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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    MLB.com reports Marlins shopping Lopez, need offense. BTV accepts Yorke and Murphy for Lopez and Garcia. How hard was that?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If describing Boston in 2022, needlessly is a needless word. The M's are in go-for-now mode, and not just because they're the only team never to play in a World Series. They have a deep pitching rotation in place, with some controllable studs, and more importantly, coinciding with young stars at positions. The time was ripe for a Castillo trade. Boston finished last, and has holes all over the roster. The Sox may have a ways to go before they're ready to deal their own #1, 3 and 5 prospects for one pitcher. Remember, when they traded for Chris Sale, they were already a first-place team.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Looks like deGrom agreed to an incentive-based contract that pays less if he's injured. Ask the Red Sox how that turned out with Lackey...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Would the Red Sox and their fans want Reynolds... or Casas at first and Bello on the mound for the next six years, along with Mayer at short and Rafaela in center for at least half of those?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If that's what we keep saying, imagine the ivy leaguers in the front office.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like him -- career: .281 LH, .281 RH -- but I have to trade from depth. I'm keeping Casas, who looks like a good two-way player, and substitute a middle infielder like Romero, Lugo or Paulino. I don't care what BTV says; two top-10ish prospects plus a pitcher is a pretty good haul for a below-average outfielder with pop. Cruz may end up in centerfield or rightfield for Pitt, but no way I'm parting with Mayer for Reynolds either.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If you really want to have fun on BTV, go to Colorado and take Bryant's salary. I did that on a deal to get Marquez and there was no way it would validate, even giving the Rox the negative contracts of Sale and Barnes, and taking back their #1 prospect, outfielder Zac Veen (who I highly recommend).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    History in Boston alone shows us it's usually a guy who a team thinks is washed up or overrated. Tiant was an ace briefly in the 1960s, then released by two clubs the same year before the Sox gave him a shot... and even they almost cut him before he re-emerged. Wakefield was unhittable as a NL rookie, demoted to the minors a few years later, then released before Boston picked him up and he found it again. Pedro was thought to have infinitesimal fortitude or something by Lasorda, dumped by LA, and then luckily turned too expensive for Montreal to keep. Bloom and his ilk aren't wrong trying to use analytics to make their luck -- Wacha was a good one and Richards wasn't -- as long as nobody tries to get too clever and turn an old Hanley into a leftfielder...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean, other than Sale, Price, Lackey, Dice K, Matt Clement, Matt Young, Frank Viola and Mike Torrez? Holy Red Sucks. David Wells I can't remember, but couldn't stand him.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yup, it would probably be a trade, and you have to give up something to get something. I just wouldn't deal Bello, who could evolve into Dwight Gooden by mid-summer for all we know -- and that would defeat the whole purpose. But we do know Bloom's not digging up and shipping out any of his best crops. He'll spend instead; just be prepared for Kluber, Heaney and half a Hill. ps. we're shooting for a wild card, anyway, and Baltimore is no lock to keep improving -- not when they just signed Franchy
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox really need a good starter, a #1, someone at the top of the rotation, and it should be someone new going into a new season trying to climb out of the cellar. This, to me, is the priority -- even over replacing SS, RF and C. It all starts with who starts. Fans, writers, and even the incumbent players need more than status woe.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... but maybe not free agents, whose costs are sure to rise, including Eovaldi's. What may be more likely is a plan that promotes a guy like Mata to the rotation by summer. Also, any blockbuster trade may focus more on a cost-controlled catcher and/or outfielder. All depends on if they have to go to Plan B because Bogaerts leaves... unless, of course, Bogey bolting means they get their intended Plan A, after all.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No more cigarette billboards, but someday Dunkin or Budweiser will seem outdated when new cost-cutting demon ingredients are discovered. Watching Twilight Zone reruns with all the people smoking is like being in the Twilight Zone. My grampa used to tell me night games at Yankee Stadium were hard to watch back when everyone smoked and a glowing cloud of fog covered the diamond.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He did ask the Sox to match it, but Bloom told him to take it to Tampa.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I honestly think this has been an actual plan for some franchises. Which commodity is always at a premium at the trade deadline? Since bullpens rule the modern game, it makes sense that good relief pitchers -- because the very definition changes with faces and names yearly -- is always in demand... for contenders. Watch how Tampa uses Eflin, who was more effective as a reliever last year. Starter, opener, set-up man... I just hope Boston crushes him every time they face him until the Rays dump his contract on a desperate Seattle-type team in an upcoming July.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is reason for optimism, a legitimate reliever -- seven years in the Show and zero starts -- acquired when he was actually good... 0.527 WHIP in 26 games for LA down the stretch. Here's why it's not exciting: fans won't yell and scream when Martin enters the game because he doesn't walk batters. Career high BB in a season is 6. Red Sox just got more watchable. And all this for Barnes money... Now Bloom just needs an ace starter for Martin to relieve before the closer comes in.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not seeing defeatism, but instead there's understandable skepticism that comes with being fans of a last place team. Most really just want something to be optimistic about. Last place sucks, whether it's the great AL East or Vitellius' Feast (if gluttony and gambling are your hobby). Meanwhile, we await the upcoming Winter Meetings and imminent moves teased by the Red Sox PR department. So far this week, two players Boston had reported interest in reportedly weren't interested in Boston enough.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The ballplayers' perception of how the organization actually treats them -- beyond paychecks -- might matter after all. Fans who don't play much team sports after Little League may think it's overrated, but these pro athletes are and always will be competitors -- and most want to win... no matter how set for life their families are up until the Sun implodes. It's why there was a fuss in the clubhouse when Vazquez was traded and the Sox were still in it (he wasn't just their buddy) -- and such reaction wasn't invented by Boston media. Research back to the deadline days of 2021, and the uproar in Seattle when the Mariners traded then-lights out closer Kendall Graveman. Ballplayers may not all be deep thinkers, but they're social beings, and word gets around the league about front offices and organizations... just like about companies in other industries.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Eflin's the biggest free agent signing in Rays' history. If Tampa thinks that highly of him, he may be the sleeper acquisition of the winter. And if the pitching market is exploding, and if the Red Sox can't land a guy like that, they're not about to overpay $45 million or so for a deGrom. Wonder if someone will give Eovaldi at least a similar contract. Eflin had injury concerns, as well, but Nate is better when healthy...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That price was apparently worth it to two like-minded markets. Nightengale reports the Sox offered the exact same deal... except Eflin would have had to work in New England instead of his homestate of FLA. Maybe it's just coincidence, but that's now two targets this week who also signed with contenders instead of Boston.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For me, 2020 would have been better watching Mookie in a Red Sox uniform. He wouldn't have won the World Series for Boston, though he maybe would've made the difference in three or four more Ws (if WAR actually translates to Wins Above Redsoxrecord). But being a fan of any team that Betts plays for is definitely more fun than not. Overall, if fans are given a choice to think before responding, it's ultimately about winning -- if not, why even keep score? Flashback to the offseason after 2004: no one wanted to see Pedro go, but logically most knew his days of dominance were numbered. I remember rationalizing that keeping Derek Lowe would be a better investment longterm. But can any Sox fan on the planet truthfully say s/he predicted the actual accurate contributions of the '04 champs' 5-man rotation going forward? Post-04 WAR 8.8 Martinez 9.9 Schilling 11.1 Wakefield 14.4 Lowe 21.2 ARROYO
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fans just want to watch and cheer their team and favorite players trying to win... and for their team to keep their favorite players so they can keep watching and cheering for them. If they don't, considerably less people will cry than the ones who will turn off their TVs. Average fans not posting daily on forums don't care about salary and budgets. They all know that pro athletes make kajillions and owners of sports teams are kajillionaires. But there are very few Red Sox fans who could give a crap whether their favorite player makes $25 million instead of $30 million.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Great, he could also replace the missing lefty power that Franchy, Shaw, Bradley and Duran didn't supply last year.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Haniger produced 39 home runs as recent as 2021, then injuries and mushballs affected him like everyone else not 6 foot 7.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    XBH since 2018: 1. Ramirez 2. Betts 3. Arenado 4. Freeman 5. Devers... tied with JD ... everyone in the top 25 is 28 or older except Raffy.
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