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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The flaw in Bloom's plan was to start the firesale and then drop and roll until the flames were snuffed out and all his clothes were charred. The real damage was what the Vazquez trade did to the psyche of the clubhouse. And the catching upgrade with McGuire is arguable; after all, the guy he replaced caught a no-hitter by four pitchers in the freaking World Series.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Stop -- you know all pro ballplayers were 100% clean back then... until Clemens' wife had to prepare for an SI photo shoot.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, because one of the 2017 Trio will already be there on a rehab start.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I never thought they were resigning Bogey since their joke of an offer a year ago. A one-year extension -- and let's not pretend it was anything else, literally -- to a Scott Boras' client in his prime -- after just splurging on a lesser player from Colorado? That could not possibly be a mistake -- by an Ivy League front office -- so we have to assume it was intentional, and they knew and expected all the probable ramifications. I said then they were intentionally pissing off Xander enough to make a mid-season trade more palatable. But now I'm also thinking about how disruptive it was to all the veterans and future free agents on the club... so Bloom was actually getting them all prepared for a firesale. And then ownership stopped him...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd like to not be an elf on the shelf in that conference room
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dwight Gooden led the NL with 276 IP at age 20. That same year, Dennis Boyd led the Red Sox with 272 IP at age 25. They used different pain-killers in 1985...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Rob Bradford revisited a fall podcast where Bloom explains why the Red Sox were in a better place to lock up Devers than they were when they traded Mookie. It had nothing to do with the ability to pay either, but was all about timing, the depth of the farm, and maximizing the prime years of the chosen star by being able to surround him with other elite talent going forward. It's a candid, though debatable strategy (if it's not bs)... reasonable, but painful, considering Betts is by far the better all-around player -- and maybe more helpful in contributing to any core (at least in WAR).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Still need SS, SP, RF... stay tuned? ps. I think the Devers' deal eliminated any Wacha multi-year... maybe even Eovaldi... and Kluber was the alternative with Raffy in mind. ... and it shouldn't surprise if no other moves are made before ST
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Turner, Devers, trade for Wendle?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If they trade Paxton for himself, he might turn it down.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A month or so ago, Bloom conceded the Sox had to spend "beyond reason" to lock up Raffy. Considering the new market, does anyone really think his deal was unreasonable? What if all these one-year deals for has-beens and never-weres the past three winters -- and ignoring the top free agents commanding longer multi-year contracts -- were all done just to save up enough dough to pay Devers? Notice I didn't say "afford" Raffy...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "NOBODY is worth fill-in-the-blank to play a game of baseball!" (preceding quote passed on from the Garden of Eden or translated from recovered ancient alien artifacts, depending on one's beliefs)
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Underrated points -- Jose already fits in, and made about a third of Andrus' salary last year. But the shorter bases may help a guy like Elvis, the active MLB leader in Caught Stealing.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I get the feeling both Andrus and Iglesias want multi-years; who wouldn't. I'm also hoping the Gurriel rumors won't mean Bloom is seriously considering trading Casas for a Marlin not named Alcantara...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox need a shortstop. Some say Jose Iglesias isn't the shortstop he once was... the same has been said about Story. Can Iglesias fill the position until Ceddanne or Mayer (or Romero or Paulino or Ravelo) make it? We do know Iglesias was great at second, at the plate, and in Alex Cora's dugout a year-and-a-half ago. Will the price be too high, instead, to trade for Rojas and/or a pitcher from Miami?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pipe dreams.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe... but what's in those pipes that causes such dreams is legal in a lot of states now.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All part of the recent history that fans hate about this management -- especially, letting the best players go from the best team in Red Sox history. Today is different... no matter how anyone tries to twist it into a repeat of patterns that led to Pablo Sandoval and Carl Crawford.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I knew a couple Red Sox fans -- and not a Yankee visitor just browsing -- would understand my post entirely
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The narrative up until yesterday was that the Red Sox would not pay their homegrown fan favorites fair market prices to stay in Boston... ... because the only guy extended since Bogey was re-upped after the 2018 title was Matt Barnes. Things are different now. Times have changed for the better today.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and the go-to cautionary contracts for big-time batters whose contracts were too long. My point is that Devers' contract isn't -- he won't be Old Man Bogey limping around San Diego infields (or wherever) into his 40s... at least, not on our dimes.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Try to be imperfectly curt, but never kickham when they're down... gagne with a spoon = always abad idea.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Keep in mind Devers' prime years. The Red Sox are basically paying for hopefully the best seasons of a star player's career: ages 27-32 (give or take). Raffy may be kicking around as a first baseman or DH at the back end of his contract, but only through age 37. For fans worried about another "albatross" Pujols or Cabrera contract, here are 162-game averages of Albert and Miggy from ages 33-37: Pujols -- 31 HR, 109 RBI; Cabrera 25 HR, 89 RBI. Will you settle for something in between?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    While I don't have a lot of confidence that the projected starting rotation will catapult Boston back into contention (or even stay together for six months), the one it's replacing finished in dead last place. I also wonder if Turner or Story or Casas can give Raffy enough protection so that anyone will throw him a fastball for a strike before 2024. However, the Devers signing makes the '23 Red Sox already so much better than the '22 squad. All the big-time question mark players are now gone: Bogey, JD, Vaz, Nate -- great Red Sox champions -- but no more clubhouse distractions, worries, wondering, reporter queries, deadline doom, etc., etc. Here I go, playing the star again. There I go, turn the page.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Disagree on principle. Pro ballplayers -- no matter what uniform they're currently wearing -- may be looking at Boston as a desired destination again. The Red Sox want to be players again, and players will want to be Red Sox again. And even if all that is bs from a fan, at least humor the fan... we all want to at least feel our team cares about us as much as we care about it.
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