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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You sound like a teacher trying to reason with teenagers. How dare you put winning over payroll?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not yet, first they'll try him in the bullpen, like they did with Richards. They already tried it with Paxton in Worcester, and that didn't go so well, relieving in early innings...
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's what Bloom basically said about Story that would make up for his bum arm when he made the move to shortstop. These sly Sox staffers probably devised an entire formula calculating ground ball velo vs. cross-infield footspeed to justify bad-armed post-shift positioning.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With one of the worst starting rotations in the majors, hopefully someone in payroll doesn't get to decide that the next option is to leave the Sox' best arm in the minors and instead call up the exoskeleton of Paxton.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can't say I'm disappointed after a tough stretch of playing first-place or contending teams. After getting swept out of the Trop, to go 8-5 vs. the Angels, Twins, Brewers and O's, the Sox have staved off elimination for another month. No time to wallow in the mire.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There comes a point where teams have to show faith in young pitchers with good stuff by giving them regular turns through the rotation. Bello has nothing more to prove in AAA. Chances are his development in the bigs will follow a similar trajectory as in the minors. He struggled a bit at a very young age in his first stints in A and AA, then dominated each level the following season. If Bello is allowed to work his way through the ups and downs of a full MLB campaign, soaking up the knowledge of the old pros on the staff, he may emerge as a future ace as early as '24. His arm is already better than the vets Boston is counting on in '23...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't worry, the next game the Red Sox starter, whoever it is, will have a good outing. And the next starter the next day will be bad.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The semantics of the word "core" seem to bother you. My mistake. Jacksonian listed the top four Yanks; I countered with the Sox' top four so far this year. To some, Duran was a hard guy to root for when he was going badly last season, mainly because of a questionable attitude on a few issues. The perception is that he's more a team guy now, but the reality is fans will probably cheer him as long as he's doing well. Once on a nationally-televised Yanks-Red Sox brawl, cameras caught Mickey Rivers as a blatant cheap-shot artist. Yankee fans still loved him as long as he wore pinstripes.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Franchy never had a Franchy start. Good ole Yankee fans think Sox fans should still hate Duran because he didn't used to be good. Nobody's anointing Duran a star, but his current WAR is indisputable data that he's playing like a big leaguer... and helping his club win the same amount of games as the annual World Series favorite.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But... the Yanks are World Series favorites! The .500 Red Sox may not be loaded, but right now their core four of Devers, Verdugo, Yoshida and Duran is at 2.8 WAR... vs. 2.6 WAR for the quartet you listed: Judge-Rizzo-Torres-DJ. Maybe some of those hot starts will level off -- for both clubs...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How's this: my son went a Sox game in Pittsburgh, and got there early to watch BP. He said McGuire put on a longball show, blasting them into the river, and only Devers hit more out.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    After Tucson it's all flat. But he could always take a weather balloon from a ranch near Roswell.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All blondes, and they rollerblade to the beach every day...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duran is third in WAR for active Red Sox position players (behind Dugie and Devers). He also has a positive dWAR for the first time in his big league career. Boston chose Duran in the 2018 draft with its 7th pick, 220th overall... after 1. Casas, 2. Decker, 3. Feltman, 4. Cottam, 5. Ward, 6. Granberg. He turns 27 in September, so it's either still late... or right on prime.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    His body, Chaim's choice.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Many posters actually wish Ort would miss a few wombats...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thus explains the fate of we fluctuating fans of the schizophrenic Sox straddling the scales of .500...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No matter what you think of McGuire's talents, you gotta respect a player who dives head-first into first base, with an eight-run lead.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thanks for the lists. Which players -- if any -- have been recruited to be part of the core of the next sustained contenders? Yoshida, unproven in the majors, and Story, damaged goods? I realize some pre-arbs may be also be core down the road -- like maybe Verdugo or Dombrowski draft picks Casas and Duran -- but what key guys were acquired and signed... Whitlock? Seriously, all that spending shows that this front office isn't cheap... but are they committed? Are they really investing in the future? Or just trying to field a team? Hopefully, they think it's both, and aren't inept...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm glad you'll own your bads -- like putting quotes around something you're replying to that I didn't post. But kudos to you for your prediction that out of the entire 25-man roster that won the most games in Red Sox history, the one player that the new CBO would re-sign would be Devers. I'll never deny I'm a cynic about a lot of things, but history has shown what has become of the Red Sox so far under Chaim Bloom. I'm glad the Sox locked up Raffy, and now I await all the talent Bloom promised to surround him with.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's bull -- most of us who didn't think Bloom would sign Devers weren't cynics. All you had to do was just look at his record of dealing with all the players from the roster that won the World Series the year before he took over. He was stuck with Sale, but before Raffy, all the rest were either traded or not resigned (except Braiser for some reason). That's not cynicism, just history.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They're exactly a .500 team because of their rotation: good game, bad game, win, loss, even-steven, steady-eddie, one step forward, two steps back, feeling better, need to be better -- there's no reason to expect anything else... but fans can hope: "If only Sale and Kluber were as good as they were, and Whitlock and Houck were as good as they'll be, and someone would just keep Bello in the bigs, and Paxton actually pitched in a Red Sox major league game..." Sing it, Carly: These are Pivetta days!
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Come on -- if everything goes right,[/i] we'll win as many as we lose... ... and Sam Kennedy is all-in, absolutely. And all the Bloom staffers go doot-dedoot-dedoot-dootodootdoot...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They did, he's coaching Paxton, The Invisible Man.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston could afford to acquire two top starters for less than what it will cost for one Ohtani. The Red Sox could avoid next winter's New York and California bidding war for Ohtani, and sign Julio Urias for a fraction of the cost. And then go after another available top starter via trade, like Corbin Burnes. Sox fans forget how much difference it makes having not one but two good, dependable, healthy starting pitchers leading the rotation all season.
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