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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They just told who it will be: Romy.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But-but-but... my ex-wife was so good to me for parts of two decades -- why should I be bitter about the horrible way she treated me this decade? This. Entire. Decade. Happening right now.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course he'll net minor leaguers, but he's our best chip to get prospects who don't have "Pitcher" listed next to their names. If I have any say, I'm holding the Chapman auction until the last possible second for the best available BAT, preferably one that can reach green seats in fair territory.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shhhh... a golfer is about to hit a ball that isn't moving on the ground right in front of him ... shhhhhhhhh.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Three of the four established big leaguers in the starting line-up are already having at least decent seasons: Contreras, Rafaela, Abreu. So any fan or front office analyst not in denial basically has to bank their entire hopes on whether Jarren Duran can turn back into a 9 WAR player. That's unrealistic. The only certainties -- this summer -- are that neither Anthony nor Casas are returning from bat-swinging injuries to swing their bats with any authority, and Story isn't bouncing back from a hernia operation in his mid-30s to party like it's 2025. And not even a combination of Theo Epstein, Dave Dombrowski and Branch Rickey could trade the bullpen for good replacements in the batting order, along with the next Bregman-Devers All-Star hitter.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yep. Said the same thing yesterday The problem is it's doubtful Breslow is getting back what he really needs in a firesale: good wood that keeps the fire burning... ... unless someone overpays for Chapman, who could be the one guy -- the gem of the deadline -- who may define the fate of Brez. All the rest of those names, including Gray and his contract, won't return much more than a similar list of names from the prospect ranks.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I didn't mention the rookie pitchers because we all know why the Sux sock this year. And the weak back-up plan is also part of the problem, because none of those listed additions was expected to provide the All-Star quality punch the line-up needed. But let's not pretend for a second that the Red Sox weren't counting big time on the bats of the Big Three the past year, based on their longterm investments in KC and Ant, while ignoring spending on legitimate support for them in the heart of the batting order.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hard for anyone to argue that recent top-rated prospects like The Big Three of the Boston farm system have been overrated -- so far... but overrated by whom? Posters on fan forums? The Fenway PR department? Absolutely; we all live for next homegrown hero to lead us to the promised land. And Red Sox Nation has been blessed for decades with young players bursting from the minors into almost instant MLB All-Stars: Fisk, Lynn, Rice, Clemens, Boggs, Mo, Nomar, Bogey, Mookie and Raffy to name a few. But it's not our fault professional evaluators and pundits named Kristian Campbell Minor League Player of the Year, or Roman Anthony the #1 Prospect in baseball, or rated Marcelo Mayer with the best defense and hit tool in the draft. Maybe the hype got to them all too fast and they've struggled with adjustments. Guys that good have little experience ever failing at baseball in their entire young lives. The Sox are just unlucky right now, but there's plenty of time for good careers (as long as a people person and not a robot doesn't bat them leadoff and clean-up right away).
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Franklin Primera is first (haha) in OPS: 1.337 in 76 ABs. But if he sticks at catcher, he could change his last name to Receptor.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    SIX is the actual number of starting positions that we listed as woeful in the batting order: C, 2B, SS, 3B, LF, DH. I know it's unreasonable to expect that many replacements to have consistent pop (beyond the warning track) or even swing righty to take advantage of the home park where the Red Sox can't win this year... ... but expecting just one new guy to make that much difference is just as unreasonable; the pitching and D have been good, but come on -- I'm not looking at just eeking into a Wild Card but what has been traditionally needed on legit Boston World Series contenders. Check out the individual OPS+ leaders for the '18, '13, '07 and '04 (even '03) squads. Seems like they all had five or six batters pushing 120+ -- or 20% above average, which bb-ref considers All-Star quality. The '26ers have only Contreras and Rafaela over 120 OPS+. "Wanted: three or four batters who reach base more than usual and don't often stop at first base." Better plan on running that ad in the MLB Classifieds through the next two winters and deadlines at least...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom went to Yale so he totally understood the value of an established postseason hero in his prime in big market Boston vs. a guy who played on the other side of the world in a league equivalent to Triple A, plus another who never pitched on a big stage whose arm was cooked.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Saw the thread title and thought you meant Eovaldi... ... who, since he signed with Texas in '23, has 15.5 WAR (not including the postseason he went 5-0). 2023-26 for Boston: Bello 5.5 WAR, Crochet 5.4 WAR, Chapman 4.7 WAR, Crawford 4.1 WAR, Whitlock 3.7 WAR, Houck 3.1.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let me see if I can quantify that in terms of Clutch... Point Five means there are five letters in Clutc -- so, yup, he's almost Clutch. Most of the time.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Keep Good WiLL! A star right-handed power hitter is exactly what the Red Sox need more of -- like four more of them. Trading your only All-Star for a return of promising prospects just means another five-year rebuild... or however long fans are willing to wait for another Big Three hopefuls to fulfill hope.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The never-mending Story... And I once thought Kris Bryant with his righty power bat was the perfect free agent fit for Fenway Pahk.. ... and I was right: since he's always on the IL, he'd fit right in with the Red-faced insult to injury Sox.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Posting here, because there's no UNrealistic thread: Duran laughs at anyone who says Clutch doesn't exist... because he knows it resides in the spechackular bod of Ceddanne Rafaela. "In any situation where we need to come up clutch or something like that, he’s the guy. He’s got literally ice in his veins. He was born for those moments," said the professional major league baseball player. Somehow in some qualitative reality, such words of praise for Rafaela have been repeatable for a quantifiable three years now.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yea, it's Sunday, not Darknight. Old accounts of the origins of the game date back to an agrarian society before electric lights. On Sundays the farm boys looked forward to playing some ball.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm a big believer in qualitative data. I can't count how many times I've relied on my eyes when driving, so I won't get stuck on the train tracks like that lady who blindly followed her GPS commands. When the Red Sox decided to focus more on video when scouting potential prospects -- and fired field scouts -- did the front office also consult computers for feedback from players' families, friends, coaches, and most importantly, the kids themselves, in how they respond to learning opportunities for preparation, pressure, adversity, leadership, success and failure?
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's more than four hitters, but according to the data on bb-ref, there are four Red Sox starting position players providing sub-.600 OPS: C, 2B, SS, 3B. Not even Red can argue with those stats. Some of those "starters" have been replaced lately by the likes of IKF, Gasper, and Andruw Movinginstero. But even those guys are still sub-.700. And so is the DH/LF spot, whether manned by Anthony, Yoshida or the wildly inconsistent Duran. The team's OPS is sub-.700. But it's a thousand degrees outside, so maybe Sam's "embarrassing and unacceptable" roster will heat up like he once predicted... ... before he said this week, "Let's be honest- " (when people say that, are they admitting they weren't before?) "... we may have to pivot."
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All good questions, but remember I'm not obsessed with Paredes the player -- just that the Red Sox need about four MAJOR LEAGUE bats like his asap if they want to turn this debacle around and contend again, even by the next season (whenever that is). And as I said, I have no problem trading Boston's top four pitching prospects for legitimate big league talent, because realistically, that's what it may take to make the impact changes the Sox need.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I wasn't considering years of control, because the Red Sox have no choice but to extend any decent bats they acquire if they don't want the batting order to keep sinking back into Breslow's Sargashole Sea. Let's face it, there's no immediate big league punch coming from any Boston prospects -- even those recently graduated -- and there's not much available in coming free agency. And I don't care about years of control for young pitchers, since they almost all get hurt and become unreliable. Teams that discover a rare Skenes or Miz will probably extend them anyway -- but even that's a Bello or Crochet risk... I wouldn't sniff a Boras demand for a guy like Skubal, who's been brittle and bitchy since he bailed on his teammates and country in the WBC.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But aren't we a little more sober lately comparing minor league prospects to established big leaguers? Paredes was an MLB All-Star the past two years. Eyanson is a good minor league pitcher... but so was Bryan Bello to some extent. When it comes to pitchers, though, I trust the prospects coming out of D1 and the SEC more than the DR summer league. It may kill Brez to see so many of his traded pitchers succeed elsewhere, but someone as calculated as he must have known he was hoarding prospect capital when drafting all those big arms last summer. Gotta give to get. If the Red Sox really want to turn this debacle around -- by next season -- they need to trade Eyanson, Witherspoon, Phillips and Holobetz for four Paredeseseses.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    From kicking himself for re-signing with Paunch and Judy.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can a CBO described by his own employee as a stiff assemble a batting order so flaccid.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Chapman's well-rested. Has rested well. Not gone to the well often. Well, f***ing pitch him!
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