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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All we ever heard is that shortstop prospects can move anywhere on the diamond. Still waiting for one to convert to pitcher. Wakefield and Tolle could hit homers, but they were first basemen...
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    February is in three days. But it will always be "still early" on Red Sox message boards, all the way until the trade deadline every summer when nothing you hope for ever gets added.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, I don't wanna be a downer, but then I looked at the thread title: "A Realistic Look at 2026"... It's great the starting rotation looks deep, but I always feel a team is defined by position players, the regulars who play every night and not just once a week. Argue all you want about pitching, then again the Sox starters may not be better than even Texas: deGrom, Eovaldi, Gore, Leiter, Junis. I really like Ranger Suarez; he reminds me of Luis Tiant coming off the '75 World Series. And that team with so much promise went into 1976 with a rotation of Looie, two other All-Star pitchers in Wise and Lee, and a winter acquisition headed to Cooperstown: Fergie Jenkins. The '26 Sox have a handful of pretty good guys on the field and in the batting order, but no stars. That '76 Boston club had Hall of Famers like Yaz, Rice and Fisk, plus MVP Lynn, Dwight Evans and Cecil Cooper (Most Similar Batter on bb-ref: Don Mattingly). They won 83 games.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is what most of the forum has been saying all winter. But when you post it, it sounds like... most still agree. And Jimmy with a "y" is still pickin. The dogs of doom are howling more.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thanks -- some strong quotes: extremely advanced hitter... rarely swings and misses... such a smart hitter... If he is indeed all those things, then I bet the pop-up issue is from taking his eye off the ball while trying to show extra-base power. At some point in the minors, all position player prospects try to homer their way into the big leagues.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston certainly needs a good starting second baseman or third baseman from outside the org, and a righty-swinging outfielder/DH for Cora to carry and sometimes platoon or pinch-hit for whichever lefty-swinging outfielder isn't traded. In the playoff batting order, Refsnyder led off and Romy cleaned up -- those are the two hitters I'm removing, except your proposed '26 order has Duran 1st and Abreu 4th -- which is ironic, because one of them has to go. Your order isn't bad, and Cora loves the alternating L-R-L-R set-up, but I can't see any way the Red Sox will keep three lefty bats like Duran, Abreu and Yoshida to share DH, a corner outfield spot, and a seat on the bench. Duran is just too antsy to sit around the dugout as a full-time DH, and Abreu is a two-time Gold Glover that Cora already said needs to bat against both righties and lefties this year...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't get The Athletic so didn't see Law's complete quote that included the year. I just read NESN.com's recap of his opinion on Arias, doe a deer a female deer.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Second and third in the batting order.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I hate all of these infield options today (especially me at 2B). If they're really building the team around pitching, then they really better acquire an actual good infielder -- and not convert an outfielder or rely on career back-ups. Really, I think it's folly for us or those we pay money to cheer for their team to even consider either of the last two choices.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The middle infield is going to be ok. Keith Law said if Franklin Arias was a college sophomore, he'd go Number One Overall in this year's draft.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have overlooked Refsnyder all winter. But you're right -- -- for this year's offense to just equal '25's, we still need two bats. Two good bats. The season will open with our 21-year-old savior in the batting order, the guy who went deep off the NL's unanimous Cy Young winner. But what if Roman Anthony, with little protection in the line-up, feels the need to try that vs. every pitcher? He seems mature, but sometimes the pressures of expectations have a way of causing fluctuations in young men...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    February starts this Sunday. I'd try out for to play second base for the Red Sox, but wrecked my wrist shoveling snow. My current past present future tense is notnow or never. Any other candidates to degrade the position?
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nowadays, there are even some people wrong about predicting the past.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... just taking the stairs
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not disagreeing with you, but I still think some front offices -- in their rush to pursue cutting edge technology and cutting staff in the field -- risk missing the personal interactions of astute scouts with top prospects that help determine intangibles that launch angles or arm extensions can't measure.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... especially after Mookie got there, felt the sunny warmth of Southern California -- compared to the raw New England nights that taunt athletic bodies -- and almost immediately received the contract offer he was hoping to sign in Boston. Sorry, everybody, this post is boring to some, but easier to type staring out the window at two feet of snow that I know I have to shovel.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not looking who specifically to blame, because relying on analytics over eyewitness scouts may just be the company model adopted after watching Moneyball a dozen times. Same thing with not giving star players a no-trade clause. This front office is full of lifers with a pattern of dumping longterm salaries, which they may like at the time of the signing -- or, I dunno, maybe just offer as PR stunts so guys like us will like them... The trade option is definitely an opt-out for the front office.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That, and trade your Hall of Famer for a haul of prospects from LA. Half joking, but I admit I insisted Verdugo be part of that deal -- while some here said there was no way. I wasn't happy with Wong, though, since the Dodgers held back at least two better young catchers. But not landing a starting pitcher was the worst part of that trade... especially after Bloom -- who had zero good pitchers in the pipeline -- rejected the one arm LA included from another system, and took a shortstop named Jeter. There was no way he was fitting in. Of course, then there was the argument of What do you expect for one year of Betts? -- when it was really 13 years, which had to be Friedman's plan all along. For that, I expected Josiah Gray and Kiebert Ruiz, who were later traded for another Hall of Famer.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hard to call anyone with Breslow's credentials and education a buffoon. I lean more towards cold and calculated (I won't say stiff, so I won't be fired).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I agree with this take, though the price for Bregman never bothered me because 1) few players can replace his combined impact on offense, defense, and dugout/clubhouse/batting cage influence,,, and mostly 2) saving money by not overpaying is no guarantee with this club that it will be repurposed when needed -- especially when it comes to the trade deadline and parting with prospect investments to fill serious needs for the stretch run.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Quoting my first sentence of my post that the semantics police are attacking today: "To take a step up in the standings -- let's say 90 plus wins in an AL East where the Jays and O's have already fortified themselves this winter -- the Red Sox simply cannot regress on offense." The rest of my post is about the offense, which is a frequent worry of mine -- and many other Red Sox fans, even those who in the mood to argue for the sake of it. But if you really read the post, maybe you'd see that all I did was offer ways that the returning bats could improve or revert to past stardom. I actually thought that was being optimistic when I wrote it... and MLB.com was the source that said the Jays, O's and Sox showed they were going for it this year because of their offseasons. Btw: nowhere in the post did I say the Sox didn't fortify, though replacing Bregman with Ranger Suarez doesn't really help the offense for me... but that's just my opinion.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    To take a step up in the standings -- let's say 90 plus wins in an AL East where the Jays and O's have already fortified themselves this winter -- the Red Sox simply cannot regress on offense. Even if Contreras hits like Devers, and Anthony hits like '25 Bregman over an entire healthy season, what other batter do you think can emerge with an even better 2026? Possible keys: Duran or Story revert to pre-'25 glory... Abreu finally gets what Tom Werner wants to see: 400 at bats... Yoshida has WBC stats in MLB... or Casas makes a comeback with half a season like the second half of his rookie year. Those are all possibilities, but my biggest hope is Campbell or Mayer can do in the majors what they recently did in their best runs in the minors... KC may never repeat his 2024, but the odds of a Minor League Player of the Year becoming at least a viable big leaguer are on his side. Mayer's 43-game stint in Worcester last year pro-rates close to these 162-game stats: 35 HRs, 160 RBI, .271 BA, .818 OPS... (at least in WOO). I vote for Marcelo.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Stop trying to distract from the missing quality infielder who can hit.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maddie, don't ever stop telling it like it is -- especially right in the face of those who tell us what our eyes and ears see and hear isn't.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm with you on most of this, but have always been ambivalent of a walk being "as good as a hit" -- it is as good as far as reaching base and not making an out, but not always as good at advancing preceding baserunners (a walk only moves teammates one base at a time, while hits can advance guys 1, 2 or 3 bases). The other basic thing a walk does is drive up pitch counts, and help expedite exits from the mound... though nowadays, fresh arms that throw a hundred are salivating to come in everywhere. Maybe it's better to swing at something you can do damage with from a tired arm, rather than wait for the perfect pitch that never comes... but now here comes Mason Miller instead.
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