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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Great interview on MLB channel yesterday with Toronto's batting coach David Popkins and his job of optimizing the strengths of each individual to form a balanced offensive attack. When questioned on his use of the word "clutch" -- since modern metrics dispute its existence -- Popkins said it's real, there are numbers to show it, but players and coaches can see it, based on observation. He mentioned certain hitters whose heartbeats slow down in big moments, when they come through more than others. Popkins cited guys like Clement, Gimenez and Kirk. This is a professional coach and former professional ballplayer who may know more about actually batting than a front office employee running analytics on a computer. I recently spoke with a guy who played against Ernie Clement in college. He said Clement wasn't a star in any one thing, but "did everything right in baseball."
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida will be in his element by the start of next season, because there's another WBC, where Mass Attacker is a stud! Everyone forgets he led the World in RBIs for the World champs in 2023. Predicting right now that Yoshi will reach career highs in homers in 2026; previous high is 15 in '23 and he will shatter that -- 16, 17, maybe even 18!!
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But that one win difference could be also be attributed to Hancock beating Boston and Sean Newcombe at Fenway back in April. There's more than ZERO VALUE in that for the M's...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He pitched for a third-place team. Seattle handed the ball to Hancock in 22 games, so he had value to someone over there. Hancock only had a -0.2 WAR, but that was still better than -0.8 Mariner Bryce Miller, another 26-year old. I'd still take either over broken-down Buehler at this point.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can a guy who threw 90 innings for a first place team -- more than everyone on the pitching staff except for the regular starting rotation -- have ZERO VALUE?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't hate the Dodgers for spending, because after all, they have a 25-year agreement with SportsNet LA for $8.35 BILLION through 2039. Great point by Drewski on the other owners reaping the tax penalties from LA, so we might as well forget anyone -- players, agents, owners -- ever advocating for a salary cap. As a Red Sox fan (especially this decade) of course I'm jealous, but I say this for fans of every MLB team: forget about a cap, but there definitely should be a salary shoe -- I don't care if it's a freakin flipflop -- something on the floor where even the most miserably miserly owners are required to invest... or get the hell off of our baseball lawn.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They all could've batted clean-up for the '25 Sox, and I'm not on pot.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't know if you're overanalyzing something you think is overanalyzing, but I'm just going by what I observed: Bello's manager -- who really needed his only available veteran starter besides Crochet to go at least 5 innings in the playoffs, but then deemed for whatever reasons he was only good for 7 outs....
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... which is what he had in Game Two in New York. So count me in, too.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You lost me at 2018. I was sure the end of your sentence was going here: "Almost as weak as the Sox lineup in the last..." WILD CARD ROUND A MONTH AGO!
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sox minor league position player depth seems alarmingly weak at catcher, first base and third base, with no legit prospects in the upper levels. Worcester and Portland might as well be on Planet Dearth. Hopefully, guys like Arias, Godbout and Gonzales continue to develop and move up fast. Mayer looks destined for 3B. If Bregman isn't resigned, I like Bichette as the best free agent option for a quality bat who can start somewhere in the infield. If Boston won't pay market prices for Alonso or Schwarber, then trade for Yandy Diaz at 1B -- which will add another solid contact man who won't strike out.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Home run! It was predictable that's what would take to win the "second" game last night, and LA had a huge edge once the Jays replaced Springer, Bichette, Barger and Kirk in their lineup. The postseason is all about HRs, because the pitching is so good it's less likely clubs can string together an inning with three singles to produce a run -- or two hits and a well-placed grounder or sac fly -- instead of one big swing.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like it -- and above the scoreboard, cut out a chunk of the wall and insert a couple rows of seats in the shape of a grin; the ladder's already installed for fans to climb up and down, and Henry gets to increase attendance for more profits to buy cigars... and pay for all the home run balls it will cost him. Then next winter Sam Kennedy will announce they'll be painting two big eyeballs near the top of the Monster, with a contest to decide what awards batters will get if they hit either target (ex: automatic two-run homer, but they have to circle the bases twice).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The ambidextrous are the real problem -- they won't just rely on traditional measures or metrics, but insist on using all tools of evaluation. The ambidextrous consider every angle in circular motions that create holistic holes in the whole panorama that sink boats in the panorama canal before we can identify if they're manned by fishermen or scapegoat farmers. If only the ambidextrous would just put both hands in their pockets and use their eyes, they'd see what the rest of us are told we're seeing.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At school, I couldn't drum pencils on my desk without missing a beat, but there was an opening with a band that liked me. I know I wasn't tapped out, but then someone gave me a flutophone. I just started practicing when someone else handed me a triangle... but I dropped it. I know I can improve my grip with some pinetar. Just don't ask me to be designated singer. Who keeps flashing the laser pointer-- the bell rang; was that the first bell or the late bell?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yet somebody from the org apparently told Kristian Campbell that a year ago -- or at least the last line in Florida. And somehow it doesn't make sense that voice was from Alex Cora, a legitimately good major league infielder for 14 seasons of positive dWAR, who watched every prospect throughout Spring Training -- when it was obvious Marcelo Mayer outplayed KC on D.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Plus, a lot of our depth starters being suggested in trades will be coming off injuries -- no team will swap assets for damaged goods this winter. Any deals involving guys like Crawford, Dobbins, Fitts and/or Perales -- if they happen -- will probably have to wait until Spring Training for the rehabbers to show they're recovered and ready. To reiterate: any package for a top of the rotation starter will undoubtedly have to include Tolle and/or Early... ... and that doesn't mean guys like Clarke or Witherspoon are worthless -- just worth less, for clubs seeking MLB-ready arms for '26.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We're just lucky other teams lost 89 games to Boston. And I keep including WC Game One in the postseason -- which we all know is more difficult than the regular -- so we can say the Sox won 90.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Appreciate the concepts, but don't think Breslow, building around pitching, would trade six arms with upside in one winter -- even for those three. The one deal that makes sense for Boston is the Alcantara swap, but would Miami go for two guys who haven't made comebacks yet? We do know previous Marlin regimes were interested in Casas...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good to see Bichette preparing to be a Red Sox next year: played solid at second base, shot a base hit to right on his first swing in a month.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even if Murakmai only wanted $50M, I'd still take Okamoto.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hendriks for sure. Sale post-extension, but not post-trade. Giolito: 2024 regular season, 2025 postseason (but he bounced around other cities before Sox to Sox). Seaver didn't make it to the '86 postseason -- would've had Nipper's start vs. the Mets... Aparicio? Something like 0-for-40, then he fell down.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... the perfect place to shop for a mid-market club with the support of nearly the entire northeast region of a northeast region.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And for blunts to light the fireplace for winter pics
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Deer in the tailights
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