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2020's "staff" used 27 "pitchers" in a 24-win summer. Last year's staff -- excluding Ohtani wannabes (Aaruz, Arroyo, Marwin, Plawecki) -- used 33 pitchers... for a 92-win season. I'll take the over on 35 for this 162.
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Typo: you omitted "legitimate, established, actual big league" from your post. And yet, because of the half-mast staff they chose to carry into a Major League season, this year could rival 2020's franchise record for most guys appearing on the mound. What's the over-under: 47? My disappointment -- it's really just distaste -- is when they say they're trying to win but don't make let's say sincere moves that so many other clubs obviously do (I know, the style here is stealth, but still...). Example: the Cubs cleaned house, but then signed Stroman and Suzuki. Maybe Bloom is waiting to clear the books next winter... then again, the Sox are already over the tax threshold now. So what up?
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I try not to waffle. It's just hard to watch a team that's all-in, Sam Kennedy, throwing their #26 prospect in extra innings on Opening Day in Yankee Stadium, when a starter you could've traded him for is throwing a no-hitter on the other side of the country.
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I'm not talking results -- he takes the same approach every single at bat: extend his arms and aim for the short porch in rightfield. Every single one of his clutch HRs are to right, against any team, including Houston in the playoffs. Ask Yankee fans when they ever remember him pulling a homer. That's my book on the hitter from watching him in two or three dozen games, and what I said when he stood in the box vs. Whitlock...
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Looks like this will be the dominate thread this season. Whitlock looked great, until he threw a fastball for Lemahieu to do what he always tries to do every single time he bats against Boston (or anytime I've ever seen him): homer to right. If I expect it every DJ at bat, what do the pros in Red Sox' uniforms expect? Kudos to Diekman, btw, for pitching DJ inside, even if he had to drill him. Sox should use a lefty match-up the rest of LeMahieu's career, tying him up with pitches breaking in on his hands. Here's one old-school way to limit Cora's use of a litany of unreliable relievers: acquire or develop starters who can go more than five innings -- ideally to throw a seven-inning, no-hit shutout, like Manaea did yesterday. Of course, that may require trading a #12 and #26 prospect...
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What do scouts know? Jonah Hill shut them all up in the movie.
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... keeps JD safe in the batting cage, preparing for his next at bat as DH. But of course, this new "platoon" is subject to change... Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that Cora announced JD would be the righthanded hitting outfielder this year? -
What a relief; Sox finally added that righty bat outfielder we were missing all winter.
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I was hoping smilin' Raffy would be the kinda guy happily rich at a young stage -- like Acuna, Bregman, Wander etc -- and not aspire to be a Betts oligarch. Most who sign big extensions before free agency are protecting their futures against a career-altering injury. And then Devers had to go and mash all through the playoffs with one arm.
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And yet every single year, no matter who's bobbling the ball at catcher or shortstop, or who's swinging and missing in an all-or-nothing lineup, the Yankees are always predicted to win it all because they spent the most money in history on one starting pitcher.
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Trevor Story money? Would Raffy sign for $25M AAV through age 30? Then he could sign another contract for the new market rate? Probably not.
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You're just saying that because the Sox beat him when it counted in the postseason for the Astros and for the Yankees!
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On the Sixteenth, of coarse
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Sale is a non-starter, all puns intended. His name should be banned from the forum until June, or at least relegated to a separate thread; we could call it "If ifs and buts were candied nuts..." All we can do as fans for now is hope team nutritionists develop a healthy diet for the poor guy, so he won't crack another rib during any other bodily functions. And no jokes -- don't make him laugh. Or sneeze. And paste those sticky foot grips in his tub, so he won't slip in the shower.
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Sixto Sanchez, 6th on the Marlins' list, would be Boston's #2... until Nate got hurt.
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They could be good, but not number one ranked going into the season.
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Welp, maybe I'm biased against New York, but I'd bet there are close to 30 GMs that would take the rotations from the Brewers, Mets, Blue Jays and White Sox over the Yankees. As for depth, who's better than Houston: Framber, Garcia, Verlander, Urquidy, Javier and McCullers?
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I thought about that, and most teams want to avoid helping intra-division rivals... but these are the Rays, who are so confident they're ahead of all dinosaur systems that they won't hesitate to do anything and deal with anyone to keep the machine churning and the industry reeling. ps. they did once give up a hitting prospect/catcher to Boston for a pitcher who threw a 500-foot homer off Acuna's bat... what did the Rays know that Bloom didn't?
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It has to be if the Sox want to be better. Forgotten in all the '21 postseason excitement is that the bullpen blew lead after lead, even in games that the Sox walked off; Robles more than once, Braiser, Sawamura, Darwinzon, even Houck and Whitlock -- forcing Cora to burn out Eovaldi in the turning point in Game 4 of the LCS. Yes, the offense totally stalled at the end vs. Houston, but the difference between the quality of the two clubs was the pen. Diekman looks like a Robles type: high K-rate, high pitch count, high stress level for viewers, but more unhittable, with a .219 career BA-against. Robles, Barnes, Strahm are all in the .230s. I'm pinning my hopes on newcomer Kutter's mix that hitters will have to adjust to...
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I believe so. Tigers reportedly gave up a "Competitive Balance Round B" pick. The infielder is the equivalent of maybe Arauz, so it has to be all about the pick for Tampa.
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Tampa traded Meadows for a young back-up infielder and a draft pick. Paredes had a few cups of decaf where he batted .215 with a .592 OPS. Meadows received AL MVP votes the past two full seasons. Giving up both a prospect and a pick probably make such a deal prohibitive in Boston, but isn't that a reasonable cost to add a 26-year-old All-Star outfielder to a core of a future sustained contender? If not, what is?
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The bigger question may be can Sale even stay healthy and effective at all when he returns? 2022 ERA projections (source BB-Ref) -- Hill 3.93, Sale 4.11.
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I know, but I like to address him once in a while because even if he's not a regular alias here, he must at least have a minion monitoring us. It's good to check the pulse of the nation (even if some of us are closer to rigor mortis).
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Just hanging in there until reinforcements arrive every year doesn't sound quite like being "all in," Sam.
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I just wished they invested a little more in decent pitching. We were all hoping for at least a trade for a legitimate reliable arm, especially after they went so far with below-average relievers (except Whitlock) and lost ERod. The Rays won 100 games with dozens of guys who throw 95 with a change-up. The Jays traded for and locked up Berrios, replaced Ray with Gausman, and added Kikuchi. And the Yankees are always predicted ahead of Boston because of Cole and an elite bullpen (it's not because their power hitters strike out more than ours). Meanwhile, the Sox added old pitchers rejected by Tampa and NY...
