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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dang-yo, Walter is already 26, will turn 27 in September... who's got a quarter?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Will Cohen please go so far over the tax threshold that his penalties can pay what Henry will owe in taxes so Bloom can actually sign some good big leaguers this winter?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... which led to what is now infamously known on talksox as Huffy's Cliff. (not to be confused with Duffy's Cliff, which gave Fenway fans a literal standing room view -- on the field -- in front of the Monster for the first 20 years or so of the park). The first-half of the latter featured the legendary outfield of Duffy Lewis-Tris Speaker-Harry Hooper, which was intact from 1910-15. Hooper, of course, is the greatest Red Sox winner in history with four World Series rings ('12, 15, 16, 18) and the all-time leader in outfield assists for a rightfielder with 333, 78 more than runner-up Roberto Clemente. Gotta wonder how many of those Hoop assists were force-outs at first base on would-be singles in the shallow deadball days...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not bad: a little more than Bloom signed Diekman for... or around what he couldn't stomach to pay Benintendi that brought us the Franchy Error.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like the effort, but I gotta have a slightly better return for both my #2 and #3 pitching prospects... at least, for the reason that some evaluators are saying this is the best crop of arms at the top of the Sox system in quite sometime. Are Walter and Murphy at least better prospects than Winckowski and Seabold?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The point for Red Sox fans -- especially this winter -- is that we shouldn't have to hope the guy in charge of assembling the roster in Boston has to find a steal or get lucky when recruiting ballplayers.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Without listing every salary of the 40-man, who besides Sale is due a ton of money on the '23 Red Sox? Is there any dead money still on the books (Price, Pedroia, Manny, Bobby Bonilla etc)?
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have little hope he'll swing all the necessary moves in the next few months to make that much of a difference for the 2023 team... ... but that doesn't mean we don't have a lot of work to do: posting unreasonable trade proposals and suggesting expenditures that only big market franchises can afford. The real frustration with the Bloom Era includes all those posts within reason that responsible typists have been submitting since the Fall of 2019. Like, how many teams do guys like Brad Hand and David Robertson have to pitch for while the Red Sox keep choosing the Robles, Diekmans and Familias of the bullpen gutters? The answer is 9 or 10 so far (if you count the Olympics) combined for Hand and Robertson -- who were good enough to pitch in this year's World Series.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Baker Street -- now that's a good one to have stuck in my head. Just last month my son and I heard it on Sirius 26 while driving to baseball practice. I admit, I turned up the V with each sax riff... underrated guitar solo at the end, too.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Give Bloom credit; he just saved Boston another approximate $120M by not overpaying to recruit Diaz and his trumpeeter...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The more I mull -- if the Sox were a true contender, then acquiring a true closer would be a priority. Building from the back forward isn't reverse engineering in modern hardball, as evidenced by the bullpens that won rings in Houston and Atlanta the past two years. But in Kike Hernandez' world, being way better next season doesn't necessarily mean Boston has to find a specific reliever who can retire Yordan Alvarez in November. The Sox have a few candidates coming off surgeries who might close. Meanwhile, one way back to respectability isn't to blow big bucks on a single guy like Diaz, but to spread investments into stockpiling good arms for legitimate depth. Let's start with Montero and Eflin from the World Series teams...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Minion poster: "Bello!"
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What - no faith in Bloom to swing a six-way trade for an ace starter, a closer, a clean-up man, and a leadoff hitter?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have hope for Valdez just because he's from the Houston system. Have announcers mentioned the Astros are also doing just fine without Brantley, their best hitter the past three years? Or that not only have they been ok in centerfield since Springer left, but that a guy like McCormick allowed them to trade Straw and Siri (a guy who'd look like a star in Boston or NY)...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A lot of posters here would agree a deep farm yields both core players and prospect capital to trade for MLB areas of need; which, for the Red Sox rings, was usually pitching. But free agents have a long history of putting teams over the top, whether you call them key or prime, or just Howie Kendrick, the 2019 World Series MVP. Pre-free agency trivia (from an old Baseball Digest, circa 1968): the '67 Impossible Dream Red Sox won the AL pennant with 17 homegrown players on their 25-man roster. They actually did add a free agent that season -- Ken Harrelson -- signed after being released by the A's for bad-mouthing owner Charlie Finely. The Hawk was recruited down the stretch to replace injured slugger Tony Conigliaro, beaned out of the season in mid-August. Unfortunately, Harrelson didn't approximate Tony C's All-Star bat in '67. But the Hawk led the bigs in RBI in '68 and finished third in AL MVP voting.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Both Bloom and Scott Boras, Bogey's agent, like to wait until the last possible minute before making deals -- mulling every last offer and/or squeezing every last penny. But Chaim Bloom simply cannot wait until just before Spring Training to make serious moves and invest serious resources. Not this winter. The Xander situation must be resolved, one way or the other, ASAP. Correa is another Boras' client, but we already know he's leaving $35M AAV (for each of two more years) in Minnesota. Does anyone really think he and his agent aren't confident he'll get the same rate at more years somewhere else? What makes more sense for Boston: keeping X and Devers for close to $400 million... or paying Correa 6 for $210 and swapping Raffy for a good young pitcher?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It does seem like a potential double standard for him, since he stated he's dug in at short in Boston... but may have to change his tune in negotiations with another club willing to give him his proper respect...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If that happens I predict there will also be a new third baseman in Boston. The Sox won't pay both Correa and Devers, who will also fetch the best trade return of any Sox MLBer this winter. Plus, Correa may be amenable to moving positions eventually, as he already played third for Cora in international ball in the past ; this will make for smoother transitions in the future.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Spotrac's market value for free agent pitchers, with approx AAV: Verlander and deGrom, $41M; Rodon and Kershaw @ $31M Nola @ $26M, Bassitt @ $21M; Eovaldi @ $16M, Thor @ $15M Taillon and Walker $14M, Tyler Anderson @ $13M; Manaea and Wacha $12M, Heaney @ $11M Which guys -- if any -- make sense for Bloom? The Sox really need an ace, but age and health issues make one Verlander or one deGrom less sensible than a trio of Anderson, Manaea and Wacha...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have no reason not to think he's gone, no matter what Bloom said the day after the season. Even if in the past month the Red Sox already made a fair offer to extend Bogey, the fact there's no news can only mean that he (and his agent) are intent on testing the market.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right. And while the timing of injuries may be unpredictable, some are more inevitable, especially considering the age and history of individuals. Franchises with foresight and the resources to stockpile sufficient depth are better prepared than those that wait until the last minute at the trade deadline... and then change direction in the final 30 seconds.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But what was so predictable in '22 was at the end of a great June, with a killer sked coming in July... the Sox needed major league reinforcements -- not minor league prayers -- a month before the deadline. And this isn't hindsight, because we all read the schedule at the time and knew what was coming.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Only if they modify it with a seatbelt to keep him from falling... for when he gets mad and rips the monitor off the handle bars.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Is biking safer in the countryside? Or do city bikers have to weave to avoid timber rattlesnakes, chupacabras and natural selection deniers?
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