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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They thought Barnes would inherit the closer role -- and once he made the All-Star team they extended him. Then MLB banned the sticky stuff.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like the contrasts you describe with other MLB regions. Lived in New England all my life and while MLB isn't as popular as it once was -- anywhere -- baseball still thrives because growing up, everyone can play it, and still can as adults (in some derivative: softball, old-timers leagues etc)... of course, oldsters still play hoop or soccer, but contact sports take a toll sooner on flesh and bone. As an area, the only big city north of NYC in the U.S. is Boston. Because of that, I've always considered New England more pastoral so maybe with more interest in a summer outdoor pastime (I know that's crap, because there are plenty of urban areas, including ones where I taught, that have little interest in baseball). The Red Sox are still very popular and exclusive to 5 or 6 states, so definitely worth investing in as a product for their owners. The Sox even have fans who type junk about them online 365 days a year...
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A line drive hit directly at your head anywhere in LF, CF or RF is the hardest play for an outfielder. Always take the first step back, because it's a lot easier to come in on a ball. If your first step is in and you're wrong, they're circling the bases. But the oppo slices down the lines are by far the trickiest. (I won't bore you to say how many years I've played outfield, but I bet it's longer than some posters have been alive).
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Any outfielder with speed knows that the easiest one to play is centerfield. Being positioned directly behind the mound gives the best look at the direction of both pitches and swings, and allows the CFer to get a better jump on batted balls than the corner outfielders. There's more ground to cover in CF, but that also gives a really fast outfielder room to outrun bad jumps or misjudgments. Jarren Duran isn't a great centerfielder, but he's better there than at a corner. He's a below-average leftfielder because he doesn't have as much room to compensate from his bad reads. Duran also doesn't get on base enough to be a great leadoff man. Every Red Sox fan knows the team was at its best last summer when Cora moved Anthony to leadoff. If you're old enough, then you also know a moron manager when you see it -- like Don Zimmer in 1978, when he batted Rick Burleson and his .295 OBP leadoff, instead of Fred Lynn and his .380 OBP... could the Sox -- with Hall of Famers Rice, Yaz and Fisk hitting behind Lynn, and that quartet getting the most ABs -- have won one more game that season with such a change?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wave Eaton home.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I prefer Tolle to bat clean-up, like he did in college. Guy's a beast (well, more beastly than our other current candidates until Mass Attacker returns from the next WBC).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    FOX broadcast a lot of playoff games this year.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You have to be really fast.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Skubal and Duran are both All-Stars. Skubal has pitched two All-Star innings and given up two runs. Duran was the All-Star Game MVP! Who else is Detroit giving us in that trade?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good point, Hugh. Ceddanne covers so much ground in center that he makes a lot of plays in LF and RF, too. (the play of the year came when the ball that tipped off Abreu's glove was caught by Rafaela, standing there as a back-up just in case). Moving the best centerfielder in baseball to another position is folly. Duran has had exactly one good year playing anywhere in the outfield. When the Sox picked RF for Betts, it was only because Bradley was the better choice in CF. Maybe when he's in his 30s Ceddanne can play middle infield like Mookie, but only if it will complete a World Series team.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bo knows both. I've followed Bichette's career since he was a New Hampshire Fisher Cat, and his elite hand-eye coordination gives him the unique confidence to carry dual approaches to his at bats: with his first two swings, he absolutely tries to crush the ball... but if he misses and has two strikes, he definitely adjusts and does whatever he can to make contact -- a lot of his two-strike hits go to right field; that's not selling out, but the sign of a good hitter. Bichette's hitting plan isn't that much different than Bregman's, except the latter's age and nagging injuries limit the damage he once did. Both are examples to younger batters in a line-up; Bo is still in his 20s and thus more dangerous...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Someone f***ing pliable.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Un- . Brez will trade for a starting pitcher and sign Alonso. No other free agent signings, no Bregman, no Bichette, no Cease, not even King or Kelly. Cora will challenge his returning roster to step it up with more responsible roles. A few youngsters will improve incrementally, some will flop. None will turn into Rice or Lynn or Fisk or Nomar next year. But wait until '27, when Early becomes Bill Lee, and Tolle is Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yup -- the grudge Henry held for being forced by fandom to sign Raffy for $300 mil. I'm still the only fan who has ever suggested that signing Bregman -- for one year -- was well worth $40 mil to someone in the front office if it helped get them out of the Devers contract. Just think of how much they saved! Just think of how much they told us they'd now have to reinforce the roster! (oh, wait -- we have to build a tower behind the Green Monster...)
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox can't use Anthony's extension as an excuse that he's the budget replacement for Devers. According to bb-ref, Roman will make MLB minimum in '25, then $2.6 million in '26, $4.6 million in '27, $8.6 in '28, $15.6 in '29, etc. Raffy's contract from Boston calls for a salary of $29.5 mil for just next year... basically, what Anthony agreed to play for in total the next half decade...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least. The Red Sox currently have one starting infielder and a handful of Quadruple A type platoon options: Romy, Hammy, Sogard, Eaton, Mayer (he played in 44 games, 3 more than Eaton). We can't count on a Casas comeback, and they no longer consider Campbell an infielder. Last year, the best of that lot was Gonzalez, who earned 2 WAR in 96 games, mostly at 1B. Are they going to finally let him face righty pitchers more? Do they have a choice?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You could see this; I could barely watch it -- another powerhouse starting lineup... (but I like all those guys on the roster). And amidst a lot of Campbell posts this weekend, I never saw one that revealed one of the main reasons he was handed a starting job out of ST: he bats right-handed. Breslow even said a year ago one of his priorities was to find a way to balance the batting order with more righty swingers... ... it worked great for a few weeks, until MLB pitchers "wrote the texts and tweets" about him; before instantaneous communiques, it used to take a lot longer for leagues to figure out a rookie's weaknesses, back when they actually "wrote the book" (cutting down trees, logging/hauling/delivering to processing locales, pulping into paper, packing, shipping to stores, typing, editing, printing, bookbinding, distributing, studying etc.)
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Favorite War Movies: Cora -- Platoon. Breslow -- Saving Private Ryan. Anthony -- Inglorious Basterds (the guy with the bat) Mayer -- MASH Casas -- Stripes Pitching Staff -- The Dirty Dozen Devers -- The Great Escape
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Walked. OBP was in back then.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At this point I'd rather they just hang onto to Little Puppy and see how their Number One everyday prospect progresses in 2026. I just don't think -- even if Breslow trades for a #2 starter -- that the Sox will spend what it takes to sign enough free agents to make them a legitimate contender next year. I hope I'm wrong, but I can see Boston pushing pitching and young homegrown regulars instead as their Great Pumpkins for next Halloween. If Arias becomes an above-average shortstop like Soxprospects says he can be, then Boston will need him when the true window opens as Brez continues to build around pitching. Story's last season as a Red Sox will be '27, and who knows where or if Mayer will be playing by then: 2B, 3B, IL??? Plus, one of the talking heads on MLB Channel last night said the Twins might just keep Ryan and Lopez anyway and go for it in the weak AL Central.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So this offseason the Sox only need to add two more Mayers and two more Anthonys: Oscar Mayer, Meyer Lansky, Anthony Michael Hall as Farmer Ted from Sixteen Candles and Anthony Hopkins as the all-powerful omnipotent Odin.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The most painful was Rice -- on the team, but didn't play in '75 WS because Vern Ruhle broke his hand. Evans played in both and played well; they weren't his fault.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was just thinking a roster spot. If -- as some speculate -- the Sox trade two outfielders, there could be a role for a bounceback prospect...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Worcester gets a lot of bad weather, so they sent him back hoping for an electrical storm strong enough for Igor to harness some bolts of energy for the Assistant VP mad scientists to use like the year before. That didn't happen, but Breslow recently said Campbell has already had a monstrous offseason working out -- so don't be surprised if he snaps off his chains and goes on a rampage in Florida.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tough list. Of course, I immediately thought of the '75 and '86 Sox. Here's another: the '68 Cardinals: up 3 games to 1, with a 3-2 Game 5 lead going into the bottom of the 7th in Detroit. Tigers had 8 outs to go... with one down, Lolich singled to start off the winning rally -- then Kaline eventually delivered a bases-loaded single to knock in two and take the lead of what would be a 5-3 win. The key play of the game was when Willie Horton threw out Lou Brock at home in the 5th inning because Brock didn't slide... Lolich was the Ohtani-Yamamoto of this Series. He won three games, including the finale vs. Gibson, and also homered in Game 2 to drive in the second and only other run he needed in an 8-1 W.
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