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  1. 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).
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who know who I meant: the highest paid pitcher and highest paid position player in the history of -- ah, fugedaboudit.
  11. 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.
  12. 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?"
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Duvall bats behind him, Yoshida will lead the league in walks.
  14. 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.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now you know how many doughnut holes it takes to fill up Albert Belle.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The key is not to over-analyze. It's easy for fans to understand Merloni when he describes Bello: "Every pitch looks like a change-up, because the movement is ridiculous." Sounds like guy who's going to be hard to hit. What's not to like.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Play him backwards and he'll say, Paul is Ohtani...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Take a sad Song, and make him badder...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If he's sick, I blame notin's doctor for coughing on him.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And don't forget the rigors of military discipline that guarantees to turn boys into men. No doubt Song is rock and his arm is ready to roll. He just forgot how. For now.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's all laid out there in the Henry scene in Moneyball. He wants to win, just in the most affordable way possible... but not by cutting corners, staying out of free agency, and just hoping/relying on prospects to be pre-arb stars. John Henry wants to win and make money in clever ways -- that's the challenge for a man who has everything.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Song admitted in a ST interview he is not ready to be a pitcher yet, much less a big leaguer. He wants to be, but right now can't even find comfort in the grips of various pitches. That doesn't sound like a guy that any team, even a cellar-dweller, can afford to carry on its MLB roster even for one day.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It sounds like he'll be starting in Worcester and then join the big club as soon as one of the older guys breaks down. It makes sense, since they have a lot invested in the veterans, and Bello has options. With a presumably easier schedule the first couple weeks, the Sox may just be saving their best rotation for later late-April/May, when a trio like Sale-Bello-Whitlock can make a statement (in a best-case scenario).
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