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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You know it's not just about 2019. Looking at the majority of your list of 18 names, there were a lot of Bloom acquisitions the past three years who were good and fit in -- Iglesias, Wacha, Schwarber (omg - where would we play a Home Run King) -- but not retained... even Strahm looked decent and wasn't part of the problem in the pen. I'm trying to give the guy credit for picking up these players who looked like keepers. I just detest his strategy of constantly recycling them for the next worst thing to save value... and I get this was the reason Henry hired Bloom -- which makes it all the more deplorable for a fan not interested in collecting baseball cards of faceless Red Sox uniforms.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I look at this list -- not with disdain for the performance of the players -- but with distaste with how Bloom operates. I count 18 different guys, and most of them came and went, almost as if Bloom was playing his own little game of building up and tearing down rosters. Only four of the 18 -- Kike, Verdugo, Whitlock and Pivetta have been kept as fulltimers -- but it's not like we couldn't use a lot of the others who really contributed: like home run hitters, good middle infielders who really liked Boston, and a starting pitcher with 3+ WAR (and please don't bother reiterating the value of saving a mil here by dumping a guy for someone comparable there -- we root for Boston). As a longtime baseball fan who grew up identifying with core players on Red Sox teams good and bad, I'm just not into disposable acquisitions that we use up and then let leave when they want market wages for what they've accomplished.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox brass said Feltman might step right from his college campus into the big leagues. Little did they know that right after the draft he enrolled in med school and law school, and got his teaching certificate, to pay for books on the side. The latter profession requires a Masters in some states, but they give you eight years or so to finish the credits.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Depends on what they're promising. But just look at what the AL East rival rotations added: NY - Rodon, Toronto - Bassitt, Tampa - Eflin, Baltimore - Gibson? Well, maybe the O's starters are full of as many question marks as Boston's... Then again, the Birds also have the best young catcher in baseball, eight top 100 prospects (including #1), and the top-rated pitching prospect in the AL... The Orioles also had eight batters with 13 or more home runs last year. The Sox had four -- and three of them are gone, baby, gone.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Horseshoes are this year's Red Sox theme. Just gotta get close enough... to grab a wild card. Pitching horseshoes, that is... which is more precise (and hopefully less explosive) than lobbing grenades. Hey, we didn't have to finish first watching the submarine races in high school, either.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Does hammering into hooves have the same negligible pain effect as fingernail piercing? I'm not into either one, and don't find piercings or tattoos attractive on the opposite sex. But I assume tattoos on cattle hurt more than cowshoes.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yep, except the prospects about to make the most immediate big league impacts are Dombro's. And it's not a stretch to imagine Bloom's best prospects becoming stars when the next GM's in charge. It's not fair, either, comparing which guy is the best farmer when the rules and regulations have changed so much -- and have become more restrictive -- since Theo and his boys signed and paid everyone.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If I agree with you, then you'd be wrong.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The '88 Red Sox featured an entire line-up of homegrowns, with a lot of key rookies or second-year men like Greenwell, Burks, Benzinger and Reed. Old-timers Evans and Rice were winding down, but the top three arms in the rotation were Clemens, 25, Hurst, 30, and Boyd, 28. System surplus also allowed them to trade Anderson and Schilling for Boddicker, 30.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I look forward to the days when a Sox GM starts trading prospects again before they lose value when exposed to the big leagues (see Dalbec, Duran). Right now, on the MLB's Red Sox prospect list, there are 10 players in the top 30 who can play shortstop. Even if the best of them are moved to other positions, there has to be a few expendables that can be added to a package for a legitimate arm or two. Either that or at least bring one up that can provide stellar D, even if its in the late innings. Instead, Bloom trades a pitcher for a speed guy who blew out his knee.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Two lists this week: Law had Rafaela #37... EPSN had him nowhere.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Years of control are of course major factors in trade returns for impending free agents and/or salary dumps. My point has always been that the Dodgers were obviously dealing for a superstar they planned on keeping longterm -- and could have/should have been persuaded to give up more for a Hall of Famer... if they really wanted him, which they obviously did. Back to the future: good teams are strong up the middle. Right now the Red Sox plan to open the '23 season without one single regular who has ever played an entire MLB season at C-SS-2B-CF. They're not bad players, but there is a lot riding on the hope they'll all stay healthy enough to be stable and productive. It's worrisome that the exact same thing can be said about the starting rotation (the mound being the most important location up the middle). I have less doubts about the offense, and the adjustments required by Yoshida and Casas to become legit threats. Along with Devers -- and the no-shift rule -- the Sox lefties will rake!
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And the Dodgers didn't trade for 12 years of Betts... they just decided the day before the 2020 games began that he must be good enough to extend for the next dozen seasons.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom doesn't get blamed for the Betts trade as much for all the bad trades and signings he's made since. Especially after telling fans the Sox now have so much more young talent to surround Devers, when explaining why Raffy was signed over Mookie. Here's a Tomase take from today... main point: Keith Law's current ranking of the Red Sox system at #23 is only two places better than when Betts was still in Beantown. https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/red-sox-bottom-10-farm-system-ranking-indictment-teams-entire-plan
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not even close, and I was including Verdugo, who was always called "the centerpiece" of the deal -- even when it was hard for him to center himself between Graterol and nobody else. At least the Sox would have received three good prospects for what turned out to be 12 years of Betts. Though that still wouldn't be quite the return of Seattle's #1, 3, and 5 prospects, plus a flier, that the Reds got for what turned out to be 6 years of Luis Castillo (after extending him, too).
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pitching. I said it that whole winter: Gonsolin, Gray or May. But it's plausible Bloom and old mentor Friedman had a secret pact: "Andy, baby, love ya -- but this is my first big deal, and my boss says you have to take Price." "Ok, Chaim... but no arms for you!"
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Mookie wasn't any good for the next decade, I'd bet every longtime Dodgers fan you meet will still say the trade was worth it, just for that one World Series title.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The varied grading scale most likely reflects positives like getting rid of David at any price, and getting anything for Mookie before he fled. But could anyone give the Dodgers less than an A+? In 2020, Betts only led baseball in WAR again and LA to a world title.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How many times do we have to repeat this: Bloom got the best return possible for 12 years of Mookie Betts!
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When Bloom first made his betts, he was graterol over… then it seemed cool to get downs, but that turned out all wong. Chaim maeda bed… now the Nation has to sleep in it. Baby, baby – verdugo our love go?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox MLB reporter Ian Browne today: "Rafaela, whose wiry 5-foot-8 frame and spectacular defense are enough to remind you of a young Mookie Betts..."
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It is undeniable that someone who works for the Red Sox agreed to take Connor Wong in a trade for Mookie Betts. It is yet to be proven that someone who works for the Sox also posts on talksox...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wong again.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He has that Rougned Odor vibe. Sox would take three 30 home run seasons from him.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    One rookie already stirred some aches and pains into his cup of coffee last fall. Another MLB top 100 prospect could be the best rookie from a non-American continent. The third was so highly regarded they traded a Hall of Famer for him. It's going to be like having Lynn, Rice and Fisk all make it in the same season!
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