what's taking the Sox so long to call him up, I just assume the front office is keeping a Woo perspective on progress.
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That bites. But he's such "an elite athlete" we should expect him to make the proper adjustments... ... except this is hardball, where the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball. Or in the immortal words of the mortal John Kruk: "I'm not an athlete, lady -- I'm a ballplayer."
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NESN announcers noting "rust"... For the few fastballs Story has missed, ok... (gotta get that bat hanging down the back of the shoulder up in time) But for the dozen sliders down and away that he's missed by two feet -- no different than last year. Perhaps batting him 3rd in the order is adding more pressure initially. It doesn't help a desperate team if he drags down the middle of the order... maybe everyone would be better served with him hitting 6th or 7th.
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Thank you for contributing to the thread. MLB.com just today also cited Cespedes' rep "earning praise for his baseball IQ and work ethic." Adding a guy with those attributes seems even more important for a franchise with a big league roster marred by players making the dubious decisions we've seen on defense and on the basepaths this season.
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Right or wrong, if another pandemic started picking off baseball execs, these obits would be likely today -- JH: "Won 4 WS as Red Sox owner".... CB: "Traded Mookie Betts" And Bloom had to know and agree to that idea when taking the job... thus, the pressure on himself to finally win a title
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08/09 kc royals @ red sox
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to vegasbob's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Pivetta pitching lights out. -
This has been my main criticism since Year 1. I think building the farm is very much a GM's job, so I refuse to give any guy too much credit in this area -- unless more than 20% of any year's harvest makes the Show (counter to the estimated 80% of all pro "prospects" who don't make it). The trick is building a good MLB roster, blending acquisitions from all avenues to produce a consistent quality club that usually wins more games than it loses. Chaim has not done that yet -- so we just don't know if he can... or how long (or how much) ownership will give him to prove himself.
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Even if ownership is happy Bloom didn't blow money or prospect capital going for it, they can't be glad he didn't optimize more expiring assets before they're gone... two deadlines in a row, now.
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Moon, can you see how these can sound contradictory? As Sox fans, we're all disappointed... and all on this forum together. No one is happy to root for a last place team. Some of us just express our angst in more graphic ways than others, but no one here should be disparaged from fellow fans for also feeling down about what we've witnessed during the Bloom Era on the parent MLB club that plays in Boston. Some of us deal with it by wise-cracking. At least we have takes. Unfortunately, there are others who are so bitter they waste their posts mocking soxtalkers, using adjectives to insult. Maybe they could work on their own takes on the Red Sox... or at least mix in some vivid verbs along with their cliches (at least something that didn't get George Carlin banned by the FCC).
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I know. Football's the enemy.
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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I had a girlfriend who I was really close to, and we cared a lot about the same things, but she hasn't been around much for the past four years. I heard she's been spending more time with European soccer guys, and hockey players, even race-car drivers. But I know she'll be back. How can she resist? I just know it. You'll see... -
No, I'm saying you didn't read my post about building "next year's Red Sox"... not next year's Drive or Seadogs or WooSox. I wasn't referring to drafts or farm development at all. But as a fan of a mediocre major league club the past four years, I'd just like to see Boston's big league team fill any future holes with established MLB players who regularly play those positions. Marwin's not a leftfielder, Arroyo's not a rightfielder, Schwarber's not a first baseman, and Franchy's not a big leaguer anywhere on defense. Some will also argue Kike's not a shortstop and Duvall isn't a centerfielder, because those aren't their best positions, either. Bloom didn't invent square pegs in round holes. But in the past when we saw Hanley stumbling around in LF or Swihart getting injured and hurting his career out there, it seemed more outrageous. Now there are so many guys bumping into each other, misjudging plays and throwing to no one, fans are just inured... it's easier to just change the channel.
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No matter who they decide to let build next year's Red Sox, he or she better start with the basics. Recruit fundamentally sound players for the positions they actually play -- if you need a centerfielder or shortstop or catcher who can actually catch and throw the damn baseball, then go get guys who are legitimate big league players at those spots. NO MORE versatile utility types who the front office thinks can move to those positions because they played there once in college or high school or Legion or Little League. If you need starting pitchers, go get one or two or three. NO MORE castoff DFAed relievers who the front office thinks can open (because they can't close). I know, imagine we fans figuring out a better approach for the offseason. We must remember more baseball than the young analysts in the front office ever forgot...
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The CBO of a big market sports team builds a roster that annually produces the worst record in its division... ... then brags about being the underdogs?
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Do it today, John Henry.
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He'll give Bloom the two most valuable assets an asshat could want: versatility and control. But he can't pitch.
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All you cynics lamenting Lamet... you act like all of Bloom's pitching additions every year are inept crap-tossing cheap waiver wire DFAed minor league bargain basement dumpster dive pick-ups. Sure, the last 17 may have been, but have you already forgotten he signed Chris Martin? Just get me to the 7th or 8th with the lead! It could happen...
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Kennedy is such a bad liar that he could yell everyday for years that an election was rigged and stolen -- without zero shred of evidence -- and somebody somewhere still wouldn't believe him.
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Some there have posted that once Bloom finally gets fired, he'll never be rehired to run another club. But imagine if he goes into a different profession... and is tasked with cutting corners in a new industry. Customer: "My burger tastes strange... almost as if the meat comes from a different animal..." Waiter: "Well, the higher prices reflect sustained family fun: there's a singalong at dessert, and on Fridays staff wear yellow bibs... but we never said the burgers were still made out of meat."
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The Red Sox can't bring up Rafaela too soon, so he keeps his rookie status for next year. Remember, a team with the Rookie of the Year gets an additional draft pick after the first round. Teams with rookies who finish second or third in the voting get additional international picks. How many times do the Sox have to tell you it's all about making sense. CBO Bloom and GM O'Halloran have repeatedly noted they'll make any move "as long as it makes sense."
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I remember sitting at a PD once and being told, "This school's population is 75% minority." And I pondered, "Then wouldn't that be the majority?"
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Why do have to be so realistic? Didn't Sam tell you our best deadline acquisitions will be the players returning from the IL?
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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
They had to keep Pablo... not for last night, but because he tied for the best ERA on the pitching staff over the weekend: one IP, ZERO runs.
