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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not yet on the operating table, but may be on the gurney. Always inclined to recline, but not while driving (though sitting in traffic, which is actually just steering).
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But we all circled this on the sked as the weekend the Sox would shank the Spanks with three rookie starting pitchers.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nervous what Breslow will do if the Sox sweep tomorrow... Last time they looked this good vs. NY he traded their one true power hitter. And after their biggest victory by 16 runs this season, he fired Cora and the whole non-Bailey coaching staff.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't tell me what I'm saying when I asked you why SD wins. It's not a quiz; I honestly don't know why. Good point about another stat the Sox suck at. Instead of asking you why they don't walk more, I will say this: perhaps Boston's crappy hitters don't walk because they don't know the strike zone. Continued ABS challenge failures only empower pitchers to go right at them and get them out in the strike zone, as well as chasing balls in the dirt, flailing at sweepers and sliders in the other box, and hacking at balls in their eyes. No one gets pitched around because no one is feared, not even Contreras who no one even cares enough about to fight for real.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Your post is one long half a take. If Mason Miller is hiding the rest of the Padre bullpen, then why does SD have a winning record? They hit as bad as Boston. As for home runs, New York's batting order boasts four MVPs (when healthy) and all four were most noted for the longball. Try calling homers overrated to Yankee fans, who know the only way their team can score at home is to pop up to right field. All my life as a player and fan I've thought HRs were overrated, but not in the current all-or-nothing MLB. On an average team, a couple solo shots are so much more feasible than stringing together say, three singles in an inning -- twice -- to produce two runs. In this horrid year for the Red Sox, is it so hard to imagine them winning just five more games and into a Wild Card if Breslow had only supplied the roster with a few more big league power bats?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We interrupt this lost season for another freaking BOMB off Garritt Assclown!
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I-witness Portland game: Holobetz is an animated guy on the mound, nodding with calls he agrees with, throwing harder when he's squeezed, hopping on and off the mound, whooping at the end of innings. He throws from a lower arm slot, bending his long frame with a release point just over his shoulder -- not easy for hitters to pick up -- and is consistently in the mid-90s with his heater and a hard slider. With 10 Ks per 9 average and barely any walks, he is nearly MLB ready. Jofrann Garcia can crank -- crushing BP pitches to all fields, batting clean-up, and gunned two guys out trying to steal. Reminds me of Francisco Alvarez at this level, and should be a big leaguer soon enough. Bleis lined two hangers out, hitting them off his front foot. More mature at the plate. Liendo is a smooth fielder.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No more leash, and I'm ready to help you pull up all those yellow flags around the invisible fence perimeter.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All that matters to me is if a baserunner's toe comes off the bag by a micrometer that no fan can clearly see on TV replays or from the stands, and not even an umpire standing over the play can definitively discern. But let's delay the game an extra five minutes to scramble our senses about it.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox are last in the majors in home runs, making comeback wins and late-game Ws a lot harder. The Yankees lead the majors in HRs, which can certainly bail out a lot of bullpen issues. The Padres have Mason Miller, the most automatic closer in the business.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have faith in the remnants of this roster. They can do it! And I've already given permission to stay away from Fenway Park to all those miserable patrons who squeeze into kindergarten chairs and try to look comfortable. You may all now uncross your arms! As for all posters with wrist injuries misdiagnosed as typing finger sprains, strains, tears and carpool tunnel issues, take the rest of the season off.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all want good projections for our sanity. But pitcher injuries alter athletic careers like no others. Look at Giolito: multiple injuries, finally has a good year, then is too sore to pitch in the playoffs. Teams were scared to sign him in free agency in the winter, until one finally took a chance on him... and now he's having elbow issues again. But that doesn't excuse all our top young position players who keep missing time on the field as core members of the next late Red Sox team. Casas, Anthony, and now Mayer is hurt again? We need to scout more bodies like Ceddanne Rafaela's, put together with pipe cleaners and rubber bands. He's always diving and bouncing off of something... and always in the line-up.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good post. Always evaluating and updating. The extensions are worthy of more debate. If Anthony gets a C for his brutal season and injury, then Crochet can't be any higher. We can only hope both fully recover and resume reaching their potential. Not doing that (or regressing) is also why Campbell and Bello are barely passing and why Rafaela is raising his grade.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was an issue all winter for the diehard baseball fans who know that kind of batting order craves a balance with a mix of well-respected and feared veteran bats that stress out foes, drive up pitch counts, and elicit "mistake pitches" for the young-uns to feast upon.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If they were ever good again, imagine how much money they can make. They might even be able to afford ingredients to make Coors taste like real beer again. I once visited a saloon out there where Coors was the cheapest on tap, but all the local cowboys drank Bud.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hunter Goodman: All-Star catcher, right-handed bat, legit power (half his home runs are on the road). The perfect centerpiece to rebuild around for a horrid team like the Rockies or Red Sox. Why would Colorado consider trading him? How about a haul of pitching prospects that could headline their rotation? Name your arms: Eyanson, Witherspoon, Phillips, Holobetz. How many? Gotta give to get. Throw in Duran as a change-of-scenery guy, take back Jake McCarthy as a speed replacement and help change the culture (McCarthy was a captain and leader as an All-State record-setting running back in high school).
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are you suggesting Sam Kennedy actually lied to us? The royal rooters of inanity I mean loyal looters of sanity?!?!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Get hit over the head enough times until all the nerve endings are dead and it's hard to feel anything anymore.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The reason Breslow's trades are often condemned isn't just because ex-Sox are playing well elsewhere. It's because a lot of the guys he got in return aren't good in Boston. Dombrowski's deals won a ring. Beeks for Eovaldi... and no one cared that Espinal made the All-Star team for Toronto after Steve Pearce was MVP of the World Series. That's a swap every Sox fan would make forever.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except they turned into the Beastie Boys. At least they were able to replace drummer Teel with Narvaez (top hit: "It Don't Come Easy").
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And looking at how Boston's top position player prospects have fared in the majors, I have no taste whatsoever for tanking to get a top draft pick... ... and I get being patient; I was ok with Pedroia's slow start in his rookie year (when Remy was saying, "play Cora"), but he was surrounded by studs in the batting order. I was concerned with Anthony's K-rate last season, when no one else thought it mattered. Plus, it's alarming when "youngsters" the Sox projected as core stars are actually going backwards: Bello, literally, and Campbell, who's down in the AAA .220s with four Ks the other night.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They just told who it will be: Romy.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But-but-but... my ex-wife was so good to me for parts of two decades -- why should I be bitter about the horrible way she treated me this decade? This. Entire. Decade. Happening right now.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course he'll net minor leaguers, but he's our best chip to get prospects who don't have "Pitcher" listed next to their names. If I have any say, I'm holding the Chapman auction until the last possible second for the best available BAT, preferably one that can reach green seats in fair territory.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shhhh... a golfer is about to hit a ball that isn't moving on the ground right in front of him ... shhhhhhhhh.
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