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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I keep repeating this and he keeps repeating lost challenges. And some posters said he couldn't repeat being clutch -- but how about for the other side?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In Bob Gibson's best season, when he won the Cy Young and NL MVP in 1968, he pitched for the defending world champions. Three of his position player teammates finished 4th, 6th and 7th in the MVP voting. His shortstop also received MVP votes and won the Gold Glove, while his second baseman made the All-Star team. Two other guys were 1-2 in the previous year's MVP voting. The final starting regular was a two-time MVP who set the single season record for home runs. There were six Hall of Famers, including the manager, on that St. Louis pennant winner, when Gibson set the all-time record for lowest ERA of 1.12... and he lost nine games. The question is would Gibson even win nine games for the 2026 Red Sox? Those '68 Cardinals had six position players with at least 28 career WAR. Right now Boston has maybe six average big leaguers on the roster (1B, the OF, and a few utility men).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't worry, when Romy comes back, his bat will be better than anyone else's we would have to trade valuable resources to get, lied Sam. And Roman and Casas will amp up the offense when they return -- as long as they don't swing as hard as they can or they might end up back on the IL for the rest of the decade.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I blame the Pitching and Defense. The Red Sox are 2-25 when they score 2 runs or less. That means the mound staff and D just haven't won enough 2-1 and 1-0 games like they were supposed to -- according to the holy master plan of the ex-pitchers who assembled this unfit unit. The ex-pitchers who even after retiring as players still have an obvious disdain for deciduous trees like ash, maple and Old Hickory, dammit.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The smartest guy in the room is one who listens to others' opinions and actually values their input -- especially those closer to the scenes at lower levels or advanced scouting or bird-dogging that builds relationships with potential draft picks or international signees and their families and coaches -- and trusts the veteran wisdom and instincts of a consensus before making personnel decisions.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or even Dickie Betts. You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Geez, I hope not. Swinging that thing too hard might put him on the IL like Ant every few months.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If they have a losing record at home all summer they're not getting to the postseason. But even if the current top four batters in the lineup do damage, there are going to be plenty of nights when they don't. That's when someone with longball muscles can change the game with one swing (I know, we've got loads of guys who can incinerate rallies with DP grounders or Ks with runners on 3rd, but the one swing being described in my 16-year old head begins thusly: "It's a long drive... if it stays fair...").
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't care how close we are to a wild card. Can we at least win a few series at home, and maybe string together a five-game winning streak before Brez uses his putty knife to smear some compound in the holes in the sheetrock.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Need something -- two of our top four returning Slugging leaders from last year are on the IL and when they weren't, they were over a hundred points lower than '25 (I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt that injuries were affecting production). And it may be folly to expect either Anthony or Story to return to '25 status when/if they return in '26. Roman has "a Casas injury" -- incurred from doing his job swinging the bat... and Old Man Story has to recover from a hernia op and resume being an elite professional athlete in his 30s. Has anyone here had a hernia op and just tried getting out of bed and walking down the stairs? Let's put it this way: I played hurt all my life with pulls, strains, sprains and fractures, and my double hernia operation was more painful than the actual hernia. Gleybar could help, but he's not going to put this club in contention by himself. If Brez can't trade for a guy who's going to be part of the solution when they intend to go for it again next year, then what's the point? Oh, yeah: make a move to pretend to fans...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sandoval "back"? We've never even seen his front. Wait -- Sam Kennedy just spewed that Sandoval will be better than any other starting pitcher the Sox could acquire at the trade deadline. Or maybe he thought it; bet he has already typed it in a prepared statement for when reporters ask why Breslow only added a few DFAed relievers and DHs.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't know how many fans are truly excited about the Sox qualifying for a really high pick number any more. First, it literally means the Red Sox big league team really stunk that year. And this isn't football or hoop. This entire decade of Red Sox #1 draft picks shows how unreliable the choices are... so far. Yorke, Mayer, Romero, Teel (the one that got Crochet), Witherspoon.. Mayer at #4 was the highest pick Boston has had since the 1960s, and was supposedly rated by many the best overall position player in the 2021 draft (remember, Pitt took Henry Davis #1 because they could sign him, and the next two teams took pitchers). MLB.com gave Mayer the best grade for his hit tool and defense in that entire draft class. Half a decade later, he turned out to be a pretty good fielder. So far. Ready to wait another five years for a really high draft pick to contribute? By then, maybe we should just be happy if he'll complement the next core of Red Sox stars from international signings like Arias, Gonzales and Azocar.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They needed both Alonso and Contreras. Still do... .... or name your own righthanded sluggerS. (some posters may think these posts redundant, but others are also right to demand the CBO completes the roster of his MLB team -- whether they're trying to win the World Series or just start a major league batting order for fans who pay to watch a major league batting order).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Alonso now has more homers than all of Boston's #5 batters combined. Reading the inquiring minds of a foibled fandom, Brez was prepared: "According to our analytics, that fly ball was an anomaly. The trajectory didn't align with projected metrics or even standard units of measurement in regards to the Great Wall of Fenway, which we had to disregard in regards to Alonso, who just didn't align with the starting alignment we were aligning in the offseason. If you feel terribly strongly about our terribly weak offense at home, you should all travel to away games with us to really enjoy our optimized assault in games where you can acquire tickets for good seats that you can actually sit in where you don't have to cross your arms all night at a fraction of the cost of where we always lose."
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And Don Baylor's elbow. Or hip. Or shin. But not buttock.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wonder how many of the others on that list turn a better 3-6-3 DP than WiLL. He's certainly the best we've ever seen in Friday green (here's my stat: those shirts are only two years old).
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If it is Theo, the Nation is in store for the irony of the administration in the press conference... ... when the president who always lies extolls the virtues of his lifelong good friend named Epstein.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anyone that plays baseball -- where the best MLB hitters fail 70% of the time -- learns a lot about their id, and why it's short for idiot. Even the stars at amateur levels who regularly hit .400 or even .500 fail at least half the time. Any ballplayer with Sheldon perfectionist tendencies picked the wrong sport... ... and that's why it's futile for someone to tell baseball fans to calm down when things aren't going well most of the time -- which, by the very nature of the sport, is totally normal.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Does a person with a resolved ego issue even exist? Maybe someone who had his brains bashed in.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When a player like Roman Anthony tells the media his precise medial diagnosis that directly contradicts what the front office says, who should we believe: a fine upstanding young man or an administration that spews lies daily to the populace? And why wouldn't I believe quotes from actual doctors -- unless they're hired specifically by the mob to spin cover-ups after removing bullets from button men or dead brain tissue from demented dons?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You can do better than that. At least add "It's Still June!" or tell us how many other teams this season have used more #5 batters in their lineups who have one home run (or less) so foes won't pitch around the clean-up man. I count six on the Red Sox, but I could be wong. It's great some guys are finally hitting, but that shouldn't excuse the front office for not completing the roster and heart of the order over the winter. Breslow and Kennedy tell us they're shopping for a bat -- but won't apologize to the fans or admit a stupid mistake. Wonder if it will be an interim bat. Anthony's injury doesn't excuse them, either... especially for putting all their eggs in his basket -- when he's so young it's still attached to the handle bars of his bicycle.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The most important thing about scoring 9 runs in each of the last two wins is that the Sox season average of runs per game is now almost 4... ...which will make it easy for diehards to ignore that they scored 3 or less in 77% of their games the first two months. "At least we're the second-highest scoring team in almost every game we play in Fenway Park all year!"
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just a coincidence? Is that even feasible at this point? Here's a guy coming had a good rookie year and his ex-manager of a first-place team still swears by him. Durbin's short, but solid and not weak (like his grounders and pop-ups this year -- which to me look like a batter overswinging, pulling his head and only hitting one stitch of the ball. Kinda like someone clearly pressing... or who has been ordered to pull the ball in the air). The potential is still there. Durbin had 36 extra base hits last season, one more than Romy Gonzalez, who had Boston's best batting average. With 13 XBH through the first two months, he's now on pace to at least equal his output of '25... For anyone who has played baseball beyond Little League: how many times in your life did you hit a home run when you were actually trying to hit a home run? If you're honest, the answer is very few -- if any. Instead, homers come when you're just trying to hit the ball hard on the sweet spot, and the contact is so perfect you don't even feel it.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... but only the part of the foul pole ABOVE the fence is an HR. Why don't they paint that part a different color???????????
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duran made sure he hit his over the yellow line, because the yellow line on top of the fence isn't a home run. But if he hit it off a yellow foul pole, it's gone.
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