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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm ready for Segura, and let's add Brantley, too, for DH/LF (wherever Yoshida doesn't play that day). I don't care if he's a lefty -- why not just focus on changing the culture of big whiffers with affordable bat-to-ball hitters. There just aren't many righty power bats available... and do we necessarily have to replace the 3-4 righty batters from a last place team? We have to assume the MLB will again use the mushballs -- except for its flagship franchise with kajillionaire figurehead in the Bronx. And anyway, a lefty-laden lineup might benefit in no-shift 2023.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Latest on Eovaldi is that other clubs are showing more reported interest than the Red Sox. The shock value is like walking on shag carpet in your socks and touching a doorknob. But I've figured out Bloom's mystery man with upside: Cole Hamels! He hasn't pitched in three or four years, but at 39 is younger than Verlander and Scherzer... and obviously well-rested. Imagine the perfect Bloom guy: a World Series hero from decades ago that will only cost minimum wage -- and we won't have to activate Blake Swihart out of retirement to acquire him.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    MVP recently showed some stats on how average starting pitchers don't go much more than 5 IP anymore and that the Red Sox were average. Maybe it just seemed like Boston starters were causing bullpen burnout during the Bloom Era... though there is evidence that Barnes starts hot and is always toast in August. But it could be the Sox rostered relievers just aren't durable for sustained contention. Then again, maybe below average meatballers give hitters more BP to be better prepared for late innings. No one can argue that adding an innings eater to the rotation won't help preserve the bullpen, as well. The Sox need another starter with moreside.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, Bloom was a loser by a landslide in two of the past three campaigns... but at least he's not a standings denier.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's already offered #5 starters $13M AAV (which they accepted from other clubs instead)... but isn't allowed to give a Japanese ace $15M? Must be saving the budget for a longterm Rodon contract. Yea, sure. Maybe Old Red is on to something about the Sox confusing their international recruits?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This rotation has plenty of potential -- the potential to lose Eovaldi, Wacha and Hill -- who were all pretty good when not about to go on or come off the IL. That's three starters from a rotation good enough to finish in last place. Something to consider when counting on comebacking rehabbing veterans: the new pitch clock, which they've never dealt with in their careers. Also, another new rule factor for an effective overall pitcher will be the ability to hold runners on base, without throwing over unless he has a killer pick-off move. Prediction: younger pitchers with pitch clock experience will be early staff leaders, at least... so Bello and Whitlock > Sale and Paxton (and that's not even counting health).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If I got confused by Song, books and movies connected to the military, maybe Dombrowski did, too. Dave and I certainly both remember how good Song looked in an amateur tournament back when he was Red Sox property all these years ago now... ... but is it possible that Dombro, replaced in Beantown by younger analytics people (some of whom he ignored or refused to work with), has actually found some loophole that allows Song to become a Phillies pitcher that Bloom and his nerds missed? It's at least ironic.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think your last line has always been part of the plan -- but like I've been saying all day, I think the rest of any plan has been obliterated by public outrage the past few days. If the Red Sox are not in Defcon 1, they should be.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The C-22 movie revolved around the Big Guy's planned and celebrated bye-bye -- and I think the big pivot initiated when the boys recruited a distaff member of the staff to exploit his life of the party... or was that MASH (I'm stuck on the shower scene).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Catch 22 was a military book and movie, but I liked the film version of MASH better... speaking of Song and the latter, the TV show's theme was Suicide is Painless, which was really the main idea of Catch 22 -- it's all very circular, so maybe Noah winds up back in Boston -- though probably not in a Red Sox uni, but Navy whites.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Letting Ellsbury go (to the Spanks) worked out, because they knew Jackie Bradley could actually throw, and already took better routes in college.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... mainly for his connection to Cora -- and he is both younger and better at shortstop than Bogey. Plus, Correa crushes it at Fenway (the games I attended). Recently, I predicted a Carlos signing in Boston would mean that neither X nor Raffy would be extended... I was thinking Correa would lead the new wave, and be a team player willing to shift around the infield when core prospects are promoted. But today I've changed my tune. Now the only way to save this offseason -- for the freaking fans -- is to extend Devers and sign Correa, and then ink either Rodon, Senga or Eovaldi, and either Wacha or Kluber. People will be ok with Correa and Yoshida replacing Bogaerts and JD... and because of our better bullpen, that's a better team.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's really hard for me to call Bloom or O'Halloran good right now, because even if Henry was calling the shots, they were complicit in the idiotic way this entire Bogaerts fiasco transpired, beginning with the one-year offer to the most powerful agent in pro sports. And again, just judging them by their words and actions this fall and winter, they are either incompetent or liars... or incompetent liars.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Honestly, I don't see any other option. I don't relish the cliffs and valleys that come with albatross contracts, but it's part of the game... if you want to play the game. That's the real Moneyball in the 2020s.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He said Henry should get on TV and apologize to the fans. There's really no way out of this now unless they spend and spend big. Cutting corners and picking up a placeholder or two, signing a few more #3 starters, even trading a decent prospect -- all those options that made sense and still could've kept the Sox in wild card contention -- that's over now. Imagine the reaction if Bloom trades Devers for someone's #10 prospect and then picks up mediocrities to replace Raffy and Bogey now?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just blow past the tax, like the billionaires on other teams are doing. It's their money, so who f***ing cares. If you can afford an estate in Tuscany for more than you just paid the Japanese Juan Soto, then you can afford to put happy faces in your laundry and your box seats.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The beat writers who cover the Red Sox daily have been noticeably bitter because they were so misled the day before by Boston execs that Bogey was going to re-sign. They all posted rosy reports, then after midnight the CBO was off the rose. It's not just fans that are pissed. And though we're all human and have bad days, it's one thing to make mistakes -- but nobody wants to be lied to. Ever. Not by a friend, spouse, president or ballclub. Just tell us the truth -- we can handle it.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No will challenge the Red Sox as long as Madman Sale is around. They'd be afraid he'd scissor their shirts, ram them with his bike, and king kong them with big screen TVs.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even Xander said in SD the Red Sox could sign Raffy if they want to... And I disagree that signing Correa wouldn't be a good step for the future. Star players in their prime form the core that teams build sustained contenders around. You don't build around mediocre bargain bin guys -- they're the scaffolding you take down, once the renovations are complete.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Trading Devers doesn't make sense, because no one will give up anything good for him unless they legitimately think they can sign him; that narrows it down to a small handful of clubs that like spending. Even then, the return for one year of Raffy won't be anything special -- for example, one-for-one trade proposals on BTV in swaps for Sean Murphy or Brian Reynolds don't even come close to being acceptable. What a debacle for the front office. New England is really pissed, and ownership knows it needs to just pay Devers -- but we don't know if he'll even sign now, for any price after the past week of free agent riches. If he won't, the best remaining option has to be to pay Correa -- the middle-of-the-order righty power bat and Platinum Glove defender in his prime that won't cost any draft picks. Swanson as a consolation prize won't cut it: good player, but older than Carlos with only 14.5 career WAR. Correa is the star, with 39.5 career WAR and 18 postseason home runs. He's also the best fit for Fenway and with Cora.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Devers' agents will open at 14 years for $490M -- that's $35M AAV -- with the intent of settling for $30M AAV. And since he's younger than Xander, he'll want more years, so 13 for 390 is not out of the question... ... if he stays healthy and has a 90 XBH salary-drive season, someone out West will pay him.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Yankees will give Soto $600M for 15 years that will take him through age 40, when an incentive clause for living that long automatically anoints him mayor of the Bronx, with an opt out during the Pinstripe Pandemic of 2050 -- the same year he'll run for the House of Dracula, using his fortune to produce ads exposing the bipolarity of his opponent, Old Man Walker from Texas, who morphs from a bull to a werewolf, depending on when the moon is full or made of green cheese.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's just hard to imagine JH last spring, sitting on his yacht, thinking, "Screw Boras -- offer X one more year" ... ... and the front office agreeing, when everyone had to know the ramifications. It would be as unbelievable as a president refusing to use the national guard to protect the government during a calamity, and everyone in the Pentagon nodding their heads.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Story shifts to SS -- presumed since the Sox explored trading for Kolten Wong -- then I'm in on Jean Segura for second base: career .285 BA, .739 OPS, 13.9% K-rate... 32 years old, but never a negative dWAR... righty stick, 13 HRs per 162. Segura is younger than Elvis, and lets Kike stay in CF.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ok, but no one can ignore the Devers in the room. What do you forsee as a solution? His situation needs to be clear one way or the other by Opening Day or he's a lame Raffy.
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