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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And you can still trust him to be #5 every fifth day, after many different trials and errors by many different combinations of #1-4s.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You can't just pin it on one guy, even if it's on "his watch." There must be plenty of employees in front office before him who are still there. Sometimes accountability just results in shifting titles... people still work for the company, just sit in different chairs.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't know what Japan assumes, but do know that their tournament MVP -- the guy they sent out there to win it all, in the end -- is often called the best player in the world. ... but maybe that's just assumed by players, coaches, fans and media in the United States.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But there are always guys that make the team in ST -- and not just the Tapias of the world winning the 25th or 26th spot of the roster -- but youngsters going north for the first time. Every case is different, but sometimes teams even hold auditions for starting positions; such evaluations have to include at bats vs. minor leaguers or rehabbing vets trying a new pitch...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They have improved... but somehow teams always in the hunt -- with lower picks every year -- are still ranked ahead and churning out the promotions. But gotta appreciate the optimism... the bell horns for thee.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't really care if the Red Sox are ranked 10th or 15th; the point is that many rivals ranked ahead of them are also already ahead of them in the standings and are playoff teams. The Boston front office is getting beat as badly as the players they're putting in the uniforms.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So those distant objects in the sky are from France -- I knew it! Scramble Noah Song!
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    MLB.com just rated the Farm Systems. They had Boston #16 -- basically for a few good position players but no pitching depth (compared with the Sox' "exciting" top prospects). Baltimore is #1, but LA is #2... Cleveland is #4... Tampa #6... St. Louis #9... Yankees #13. The O's are first mainly because they sucked for so long and got a lot of top draft picks. But the other clubs listed here are perennial contenders in the playoffs. They can't all be luckier than Boston in choosing or signing prospects. Henry should invest more in better developmental staff than one-year contracts for veteran players rehabbing from injuries.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This slump is all a ST mirage. Don't you read what tens of posters keep tying? None of it matters. Fort Myers is existential. Camus says Florida is absurd. The 9-0 start was the real Red Sox. I'm just not sure yet if the real prefix was for- ... or get- ... (not to be confused with forget about it).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But after all, isn't Kike at short actually Plan D? A. Bogaerts (they said he was the priority) B. Story C. Mondesi E. Chang? Dalbec? Rico?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's been that way for a long time. Those young enough to have the energy to call radio or TV talkshows are mostly football fans. The 2018 Red Sox were 50 games over .500 and that summer all those shows cared about was the NFL and Patriots training camp. I may be old, but those are two things I wouldn't waste one second of my summers on.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Story ain't happening at short this year -- not coming back wearing a Tommy John brace and having to make competitive throws constantly from the most important regular position on the diamond. The key to respectability may depend more on a comeback by Mondesi, so Kike can play center. We both know this team won't improve with an atrocious defense. They can shoehorn this guy and that guy out of position and tout their pasts all they want, but nothing will risk stability and NESN viewers more than crappy D.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My point is that if the team contends for a wild card, it won't be because we "need to fill 2 slots" from the young arms, but because we'll want to make room in the rotation for them.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Absolutely. I'll take a .280 hitter who is 8 years younger over an all-or-nothing slugger any day. I'm just hoping Team Mexico replacing Verdugo with Duran in RF in late innings of WBC games was just to utilize Jarren's speed as a pinch-runner, and not as a defensive replacement... otherwise what does Benji Gil know that Alex Cora doesn't?
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The vibe I'm getting is that a successful season will be predicated not on the health of the old starters, but on the progress of Bello, Whitlock and maybe Houck, Crawford or Mata. If two of them emerge as dependable, above-average starters that take the ball every five days, the Sox will stay in the hunt.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's unfair to say Japan fielded their best team and won because they wanted to. Every player interviewed representing any country said this WBC tournament meant more than anything they had ever competed in. The only ones who couldn't feel that way didn't participate.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In that moment on that stage, that 3-2 slider from one legend throwing 100 mph to another trying to hit a home run may have been the greatest pitch of all-time. At least on TV.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who know who I meant: the highest paid pitcher and highest paid position player in the history of -- ah, fugedaboudit.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It has to be at least embarrassing for Manfred and Steinbrenner that the WBC featured zero players from the MLB's flagship franchise and perennial World Series favorites.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My 12-year old wondered what the problem was with the top U.S. pitchers. His logic is that Team USA plays in either Arizona or Florida, where all big league pitchers already are in Spring Training, so they don't even have to travel. Plus, the WBC has strict pitch limits -- just like MLB clubs "taking care of" their arms, stretching them out, a little more each time. He asked, "Are they afraid of themselves being too competitive, trying to throw a million miles per hour for their country... or are they just afraid?"
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Duvall bats behind him, Yoshida will lead the league in walks.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's already evident from watching Yoshida in ST and the WBC that he has the approach of a good hitter: early in the count, use the middle of the field; ahead in the count, look for something to drive; down in the count, look away. It would greatly behoove the Red Sox if the guy they bat behind Yoshida isn't an all-or-nothing swinger.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now you know how many doughnut holes it takes to fill up Albert Belle.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mayer will be the shortstop before most of us expect it. Kike needs to be back in center ASAP; the outfield looked hapless yesterday -- yes, they were dealing with sun and wind, but those aren't abnormal elements of weather on Earth.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Overlooked in his WBC record RBIs is the defensive play that saved the game for Japan -- when Yoshida gunned down a runner at the plate for the last out in the 8th, keeping it a two-run deficit. He's fundamentally sound.
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