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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fangraphs had Boston #4... ... but when you say "you" is that me, specifically, or all analysts in general? And that would include fans, websites, media and voters; for instance, a decade ago, the Red Sox had the Eastern League Pitcher of the Year in 2013, Anthony Ranaudo, and 2014, Henry Owens. That certainly had to help Boston's rankings -- at least as far as pitching prospects. But alas, those awards may have been the highlights of both of their professional careers...
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No proverbs on the board.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    MLB Pipeline just ranked all 30 farm systems. Red Sox were #16... they were #11 a year ago... and #12 two years ago. I'm so confused -- Bloom!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Rays could be in ruins the rest of the way: just lost their best pitcher to Tommy John... and maybe their best player to Tommy Johnson.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In Red Sox lore, the anti-Cora was Don Zimmer. While it's hard to blame a manager when players don't perform, Zim infamously burned out the 1978 Sox regulars by never letting up on the gas. He kept playing Butch Hobson at third base when he could barely lift his arm with an elbow full of bone chips, which led to 43 errors -- most in the majors at any position. But Zim admired Hobson because he was such a "tough sumbitch" (paraphrasing Gammons). He had no choice to bench Dwight Evans, though, after Dewey got beaned and was seeing triple. Overall, the '78ers employed only 17 total Red Sox batters -- the team's least amount in a season in the entire divisional era (over half a century)... and missed the postseason by one game. This year's Sox have already used 27...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Throw him a lifesaver. I prefer wintogreen, or pepomint. If he chokes on those, too, he sleeps with the fishes... or ends up in Davey Johnson's footlocker.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... so we have to lower the baaah (or order more at the baah)
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Post, repost and postage stamp... until paid actors mock our ire straits... or... ... the baah-- belly up
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Doing the quick math -- and based on the concept of WAR (correct me if I'm wrong) -- as of August 15, 2023, the Boston Red Sox' shortstop position has performed at a negative overall value for the season... so below that of a "replacement player"? If so, can all the injuries, bad luck, front office/management paralysis and "dumb contract" arguments render that acceptable? The best part is that Pablo -- the literal definition of a replacement player, acquired from the minors from the worst team in the league -- has played better than replacement-player levels.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Stop ruining baseball cards by sticking them in the spokes of bicycle tires!
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ambivalent about Soto. He was called the next Ted Williams in Washington (not for managing), but hasn't been quite the same in the city where the original Kid grew up. K-rate is up, BA down, still a negative dWAR. However, Soto maintains obvious pop and as usual, leads the majors in bases on balls -- which may help explain why he still has a higher WAR than any Red Sox... but at the same age as Boston WAR leader Brayan Bello. Anyone who has seen Soto play regularly in the NL West, please post observations and opinions. Is this a guy who would embrace leaving the best climes in the nation to play his prime nights in the miserable spring weather of New England? Would Boston ownership actually offer more money than it was willing to pay an overall better ballplayer in Mookie to sign Soto longterm? (I keep hearing Chaim, BOH and Sammy K saying, "It has to make sense")
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... ideally, with the Red Sox on the winning side. However, the Nats are the hottest club in the NL East, and you-know-who had the walk-off hit in their latest W (surname rhymes with Clowns)
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    DH should make it easier to bat in many more games for certain guys. Jim Rice played 163 in '78, when I assumed he was mostly the DH. But upon checking, while he was the most regular DH, it was only in 49 games. He played 114 in the OF. Yaz? His position on bb-ref that year is "UT": 71 OF, 50 1B, 27 DH. Nope, bb-ref lists the "regular" DH for the infamous 99-win '78 Red Sox as... Bob Bailey, in 43 games. For some reason, Beetle -- who hit .191 -- didn't make it onto my Red Sox nickname painter cap.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We are -- but it's also reasonable for fans to temper expectations in a summer clinging to the preseason motto of If Everything Breaks Just Right...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Because even rebuilds start with starters. An ace changes the losing culture and makes everyone around him better -- the team knows it has a better chance to win every time the rotation turns over, defense and offense focus, the bullpen usually gets a rest, plus other starters want to follow his lead, learn new pitches/grips/batter weaknesses, and other winners want to join the staff -- even good position players want to come play for a club that fills the stands with fans who come to cheer the next Looie or Pedro...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Larger? If we're talking starting pitching -- and that's something we've all agreed has been neglected as far as the top of the rotation the past four years -- then how does anyone know for sure this trend will change? We all want it to, but that's all we got. That, and Henry's past: "Do not invest in any starter over 30, wait- except Price, oh, and Sale- uhhhhhhggggg...."
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Watching clips of yesterday's three Abreu HRs: swing has definite lift, all were total bombs... but every flag on the high poles beyond the bleachers was blowing straight out. WOO!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Godzilla is public enemy #1 in Boston -- as far as Pedro-killing... ... but what do these Red Sox have that Ichiro and Ohtani do not: Matsuzaka, Okajima, Uehara, Tazawa? (hint: rhymes with bling)
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My pleasure. I love looking back at that class. And Sam wasn't interested in trading any of those guys, either (though Dombro finally moved Margot in a package that helped make the Sox a first-place team).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I know you want to say 2014... ... but we both know that, first, some of these guys have to make the majors -- and ideally, combine to win a World Series... Sox Top 5 2014 preseason prospects (Fangraphs): 1. Bogaerts, 2. Bradley, 3. Garin Cecchini, 4. Betts, 5. Swihart. Sox Final 2014 prospect rankings (Bleacherreport)... Bogie, JBJ, Mookie, Vazquez and Workman were now graduates... but still: ... #1-5: Castillo, Swihart, Owens (EL Pitcher of the Year '14), Cecchini, Margot ... #6-10: ERod, Barnes, Ranaudo (EL Pitcher of the Year '13), DEVERS, Chavis So ALL Top 10 Red Sox prospects on the final list at least made the Show. Will the 2023 farm be the best in a decade?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean staying out late partying every night, like he was some modern-day Disco Denny? I never said the Red Sox should force a workload on Bello that didn't destroy all those starters Moon listed from the 80s who each averaged 200 IP per year for at least a decade. But what about this: my 12-year-old -- who's a lot sharper than me -- said he wonders if Bello is the one with the bad habits (young stud living in Boston with big league money), because he absolutely sucks in the daytime. My kid has a lot of Sheldon in him, but I went ahead and looked up Bello's splits to be sure... night games: 8-3, 2.71, .229 BA... vs. day games: 0-4, 7.33, .339 BA. YIKES.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't care what he is being paid or that he's a one-tool player. Teams need guys that can hit, and if Yoshida is Top Five in batting average (like he's been all season, in his first year in the AL), that can only help make an offense better. Masa is not a superstar or MVP type, but there will always be a place in a batting order for someone like a Luis Arraez.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's funny, because he seems like a good guy in public. But it's getting to the point that his words, actions and inactions -- along with subsequent W-L records, and place in standings -- make me almost hope Bloom is either in over his head or just a puppet on ownership strings. I don't want him to be full of crap.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Found this quote about Cy from AG Spalding: "We're gonna take care of this kid"
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Game stories show concern about poor Bello and all the innings he's throwing this season. He's only 24 and already thrown over 100 -- and last year (majors and minors combined) threw over 150! Clemens threw 254 IP, plus 34 more in the postseason, when he was 23 in 1986. To show how taxing that was, the next year he threw 281 IP. From '86-96 Roger averaged 249 IP in Boston (this all happened before he changed his training in Toronto). Hurst averaged 232 IP in Boston, in his 25 to 30 age years. Boyd, who threw 272 IP at age 25 in 1985, averaged 224 IP over a 10-year MLB career. Ojeda averaged 200 IP for 15 seasons. That was all done in an era when athletes were smaller, weaker and slower... compared to today.
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