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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My post was in jest. Of course Cora is doing a great job keeping his team in the hunt with a three-man starting rotation -- and even Maddux, Smoltz and Glavine had solid #4 and #5 guys to eat up innings in-between. As for poor Bloom's approach to signing pitchers -- there is no evidence of admission that Henry has ever tied his hands. All we can do is speculate.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Is that for posterity or for prosperity... ... or in hindsight, posteriority
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm certain I'm never right, once in a while.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The entire roster going into the season...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd just be happy with a higher career WAR than Jeter Downs' -0.7. So far, Nick Robertson is only a -0.4
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not only did the Sox subtract a negative, but finally added pitchers from the Dodgers. It doesn't matter that they're minor leaguers -- their Triple A numbers aren't bad, and were logged in LA's system, after all. Kudos to Bloom.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The flop low-budget signings or trades weren't exclusive to just Bloom. Remember in '19, when Dombro beat everyone by trading for the best available starting pitcher weeks before the deadline? The guy was 9-3 with a 3.83 when the Sox added him to their staff. Then for some reason, he went 2-5 with a 6.20. His name was Cashner...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd bet there is a lot of debate in Bloom's war room about Paxton, with hot lines open to all title contenders (not final wild card contenders vying to play maybe only two or three extra games on the road). If Bloom can pry someone's top 10 pitching prospect for Paxton, and then pick up a Rich Hill on the cheap, and if just one of Houck-Whitlock-Sale is good again, and Schreiber is healthy... the Sox might have just as much chance at making the postseason as they do right now. The thing that makes Paxton a better trade chip than even two months of Mookie is that there's no David Albatross Price attached. So maybe, just maybe, someone will be willing to give up a Josiah Gray, instead of a Jeter Downs. If so, Bloom may try it both ways... media and fans be damned.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have to reverse the order. Just going by a recent post naming Red Sox rookies of the year and prospects that almost instantly turned into stars (the following are just some): 60s -- Yaz, Tony C, Lonborg, Rico, Reggie, Boomer; 70s -- Fisk, Lynn, Rice, Evans, Rooster; 80s -- Boggs, Clemens, Hurst, Greenwell, Burks; 90s- Nomar, Tek/Lowe (both emerged from the minors), Val; 00s- Papelbon, Lester, Pedroia, Youk, Ells; teens-- Mookie, Xander, Jackie, Beni, Raffy... ... is that kind of production from the farm system normal for the average big league franchise -- or are Red Sox fans lucky and spoiled? Before Bloom, at least since the advent of free agency, Boston always sought to improve its chances by keeping homegrown fan favs and supplementing with talented primetime recruits... not just rehab projects and waiver wire pick-ups.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If we're losing Paxton, then wouldn't it make sense to get something for him before he walks- I mean, limps?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How do we really know if it was a table? What if the offer was on a bar, where the stools swivel? Someone even said they think they saw them in a booth at Holsteins, before they blacked out...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right -- ERod: the youngest and more importantly, only one from the rotation whose arm wasn't overextended, starting and relieving, up to the previous November (Price and Eovaldi more than doubled his postseason innings, while Porcello and Sale threw 50% more). This might be one of the main reasons it is so difficult for World Series champs to repeat.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I never left. But I credit Bloom for his international non-draft signings, and not trading prospects drafted and signed by Dombrowski, and all those relievers cast off by other organizations. Cora just looks good because Bloom's acquisitions are keeping us in the wild card hunt. There's no reason the Sox can't just keep running seven different bullpen guys out there like last night, every other day right through October. As long as all of them are on, what could possibly go wrong?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, maybe they like Wink more as a match-up righty now than a bulk-guy, which may have burned him out (as he was less effective after a hot start). But if they're going to keep rolling the dice with 40% bullpen games, then maybe it'll just be Pivetta and the fresh guy of the month, like Murphy for now. Sam Kennedy -- surprise -- is more excited about all the guys coming off the IL, who of course will be better than any other healthy deadline acquisition (blow nsave, I mean, hold-save).
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm with you on Casas, but not sure why you posted on a Cora thread. But I'm also with you on the bang-up job Cora has done with his "modern" pitching staff: two rookie starters and one retread, with a cast of cast-off and newbie relievers. Dang-yo. These Red Sox aren't a playoff team yet, but even if they just stay in the hunt, it may be time to give credit the manager and CBO for the endless supply of lefty bullpen arms. And whoever made the call on moving Pivetta from starter to bulk-guy (methinks it was a collaborative decision). Now get another righty reliever before Martin's arm falls off. I can see Bloom not overpaying for another starter, and even moving one of IL righties -- Houck or Whitlock -- back to the pen. I can even envision turning Paxton into a young, controllable prospect at the deadline... ... but the only true way to show both the players and fans we're not conceding the season is to acquire somebody to fortify the pitching staff.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is the kind of recruit that can define a GM and his staff, finding and signing talent beyond just selecting the best player available when it's their turn in the amateur draft.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Sale, Houck and Whitlock are all returning -- and they're all effective, as some posters assume (you know, if everything breaks just right, ad infinitum) -- then they should be able to trade Paxton for a good prospect... without giving up on the season... of shooting for a wild card. And that will make Paxton the best trade chip in the Bloom Era... that the Red Sox actually traded. If they don't trade Paxton, and don't make the World Series, and don't resign Paxton for what it would've cost to keep Eovaldi, then how many fans here and elsewhere will lament Bloom for not making a move to improve the Sox... again?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agree on investing in a young starting pitcher. Turner and Verdugo may be gone by '24. Expect Rafaela in CF -- Duran is a good offensive player, but just doesn't have the fundamentals to cover center for a contender; platoon him in LF/DH with Yoshida until he can hit the freaking cut-off consistently. This club has to focus on better defense before it can be taken seriously.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Paxton is the Red Sox' best trade deadline chip of the Bloom Era. Chaim should be holding out right now for someone's starting pitching prospect -- as legitimate contenders have been known to deal -- like when the trend-setting, ringless Rays gave up Joe Ryan for an over-40 DH. Someone mentioned instead giving Paxton an Eovaldi contract... why would anyone think Boston would do that, after pulling such an offer from a more-proven, two-time postseason hero? It may be unreasonable to hang hopes on all the injured players returning and playing well enough to boost the Sox into the playoffs, but if everything goes just right -- that's the mantra of 2023 -- then they should still be able to make it without Paxton, who was just a rumor going into the season.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Paxton has a good game tonight, it could be a win for the Sox, no matter the score. If the Sox win, they bounced back. If they lose, Paxton could bounce back a buyer's prospect.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For a sec, I thought you meant the game: 1st and 3rd, one out, Duvall lines softly to short, Verdugo takes three fastballs down the middle... Sox lose by a run.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I won't give Bloom credit for having a "sound drafting philosophy" because that better come with the badge. But I won't call any other poster names if they disagree with me, either. What will make or break his legacy is how he'll supplement those prospects (once/if they make the Show) by filling other MLB holes on the roster... especially if he has to trade a few of them, instead of just spending the bankroll Henry allows him for free agents. We know he intends to surround Devers with talent; he told us Raffy was a good bet...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, the one who swung the Randy trade, post-Bloom.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And somehow the Rays knew to trade Liberatore before he struggled, for another prospect named Arozarena. Now that's the kind of team-building a GM deserves praise for; it shows more than just drafting the best player available.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No disrespect, but when I read this, I thought this could also be Bloom's excuse for lowering expectations (players' and fans') of acquiring any impact at the deadline. Many summers we've heard a GM or manager muse, "Getting X (fill in name) back from the IL is just as good as anyone else we could trade for that's available." The debate of buy or sell could be settled on what happens in the next five games in Fenway -- 3 with the Mets, 2 vs. Atlanta -- and it should be noted that Tuesday's promotion is Alex Verdugo Cooling Headband night...
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