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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Strahm was obviously too costly for $15M... over 2 years. So what if he's been better than any lefty reliever in Boston's bullpen this year, and better than Kluber in the Phils' starting rotation. Either way, breaking down his $7.5 AAV doesn't look so bad considering what Bloom blew on Klubes. Strahm deserved to be re-signed just for the fact that he's a baseball card collecting hero on social media.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Weirdness is a kind way to describe our Bloom thing too.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    WAR shows Dr. Who is the best player on his team (for the 8th year in his career), but there's no arguing with detractors that he's too short to be good for very much longer... ... because, we all know that most Red Sox fans don't really care about this season, and are more concerned about the budget and salary tax years from now.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Some scorn is deserved -- not so much for acquiring the actual players -- but where they're often awkwardly shoehorned into unnatural positions... to the detriment of the team's W-L record. Franchy isn't a first baseman, Arroyo's not a rightfielder, Marwin wasn't a leftfielder, Duran wasn't a centerfielder last year, and Kike's not a shortstop this year. Contriving versatility isn't a new concept, but past moves that backfired are notorious in Red Sox lore, like Hanley or Swihart in leftfield. Schwarber was tolerable at first base because he was such a threat with the bat... but Dalbec, we're still not sure can stick in the bigs. Bloom and Cora both seem complicit, though the latter may have no choice but to only use the parts provided by the former. If the manager indeed has input and influence on building the monster, then it clouds who is Dr. Frankenstein, and who is Igor.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Last year's OPS from the minors: Casas .889, Rafaela .880, Duran .840. Looks to me that all three were successful -- and comparable. All three struggled at the plate the past month, with Ceddanne still at Double A. When I saw him live at a game he swung at every pitch. I can see how that could be considered a mental issue. Of the three players, though, he's the only one who is considered an above-average defender, and that's why notin suggested promoting him. Swinging and missing at big league pitching can be demoralizing, but making a few spectacular catches and hearing 30,000 fans cheer can be an ego-boost, as well. I want Bloom to trade one of these two outfielders today for an under-30 pitcher with upside. There, back on topic.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... first Superstar of the Seventies. And then SI made Reggie Jackson a "Superduperstar." You know the old say: it's hard to make the majors, but even harder to stay there. It's all about making adjustments. Duran finally successfully adjusted to the pitchers' book on him, but now he's got to adjust to the sequel. Casas is still trying edit his first book... and the Sox are showing proper patience.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pete A wrote this in the Globe today: "The Red Sox are not in a place to make a trade for a pitcher." If LAST place isn't the place to make moves to improve, what is? I don't care about won-loss records or being stuck in the best division in the history of this year... last place is the worst place to be. It's the perfect time to deal prospects for pitching -- which by professional analysis is the weakest of positions at Boston's lower levels. Alex Speier also introduced more Sox big league prospects in another article today. Reading the hype, Boston seems to have another half-a-dozen five toolers on the way. It's one thing to plug the Kikes of the world around the diamond while awaiting for Marcelo Mayers to mature. But there have to be promising young arms to target and stockpile... instead of more Joelys, who get to wear unbuttoned old ERod jerseys.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You really think he'll stress about guys on a mound the same distance away as in the minors, when there'll be so many new choices to adjust to: filet mignon or the crab legs? silk pjs or robe? monogrammed hood ornament or racing stripes on the hot rod?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As a 64-old guy, I'd just like it.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can a big league promotion ruin Rafaela with instant career improvements: better ballparks with better lighting, bigger crowds, first-class travel and hotels, and an increase in daily meal money from $25 to $117 (real restaurants, no more fastfood). Not to mention, a slight raise in wages -- Double A minimum $27K to MLB minimum $720K -- and the groupies... oh.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sale on the IL is as likely as the sky is blue, Kike's shoes are green, and Mookie's last name is Who. I'm sticking to my offseason call: this season (and next) hinges on watching a couple of under-30 pitchers improve and find their groove.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gotta feel bad for the front office, too. Sale was looking like a guy who could actually fetch someone's top 10 prospect at the trade deadline.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What the---? You know better than to question the favorite anagram of talksox: SSS!!!!! (and that doesn't stand for/surf for Silver Surfer Smiled)
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not smart enough to put my billionaire owner's money into a shortstop with an artificial brace implanted in his throwing elbow. Imagine the foresight recruiting a cyborg to play the most important non-battery position on the field! And it's too late for the rest of the majors; Cora said it again last night: Story is his shortstop... when he's uninjured.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    By now, Bloom must be all pity pedals over the pitching flops he brings to Boston that keep getting transformed into Marvel movies by the sorcerers and alchemists in the indomitable Tampa R&D department. How much would it cost to lure a few geniuses up to New England? How about $10 million dollars -- the next time he wants to sign a Kluber for one year, Chaim could instead lock up a real front office difference maker for a decade.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's why skeptics and realists posing as posters warned about it before the season began, during the offseason when GMs are supposed to be assembling. It was obvious to most that the deep but mediocre pitch-to-contact staff was going to need support from authentic fielders at key positions -- and not just versatile athletes that board game and fantasy players can move all over make-believe diamonds. Two quotes from Alex Cora in today's Boston Globe... "We're not a good defensive team." "We have a pitching staff that doesn't have swing and miss stuff." ... tell you all you need to know about making the playoffs.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Our people do, but we're not so sure about the guys who run the Red Sox...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nothing against Kike the man -- what's he supposed to do, admit he's not a full-time MLB shortstop and ask to be a bench-warmer again -- but the big swing and miss is Bloom acquiring not one but two high profile shortstops that were obviously damaged goods. Neither have played one inning at short for Boston, and even if you're an optimistic fan, the nature of their injuries make it very dubious when they return that they'll be any more effective at such a key position than Hernandez.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There are still sightings being reported, at least of the first two! But I think one was by a couple of fishermen with a cooler of Bud.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom and his pitching acquisitions are becoming more exposed. Labels like hit-or-miss usually mean when they don't give up hits, it's because they miss the strike zone. If Tampa ever has an ineffective pitcher, he's not a guy anyone hears too much about, and then he's gone... it's almost as if their system is a big gang of Bigfoots: a lot of sightings, but never any physical evidence of bodies or even bones when they die -- like their burial grounds are in another dimension. When Bloom came to Beantown, he left that safe portal to anonymity forever. Some college students pulling all-nighters (partying, not studying) swear they can hear him howling at writers and demanding fans in the witching hour. Recently, one undergrad had a brick thrown at him by a guy wearing ERod's old uniform -- same name and number. The projectile missed by a mile... but some say it was just a warning.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    According to a stathead search on bb-ref, the best MLB reliever of this century was Jonathan Papelbon with a 5.0 WAR in 2006. Rivera had the 5th, 6th, 10th and 14th best seasons (all between 3.9-4.3 WAR). The next best Red Sox reliever was Kimbrel 3.6 in '17, and then this grouping at 3.5: Koji in '13, Pap in '09, Foulke in '04, Lowe in '00. Boston missed the playoffs in '00 and '06.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Some days he can, some days he can't -- it's why the Red Sox are likely to continue to their win-some-lose-some inconsistency (... or is that consistency?). Cynics may view the Kike-at-shortstop experiment as a ploy by Boston to basically just field a team and sell pretension of contention to the fanbase, but what's also concerning is the lack of any authentic fulltime shortstop in the system's next level at Triple A. The Bloom Era has always overemphasized versatility -- Marwin Gonzo was the Opening Day leftfielder in 2021 -- but shortstop is such a key position in stabilizing team defense. Instead, the starting shortstop in Worcester is David Hamilton, who the Sox won't call up, with multi-position guys like Fitzgerald, Koss, Meidroth and McDonough behind him or in Portland. No one is saying Marcelo Mayer should be promoted to Fenway this year, but there may not be anyone else the system down to Luis Ravelo in Single A projected as an actual shortstop. Remember, the Reds' Matt McLain made the bigs before high schoolers drafted ahead of him like Mayer and Jordan Lawlar because he's 23 and played D1. In the meantime, sit back and avert your eyes...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hey, give him a chance! At least Dombro's no brittle dino -- he looks at the younger generation of Rays Way execs around the compass, and is willing to copy them.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Queen of Spades (not England)?
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... maybe by August, after four months of swinging as hard as humanly possible, Devers is starting to develop some nagging injury or another that slows his production. I'm only thinking of the past two years now that he's slightly older: the hamstring that hamstrung him in '22, and the inflamed right arm in '21 that caused him to wear a protective sleeve down the stretch (that must've helped a little, since he was still clutch).
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