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Everything posted by 5GoldGlovesOF,75
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Now that games are over so fast, there's gotta be less time to get drunk. But if the new rules include a drink clock, everyone's in trouble.
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We need Yoshida to spray line drives gap to gap and not try to pull high flies off the Pesky Pole or into NY's joke porch. He didn't win batting crowns in Japan swinging from the heels... not when he annually draws more walks than whiffs.
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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Been a diehard for over half a century. The Red Sox always had star players. Fans don't watch because they like the uniforms or the manager or even the ballpark and the singalong played in the 7th-inning stretch. It's because of the talented, mostly-homegrown fan favorites. The big market Red Sox always made sure to keep their best draws through their primes. Before the Bloom Error, the only time they blew it was in the early days of free agency when front office conflicts led to exits by Fisk and Lynn. After that, they were always in the market for big money recruits. Boston never won it all with those star players until '04. But the Sox were almost always good, and at least competitive and interesting. Now they're none of those things. -
You really went through all that trouble to list stats to argue that the Rays' two best players aren't Franco and Arozarena? One's the Rays highest-paid franchise guy at age 22, while the other set a postseason HR record as a rookie, stole home vs. Boston in the playoffs, and almost single-handedly won the WBC for Mexico a month ago. That's all the research I need... from my waning memory banks.
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Even our forum might score some runs if we batted against the last-place message boards every single game.
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Imagine a master modern manager like Cash batting his two best players 3-4 in the order.
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"Holy mackerel," says OB. Fish stink.
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Red Sox really need to capitalize now on the bad break that beset an opponent (for once).
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The Rays are good, but we won't know how good until they play anyone else that is also good. Tampa might set an unbeaten record at the start of the year, but every single team they've played is in dead last place. One might argue the Rays sent all these clubs to their cellars, but opponents in Washington, Oakland and Boston were doormats last year, too. Detroit, their other foe, didn't finish last, but only lost 96...
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Before the game, he consulted with Sale on how to grip the special bat-finder pitch.
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Numbah THREE batter!
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Doogie pulled his head.
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Especially if he's raking the garbage.
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He improved dramatically... once he left Boston's coaches and developmental staff... and joined Tampa's coaches and developmental staff (20 years ago we'd be talking about trainers).
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I've never had anything against Dalbec, but you have to admit that to longtime fans of position player stability, it looks more like management is throwing in the towel with the guys they're shoehorning all around the diamond. In the second week of the season...
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I know, managers at every level of baseball for over a century have all been wrong batting their best hitters in the heart of the order. Bloom probably typed a thesis on a website about this, and got hired for all his experience... with a word processor.
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The problem isn't whether Devers gets fed up. We just better hope Bloom gets canned before he pushes the panic reset and pulls a Longoria, because Devers does not have a No-Trade Clause.
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Our one righty home run hitter gets hurt, and we have Refsnyder batting third, a day after Bobby Dalbec starts at shortstop. It's the second week of the season! Too bad our poor CBO who's been in charge of building the Red Sox for four freaking years wasn't allowed to fill a full Major League roster.
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4/12 SOX @ Rays 6:40PM ET
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I never post on the Pessimistic thread, but I'm a regular on the Realistic thread. -
Did you watch the first 10 games? Duvall did not play like a good centerfielder. And letting good finds like Schwarber and Renfroe leave is part of the problem in the Bloom Era. As for Bloom's guys who look good but get hurt, or who haven't been good because they're hurt when acquired -- does anyone think this is all bad luck and coincidence? Or maybe a pattern?
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I can't regret losing guys who sucked here and developed into good players elsewhere. But the bottom line is that Bloom has continually let impact players leave Boston -- Betts, Bogie, Schwarber, Renfroe -- and never added one yet. Whitlock was nearly an All-Star set-up reliever for half a season, and Pivetta delivered some clutch innings in the postseason, but Bloom has yet to replace the difference-makers. Star players are not Story, an infielder who had one good month with the bat in Boston so far, or Duvall, who had one good week before getting injured playing out of position. If you want to call Wacha an impact pitcher, then so was Eovaldi, and both were replaced, along with Hill, with one Kluber...
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4/12 SOX @ Rays 6:40PM ET
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Helpful's just another word for nothing left to lose. -
Refsnyder batting third today. I swear Cora pulls crap like this just to show the world the deep options of a roster Bloom has provided him with.
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4/12 SOX @ Rays 6:40PM ET
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Yet he's the biggest trade chip, especially in the most fungible area of big league rosters: the bullpen. Houck may be more valuable in the long term, depending whether he develops into a legitimate starter, but Schreiber can make a good team better this year. -
Shake it up now. St. Louis could use some pitching. The Trade Simulator accepted Schreiber and the ghost of Paxton for DeJong and Tyler O'Neill. O'Neill is like a Duvall clone -- power and high K rate -- a former Gold Glove OF who just two seasons ago hit 34 HRs with .912 OPS. He's disgruntled, only 28, and probably available now with the emergence of WBC hero Nootbar and rookie record-breaker Jordan Walker (make a deal, before NL pitchers find a book on him).
