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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Cubs paid the most money in MLB history for good management three years ago when they recruited Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell. Since then the Brewers have won the most games in the majors.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I will because I'm hearing or reading a lot today about how the Dodgers and Mookie Betts choked -- instead of how the Brewers just swept Skubal, Yamamoto, Snell and Glasnow. Some Red Sox fans are expressing happiness that Betts lost because they feel like they won by Boston not paying him. To that I go to WAR. Mookie's WAR in LA, 2020-2026: 36.5. Do you know who leads the Red Sox in WAR this decade? Hint: he didn't even play for them this season. It's Devers, with 19 -- almost half of Betts' value. Next is Duran with 13. Then it's Bogaerts at 10.1. That says it all about Boston star power in the 2020s.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I looked your order and thought you can't have one without the other. Then I remembered Houston finished .500, and that was how the West was won.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're right, the Brewers' smallball and largeball allowed them to dominate. They hit 7 homers in 4 games -- or 1.75 per game, compared to not even 1 per in the regular season: 0.95. So of course the best hitter in the entire NLCS was David Hamilton with a .571 BA, who was his usual speed demon, and cracked a longball off Edwin Diaz for the exclamation mark. And I laughed when notin suggested trading Hammy last winter for Yandy Diaz (who he's only out-hitting in this round by 340 points)...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can't imagine someone's career WAR could be so low after just making the big leagues. Once first graders learn how to read they should be ready for War and Peace. And after my teenager opens his first can of beans he should be ready to beat Bobby Flay. We taught our puppy how to sit and now we're waiting for him to sit on the tractor and mow the lawn. What's taking so long.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right, but all things being about equal as far as formulas and evals for "best player available," here's where if I were an owner I'd at least advise the front office to pay special attention to recommendations of scouts in our own region. It's just good business in the entertainment business. But don't draft a guy that you don't have at least a verbal commitment for signing from either a parent or agent.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I played with a few and actually had something in common. I once drank a Gatorade in the same state. All draft picks are rolls of the dice. And that truth right there is why smart orgs with the good sense to acknowledge they're in the entertainment business should pay special attention to highly-rated prospects who have thrived in their regions. Fans don't realize how great Tony Conigliaro was, starting in the majors full-time at age 19, and leading the American League in home runs when he was 20 years old. Those were the days when Mantle and Killebrew slugged. OMG, how could the Sox bring up a kid so young. What a coup for the PR department, when fans could go watch a local boy and spend money for tickets on crappy Red Sox teams in the pre-Impossible Dream years.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Watching all the playoff games, it's impossible not to think that as far as pitching staffs go, starters are less valuable than ever before... in the postseason. During the long regular season, starting pitchers who eat innings and keep your team in the game are as important as ever -- but mostly to save arms in the bullpen from burning out... before they become the key men on the mound in October. The Brewers won the pennant last night using two Red Sox rejects as an opener and a bulk man. But their bullpen is unhittable (4 relievers worked 15 IP with 0.00 ERAs). The whiffing White Sox almost made the ALCS with hitters striking out 20 times a game to support openers almost every night. The Guards' strength is their bullpen, which Boston couldn't touch in the final week. But the Rays aren't done, because Baker and Cam Booser are 0.00 through two rounds. Moral: if Breslow and his analysts are paying attention, spend to improve the offense. Hoard the pitching you've already invested in and develop it.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Joshua Baez, the kid who hit 3 straight home runs in his first MLB game for St. Louis this summer and led the minors in HRs, was the 54th overall pick in the 2021 draft. To me it defies belief that the Red Sox weren't in on this guy. This isn't some Yankee fan from a suburb -- Baez is from Dorchester in Boston and was so good he transferred to a private school in Brookline for his junior and senior years, when he was named Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year. Ok, the '21 draft was where the Sox had their highest pick this century and took Marcelo Mayer #4 overall. It happens. But their #2 with the 40th pick was Jud Fabian, who didn't even sign and went back to college. So not only did the incompetent front office miss the best high school baseball player right in their own front yard (Fenway is next to Brookline Ave), but they wasted the pick on a guy they couldn't even sign.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Jake Bauers struck out 13 times in 26 at bats in the NLCS. But he was the MVP for two at bats: the 12-pitch walk that wore out Yamamoto, and the 11-pitch HR that beat LA. Is he suddenly better right now than ever before? Can anyone really call an entire season when Bauers had the most home runs for the best team in baseball a small sample size? Can anyone in their wildest dreams imagine Duran, Story, Anthony, Rafaela, Abreu and Contreras fouling off two dozens pitches total between them... I'm not saying Breslow should overpay for him this winter, but is it possible Bauers finally figured things out at 30 (did Mickey?)? Maybe he just ate a lot of carrots this week.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's hard to ignore not spending on fan favorites and proven stars, and instead recruit players who were only really good on previous teams. Typical Red Sox fans don't dissect the budget and luxury taxes -- they just see a homegrown Hall of Famer go win 3 more rings in another city, and their top home run hitter for the past decade get signed, only to get dumped and then resume slugging elsewhere. And in the meantime, the guys who were supposed to be the next big thing in Boston either flop or go on the IL. Over and over, all decade. Most of us here are longtime Sox fans lucky enough to see young position players burst into stardom all the time last century: in the 90s and 80s and 70s, even the 60s. Now it's just our turn to suffer through more misfortune and mismanagement.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This has been my point all season. The Rays top three guys are better than the Sox top three -- not just because of homers, but because they're better hitters period. That right there is a big reason Tampa won the East. The Rays' batters who get the most at bats are good and the Red Sox' guys wish they were. If Roman Anthony is ever fighting for a batting title or crushing 40 HRs like pundits predict(ed), he can bat 3rd to drive in other good hitters -- if they ever get more.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't want to hear another announcer say a batter "ambushed" a pitcher. No batter ever hides behind a concealed position. He's standing there in the box with a bat in his hand, and the pitcher is throwing a hardball at him. As a hitter, I'm up there to hit -- not take hittable pitches.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston didn't just lose the first 3 in the '04 ALCS. The Red Sox got utterly freaking destroyed in Game 3, 19-8. The Yanks scored more runs in that game than they did in both of this year's wild card blowouts combined. But the Sox did have two more at home, like LA has now (maybe). The Dodgers don't have Jake Bauers, though... or Mitchell or Chourio or Turang or Contreras' bro to largeball the Brew Crew.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Everybody knows: Ruth swung a 5-foot table leg salvaged and sanded down from a saloon he trashed in a drunken brawl. He was able to heft this log because of his diet of hot dogs, cold cats, beer kegs and tips of cigars. And unlike Aaron, the Babe didn't have to constantly peer over his shoulder to duck from racists threatening to shoot him if he insisted on playing long enough to set the HR record.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    True dat. Dalbec hit 33 HRs in one of his last year's in Worcester, and only two more in the majors after that. But don't orgs that control these prospects owe it to their fanbase to at least see if they can do it in The Show? You can't just buy every established star player like they're boys on a shelf, can you Steinbrenner?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Alonso has also had the opportunity to drive in himself over 100 times more than Contreras (reg. season HRs: Polar Bear 307, Willy the Beast 199).
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or that there was a clear need for upgrades at 2B and C, and still are, until those guys prove they're healthy and good again.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not sticking up for anyone here, just repeating what I've always felt... I prefer BA over OBP because walks can only move baserunners one base at a time. Hits can move runners all the way around the bases -- or more likely two bases: 1st to 3rd or 2nd to home -- and a lot of those hits are singles... where the batter reaches the same base a walker ends up, on 1st (unless the batter takes 2nd on a throw trying to nab a lead runner, which barely ever happens on a walk).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've been saying all month to add an OBP guy to bat in front of all our returning hitters with their newly developed slugging that Brez is going to teach them this winter. Why not Arraez? He's only a 3-time batting champ, with crowns in both leagues. Alvarez won the AL batting title this year with a BA of .316. Arraez in his 8-year career has a lifetime BA of .316. ... but where would we put him? How about right in front of Contreras in the batting order.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not to cherrypick your thoughtful posts today, but do you really think any fans really truly think the returning offense "should be enough?" I'd venture that no matter how exciting the summers were the past two years, most diehard Red Sox fans cannot mouthwash away the putrid taste in their mouths of how their postseasons ended.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    4.1, then bring in a reliever who struggled the past entire month instead of trusting your proven veteran starter... ... though after seeing Cleveland's bullpen disintegrate Red Sox bats the final week, I said no one will want to play the Guards in the postseason (they don't have a key set-up man pitching on a broken leg).
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is the perfect post to reflect back to Boston's complete ineptitude vs. playoff pitching the past two postseasons... That, and drewski's post about On Base % -- what good is it, if your offense has the lowest batting average in the big leagues with runners in scoring position every year (maybe the past two just seem like a decade here in Dead Sox Nation).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Instead of regular season stats, why not focus on their trade deadline acquisitions who won each of the first two LCS games: Griffin started and gave CL 4 solid IP, Adell and Lowe drove in 2 runs apiece in Gm 1; Peralta threw 6 shutout innings and Hicks drove in 2 to win Gm 2 for TB. Some luck is involved, but Brez could've had half of those guys for the haul he swapped to keep an injured Rutschman out of pinstripes.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Since 2019 the Red Sox business model is to stop spending big money on longterm contracts for elite position players. The Yankees never stop spending because they are never rebuilding and are always all-in trying to win every single year. Boston front office and ownership defenders will point to Story and Yoshida, which will be remembered as overall failures by an inexperienced CBO and the Devers' contract, which was dumped as soon as a new CBO could find an excuse. But even those signings are suspected by some in the industry as mere displays to mollify a thirsty fanbase.
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