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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Roberto might be higher if they didn't remove him from the shelves in Florida. They're just checking to make sure he wore 21.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mookie will be paying off for LA for a long, long time. He's comfortable in Hollywood, and could someday be a team ambassador extolling Dodger Blue, like Papi and Pedro still sell red socks a couple times a year. I don't have any proof on this, but I'd bet Betts is also the main reason the Dodgers sell more merchandise than the Sox now (it's probably not from Hernandez shirts, lately).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What, Henry doesn't read NBC Sports?!? "Which MLB teams make the most revenue? 1. LA, 2. Yankees, 3. Red Sox What is each MLB team worth? 1. LA, 2. Yankees, 3. Red Sox $3.9 billion Which MLB teams sell the most merchandise? Yankees, Dodgers, White Sox, Braves, Blue Jays, 6. Red Sox Which MLB team has the biggest cash spending budget (highest payrolls for '23)?" Red Sox... not in the Top 10
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sam shouldn't be allowed to count the number of tickets he gives away to his family.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Geez, but remember, Kennedy said, "there's a way we can keep both Mookie and JD." I believe everything Sam says. And keeping good players -- like your ace pitcher, and your homegrown star shortstop and rightfielder -- is part of retaining a sustained contender.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hopefully, the Devers signing is money well-spent. One thing no one ever brings up is how the Sox were willing to give Mookie $300 million, but when he wouldn't sign for that, they never came up with the bucks to sufficiently replace him with quality. For example, Toronto signed Springer for half that: 6 years, $150 million. He's no Betts, but he's no Franchy, either...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    One thing very clear about "the type" of spending this winter of Boston compared to the Mets, Phillies and Padres, among others: the Red Sox are not loading up their roster for a pennant push. They're just trying to field a team.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe he just wanted to stay in Chicago. But Boston is apparently done spending. John Henry's comment reported in a recent email spells it all out. When asked if the Red Sox would compete again on the same level as the NY and California clubs, he bragged he had more titles than all of them combined this century and added: "... if you are asking if we are going to now move into $300 million payrolls, the answer is no." Chaim just telling you what I read...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one is saying the Red Sox are going to be good, but at least they're different, and going into a new season that has to be better. The Yankees that finished the regular season 38-39 and got swept in the playoffs by Houston are just a year older. The fate of both clubs just may rely on similar hopes for health from injury-prone pitchers and contributions from a few promising youngsters.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hearing a lot of speculation on who might be in next year's sweepstakes for Ohtani. Favorites are NY, NY, and all the West Coast teams. Any combination of reasons for him coming to Boston are said to include (not necessarily in this order)... 1. improvement by the Red Sox, 2. New Balance incentives, 3. Yoshida and other potential recruits (Yamamoto, Sasaki, Murakami, or the next star of the WBC), 4. New GM encouraged by ownership to spend on #3 and Shohei. What else you got?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can't believe there's so many posters making fun of the greatest team in the history of the first half of last season.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Being Number One in two categories just goes to show how wrong the beat writers are about the Red Sox' "irrelevance." Heat on Bloom just means his signings have been incendiary...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's what can happen to a suspension bridge when cold March winds blow in New England.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All in all, he's just another plank in the bridge.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox have a bad team and a bad April, it could prove fatal (for any employees "on the bubble" anyway)... because then in the first three weeks of May, Boston plays 18 straight games vs. legitimate playoff contenders. It would still be "early" -- but with the ages, health concerns and many one-year contracts, this club doesn't seem built for patience... just more changes.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shouldn't we be talking about the Sox' first nine games on the schedule? Three each vs. Orioles, Pirates, Tigers. Boston could really jumpstart '23 and get off to a winning beginning -- 6-3, 5-4. Why not? Otherwise... the Sox then play the next 14 vs. better comp: Rays, Angels, Twins, Brewers... and finish the month with the O's and Guardians. Rut-roh...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Probably slot #2 -- Kike has never had an .843 OPS in his career. Plus, I don't see him as a classic batter to hit behind the runner (the old job of a #2 hitter). Check out career BAs for opposite-field: Kike .255, Arroyo .280, Turner .313... Devers .413 Then again, here are career BAs for pulled pitches: Kike .389, Arroyo .472 (SSS?), Turner .427, Devers .355; the latter is bound to improve with no shift, right?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Every club in the majors has an analytics department whose job is find any and every way to use technology to find an edge. The hypocrisy about sign-stealing now is this: if it's still ok (and always has been) to use signs and try to decipher signs of opponents, then why are defenses now allowed to communicate with tech, but offenses aren't? And not just to try to intercept signs, but to strategize, like "take," "bunt," "slash," "hit-and-run," "steal/fake-steal/delayed-steal/get-in-a-pickle-double-steal/etc"???
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pretty good post, moon. I feel good about the OF offense, Casas and middle relief. I'm not ultra-confident that our closer adapting to new rules, new league, and old age will be lights-out. The key to the season that I don't hear or read is how important it will be for either Turner or Duvall to get hot and strike fear into opposing pitchers. Otherwise, Raffy may never see a good pitch to hit -- in which case he'll become a walking machine or flail at balls and become a whiffing target for boo-birds.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I know, talk about berry-picking. So strange that none of the batters I ever played with or coached for half a century never ever wanted to get a hit, unless facing the final out of an inning with ducks on the pond.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dombrowski throws money at star players -- always has, always will. Some of them, he even pays for past performances. Mookie wasn't even in his prime...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They should trade for Bryan Reynolds today!
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The horrors! Still choose to ignore documentation where Houston's analytics department admits devising their systems before Cora was even hired. All the Astros' stars were stars before or are still stars since 2017. The fringe players who had career years were guys like Marwin and Reddick. Now a Globe columnist marvels at how Red Sox' batters all guessed right in the '18 World Series. The champs hit .222 in the '18 WS. Bogaerts batted .136, Mookie .217. JD was already a star when he signed (he had a 4-homer game in '17). Pearce raked the last two games in LA, but was also good enough that year to hit three HRs in one game vs. the Yankees. Boston had some big pinch hits, but not coincidentally every one came with runners on base. I have personally witnessed baserunners in a teenage game hold up one or two fingers to batters, point to the left or the right, tap their knees and make fists. Oh, the blasphemy of it all...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wow, three more potential relievers. It's nice to grow a farm full of arms, but it would be helpful if a few of them were grafted to starters.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Make-up concerns? Don't leave us hanging -- how about a little elaboration: was it his choice of color or was he just bad at applying it. Nobody wants eye-black smeared down to their chins... well, except my son's Little League team with their warpaint.
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