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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Scene from the movie Moneyball... John Henry to Billy Beane: "Anybody who's not tearing their team down right now and rebuilding it, using your model -- they're dinosaurs!" The scene depicted the famous Fenway Park meeting where Henry made a lucrative offer to recruit Beane to run the big-market Red Sox the same way he did in small-market Oakland. No one anywhere has ever said the movie characters portrayed their real-life characters out of character...
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Totally disagree blaming Cora for the misuse of Whitlock. Cora isn't concerned with "stretching out" and developing Whitlock to be a rotation ace for a sustained contender in the future. That smacks of an organizational decision made by front office types sitting around a big table staring at hypothetical line-ups on a whiteboard in a conference room. Cora wants -- and needs -- to win now, because like any manager, he knows if he doesn't he won't have a job. He can't possibly be satisfied with the bullcrap bullpen blowing games, and knows -- like the rest of us -- if he could use Whitlock at the back end that the record would be much better.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sale and Paxton aren't going to make a difference unless one can pitch the 8th and the other only pitches the 9th.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Liam Hendriks contract -- three years, $54M -- looks like a bargain right now. Imagine if the Red Sox used Story's $140M on just high-end relievers... Eck was speculating today on impending salary adjustments -- less for starters, more for relievers; is his prediction credible... or should the Sox just use their pitiful bullpen to open games, and save Wacha, Hill, Eovaldi, Whitlock, Pivettta, Houck, Strahm for bulk innings to the finish?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston's ghost runner is its ghost batter.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Robles walked the leadoff batter in the 9th on the team that's taken the least amount of bases on balls in the majors.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tony Maz: "The last few innings they haven't gotten cheated"... wasn't talking about the fans.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    30 to 1.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'll translate for Eck: "I'll be Barned. Back to the meatball."
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Barnes vs. Abreu? Barnes isn't good in back-to-back games when he's "right" and the Red Sox have been looking to "get him right" since last August.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who do we have off the bench that can end this? Moreland? Nunez? Carbo?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    NESN booth right now trying to differentiate levels of suckitude in Boston blown games.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe they should just stop calling it a blown save, and in the 9th call it what it really is: blown game. What really blows is that we all know if the Red don't walk it off in the bottom, the White ghost will score for sure in the 10th.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Story now has more Ks than Jackie Bradley Jr. and Verdugo combined.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Your parenthesis reminds of the mercurial lot of relievers. At least Kelly could throw 100 mph, which can overcome a lot of missed spots in the zone.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And I remember hoping that winter when they let Kimbrel and Kelly go that Sale would be converted into a closer. With his durability issues -- breaking down at the end of seasons -- he seemed an ideal candidate to become a one-inning, go-all-out guy rather than a starter always laboring through five. Of course, sitting for three hours during a game, then getting loose while trying to contain the late-inning adrenaline rush is not for everyone. Especially -- those with a constant eye on salaries will tell us -- for someone making so much money. Not that nailing down wins matters that much...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When Robert hit the HR, the Apple announcer yelled, "And the White Sox break it open!" It was 3 to nothing in the 3rd. And she was right. The way the Red Sox are hitting this year, three-zip feels like 30-0.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What has always bothered me as a fan or as a player is the obvious variable when taking out a starter who is "on" that night, especially with a relatively low pitch count: there is no guarantee the reliever will also be good... or the next reliever... or the next reliever... And don't blame Cora for maxing out Sale in 2017 -- except maybe in the playoffs, when Cora's Astros crushed Sale.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not the relievers' fault they inherited that stat. Whoops, they just allowed it to score.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox are protecting their assets, keeping old pitchers from breaking down before they can flip them for prospects this summer.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... except they can't blow a save if the offense doesn't score a single run in support.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This makes sense, because Jackie can play next to Franchy and make all the plays he misses, plus cover all the other ground up to the Monster.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not allowed to sit in the conference room when the front office plans ahead, but somehow I doubt Cora is the mastermind of limiting Whitlock's starts, and methodically "stretching him out" so that by next year the Sox could have an ace who can go six, even seven innings. Managers don't plan for the next season, not when this one could be their last.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's BS, he's only dealing the cards Bloom dealt him... or didn't, as in not acquiring a closer. Here are Cora's direct quotes about it from last night -- and look, you don't even have to read between the lines: "we would love somebody to step up and be consistent to throw strikes, go through three batters and turn the page. That’d be great so we could actually set up the sixth, the seventh, the eighth." The only Cora didn't say is what is obvious: the front office chose to enter the season with an incomplete roster.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    WTL (Whit the Lock).
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