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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The other option that was accepted: Dalbec, Downs and Duran for Montas.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How about this price: Duran for Manea? The Trade Simulator calls it a minor overpay... by Boston.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can any fan be? We're counting on the same top-2 going into 2019, three years and one major surgery later... It's also unfair to expect both Whitlock and Houck to be as good or better than their rookie years, but right now they're our best hope. And I really don't care how many mediocre pieces they acquire to fill the missing ERod innings and late game match-ups, and closer committees; it all smacks of patchwork, and that doesn't win.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe, but it's hard to sell this to Red Sox fans who spend hard earned money on a team they just want to believe cares as much as they do about winning each and every year. It's also hard to believe that Bloom is a unique guy who has never planned on trying to win it all in his three years as the man in charge, the one ultimately responsible for doing anything and everything to win the last game of the season. He must have the patience of a trout fisherman. Or a married man.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Management or ownership?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Why not 2022?" asked Red Sox fans. "We were just two wins away from the World Series!" Or was that just because of a lucky bounce... and management doesn't think we're good enough to go for it... but someday, with the luxury savings of all the taxes we're not paying, this CBO with a billionaire's safety deposit box will spend good money on a really good players... when he thinks we're ready to root for a real championship contender again.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ...except it's every August when Barnes melts down. I'd think after eight years, the professional analyticals would have a plan for management on how to deal with a guy like that.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We've been watching Barnes since 2014 -- that's eight years in the majors -- and it should be obvious, by now, that last year wasn't an outlier (except maybe for being rewarded with an extension after making the All-Star team). The fact is, Barnes always looks good in the first half and always slumps in the second half. Career splits (batting average and OPS): April/March .171/.553; May .214/.650... August .289/.902... eegads, by now, the Epstein regime would just give him a month's vacation every August, like they did when they let Pedro shut it down and go home in Julys.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can the annual World Series favorites possibly function without their All-Star catcher? This trade is similar to the deal that brought Bradley back to Boston, though some Red Sox fans just can't accept that it was all about the prospects -- and not JBJ. But I think Yankee fans know or will know, that the defensive catcher prospect was the big target in ditching Sanchez. Gio is as good right now as Donaldson, and IKF is underrated but a place-keeper. Finally -- no more pretending on contending with a lousy backstop.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We're telepathic. I just said this to my son yesterday, but speaking in odds, as in the odds of this scenario is much higher than say, Atlanta and Houston having good rotations again. Last year's pennant winners each made the World Series without their top starters and will be getting them back: Soroka and McCullers; notice I didn't even mention Verlander, another Sale-type wildcard (until now).
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm happy to have any new decent relievers. Last year's pen lefties were Darwinzon H., who they wouldn't trust, and then Davis, who they couldn't trust. The most important thing about adding quality to the bullpen is that it frees up Houck or Whitlock or both to start... because they're better than any of the old hurt horses signed last fall. Some people want to count on Sale improving or Eovaldi staying the same, but having fresh arms with stuff is just as much a key -- it's also why Toronto just signed three starting pitchers in their primes longterm.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yippee -- he can be the bulk guy after an opener, instead of the back end, which he showed to Boston after signing but never playing during the summer that never was. Somehow, my son had his 2020 baseball card in a Sox cap; maybe he was wearing it on a fishing trip and a guide took his picture.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I remember hearing Dombrowski say, "We can't keep them all," and hoping that didn't mean he knew we were losing Mookie. But I like Mookie more now that I read he banned cellphones from his wedding reception, and that JBJ only found out he was traded back to Boston in a special phone room.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and our egos; at least we're all back to know-somethings (I used to think I was a know-it-all, then Mookie got traded and I became a no, nothing).
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I actually changed the ringtone on my cell to something called "Bloom." It promises to alert me every time another player signs elsewhere for more than the Sox will pay (somewhere, there's a poster beginning to type: But they just changed the clocks; Spring isn't even officially for another week...)
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That sinks it! Henry is so cheap! But Sam Kennedy just texted that the Sox lead the league in most facial expressions created using punctuation marks...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    None. But with all these teams making moves, the only action in Red Sox Nation is the typing of old guys like us on the first Saturday night of ST... Sure, we imagine Bloom is glued to his cellphone like a middle schooler, but he's probably having a nice, relaxing dinner with his family, wondering if the octopus on the menu is really eight times smarter than the average GM. And alien. And capable of generating more ink in times of stress than Manny and Pedro combined...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Montas is more of a strikeout arm, and Bassitt more a control guy... so for a crappy D like the Red Sox, Montas is more attractive. Ugh.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Why not? They're the fourth most powerful team in the MLB.... DOT COM.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    White Sox sign Josh Harrison and Joe Kelly, Colorado signs Jose Iglesias... seriously, these are all guys the Red Sox could use. It's reminiscent of the offseason a year ago, when all the players I wanted in Boston were allowed to go elsewhere. What was Chief Bloom thinking... and then they made it to the ALCS.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mets gave up their second best pitching prospect and another for Bassitt. Hopefully, the A's liked the Mets' minor leaguers better than Boston's... but if Bloom wouldn't give up Jay Groome -- the Sox #2 pitching prospect -- for an AL All-Star starter... grrrrrrr. Have to think Montas or Manea will cost more...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's another report out there that the Sox are one of a handful of teams in on Jorge Soler. What's the board to make of that interest? Would Soler replace JD (if traded) at DH? Can he play LF better than JD... with Verdugo moving to RF, along with the usual JBJ/Kike CF/2B permutations? Is Soler -- an AL home run champ and World Series MVP -- Plan B if Suzuki chooses the West Coast?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and Sox fans will be glad to watch him, bailing out a pitching staff that replaced their innings leader, top winner, and under-30 starter from the past four years with older, broken-down veterans.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and in candid GM-speak, Bloom told us it was going to be. I'm still trembling after one glance at Moon's list of '20 pitchers, and we shouldn't forget who assembled it. But it puts into perspective how unGodley the '21 staff was in comparison; Whitlock was really Bloom's find of the century, the one strand of pasta that stuck on the wall, when all the other pieces the year before splat on the floor.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yankees are 4th-ranked in all of baseball in MLB.com's Power Rankings, behind only the Dodgers, White Sox and Rays. Yup, the Bronx Bombers are rated higher than the World Champion Braves, AL champion Astros, and stacked Blue Jays. Surely, no Yankee fan would trade their pitching staff for Atlanta's or Houston's (who just got Verlander back), or their top hitters for all the young studs on Toronto. And just look how much New York has improved since last year at important defensive positions like catcher, shortstop and centerfield. Start spreading the news.
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