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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's hard to grow good crops in mountainous regions. But I do recommend Swiss Chard.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Noah Song could still be an ace, even if he never throws another pitch. It all depends on how many balloons he gets to shoot down. The trend is to pop them over water, some of which is the Navy's domain.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How about scouting other teams' farm system for scouts and developmental peeps? Do you think Tito would recommend Boston as an upgrade relocation to a few of his pitching pipeline gurus?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The only one remotely close is Porcello, based entirely on being voted the Cy Young in 2016. But that was also the year Dombro gave Price the most dough ever, specifically to be the ace. Oh, and Steven Wright made the All-Star team that summer. A lot of fans, however, have no idea that Porcello was the top winner on the staff of the greatest team in Red Sox history two years later...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lackey's Boston contract had a clause that he agreed to for a season of minimum wage, if he missed an entire year due to injury. But on the verge of that reality, the Red Sox realized what a joy his sourpuss would be that last year, and dumped him for the corpse of Allen Craig, and the unharnessed arm of Joe Kelly. Kelly, of course, was lights out in the '18 postseason -- so there's a chance the Sox don't win in '13 or '18 without signing Lackey.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Rodon was just an immediate example, because every time you defend Bloom by saying he doesn't have the budget for quality, I just think of all the mediocrity he keeps paying for instead. To me, this is also a rebuttal to those who keep reminding fans that the Red Sox are #5 in the MLB in payroll. No fans really care where we rank, if the guys they're paying aren't very good. If this is indeed Bloom's flashpoint winter, then he seems to be gambling on too many longshots -- if his job was truly on the line (which I don't think is the case; smart GMs with deliberate plans don't rely on past-their-primetimers and more rehab projects in a make-or-break year).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Prospects don't have to be traded, nor does anyone when competing for quality free agents. Here are just a few expenditures the Sox chose this winter over signing a guy like Rodon (feel free to substitute another TOTR free agent starter from the past four winters) Kluber, Turner, Duvall instead of Rodon. Sox could've platooned youngsters at DH and used it to rest regulars -- like they said was planned -- and picked up an inexpensive glove-first actual CF. Or... Kluber and Jansen instead of Rodon. Sox could've made Houck or Whitlock the official closer. They still might by the end of the year if Jansen pulls a Kimbrel. Or... I'll be radical here: Kluber, Arroyo, Verdugo, McGuire, Pivetta, Braiser instead of Rodon. The last five signed for a combined $17M. None are sure things -- except Pivetta -- and Verdugo is a board favorite to get traded. Nobody cares about Braiser, while neither Arroyo nor McGuire has ever played a full season.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Please clarify. Do you mean Bloom never found someone to replace Sale as the projected ace in the rotation? If so, can I paraphrase that he never signed or traded for a #1 starter?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think the pick-off limits -- not the size of the bases -- will result in more stolen bases for certain players... or more balks until skittish pitchers adapt.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With Wil E Coyote and the Acme anvil. But at least their GM will never get to say, "If we signed Bogaerts, we could'nt have added Carpenter and Wacha, and extended Yu!"
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox need more exclamation points this spring. I'd also give them an ellipsis, if I ever get off my asterisk;
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But the paper you're reading is the Sports Page from 2017...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not our clever classics majors. The Sox would rather put a guy with a bad elbow -- who didn't have TJ, but just a special brace -- go back to the position where he hurt his elbow... to make the longest throws in the infield.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I would rank on them all. I do recall in the first ST in '20 that ERod and Nate both looked great. Then a pandemic happened. As for new guys, Perez wasn't a sure thing, but was coming off at least one decent half in '19. The only guy we really know what to expect from this season is our #5...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's all about the starting pitchers. It remains to be seen if this year's projected rotation is even equal to last year's last place crew. In Year FOUR of Bloom's Rebuild, the Red Sox chose to replace three departing starters with one: Old Man Kluber. They took the safest route by not bothering to blow any more money on starters, since they already have investments in Sale, Paxton and Whitlock. It's understandable if ownership is hesitant to spend big on expensive starters, after getting burned to a crisp on Price and Sale. But unless Bello and Mata develop into the next Lester and Buchholz -- homegrown All-Stars under 30 that both bounced back -- then hoping for another 2013 is perhaps imprudent.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's a good point, but hopefully the Red Sox learned that all-or-nothing swinging, even on the road, produced a lot more nothing -- at least in '22. Hopefully the no-shift rule will bring back more contact-oriented attacks. For instance, righties good at hitting behind the runners will have a better chance to reach base themselves and create additional scoring opportunities. I also don't recall many bunt defenses, like in on the corners or any infields-on-the-grass, unless the walk-off was on third.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd like to see the AL's losingest team in extra-innings incorporate this novel idea into their strategies for 2023: move the runner! Imagine Boston's record with 11 more wins last year -- hey, the Sox would've made the playoffs!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Only for those who like to pretend that the Astros were the only team in the history of baseball that devised schemes to steal signs, and that no other players, coaches and front offices have since -- or will -- from the beginning of the invention of baseball until the end of time. This particular tired story is now almost six years old. All the scape-goats -- the ones on the sidelines who sought an edge for the actual players -- have been rehired in some capacity in the majors by now. All the actual performers -- the ones with immunity who were and still are good enough to rely on old forms of sign-stealing before and since -- continue to star in the big leagues.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shirley, you jest.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My experiences playing ball in New England and Florida are as stark as the weather.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Realist. Game 162 is 10/1 at Baltimore.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pessimist.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ahhhh, Tee-ball... where baserunners go home to third, players sit in the infield and shake pedals off dandelions, 99.9% of the plays are made/attempted at the mound and at first base, and time-outs are mandatory any time anything flies overhead: bats, balls, gloves, juice-boxes, red-tail hawks, UAPs shooting down UFOs, bumble bees-- "A bee, a BEE, run, it's after MEEEEE!!!!" The question for big league dads: given a choice, would they prefer to help coach tee-ball or take a nostalgic 8-hour ride on a bush-league bus to an old minor league ballpark?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, I'll never agree with the "wasting" of any years that include having a great player. I'm a fan, and get to watch Devers play for my team. I'm also not the CBO who tried to justify signing Raffy by bragging about all the young talent that would soon be surrounding him. Talk about putting pressure on yourself... Predictions aren't worth wasting money making bets -- but this year really looks more volatile than any in recent memory. The ceiling might have an open skylight to the heavens. The floor sure looks like there's a hole in it that leads to the bowels of hades.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Compensate? Why not. Improve? I dunno... maybe Bogey, JD and Nate will have better years in a change of scenery, just like Yoshida, Turner and Duvall will. The shaky returns of Sale and Paxton may be the closest to sure bets. Sale isn't build like Verlander, coming back from Tommy John. He'll have a repaired elbow, but the same Sale delivery that bends and rends joints and tissue, only on an older body. He might have another good season one of these years, but success may not be sustainable... unless he turns into Frank Tanana (look him up for a lesson in adaptability).
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