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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Skubal and Duran are both All-Stars. Skubal has pitched two All-Star innings and given up two runs. Duran was the All-Star Game MVP! Who else is Detroit giving us in that trade?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good point, Hugh. Ceddanne covers so much ground in center that he makes a lot of plays in LF and RF, too. (the play of the year came when the ball that tipped off Abreu's glove was caught by Rafaela, standing there as a back-up just in case). Moving the best centerfielder in baseball to another position is folly. Duran has had exactly one good year playing anywhere in the outfield. When the Sox picked RF for Betts, it was only because Bradley was the better choice in CF. Maybe when he's in his 30s Ceddanne can play middle infield like Mookie, but only if it will complete a World Series team.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bo knows both. I've followed Bichette's career since he was a New Hampshire Fisher Cat, and his elite hand-eye coordination gives him the unique confidence to carry dual approaches to his at bats: with his first two swings, he absolutely tries to crush the ball... but if he misses and has two strikes, he definitely adjusts and does whatever he can to make contact -- a lot of his two-strike hits go to right field; that's not selling out, but the sign of a good hitter. Bichette's hitting plan isn't that much different than Bregman's, except the latter's age and nagging injuries limit the damage he once did. Both are examples to younger batters in a line-up; Bo is still in his 20s and thus more dangerous...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Someone f***ing pliable.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Un- . Brez will trade for a starting pitcher and sign Alonso. No other free agent signings, no Bregman, no Bichette, no Cease, not even King or Kelly. Cora will challenge his returning roster to step it up with more responsible roles. A few youngsters will improve incrementally, some will flop. None will turn into Rice or Lynn or Fisk or Nomar next year. But wait until '27, when Early becomes Bill Lee, and Tolle is Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yup -- the grudge Henry held for being forced by fandom to sign Raffy for $300 mil. I'm still the only fan who has ever suggested that signing Bregman -- for one year -- was well worth $40 mil to someone in the front office if it helped get them out of the Devers contract. Just think of how much they saved! Just think of how much they told us they'd now have to reinforce the roster! (oh, wait -- we have to build a tower behind the Green Monster...)
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox can't use Anthony's extension as an excuse that he's the budget replacement for Devers. According to bb-ref, Roman will make MLB minimum in '25, then $2.6 million in '26, $4.6 million in '27, $8.6 in '28, $15.6 in '29, etc. Raffy's contract from Boston calls for a salary of $29.5 mil for just next year... basically, what Anthony agreed to play for in total the next half decade...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least. The Red Sox currently have one starting infielder and a handful of Quadruple A type platoon options: Romy, Hammy, Sogard, Eaton, Mayer (he played in 44 games, 3 more than Eaton). We can't count on a Casas comeback, and they no longer consider Campbell an infielder. Last year, the best of that lot was Gonzalez, who earned 2 WAR in 96 games, mostly at 1B. Are they going to finally let him face righty pitchers more? Do they have a choice?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You could see this; I could barely watch it -- another powerhouse starting lineup... (but I like all those guys on the roster). And amidst a lot of Campbell posts this weekend, I never saw one that revealed one of the main reasons he was handed a starting job out of ST: he bats right-handed. Breslow even said a year ago one of his priorities was to find a way to balance the batting order with more righty swingers... ... it worked great for a few weeks, until MLB pitchers "wrote the texts and tweets" about him; before instantaneous communiques, it used to take a lot longer for leagues to figure out a rookie's weaknesses, back when they actually "wrote the book" (cutting down trees, logging/hauling/delivering to processing locales, pulping into paper, packing, shipping to stores, typing, editing, printing, bookbinding, distributing, studying etc.)
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Favorite War Movies: Cora -- Platoon. Breslow -- Saving Private Ryan. Anthony -- Inglorious Basterds (the guy with the bat) Mayer -- MASH Casas -- Stripes Pitching Staff -- The Dirty Dozen Devers -- The Great Escape
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Walked. OBP was in back then.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At this point I'd rather they just hang onto to Little Puppy and see how their Number One everyday prospect progresses in 2026. I just don't think -- even if Breslow trades for a #2 starter -- that the Sox will spend what it takes to sign enough free agents to make them a legitimate contender next year. I hope I'm wrong, but I can see Boston pushing pitching and young homegrown regulars instead as their Great Pumpkins for next Halloween. If Arias becomes an above-average shortstop like Soxprospects says he can be, then Boston will need him when the true window opens as Brez continues to build around pitching. Story's last season as a Red Sox will be '27, and who knows where or if Mayer will be playing by then: 2B, 3B, IL??? Plus, one of the talking heads on MLB Channel last night said the Twins might just keep Ryan and Lopez anyway and go for it in the weak AL Central.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So this offseason the Sox only need to add two more Mayers and two more Anthonys: Oscar Mayer, Meyer Lansky, Anthony Michael Hall as Farmer Ted from Sixteen Candles and Anthony Hopkins as the all-powerful omnipotent Odin.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The most painful was Rice -- on the team, but didn't play in '75 WS because Vern Ruhle broke his hand. Evans played in both and played well; they weren't his fault.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was just thinking a roster spot. If -- as some speculate -- the Sox trade two outfielders, there could be a role for a bounceback prospect...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Worcester gets a lot of bad weather, so they sent him back hoping for an electrical storm strong enough for Igor to harness some bolts of energy for the Assistant VP mad scientists to use like the year before. That didn't happen, but Breslow recently said Campbell has already had a monstrous offseason working out -- so don't be surprised if he snaps off his chains and goes on a rampage in Florida.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tough list. Of course, I immediately thought of the '75 and '86 Sox. Here's another: the '68 Cardinals: up 3 games to 1, with a 3-2 Game 5 lead going into the bottom of the 7th in Detroit. Tigers had 8 outs to go... with one down, Lolich singled to start off the winning rally -- then Kaline eventually delivered a bases-loaded single to knock in two and take the lead of what would be a 5-3 win. The key play of the game was when Willie Horton threw out Lou Brock at home in the 5th inning because Brock didn't slide... Lolich was the Ohtani-Yamamoto of this Series. He won three games, including the finale vs. Gibson, and also homered in Game 2 to drive in the second and only other run he needed in an 8-1 W.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How bashful of you.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well-though out, Alex, though I don't necessarily agree moving KC to LF is setting him up for failure. As much as we have doubts about Campbell, we should also wonder what's up with an org's eval system that a year ago handed him a starting job in the big leagues he clearly wasn't ready for. We do know that those who tried him out at first base last summer have determined that's not for him, either. Maybe the Sox are just making KC an outfielder to regain his value and showcase him as a trade chip? You didn't mention Garcia as an additional OF trade candidate, though maybe Boston will decide to keep him as a platoon partner initially with Abreu. After all, Password has hit more homers than anyone in the system the past two seasons, including Campbell when he went off...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But the timing of some of those decisions damaged the overall record (this isn't second-guessing, since a lot of us were first-guessing at the time): There is a case to be made that anointing KC as a starting MLB infielder over Mayer -- who outplayed him in ST -- resulted in more losses through the first two months; And nobody is saying that leaving Anthony in the minors during that same time didn't detract from the parent club's overall record. Any big league roster is better by including the best hitter in the organization. I'm just glad a lot of promising youngsters got to experience a taste of the postseason, even if it was from the top step of the dugout...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Arias is the perfect guy for a team like the Twins, who realize they don't have the infield of a true contender, especially since they dumped Correa. If the Twins instead had the exact same roster as the Red Sox, they'd also realize they need a club's #1 prospect to rebuild, since Boston doesn't have the infield of a true contender, either (currently, with only one MLB regular -- Trevor Story). The point is, the Joe Ryan talk is meaningless if the Sox don't resign or replace Bregman, and find a healthy first baseman and second baseman who can hold down big league jobs and contribute. We're not just a #2 starting pitcher away from deep October baseball. But we are about 3 months away before Boras lets his clients sign, so prepare for futile arguments with clueless posters like me for the next quarter year.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He got lucky the year before and faced a lot of crooked swingers.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Andre Dawson: 67.2 WAR in Montreal and Chicago, -1.3 WAR in Boston. What the--- ?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The real problem with Suarez in his 30s are his 162-game averages for the past four seasons: 34 Home Runs but .318 OBP and 201 STRIKEOUTS... ... that's a lot of nothing for not very much all.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe a guy just needs a change of mirrors. Or a storefront window at night. Or a pond on a clear day.
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