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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My point on the budget isn't how much is being spent but what we really argue about here (and at work, at home, pre-Covid bars, etc): who it is being spent on. For Bloom's goal of continuing to build the farm, some strategies have to shift. Even if the Sox let all their free agents walk and they finish last again, the new draft lottery makes it even harder to land a gem like Mayer. So where will the truly top prospects come from, assuming Boston stays competitive? Maybe from other organizations... ... which can make trading high-priced commodities like Devers almost desirable.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They may already have. But he rightfully considers himself a $30 million per year player, which is the going rate for a top of the industry bat at his position. With the Red Sox, it's never about whether they are big market spenders. As many posters love to point out, Boston's payroll is one of the top three/four/five/whatever every single year. What this is all about -- what other posters continually counter -- is that the Sox keep changing budget plans, sometimes to align with trends, sometimes to defy trends. Bloom can give Story $23+ AAV, but then offers Bogaerts only $22.5 AAV? How blatantly disrespectful; it's like they're intentionally forcing him out the door (which may very well be the intention, to get X to soon waive his no-trade clause -- so Bloom will get something back instead of letting him walk for nothing). Seriously, how hard would it be to at least offer Bogie $25 AAV? They know Boras will reject anything less than $30 anyway, but at least the Red Sox wouldn't be spitting into the face of the franchise...
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In that case, can I have my old back back?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's also more fun than constantly reminding ourselves of what we already know: it's still early, before it's summer, before we near the deadline, before it's getting late. But don't forget: Devers' best month is July, JD's is August... and Bogie's is May (if his leg is healed by then).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bello will be up before the end of the summer; he's on the 40.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I didn't say a big ticket item. But the Braves were able to add four good outfielders in the middle of the season last year. One won a Gold Glove and led the NL in RBI, another won NLCS MVP, and a third was WS MVP... (the fourth wore a pearl necklace?)
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I don't know if the announcers have said it, but I'm convinced Bogaerts hammy is cramping his hitting. He just cannot drive the ball with his legs. Arroyo looks like an MLB hitter. With Story out, though, it just weakens two positions not to put Arroyo at his natural spot. I know they want him to be an outfielder, but I want to grow my hair back, too. It will be surprising if Bloom doesn't add a legitimate MLB flychaser in the next month...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not a slam-dunk if just comparing 2004 -- the year denny referenced -- with 2018, Dombro's crown. Both GMs took clubs with stars inherited from past GMs and then made major moves or moves that turned out to be major that put them over the top.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Conversely, can anyone ever remember a team that gets off to a hot start, say 15-5, and the majority its fans aren't excited? Or are warned not to be excited (except by bitter NY fans)? Do players of that team ever go, "Bah, it's still early...?" Do coaches or writers ever stress how important it can be to get off to a bad start? Who really thinks games in a September pennant race carry the same weight as in the first month of April?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's not very elite of you. Imagine growing up a Yankee fan in the 90s, and going through life feeling that anything less than a World Series ring is a failure?
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It may be impossible for younger fans and posters to fathom there once was a time when the most important goal in baseball was to finish first. Imagine fretting over day-to-day battles for six long months, instead of just aiming to peak for a few weeks in October? Winning The Pennant was actually a bigger accomplishment than one best-of-seven series in the fall. But that only mattered for a hundred years.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's hitting below the broken belt.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anyone who watched Baez' game-winning home run knows that pitch was out of the strike zone, so it's dumb to blame Braiser. How dare he throw one neck-high to a guy always swinging out of his heels? The game plan to beat Boston so far is to stay competitive through the first inning, and then the Sox won't mount a single rally the rest of the game (solo shots and ghost runners aren't rallies).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dombro says the best anti-tank strategy is to shove all combustible prospects into greased Army socks and stick them onto the treads. Pearce has been retired for three years, and I'm still glad they traded Espinal, who turned out alright.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What a deke, man.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let your freak flag fly! The post that made me laugh: Now pitching, my aunt's Cocker Spaniel...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    One scribe compared it to the Tampa contract with Wander Franco. I'm not going to say it...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    McEnaney trivia: kicked off high school team for drinking, out partying when Reds called with news they drafted him. After mom informed him the next morning, said, "Hell, I thought she meant the Army..."
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Are the pitchers on NY and Bos this good or their hitters this bad? The old adage pitchers are ahead of hitters early didn't seem to affect the Rangers, Astros, White Sox, Guards, Jays, Rays or Twins -- who all scored more or launched more this weekend...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    MSNBC called the Diekman inning "an inflection point on the history of humanity."
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But can he keep us out of it? I was never sold on ERod, but Detroit was -- moving fast to sign him. And losing a fairly reliable rotation starter under 30 and replacing him with 40-somethings for the next half decade doesn't sound like the mark of a team all-in. You yourself just posted you wished Bloom had invested in more pitching this winter; I assume you didn't mean more affordable guys with looming best-buy dates.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    These kinds of signings are the master plan. Promote a prospect, wait until he proves himself, then lock him up; those will be the longterm investments Bloom will make as he puts in place the core of his sustained contenders. None of them will require 12-year contracts for half a billion dollars.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or Chris Bassitt or Kyle Gibson, who both had shutout starts yesterday...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The pen has excelled, but the options out there are definitely a main reason Cora tried to get another inning out of Pivetta, and it can be argued, Whitlock. And even if the latter guy was intended to "finish" the first game, even that plan was because of the other options in the pen. That said, the offense has been ineffective since the very first inning of the season, when it couldn't tack on a fourth run with a runner on second and no outs. Yes, I'm being greedy, but could just tell it would come back to haunt the Sox that they couldn't advance JD to third and home at least on productive outs.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's hard to say Cora got outmanaged when you compare the two bullpens. Isn't it easier to just say Bloom got out-GMed?
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