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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's a great way to avoid spending on all the higher-priced players who are in actual demand... especially if you're hired to build the best possible team costing the least amount of resources.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Over/under on '23 Casas: 20 HR, 80 RBI, 80 BB, 80 K, .250 BA, .800 OPS I'll take over on all...
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Neither has ever started even one-half a regulation MLB season in the infield. If Turner is primarily the DH, that leaves exactly two players on the Red Sox roster who have started half a season in a big league infield: Raffy and... Dalbec! Is you ready?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is actually not opinion: a month before Spring Training 2023, the Red Sox' infield is half-empty.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Felger and Holley on NBC Sports Boston are killing Bloom this morning, for asking Red Sox Nation yesterday, "Now do you see our vision?" They were like -- for finally signing a homegrown player? Felger: "What vision? Right now your MLB team sucks. The Red Sox blow."
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom, according to Tom Werner yesterday, is "one of the finer heads of baseball operations in baseball." Maybe someday it will come out that an owner or another sharp spear of influence recruited Story -- instead of Bloom (like in the Larry L days). Meanwhile, your first big money signing -- the guy you specifically added to replace your star homegrown shortstop -- can't replace him. Not one of the finer head's finer moments.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When assessing the worth of some of these, especially pitchers, the rings are certainly a factor. But my point was about investing long and large on starters -- is it just bad luck or more bad management that the Red Sox' mound targets all seem to miss entire seasons in the rotation: Schilling, Lackey, Sale... not to mention paying Price to miss entire seasons in Boston. If it's not incompetence or a curse, I guess if someone analyzed other big money free agent pitchers, there would be similar results? Scherzer was an exception, but even he's had breakdowns or early exits in recent postseasons. Cole has been durable so far... (but not good enough when it counts for Yankee fans).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Understood. So is the concept that you're only signing him for three -- instead of six -- albeit, prime years.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's impressive you compiled it. Yikes, how many were actually worth the entire investment? Certainly, Big Papi... Bogaerts for three years (but a reason to never again grant an opt-out clause)... JD, Porcello (won a Cy, leading winner on the greatest Sox team)... maybe Drew: 4-year average .853 OPS (his 5th year was half-a-season, but final seasons of contracts are accepted as lost causes).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's always reassuring for Red Sox fans on this Red Sox forum that -- even when things look grim -- we can always count on another empty diatribe by a bitter fan of their annually choking arch-rivals. Where would we be without our Optics Mystic?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A quick list of Red Sox pitchers paid like top-of-the-rotation starters: Sale, Eovaldi, Price, Lackey, Beckett, Schilling, Pedro -- JFC, they all got hurt and missed considerable time on the IL. All had good to great runs, but none were really good investments for the life of his contract, except Pedro -- whose arm still required a two-week vacation every summer. In contrast, a lot of big money position players played or tried to play through their aches and pains: Bogaerts, JD, even Pedroia (whose jersey they had to rip away, just to get him off the diamond). Was Manny ever hurt? This excludes Story, who was clearly damaged goods no matter how hard he threw having a catch last month...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom spoke directly to the fans at today's Devers Forevers presser (I'm totally with you on Raffy, but can't give Chaim much credit for trading Diekman, when he's the guy who signed him in the first place; but, at least he dumped him in time to get something useful). When Bloom said the plan was to build around Raffy, and alluded to what the Sox have coming, I took that to mean farmhands and not mercenaries. But don't get me wrong, like anyone else I'd love Soto, and maybe mega talents are the best get-what-you-pay-for way to invest. We know spending large and long on pitching has to be the worst odds -- as far as getting entirely healthy returns on the life of their contracts. Maybe the best plan is to pay big for star position players while just keep acquiring established MLB starters over-30 with a lot of mileage but know-how -- 1-3 years at reasonable rates -- and go heavy on cheap young power arms recycled from the minors to eat up the bulk of relief innings... which comprise half of every game nowadays. It works in other places.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You be clutching at semantics. And......... that clutch is measurable, notin (Red's 12-word post).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, the ones constantly typing the label sometimes read like the biggest ones of all. Fans want their team to win, so they can cheer. When they lose, they boo because they can't. When their team loses a lot -- or even a little, because of what looks like obvious flaws -- fans complain, because they wish it was better. All fans are experts on how to improve their team (some even post ideas daily on webs blown into clouds). However, very few fans aren't disappointed in the present, but secure in the knowledge that in the future, a plan might work... especially if it's supposed to be five years from now.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Monarch might be the most appropriate if they're indeed endangered now (because humans are endangering everything).
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The glass is half-full in the bullpen, with a new old veteran closer and a set-up man who doesn't walk batters. If only we could count on the good Whitlock or Houck to be part of it... The glass is half-empty in the rotation, with two new old veteran starters, plus the Flying Stickman from the 20teens, along with Bello and Pivetta. If only we could count on Whitlock or Houck to be good parts of it... The line-up? The only known commodities on the field are Devers and Verdugo. Casas could be good, Kike could be healed, and Yoshida could be a big leaguer. There's weakness up the middle: catcher, where Chaim wants an upgrade; second and short, where there aren't nobodies -- but no bodies; even center, depending on whether Kike moves to the infield. Turner can still hit enough to DH, but the holes are dire... right now: half-empty. This thread isn't called A Pessimistic View of '23, but no one can feel confident today these Red Sox will win more than they lose.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd like to replace entitled with liable, please. It's a fan forum, after all.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agree with all of this, except Kike on his one-year contract plays SS, Duran/Ref platoon in CF, and Rafaela is promoted to take over center midseason. What's the point of spending money on Elvis to win three more games, when 75 wins isn't much different than 72 wins...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    bWAR 2019-22 (through age 25): Soto 20.1 Devers 14.0 Acuna 13.7 Alvarez 13.6 Tatis 13.6
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Normal fan reaction to gaping holes in favorite team's starting line-up (and/or starting rotation and/or back-end-of-bullpen): let's go, make some moves. Normal front office uses resources to acquire the best available talent. Bloom Era: reported interest in all options, but only do what "makes sense," which is somehow to wait until the best players have found new homes, and only then pick off the leftovers with one year contracts.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I am -- in Florida next month. Throw them right in there and see what they got (with no pressure, since only Sam Kennedy thinks we're winning the World Series). There will be plenty of cheap replacement players available by the end of March if the front office thinks we still need to pretend.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No reason to spend any more money on acquisitions for '23 now. But -- looking forward to some February rookie excitement in Florida! Not going to suggest Mayer, who just turned 20 (only top prospects like Raffy and Xander make the bigs at that age)... but how about Valdez hitting bombs over palm trees and platooning at 2B, or Rafaela and Duran splitting CF and stealing first (now that Kike's our SS).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't worry, the Red Sox already hired a police escort to bring back Stephen Drew to play shortstop. And JD Drew to play right field. And Nancy Drew to solve the starting rotation.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Story narrative officially sucks. It sucks that he missed almost the entire second half of last season, and will now miss at least the first half of this season (and that he struck out 30 percent of the time when he played). Most injuries are unpredictable, but everyone saw this one coming. Masa Yoshida better be good. We've got one last chance to make it real...
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